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- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
Worldwide Week global engagement initiative, the panel featured experts from the design, planning, technology, transportation, and business communities. "The question is not so much whether cities can survive, but whether their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
assembly line, marketing, sales, and after-sales service channels) A management model (the hierarchy) A social or regulatory system (specialized work, pay-for-performance... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
the risks are no longer connected to individuals who possess the incentive, power and capability to take action and manage the risks." Stephen Basikoti agreed, noting that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
there in sufficient numbers that they’re not all alone and cringing in the face of a dominant figure who can control their fate,” says Kanter, author of Men and Women of the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
continuity; discard control systems that limit creativity; discourage too much "convergent" thinking that "thrives on focus"; encourage processes that identify View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
Horie represented all that is wrong with Western-style capitalism, others saw him as the future of the country's media industry, and a man of the people. But last month, Horie was arrested on suspicion of View Details
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
Corruption doesn't announce itself with a capital C. It is subtler and thornier than that—as one HBS student found out the hard way during a recent summer internship in Tanzania. In a new case detailing his experience, the student... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
system promoted a high level of collaboration—"(It was) brilliant!" P. A. Chacko said that "pay bands and the roles/designation levels which are mapped to each may start facilitating... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
instead a scenario where the traveler can summon a pooled vehicle that takes her and several other riders from where they live to where they work, saving them hours and saving the city money. No cash changes... View Details
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
"Where was (the) support for manufacturing when it really counted, before much of it escaped offshore? Why should we believe this 'new thinking' now?" Citing " high labor costs and uncooperative unions," Philippe... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
inside the firm to create subunits that define the operating core. As you will see, responsiveness is the critical objective for units close to the customer; economic efficiency and cost control are more... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
industries looking for ways to manage markets. Many states in the early 1930s created administrative boards to control competitive practices, wages, and retail prices industry... View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
In a 2012 Harvard Business School case on corruption at German conglomerate Siemens AG, Peter Solmssen —brought in to clean house —reflects on how people approach a business bribe. "The stupid ones say, very simply, what are you going to do for me?" says Solmssen,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
what it calls "boundaryless" behaviors among its executives, encouraging them to exchange ideas with each other and, when beneficial to the company, with managers outside GE as well. In short, it is becoming more View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
stagnating sales, accounting losses, or a falling stock price. In extreme cases such poor performance may cause the company to default on its debt, resulting in bankruptcy. Restructuring the debt can be difficult View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
experience. Moreover, we should not forget that one of the coauthors of the famous Hawthorne Studies (Harold Wright) was also chief of personnel at the Western Electric Company when Management and the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
a project to a small group of people who are amateurs, who do the project part-time and act as a committee. It doesn't demand management time and resources, View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
a small sampling of the twenty-three companies pitched: Michele Honomichl GPSLink. The average corporation uses up to ten systems to manage the human resources process in moving its executives View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
technology is being diverted to the creation of more variations on basic ideas faster instead of “an economy based on new products/platforms/ideas.” Donald Shaw cited “problems in finding qualified people to hire.” He also said that, “It appears to me that our View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
the mid-1990s had slowed. Most of the management team were from the same area, were around the same age, and had been hired around the same time. Polpa, still a favorite among foodservice companies, was... View Details