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  • 2015
  • Report

Clusters and Regional Economies: Implications for the Great Lakes - St. Lawrence Region

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Region, covering eight U.S. states and two Canadian provinces located around the lakes and waterways that have given this region its name, is what economic developers call a 'macro region'. It is an area of intensive economic interaction... View Details
Keywords: Clusters; Regional Policy; Great Lakes; Economic Development; Industry Clusters; Economy; Canada; United States
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  • 23 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Overcoming Nervous Nelly

at how that anxiety can change the outcomes of negotiations. In order to induce anxiety in participants, she asked them to listen to the theme from the horror film Psycho; others heard soothing classical music instead. Then she placed... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Research - Health Care

Clinical Practices with Performance Outcomes By: Peter N. Hadar, Susanna Gallani and Lidia Moura Physician burnout, which is prevalent in neurology, has accelerated in recent years. While multifactorial, a major contributing factor to... View Details
  • 06 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Innovator’s Battle Plan

asymmetric battles often is the seemingly sudden end of a great firm. From the incumbent's perspective, every action it takes is rational. But the outcome is devastating. Disruption is the strategy that creates and capitalizes on... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony & Erik A. Roth
  • 01 Feb 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?

educating first generation college students and moving away from prioritizing candidates coming from more privileged backgrounds.” Measurement was on the minds of several respondents. Steve Hopkins said that diversity “needs to be an intentional action with a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 31 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do

productivity” “That expected leisure time changed things completely,” says Amabile. Participants worked much more productively, finishing the same tasks in less time but without any more mistakes—and without any evidence of the “deadtime effect.” Less focus on hours,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 2024
  • Book

When Democracy Breaks: Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day

By: Archon Fung, David Moss and Odd Arne Westad
Democracy is often described in two opposite ways, as either wonderfully resilient or dangerously fragile. Curiously, both characterizations can be correct, depending on the context. When Democracy Breaks aims to deepen our understanding of what separates democratic... View Details
Keywords: Government and Politics; History; Culture; Failure
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  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Brice Cutrer Jones

is no simple matter. Those who raise a glass of Jones's Sonoma-Cutrer Chardonnay are enjoying the delicate outcome of painstaking scientific research, months of careful growing, exceptional attention to detail, and - last but not least -... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 01 Jan 2013
  • News

Thai Lee, MBA 1985

hospice care, but Lee refused to give up. Researching treatment options, she found doctors at Johns Hopkins who performed complicated surgeries. Today, Margaret is cancer-free, and much of Lee's philanthropy focuses on improving outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 04 Jul 2005
  • What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

business school faculty, curricula, and research. Chuck Drobny commented, "If the institution places research-focused faculty or graduate students in front of students, and the students lack any perspective gained through experience, the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • April 1999 (Revised December 2003)
  • Case

Al Dunlap at Sunbeam

By: Brian J. Hall, Rakesh Khurana and Carleen Madigan
Al Dunlap was one of the best-known corporate turnaround artists of the 1990s. In 1996, he was hired at Sunbeam to effect a restructuring, but was fired almost two years later when the company's financial performance and stock price began to decline. Many of the... View Details
Keywords: Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Restructuring; Stock Shares; Performance Evaluation; Leadership Style; Resignation and Termination; Motivation and Incentives; Executive Compensation; Outcome or Result; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • 18 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

makes us more likely to misbehave in the future. ©iStockphoto/Brian Jackson In a follow-up laboratory study, participants played a game in which they could make money by successfully predicting the outcome of a computerized coin toss.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

personal level, for instance, by asking how everyone is holding up. “It can be harder to pay attention to a long meeting online versus face-to-face.” Afterward, managers should articulate key outcomes of the meeting using other media like... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Second Chance: Life with Less Student Debt

By: Marco Di Maggio, Ankit Kalda and Vincent Yao
Rising student debt is considered one of the creeping threats of our time. This paper examines the effect of student debt relief on individual credit and labor market outcomes. We exploit the plausibly random debt discharge due to the inability of National Collegiate,... View Details
Keywords: Student Debt; Private Student Loans; Legal Settlement; Mobility; Debt Collection; Debt Relief; Borrowing and Debt; Personal Finance; Outcome or Result; United States
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  • Web

Team - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

School, Harvard Law School, Dell Medical School, and the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement. Harvard Business School Michael E. Porter M.B.A., Ph.D., Bishop William Lawrence University Professor Robert S. Kaplan... View Details
  • 29 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

A recent study on the factors that contribute to successful high-performance social enterprises finds a connection between enterprises that link economic value with social value. This was the focus of a study presented at the colloquium, "The Social Enterprise... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • June 2005 (Revised April 2008)
  • Case

Whole Foods Market, Inc.

By: John R. Wells and Travis Haglock
Can a short-sleeved, sandal-wearing, college dropout create a company manifesting love, joy, and happiness? Chainsaw John Mackey did. This CEO took a five-month sabbatical to hike the Appalachian Trail. More credentials: Sales-per-square foot of $690 and rising. Hiring... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Motivation and Incentives; Food; Management Practices and Processes; Groups and Teams; Success; Leadership Style; Management Teams; Business Growth and Maturation; Emerging Markets; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions

critical thinkers Patterns of behavior strive to persuade othersdefend your positiondownplay weakness present balanced argumentsremain open to alternativesaccept constructive criticism Minority views discouraged or dismissed cultivated and valued View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
  • 09 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad

stronger when people are endorsing others' biased judgments—provided those judgments align with their own biases—than when they are making original judgments themselves. 2 In one series of studies, researchers found that people were more willing to endorse an overly... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman, George Loewenstein & Don A. Moore; Accounting; Financial Services
  • Profile

Peggy Mativo-Ochola

intends to develop a fundraising program she began in Startup Boot Camp last January. "My big hairy audacious goal is a self-sustaining endowment fund to employ teachers in slums and rural areas." Looking ahead, Peggy knows that she wants to return to Kenya... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education