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  • 18 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

reserve accumulation may reduce sustainable debt levels. In addition, assuming constant debt levels does not allow addressing one of the puzzles behind using reserves as a means to avoid the negative effects of crisis: why don't sovereign... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2023 (Revised April 2024)
  • Case

First to Fight? Culture, Tradition, and the United States Marine Corps (USMC)

By: Ranjay Gulati, Akhil Iyer and Joel Malkin
Over a history of more than 240 years, the United States Marine Corps has forged a distinct culture and institutional identity centered on its “warrior ethos.” In the wars of American history, Marines fought with uncommon valor, rising to international prominence for... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Government Administration; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; United States
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  • 09 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

field organizations was growing. The senior team was slow to make decisions, and no one took responsibility for the performance of the developing businesses. A lack of openness lies behind many failures to implement strategy. Camp... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

evidence for beneficial effects of both task change and start-of-day restarts on worker productivity. Together, these results offer insight into the underlying structure of productivity and suggest new ways to improve View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

2014 Journal of Advertising Research Pitfalls and Fraud in Online Advertising Metrics: What Makes Advertisers Vulnerable to Cheaters, and How They Can Protect Themselves By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—How does online advertising become less View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

motivator is our natural tendency to measure our own performance against the performance of others. 2011 Top 10 Working Papers: (# Unique Visitors) What Do CEOs Do? (3,708)... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • November 2000
  • Case

WARDA: Leading a Rice Revolution in West Africa

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
The West Africa Rice Development Association, along with various national and international partners, was developing and transferring new rice technologies to farmers throughout West and Central Africa. While production in West Africa was growing faster than any other... View Details
Keywords: Private Sector; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics; Technological Innovation; Leadership; Performance Effectiveness; Problems and Challenges; Research and Development; Nonprofit Organizations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa
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  • 16 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

37 states participate in the development and production program. The empty weight of the aircraft is 31,670 pounds and the wing area is 840 square feet. The aircraft has two engines generating 35,000 pounds of thrust, enabling the F-22 to travel at a speed of Mach 1.8... View Details
Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service
  • 23 May 2011
  • Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

which corporate and investor behavior is changing. We did so by analyzing data from more than 2,000 companies in 23 countries, and then ranked those countries based on the degree of integration of corporate environmental and social View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
  • 24 Apr 2020
  • Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

“combined leadership explained a remarkably high proportion of the success or failure of each team.” Just four leadership variables–quarterback, coach, general manager, and owner–explained 68.2 percent of variance in team performance... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17

with ethnic Indians in other countries 32% (9 percentage points) more likely to choose a worker in India. Yet, the size of the Indian diaspora on oDesk and the timing of its effects make clear that the Indian diaspora was not a very... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

worked with, many employees suggested that (a) "openness to input from below" should become a key component of each leader's 360-degree performance evaluation and (b) a cut-off score be set for this component, such that those... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • November 1995 (Revised April 1996)
  • Case

ENTel and the Privatization of Argentine Telecommunications

By: Willis M. Emmons III
Growing fiscal deficits, persistent economic recession, and underinvestment in the nation's telecommunications infrastructure lead the Argentine government to privatize its state-owned monopoly provider of telecommunications services, ENTel, in late 1990. The... View Details
Keywords: Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Communication Technology; Privatization; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competition; Development Economics; Policy; Government and Politics; Performance Effectiveness; Telecommunications Industry; Argentina
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  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

One of the greatest challenges for the values-centered culture is to produce top performance and succeed in the market against "win at any cost" competitors. Values are only one part of an organization's culture; the other half... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

Francisco Ruiz-Aliseda Abstract In their seminal 1985 paper, Katz and Shapiro study systems compatibility in settings with one-sided platforms and direct network effects. We consider systems compatibility when competing platforms are two-sided and there are indirect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

issue high-headline-rate and more complex products in low-rate environments. Finally, we find that high-headline-rate and more complex products are more profitable for banks, and that their ex post performance is lower. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition

intellectual resources—using existing knowledge to improve performance or combining strands of knowledge to create something altogether new—can help companies respond to a surprising array of challenges, from fending off smaller, nimbler... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
  • 13 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

documentation, litigation defense, and regulatory compliance. These excessive documentation requirements also strain the patient-physician relationship, reducing the time patients spend with their doctors and hampering effective... View Details
Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health
  • 06 May 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

effect helps us to achieve." Casandra Levine agreed, but introduced a cautionary note. The promise of what can be accomplished by predictive analytics in raising the quality of life and functionality for our society is astonishing,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

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