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- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
capacity for innovation, can and often should be structured as artists structure their work. Managers should look to collaborative artists rather than to more traditional management models if they want to... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
hold when considering changes in India's incumbent industry structures from 1989, determined before large-scale deregulation began, to 2005. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity
Stereotype Threat’s Silver Lining: Speaking Out for Change Dolly Chugh Presents The Person You Mean To Be “Just because you’re getting more people there doesn’t mean you’re actually dismantling the View Details
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
that exposure to informational advertising can decrease the consumer's tendency to purchase the promoted product. The structural estimates imply that an exposure to a single advertisement decreases the consumer's probability of not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
After nearly a decade of uninterrupted growth, strategic consulting firms are now facing one of their most challenging periods in memory, prompting widespread cutbacks in staff and changes to recruiting. How did these firms get to this... View Details
- Web
Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building the First Sales Team - Course Catalog
success factor is exactly how a firm goes to market – with its sales force. But the rules have changed – innovations like ‘product-led-growth’ models and social media are changing the status quo and forcing... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
the strategy literature by considering "ambivalent value," value produced by the interaction of two firms that does not necessarily accrue to either. The extent of "ambivalent value" is unclear, but its persistence despite View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
whatever else it may be, is not a conversation. Following that same logic, organizational conversation replaces the traditional one-way structure of corporate communication with a dynamic process in which leaders talk with employees and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
option grants, though not as liberal as many others. In fact, expensing options in Enron's accounts would have changed reported profits by only about 10%, whereas the change would have been around 30% for... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
half of all EC courses, part of the traditional thirty-session class structure is now used for group project work, field research, and the preparation of papers on "frontier" business issues. New EC courses are continually being... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
most recently reported. Using the complete history of regular quarterly and annual filings by U.S. corporations from 1995 to 2014, we show that when firms make an active change in their reporting practices, this conveys an important... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
Goals for influencing government should flow directly from the analytic frameworks that companies use to develop business strategies. As Michael Porter noted in Competitive Strategy, "No structural analysis is complete without a... View Details
- September 1996 (Revised November 1996)
- Case
World Bank (A): Under Siege
By: George C. Lodge and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Describes the issues that James Wolfensohn faces when he takes over the World Bank as president in June 1995. Presents several lines of criticism of the bank's strategy, structure, and relevance. View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; International Finance; Organizational Structure; Leading Change; Situation or Environment; Decision Choices and Conditions; Strategy; Management Teams; Value; Banking Industry
Lodge, George C., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "World Bank (A): Under Siege." Harvard Business School Case 797-022, September 1996. (Revised November 1996.)
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
support, benefits continuation, and visa support are all indications to remaining employees and future hires of how they might be treated in the future. Intuit managed communication well: By 9 a.m. PT, all employees impacted by the View Details
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
of control), (iii) increase DM total and performance-based pay. The results are generally consistent with the explanation that firms redesign their organizations through a set of complementary choices in response to changes in their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
what's going on in business," Nolan noted. "We have never lived through anything like this." With that, Nolan opened his discussion of the profound changes that computers -- and now the Internet -- have wrought on the way business is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
examine how the price structure and investment incentives of the proprietary platform are affected by quality investments in the open platform. We find that access prices may increase or decrease as a result of investment in the open... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
outs (LBOs) and greatly changed the structure of corporate America. By the late 1980s, though, Milken and junk bonds became more heavily scrutinized, and Milken was eventually implicated in a number of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
entail major changes in the current team structure and incentive program within Frito-Lay. Johnson needed to think carefully about this change implementation. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
properties help us understand how the intensity of communication among group-members and some select structural characteristics of the group affect recognition outcomes in novel and structurally ambiguous... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne