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- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
Bridgestone/Firestone (2000), related party transactions and accounting fraud at Enron (2001), accounting fraud at WorldCom (2002), corrupt payments at Siemens (2007), mortgage lending abuses at Countrywide Financial (2006) and Wall View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Apr 2023
- In Practice
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
example, AI has fundamentally shifted the nature of Wall Street trading. It determines credit scores for existing and potential customers, screens applicants, assists in hiring, responds in real time to... View Details
- 17 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer
the issue because the US Securities and Exchange Commission in September 2017 adopted a rule stemming from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The rule mandates that companies... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership
States as one of the 15 “safe countries” whose citizens may enter freely. Meanwhile, many leaders are reporting that their teams—or they themselves—have crashed into a wall of demotivation and despair. The Stockdale Paradox, made famous... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 31 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World
economic crisis provoked fresh consideration of the relationship between business and society. “People aren’t occupying Wall Street any longer, but reflecting on where our... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
At age 32—feeling far removed from the violent street crimes that had consumed his teens and 20s—Larry Miller just knew he was nailing a job interview with a senior partner at Arthur Andersen. That is, until he came clean about his... View Details
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
Wall Street than is yet common in Asia. Wall Street has strong expectations about the behavior and performance of executives and about... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 15 Feb 2022
- Book
When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
tremendously wealthy Wall Street financier: “Her decisions as a manager aren’t as crisp as they once were, her instincts less reliable,” Brooks writes. “Where once she commanded the room, now she sees that... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Best Person to Lead Your Company Doesn't Work There—Yet
That’s more than twice the pay of CEOs of S&P 400 MidCap companies. CEOs at private firms may have to answer to their PE owners, but they don’t have public-facing stressors like quarterly earnings expectations from Wall View Details
- 26 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises
the face of a crippled economy. “Many Japanese companies are not that popular with Wall Street types because they are not as focused on gaining superior profitability and maximizing shareholder value,” he... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
Publications: GM and the World We Have Lost June 3, 2009 - Boston Globe Richard Tedlow and David Ruben comment on the profound American loss that is the collapse of General Motors. How GM Wasted 'a Good Crisis' June 2, 2009 - Wall View Details
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
At a time when health care providers have gone all in on telemedicine, Amazon, the world’s biggest online retailer, surprised Wall Street in late July when it announced it would acquire 1Life Healthcare... View Details
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
employees. They know who they will not serve, businesses they will not be in, and activities they will not engage. They do not pursue profit for its own sake if it means getting into areas that are outside their defined distinctive capabilities. The disaster on View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
Companies’ Response to Covid-19 (Harvard Business Review) What Quarantine Can Teach You About Spending and Happiness (Wall Street Journal) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge [In terms of the businesses most impacted by... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
degree, would help IT professionals boost salaries both in the top competitive areas and outside them needs further study, Greenstein says. Another factor to be studied is already starting to reshape the wage landscape for IT workers: COVID-19. According to a recent... View Details
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 25 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Collaborating Across Cultures
a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, the idea was nixed on grounds that the treatment was too sympathetic toward the general, An Lushan, portrayed in Chinese history as a villain who ultimately... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
you'll be. And I didn't understand that because of course I wanted to be popular with my peers, but now I can see when you're running a company like Merck and Wall Street is criticizing you because you don't... View Details
- 13 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
diversity.” For some post-M&A executives, however, the main motivation for promoting women and people of color is to avoid discrimination lawsuits. As one executive told Zhang: “We do not want to be on the front page of the Wall View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
understanding of why Davies failed. Q: The crisis section we are excerpting at the end of this interview is about coping with a sudden denial of service attack. It's also about Barton navigating around conflicting advice while preparing for a meeting with View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace