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  • 02 Aug 2022
  • Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 05 Jun 2009
  • What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

What do you think? Original Article During the past several weeks, economists have begun to predict substantially slower growth rates for the world's economy into the foreseeable future. Characteristic of this is the reduction of roughly 100 basis points annually in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
  • 01 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

center employees are often expected to 'de-Indianize' many elements of their behavior—for example, by adopting a Western accent and attitude," the paper explains. Wipro was dealing with a big dropout dilemma; more than half of its call... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications
  • 02 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

resources. And don't expect people to destroy something they've spent years creating. Impose your own processes quickly. If the acquired company is as large as yours and its processes are dissimilar, expect... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
  • 15 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why Americans Voted for an Income Tax

most from our way of life can afford to give back a little bit more." Like FDR, Obama wants us to see taxes not as a burden to be lamented but as a fair payment for benefits received. And as our society has grown more complex, the... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
  • 25 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

Why did you come in late on Tuesday? Did you really need an hour and a half for lunch on Wednesday? Why wasn't that report done by Thursday? For most of us, justifying our schedules is an expected part of the job. But what employee hasn't... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 25 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse

at an impasse. The impasse experience has features that are common to all of us, and in time each of us has a unique experience of impasse. For most people the recognition that we're at an impasse, whether it's a career situation or a broader View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

are you won’t ever learn how to pull off a triple bypass. And yet, in business, companies routinely expect employees to pick up new job knowledge through vicarious learning—through reading descriptions of tasks in knowledge-management... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 11 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

reader engagement. For the professionals, our story of Jim Barton often mirrors their own life experience, and has prompted many real CIOs to say to us "this is my life," "this book is about me," even (from one)... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

by moving on to their next job, rather than scrambling to bail out a sinking ship.  Leaders may be isolated. In a perfect world, an entrepreneur could seek counsel from investors, colleagues, or the company’s board about whether to pull the plug. In reality, founders... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 06 Mar 2020
  • Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

have opinions and to expect and want to learn from colleagues and fellow students who might have very different ways of viewing a situation. Just as I believe a manager is an orchestra leader, I see myself as the orchestra leader to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 12 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

it is saying that if someone sends work correspondence before and after certain timeframes it’s fine not to receive a response until business hours or maintaining consistent expectations for punctuality and attendance in online... View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
  • 02 Aug 2007
  • What Do You Think?

How Will Millennials Manage?

thus invigorate their teams and provide cultures that are profitable not because they are forced to, but because they want to." David Mullings added, "We will in fact treat our employees the way we expect to be treated."... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 24 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

compensation to performance, as they often fail to rein in pay when performance suffers. · Expectations placed on board members have increased. Most notably, Sarbanes-Oxley and the new listing requirements of the public exchanges have... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
  • 13 Jan 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

to see. Due to the measurability of sporting performance, every manager of a professional team becomes a winner or a loser in the eyes of the public—week after week. So, it is not surprising that the shelf life for professional soccer... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports
  • 10 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly

life and death for patients. "One device I am studying allows you to replace a heart valve through a catheter inserted in the thigh, rather than doing open-heart surgery," she says. "It allows a whole group of people who are very sick to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Technology
  • 29 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

One might expect first-time entrepreneurs to pick up speed as they churn out more products, but new research finds that nascent firms typically launch second products six weeks later than originally planned. What’s more, with each... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 28 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

risk, Raman explains, has been through inventory. But "for numerous reasons, inventory became very expensive." Shorter product life cycles contribute to higher expenses, for example, in the personal computer market, where the... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

shenanigans have become so common that they're almost invisible. The budgeting process is so deeply embedded in corporate life that the attendant lies and games are simply accepted as business as usual, no matter how destructive they are.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • 27 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

widespread acceptance would prove a bane for incumbent U.S. tire makers. Radials' longer life would decrease unit demand in the profitable replacement market, providing an opening for foreign producers and smaller players like B.F.... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation
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