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- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
service-line-oriented structure, JLL created two interdependent groups: Accounts and Markets. Accounts housed account managers who served JLL's corporate clients. Markets housed brokers specialized in a certain geography. JLL helped drive integration between Accounts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
excel in small firms, where they can set a goal and then empower others to work toward it. Navy and Air Force officers, who operate expensive, complex systems, such as submarines and aircraft carriers, are trained to follow processes to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
companies do CSR in fits and starts” The problem? They lack a cohesive CSR strategy, says Rangan, who recently cowrote the working paper Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It with HBS research associate Lisa A. Chase... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
completion times, our work highlights the tradeoffs between the time required to exercise discretion and the potential gains from doing so, which has implications for how discretion over scheduling should be delegated. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
worked after serving as a Navy lieutenant in Hawaii from 1969 to 1971. There were early signs of his interest in the Thoroughbred industry, however — a thesis on the economics of the business written as an undergraduate at The College of... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
Kristin S. Rhyne, MBA '99, would have loved to have the problems of reconciling employee priorities and juggling financial plans. Late last May, a year after incorporating Polished, she was still struggling to open its first unit. The strain of View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
seemed right—so what did hold women back? One of the things I was good at was taking fragments of what I found and creating a framework. Well, I had an opportunity to work on a program for women in medicine.... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
participation is critical to prosperity because the more people who work as a proportion of the total working-age population, the higher per capita income will be whatever the wage level. All of this is threatening the American dream, the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
counting. The six months Masha spent traveling the countryside to set up the Village Promoter program helped him see the scale of the challenges facing Nigerian farmers. The biggest problem wasn't the labor force—he'd never seen anyone View Details
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
recognize and foster creativity in themselves and others, Amabile maintains, "I'm not trying to teach people to be creative, though sometimes it is a by-product of my course. Rather, I help students to sustain their own creativity in the View Details
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
100 years. The situation may be due in large part to the role of university-based business education from the founding of the Wharton School in 1881 and continuing right up to the present. According to Khurana, the schools first emphasized that managers should carry... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
the team was able to draw some conclusions about how the companies performed individually and as a hypothetical portfolio. They were also able to make some observations about how investor behavior contributed to the success of individual IC members. The students View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
of Buenos Aires’s population was foreign born, and it could be regarded as one of the world’s greatest global cities.” Today, the city is a decaying shadow of itself and Argentina as a whole has fallen prey to ineffective institutions, inconsistent government... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
portable generators he’d been selling in India. When Mittal traveled to East Asia in search of new ideas, he saw push-button phones in Taiwan (most Indian phones were rotary dial at the time). Government regulations forbade the import of consumer products, so Mittal... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
equation" seems to be at the forefront of each of their leaders' minds. "I really believe that the most important competitive element a company has are the people who work in it," notes Boise Cascade's Harad. Harad prefers to lead by... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
Working PapersNo Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments (revised) Authors:Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We present six studies demonstrating that outcome information biases ethical judgments of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Fragmented upstream and downstream channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Such distinctive industrial structures, we show, were a direct result of whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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institutions need to accommodate demographic changes, and can firms gain a competitive edge by getting out in front of these trends? New labor models. Will remote work and the gig economy lead to View Details