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- 02 Jun 2003
- What Do You Think?
What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?
managers confronted with alternatives that some would view as involving right and wrong, and others would view as involving a selection of the lesser of two or more wrongs. Taken to its extreme, this may... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
for years to come. Unpredictability inflicts a heavy cost on scientific progress, whether in domains like stem-cell research or in searching for safe alternative fuels. It damages the United States'... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
alternative course of action would have been the one chosen by Shell, which from the experiences in the above-mentioned negative events, strove to assume leadership of the environmental cause in its... View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
alternative means of understanding these decisions that is highly complementary to the large-sample research in several ways. First, the cases in the book serve as manifestations and validation of some of... View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
cameras are almost expendable devices, offering much less quality but good enough to be incorporated into cell phones and PDAs reaching mass markets. Solar cells met limited success as alternative energy... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
alternatives, be expensed. Are companies that choose those alternatives any less deserving of an accounting subsidy than Microsoft, which, having granted 300 million options in 2001 alone, is by far the largest issuer of stock options? It... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
habits. We believe that there are several key issues that will effect a dramatic change in the supermarket industry over the next five years. First, eCommerce will shift significant dollars out of the industry. Although home delivery does not seem View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
at a time, with little discussion about possible alternative approaches. Complex-processing improvisations are multidimensional. Parties move from one pattern to another, progressing in stages through... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
much more difficult and something that happens more slowly,” says Steinwender. “How those firms react may lead to a lengthening of the crisis.” When it came to recovery, Steinwender and Garicano again found... View Details
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
locations (even if on a sofa) going for as little as $25 per night. Nightly rentals are beginning to exceed the volumes of the largest hotel chains. What happens if the chains, with much higher marginal... View Details
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
software. Jim Heskett Others of you cited examples of your use of hard-wiring. Jay Cross offers it as an alternative to traditional pricing. Although clients don't bite, he claims that it gets him... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
of perfect information." Among the suggestions for managers were these: Help "data analyzers consume and translate the data" (Scott Kemme, who also suggested an alternative title for the column, which I instead used above), Know "what not... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
Nova lived up to its moniker, nová meaning "new" in Czech and alluding as well to a bright star. Its wide array of programs provided a spicy alternative View Details
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
pushing them at convenience store counters. "Distribution of Blu immediately increased by a factor of three," says Quelch. Other top manufacturers followed suit, acquiring their own brands and using their shelf-space clout to... View Details
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
Another alternative summer camp organized by Independent Means is Noise: The Summer Experience for the Music Entrepreneur. Noise introduces teenagers to the business side of the music industry. "I spend... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
Airlines, casinos, and hotels can offer significant rewards to their loyal customers because they often operate with substantial overcapacity. Rewards based on this overcapacity, such as air miles or stays... View Details
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
touched controversial issues including gender equality and the conflicting emotions experienced both by women who work and those who stay home to raise families. Other popular stories, listed below, looked at such diverse topics as the... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
days, because consumers' demand for information about goods and services tends to be inelastic. As the model illustrates, additional forces drive industry change as well. Alternatives View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
rethink its entire go-to-market strategy rather than just its channel incentive programs. Design problems usually don't get fixed by tactical actions. Designing And Managing A Channel In a typical arrangement, a supplier has four View Details