Five Forces - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

independent of the shortcomings in the regulatory system. Managers and boards of directors in scores of systemically important firms failed to protect employees, customers, or shareholders and placed the global financial system at risk. I assert that the root cause of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an in-depth look at a single organization—the high-tech giant Rakuten—in the five years following its English... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

further forced changes to customers and hence firm-based behaviors. The outcome of customers’ health and fears has resulted not in a traditional recession but a “deaccession,” where supply and demand exist, but customer-access to products... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

affects each of Porter's Five Forces as well as the resources and capabilities of the firm. The availability of patents may be key to deciding what barriers to entry exist. The enforceability of covenants... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies, I explore how some leaders embrace “deep purpose” as a generative force that can be a catalyst to achieve both impressive economic results and positive social impact.... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

28 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

consequences like discrimination." A 2015 study by Luca and colleagues Benjamin Edelman, now an economist at Microsoft, and Dan Svirsky, an economist at Uber, used booking requests by 20 mock Airbnb profiles without photos to gauge discrimination among 6,400... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

recent vaccine for Ebola took five and a half years. And why does it take so long? First of all, it requires a rigorous scientific assessment. And here we didn't even understand the virus itself or how the virus affects the immune system.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

14 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

complicated, and found controllers too difficult to maneuver. In response, they designed a game system with intentionally simplified graphics and controllers that mimicked real-life motions. Wii was an instant hit, revolutionizing video games and View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Nov 2015
Op-Ed

Authentic Leadership Rediscovered

organizations who have a deep sense of purpose and are true to their core values who have the courage to build their companies to meet the needs of all their stakeholders, and who recognize the importance of their service to society." Authentic leaders demonstrate... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

constraints to envision a new role for higher education as a developer of change-makers for the world, who could become part of a new stage of higher education. We wanted to deploy a new leadership force for the world who could bring... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

force them to listen—to each other, to the interaction between the company and its customers, and to the market. Q: Kind of Blue was recorded in two short sessions of only five and three hours, respectively,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

21 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 21

Publications April 2015 John Wiley & Sons The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives, and Materiality By: Eccles, Robert G., and Michael P. Krzus Abstract—The Integrated Reporting Movement explores the meaning of the concept, explains the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

problems valuing the business, which seemed at times to resemble more of a holding company or conglomerate than anything else, nor that most consumers barely knew that Unilever as such existed. There was, in fact, coherence to Unilever that rested on at least View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

13 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

equates to roughly 60 percent of the total US workforce. Zhang tracked acquired firms for 10 years, from five years before they were purchased through the five years afterward. He found that companies whose... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

08 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

clocked 0.15 percent more hours. But the employees’ extra effort diminished as the difference in rank between employee and manager widened. In some cases, “We were looking at how employees responded to managers who were five promotions... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

their wages increased rates of female labor force participation and decreased negative perceptions around women working outside the home. “What we found is counterintuitive,” says Rigol, noting that traditional economic models assume that... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

16 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 16

raised potential challenges to the dominance of leading firms. Our research tells a fascinating story of an industry that has proved remarkably resilient in resolving economic and regulatory challenges. It provides practitioners and scholars with a deeper understanding... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

Review), the book shows the value of applying scholarly business theories to major life decisions. The key idea is that the same causal mechanisms that drive big businesses can be just as effective in driving our personal lives. Religion has been a driving View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

trying to accomplish. Once the vision is established, Kaplan advises leaders to come up with and communicate a list of no more than three to five priorities that are critical to the organization in order to achieve the vision. In his... View Details