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- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
taxonomy that assembles the field's knowledge about these decision-making bounds and organizes efforts toward deepening this knowledge and developing strategies for improvement. Specifically, we group five identified decision-making... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control
branding," wherein consumers not only discuss and disseminate branded content, they also create it. In the paper The Uninvited Brand, published in the journal Business Horizons in 2011, Avery and coauthor Susan Fournier map out the... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
strategies. The strategy map for a support unit typically includes a financial objective to improve its efficiency in supplying services to the enterprise. This objective is usually measured by the cost of... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
personal situations, in part also to motivate them to adapt to new safety practices. Implementing this model of HR management requires new capabilities such as mapping employees’ skills, cataloging competencies, supporting rapid... View Details
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
continuing to his death, Patterson promoted "scientific" salesmanship. Like Frederick W. Taylor, the founder of scientific management in production, Patterson carefully analyzed business processes and tried to perfect them. He created carefully written sales... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
the more familiar lean technique of value stream mapping (VSM) to identify and decrease wasted time and effort throughout the software development process. Improving From The Bottom Up While most organizations struggle with implementing a... View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
pursuing either of the latter two avenues for recourse. Purchase this note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309022 New York City: Bloomberg's Strategy for Economic Development Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
insight into how firms can realize the benefits of empowerment strategies while mitigating their risks. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54820 forthcoming Journal of Experimental Psychology: General... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
impasse is developmentally necessary. The meaning of an impasse, although it's usually first expressed as a failure or in an internalized notion of inadequacy, is a request for us to change our way of thinking about ourselves and our place in the world. At impasse our... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
The Balanced Scorecard helps organizations manage the value creation process at each of these levels. In each situation, the Balanced Scorecard creates a strategy map that links financial results with the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 18 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Commuter Hell? You Can Still Be Productive
Employees should think about work on the way to work by mentally mapping out a plan for their day. By using the travel time as an opportunity to get into the work mindset, employees are giving themselves a chance to make an easier mental... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
served or failed us. Most felt that common sense had its place in combination with formal systems of knowledge, research, and planning. As Michael Aschenbach put it, "If you get lost in the woods, it is good to have survival experience. Having a View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
this new market and product category to take off, but if they become the cognitive referent, they get an unequal share of the gains from doing so.” Is there a roadmap or strategy that firms can follow to gain cognitive referent status?... View Details
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom, who will stand by whom in times of crisis, what governs the provision of credit when no one seems to have credit. This book View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
openness and the sociopolitical atmosphere) or some of the market factors, but few pay attention to both. We have developed sets of questions that companies can ask to create a map of each country's context and to gauge the extent to... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
response organizations to adopt very different leadership strategies if they are effectively to cope with the differential demands of these events. In this paper, we develop further ideas about leadership under crisis conditions,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
Network Methods to Map Product Architecture By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., Alan MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract—In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterising the architecture of technical systems and demonstrate... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
customer, while you look after your other constituents on an as-needed basis." In the east quadrant, Simons focuses on performance variables and the theory of value creation. "We build strategy View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge
early access to some of those innovations.” Mapping insights for social good In many cases, these projects help bring about societal change. Asensio, who is an associate professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and his work offer... View Details
Keywords: by Glen Justice