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- 18 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
How New Managers Become Great Managers
successful. They should pursue situations in which their strengths are really needed, important weaknesses are not a serious drawback, and their core values are consistent with those of the organization; in other words, the stretch should... View Details
Keywords: by Linda Hill
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
that certain employees gain through contributing, says Nagle. His study suggests that contributing to crowdsourced digital or even physical “public goods” that benefit other firms or industries can enable companies to gain valuable insights and View Details
- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
here. Although planning is considered a core competency of corporations, nonprofits were often more effective in planning their social actions. This is a difference in degree rather than kind. Corporations... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
the organization’s core activities, sharpen the performance of its leadership team, and rebalance where necessary. This finding came to light when we studied Big C and Small C change in professional sports—specifically, how coaches who... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
the crisis to emerge stronger than others in our industry?” “How can the organization learn through this experience to win in a new world?” Saenz and O’Keeffe explain: “To guide the decisions and actions that will answer those questions—through the welter of View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
Salter said Enron's legacy of corporate reforms in the U.S. since its fall is deep and wide and not necessarily reassuring. Steps to curb Enron-like corporate abuses, such as the shift from a principles-based corporate governance system to one that is rules-based, may... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
says, "which we view as a triangle" representing cutting working capital, reducing transaction costs, and providing world-class customer service. Balancing these competing priorities means that it's impossible to eliminate risk... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
Each step is crucial. Failure to take any one will put your company on the slippery slope to being a price taker. Step 1: Create customer value. There are two parts to the creation of customer value. You must provide a reason for the customer to do business with you.... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
the folly of not adhering strictly to the company's core beliefs.2 Similarly, we have observed failed consulting relationships in our field research in which the consultants simply blamed the failure on the client, concluding that the... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
achievement. In the 1960s, however, it began to self-destruct by diversifying, first in attempting to compete with IBM in the production of mainframes and then by becoming a conglomerate, purchasing, among others, Hertz Rent A Car,... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
authors explain the fundamentals of platforms, different strategies and business models, common errors, and platform battlegrounds of the future that involve competing technologies and implications for organizations. There is advice for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
not an option, this process helped companies share implementation costs and leverage each other’s competencies to discover new ways of doing things. Some companies took more extreme measures to support their ecosystem, for example... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
People begin to interact with greater frequency and many more kinds of joint activities are undertaken. The types and levels of institutional resources used multiply. Core competencies are not simply... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
side) competing with a lack of an industrial policy (on the US side). Going all the way back to the mid-1980s, the Chinese government has been mapping a pathway for the country to become a modern economy possessing View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
with unsubstantiated yet flourishing responses to the seemingly endless demand to grow better leaders. Despite leadership being so central to the core mission of many schools, there is surprisingly little serious scholarship on how to... View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
managers publicly acknowledge the need to explore new businesses and markets, the claims of established businesses on company resources almost always come first, especially when times are hard. When top teams allow the tension between View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur
said, is that the start-up's mission was in alignment with the company's core business. For would-be intrapreneurs, the advantages to a corporate start-up versus a jump to a brand new company can include increased visibility within the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
brand heritage as "a dimension of a brand's identity found in its track record, longevity, core values, use of symbols and particularly in an organizational belief that history is important." The Nobel Prize Heritage Quotient These five... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Global Change in the Built Environment
career advice and placement for our students. Our core Real Property survey course is in the fall of the second year. We also have two new winter courses on Emerging Real Estate Markets and Design, Development and Construction. In... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
core activities in any business. Without a good customer acquisition process, you can’t grow.” A professor at Harvard Business School for 11 years, Cespedes left for an equal time to run a firm, where he learned firsthand the importance... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding