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- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
dozens of proposals for projects. Value-based strategy teaches how to select among these ideas and projects. The most successful firms are very strict: Unless an idea creates value View Details
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by Danielle Kost
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Gender Changes the Negotiation
The last few months have been trying for Maureen Park, the managing director of a small portfolio management firm. The firm's parent company, a large financial services concern, was performing below forecasts, and morale among Park's...
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- 18 Oct 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Monetary Policy Drivers of Bond and Equity Risks
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
issues elsewhere, such in new biotechnology-related fields. For instance, a great deal of interest has surrounded proposals to use patent pools to address the multiplicity of rights that are slowing research...
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- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
tight upcoming turnaround, and how passengers can help the cleaning crew achieve an on-time departure for the next flight. In both cases, we gladly do our part. One caveat: When the rationale for customers...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- February 2022 (Revised January 2024)
- Supplement
Winning Business at Russell Reynolds (C)
By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and...
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- 04 Jun 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?
it produces. Questions have been raised about whether Napster users will be willing to pay a reasonable subscription fee for the use of the service after having been treated to its free use for many months....
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by James Heskett
- 07 Jun 2021
- Book
9 Tips from an Expert Fundraiser: Help Donors 'Invest in Their Passion'
requested at the time of the initial gift in terms of the types of solicitation processes that the donor would be receptive to was adhered to for many years. However, time and circumstances ultimately...
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by Danielle Kost
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
challenging task in any country, but it is more difficult in some environments than others, particularly those plagued by high levels of corruption. The effects of corruption are insidious and they go well beyond requests View Details
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by Carla Tishler
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
Rising star Jim Barton has decidedly mixed feelings after being selected as the new chief information officer at the fictional IVK Corporation. On the one hand, he lacks an IT background; on the other, he's ambitious and up for a...
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
In 2008, entrepreneur Brian Chesky and his two San Francisco roommates made the rounds of Silicon Valley VC firms with what they thought was a great idea: a website and mobile app that would allow homeowners to open their homes to strangers to sleep on their floor...
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Mission-Driven Governance
By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson
The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details
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Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Knowledge Management;
Standards;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Evaluation
Fisman, Raymond, Rakesh Khurana, and Edward Martenson. "Mission-Driven Governance." Stanford Social Innovation Review 7, no. 3 (Summer 2009).
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
Are auditors becoming too big to fail? For over a decade, there have been articles and op-eds in the popular and business press arguing that the auditing industry, currently dominated by Deloitte & Touche, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and...
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- 30 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?
parentheses are mine.) Shann Turnbull suggests that the world of corporate governance will benefit from the establishment of "a new type of corporate information and control architecture." In fact, he goes beyond this to propose...
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by James Heskett
- 31 Jul 2017
- HBS Case
It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family
Transitioning to next-generation leadership in a family-run restaurant business is a tricky recipe. Credit: ansonmiao Harvard Business School case studies are often set in large corporations, where the wide range of problems encountered by managers serve as lessons...
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- 04 Apr 2022
- What Do You Think?
As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?
or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards.” Under the bill, parents were given the right to sue school districts over violations. Chapek had ample warning...
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by James Heskett
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
insights, à la the "Just Say No" campaign. But let's say your goals are a good deal more ambitious. You care about benefiting society as a whole. You want to help people stuck in grinding poverty. You want to know what villagers think about a dam View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
original proposed stratospheric valuation, its byzantine corporate structure, its woeful (or nonexistent) corporate governance, and most of all its flamboyant founder, Adam Neumann. So perhaps it was not a surprise when WeWork, given the...
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- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
of the responses to this month's question about why managers don't think deeply. The list of causes was much longer than the list of proposed responses. But in the process, some other questions were posed. Ben Kirk kicked off the list of...
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by Jim Heskett
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
policy and has put out a formal request for information to help guide that decision-making process, to which Trichakis, Bertsimas, and Farias are contributing. Their key idea is to View Details