Modernization - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

new opportunities. Empires of Profit: Commerce, Conquest and Corporate Responsibility Author Daniel Litvin presented his evidence that modern companies find it difficult to operate on foreign soil. Big companies, in spite of their wealth,... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

21 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax

visit started off in a modern office setting with a presentation from CleanMax leadership on the energy sector in India and their particular business model. The team shared several key statistics on the state of renewable energy in India,... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

Truth Be Told

modern regulators, such as the SEC whistleblower program [a similar program authorized in the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act], the DOT’s Motor Vehicle Safety whistleblower program, and more recently the Treasury’s anti-money-laundering whistleblower... View Details

Keywords: April White; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

to do so because all benefited from a healthy commons. Modern industries have commons as well, although they are infinitely more complex than the simple town greens of centuries past. Today's industrial commons consist of webs of... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2017
News

Yoga Inc.

vacuum, sweep, or dust. Five women and one man array their mats around a rose quartz sphere. “Dedicate your practice to a prayer in your life,” he tells them. “Ideally, one of personal transformation.” It’s a traditional approach that stands in contrast to a View Details

Keywords: Deborah Halber

30 Jan 2018
First Look

January 30, 2018

Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-based Taxation By: Weinzierl, Matthew C. Abstract—U.S. survey respondents' views on distributive justice differ in two specific, related ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal tax... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Risk . New York, N.Y.: John Wiley and Sons, 1996. Bernstein, Peter L. Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street . New York, N.Y.: Free Press, 1992. Bertsimas, Dimitris, Leonid Kogan, and Andrew W. Lo. "Pricing and... View Details

16 Sep 2015
News

Built for Speed

modern car making. “Look at that van,” he says, pointing to a white delivery vehicle parked near the Starbucks drive-through, where Rogers refuels. “How do you make steel look like that?” His explanations typically begin with this kind of... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

11 Jan 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

rethink their business models and radically transform their organizational capabilities. The implications for organizations and management are profound. Let's take one example. At the heart of most modern corporations are information,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Jan 2003
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Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

mandate of modernizing the IRS was Rossotti, who was recruited by then U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin and other top government officials because of his experience in running a major service- and technology-oriented business.... View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

Rx for Too Big to Fail

institutions existed even before the repeal of Glass-Steagall in 1999. The truth is, large financial institutions are probably an unavoidable feature of modern life. Even many of the most ardent opponents of big banks favor the creation... View Details

Keywords: David Moss; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

leadership positions and contexts that demand more complex ways of being in the world. You may be surprised, as we were, that many of your leaders may be "in over their heads." (See Kegan's 1994 book In over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Preface - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

there is money, there is power, vice, corruption, and misfortune. To view these prints is to trace society's changing attitudes toward money from the Reformation and the Church's injunctions against usury, to the Industrial Revolution and the emergence of View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Fair Trade

moral nuisance to a global brand-driven powerhouse offering products essential to daily life is one of the more intriguing stories in modern business history. The origins of beauty products lie primarily in local knowledge of the scents... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

answer it, they looked not to high-tech modern prizes but to a comparatively unglamorous series of awards sponsored by the Royal Agricultural Society of England (RASE) back in the nineteenth century. For decades, explains Lerner, the RASE... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Feb 2016
First Look

February 16, 2016

the Modern Administrative State, 1912–1925: Trade Associations, Codes of Fair Competition, and State Building By: Sawyer, Laura Phillips Abstract—From its founding in 1912 through the interwar years, the Chamber's history shows a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 May 2013
News

Looking Through Glass, Historically

would not be on the modern woman's birthday, Christmas, or wedding-gift list. This change certainly looks permanent. But is it? Just note the popularity of Downton Abbey!" The book project became a big part of Wilson's life. "For several... View Details

Keywords: Visual arts; crafts; glass making; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

information technology until something breaks. This crisis required rapid and large reallocation of modern information technology, with particular links to communications. Some of it broke. The best organizations have had the ability to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

04 Nov 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

to share their "intellectual capital" in some cultures more than others? What are the characteristics of such cultures? How can they be nurtured? What do you think? Original Article Two of the most important questions concerning the long-run health of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Jun 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome

contemporary readings to surface insights into the age-old issue of leadership. Q: Why is ancient Rome a good lens for exploring modern leadership themes? Dench: It’s a remote, dead society, yet larger than life, which makes it a very... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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