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- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
protagonist on the precipice of a great crisis: Shackleton marooned on an Antarctic ice floe; Lincoln on the verge of seeing the Union collapse;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
investigation into many aspects of service management. For example, while product design and development have received a great deal of attention, the subject of service design has not been very visible in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
better respond to market forces. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1413775 The Great Leap Forward: The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
international business history story that hasn’t previously been told in great detail, but should be explored, says Giacomin, particularly since internment has long-lasting effects. During their incarceration, View Details
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
management believes the relationships between these key financial and nonfinancial metrics to be. Most companies have a great deal of work to do in this area. A 2008 KPMG CSR survey found that "Only a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
Working PapersInitiating Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role of Actors' Social Position Author:Julie Battilana Abstract This study addresses the paradox of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
Bill after World War II, which created a huge pool of potential new students. What were other crucial turning points? A: The Great Depression of the 1930s reinvigorated View Details
- 16 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘The Strategist’
there—the great execution challenge—or how it will capitalize on the learning it accumulates along the way. But this is not so. What's been forgotten is that strategy is not a... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
and credit from development banks was used for long-term capital needs. I also show that as inflation increased in the 1930s, real returns for investors were lowered significantly. Q: What is the state of... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
companies have done a great job, and some have not. To take advantage of the information and effect OMC changes, one has to coordinate across functions, disciplines, and departments. A company has to address... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
finds, is that it offers the key actors no incentive to change their behavior. After all, why would they when it’s working great for their interests? Worst of all, the authors... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
speaking, the IT expert serves much the same function as the certified financial expert on an audit committee. A CIO or CTO with solid experience in View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Macomber, Regina Garcia-Cuellar, Griffin H. James, and Frederik NellemannHarvard Business School Case 212-044 In this case, a property company, a water privatizer, and municipal engineers explore the causes of and solutions to a severe... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Your Employees and Customers Drive a New Value Profit Chain
super-large organizations can maintain a sense of "family." In Wal-Mart's case, it involves such things as clear channels of communications, particularly electronic but also involving frequent store visits by senior executives who spend a View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
School Case 816-072 Neurotrack and the Alzheimer's Puzzle Elli Kaplan founded Neurotrack in 2012 with a breakthrough noninvasive cognitive diagnostics test that will detect Alzheimer's disease in its earliest pre-symptomatic stages. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
Administration and Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program, also teaches a portion. “I’m blessed with a great team,” Elberse says. Applications are due at least four weeks before View Details
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
effective December 31, 1999. The true story of the Canal upends the more conventional tale of U.S. triumphalism and its shepherding of one of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
the company a while back have written to Kanter to say they have changed their minds and could now see the consequences of the company’s cutthroat approach. "They better... View Details