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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
People resist change. They like the way they do things now, for the most part. They might wish a familiar product was cheaper or faster, but they’ve gotten used to the way things currently work. And so, if you don’t take behavioral change... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
about companies in terms of ‘distinctive competencies,’ charting a path that diverged from the thinking of their intellectual forebears — who resisted theoretical thinking — toward a more systematic approach.” By the mid-1960s,... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
discussions about the pitfalls that might cause that high rate of failure? The ways in which we resist architecting prenuptial agreements or other ways that could be where we see a lot of analogs from founding teams, the founding teams... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
it resists bruising. For consumers, that means increased convenience—potatoes can be prepped in advance—and reduced food waste. The White Russet marketing campaign is unique, too. When the company introduced the potatoes into supermarkets... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
included in the postmerger integration plan based on the respective firm's quality of IT assets and management." Two Heads Aren't Better Than One All these potential problems become moot if there's resistance at the very top. The... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
discretionary behavior, and they’re certainly not wasting time reading the company handbook. They even resist restrictions such as vacation or expense policies, which Netflix has essentially abolished. The company’s expense policy is,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
agonizing and stressful period in my career thus far. What are your thoughts on the future of global business? The current global slowdown will change the nature of business in lasting ways. First, we’ll be driven to create technologies and operations that are View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
individuals face stubborn resistance to new ideas. Managers and executives often reject innovation and unconventional approaches due to misplaced allegiance to the status quo. In this climate of stifled creativity and inflexible adherence... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
resists the change. You take a 300-ton press, and you have one tool that looks like the back side of that and one tool that looks like the front side, and you go like this—BAM!” he says, pounding his palms together. “And the whole... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
enjoy strong economic interests in the outcome, and face little resistance to their lobbying activities from the general public. These areas are known as “thin political markets” to distinguish them from more vibrant, competitive “thick”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA 1996) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. The next year, three members of the Class... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
business and life, and gave them practical experience by sending them on consulting assignments with real companies. In the military, he ruffled feathers by resisting orders so he could make sure soldiers had the equipment they needed to... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
"Using Technology to Better Manage and Serve Customers," John E. Groman (MBA '69), executive vice president and cofounder of the database marketing firm Epsilon, spoke of the need to reengineer marketing, a field he called "one of the last bastions to View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
among us, humbly aware of all it does not yet comprehend—but one day might. Paul Kix is a deputy editor at ESPN The Magazine. HarperCollins will publish his first book, about a French resistance fighter, later this year. View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Screen Grab
digital media, overseeing 50 million downloads of ABC, Disney, and ABC Family content each month. A sectionmate of Jason Kilar’s, Cheng can’t resist taunting his longtime friend by bringing up the fact that in 2006, ABC beat Hulu,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
be above average. The market for executives is not one in which there are strong competitive pressures to keep compensation down; so, in the end, it's the boards that must resist the pressure to overpay executives. Healy: To put it in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
thing, Joe, is people now believe that the primary message coming out of the Democratic Party is resist. But just resistance alone doesn't do it. People want fresh, innovative thinking, new ideas from probably people who are new leaders.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
eliminates the need for noisy generators or air-conditioning systems. “We are just applying sound business principles in relation to the fundamental success factors of our business,” says Bailey, who resists being labeled a change agent.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
resident of Brazil who first demonstrated extraordinary leadership skills as a youthful commander in the underground resistance against his native Norway's Nazi occupiers, Lorentzen has made development one of his top priorities. And he... View Details