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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
outfitter Timberland, begun in 1989 when City Year requested from Timberland fifty pairs of boots for its urban youth service corps, founded the previous year. The service corps program organizes youths from diverse ethnic, racial, and economic backgrounds into View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
for a deep discussion of the bases for variable compensation in sales, including observability of effort and outcome, risk aversion, team vs. individual pay and the marginal impact of effort. The context is also an interesting and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
also more pronounced for the insurance firms for which regulatory capital requirements are more binding. The results hold both at issuance and for trading in the secondary market and are robust to a series of bond and issuer controls,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
providers who have the scale, experience, teams and facilities to achieve excellent results. To move to a value-based approach to employee health benefits, employers must take a number of essential steps. The first is to mount an... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
demonstrates that SFP always enables truth to speak to power safely, and in a majority of cases enables senior teams to transform silent barriers into strengths, realign their organization's design and strategic management View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
experience yields improved performance. Experience, however, can take many forms. Building on recent studies on learning in operations, we distinguish between repetition of task (i.e., prior experience with the task) and repetition of interaction (i.e., prior... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
dilemmas-challenging decisions that feature tradeoffs between competing and seemingly incompatible values. Moral insight consists of discovering solutions that move beyond selecting one conflicting ethical option over another. Moral insight encompasses both a cognitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
directors. In particular, how does a board really know the leadership style of its senior operating management and the culture of the company for which it has fiduciary responsibility? Most boards do a good job of evaluating their CEOs and senior leadership View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
"We've wanted to learn about the challenges of the process and the challenges of companies in those markets trying to compete on a global platform. We are also curious how international companies have been able to intimate themselves into... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
aspirations and expectations; it is the belief that "I can do it." Team confidence: This is having confidence in each other, counting on each other, giving and receiving respect and support, and giving and taking responsibility.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
business initiatives, we find that firms engage in a dynamic process of managing contradictory boundary activities. Boundaries between differentiated units are reinforced to enable exploitation and exploration, while corporate boundary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
for a company with Palm's record and prospects. Handspring's birth, in July 1998, was huge news in the high-technology industry. Dubinsky and her colleagues had made an enormous success of PalmPilot and its operating system, and that core management View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
from research on companies and teams that have sustained success or deteriorated in their performance, as well as research on the leadership and culture in organizations that endure over time. The focus is on complex interactions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
investment have increased vastly over the last decade, making many people richer. But the problem is that the process has not really been global enough. In fact, some two billion people today live in countries that are actually becoming... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
for the merger of Mars and AFM, putting all of Actera’s efforts on Mars at risk. Should Çavuşoğlu push the stop button for distribution? If Çavuşoğlu decided to move forward with distribution, should he do it now or wait until the process... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
higher prices," says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, who spent 12 years running a professional services firm. That's right. Higher prices, not lower. “Competing on price is ultimately a bet on your cost position.” Cespedes View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
consolidated into a single constraint. This helps to avoid a distortionary situation where different constraints bind for different banks performing the same activity. Second, while a regulatory framework that relies primarily on minimum... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
surgical service that is constantly improving. The case has many details about how Dr. Shingleton works with his staff and patients and how the provider team focuses on patient care. A key measure of productivity for the surgery center is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
said: Julie Battilana: Put people and the planet at economy's core My hope is that President Biden and his team will help all of us rebuild strong democratic foundations, and place human beings and the planet back at the core of our... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
frog design, LUMA Institute), we have developed a semester long, cross-disciplinary, “doing” course that presents students with a conceptual framework for a human-centered innovation process and provides them with tools for engaging in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne