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- 31 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?
why some organizations are more successful than others, why organization size can matter, why decentralization and diversity works, and why lines of communication that enable members at all levels of an organization to make their views... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
received. I think the move toward integrating spirituality and work is also fundamentally about how to bring more love into our lives." That may be a bottom line worth meditating on. View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
more vehicles than they can sell and—unable to make money from new cars—turn to service and trade-ins to eke out margins. And at the bottom of the chain are customers trapped in high-pressure negotiations for a car that isn't the exact... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
water consumption in the firm's factories. The juxtaposition of information on both operations and CSR symbolizes the company's commitment to more than just the bottom line and its belief that both sets of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
frequently the case in Latin America, such a license should not be taken for granted, especially when collection of tolls appears to be a rather unpopular means of funding, as revealed from several of our interviews.6 Another example along these View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
structures. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/916415-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-022 DBL Partners: Double Bottom Line Venture Capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
espousing a triple bottom line of people, planet, and profits, rather than a single-minded focus on shareholder value. People of my vintage recall when business leadership was about serving customers at a... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
happened without this capital. That spells impact. Avoiding future costs is investment-worthy, just like adding future revenue. Most investors and lenders have a good handle on the cash flow curve for an investment that will eventually add revenue. You can imagine a... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
its new product, the mainframe computer, to capture close to 80 percent of the world's markets. On the basis of the continuing learning and high financial returns, IBM developed its System 360, which in terms of prices charged and performance expected was a full View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
schools and peak the interest of what may become a "Moneyball Generation" of managers and analysts who want to divine and track new measures that explain bottom line performance and provide a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
impact in the economy, and in line with previous findings by Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo and David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon Hanson and Jae Song. Both shocks significantly reduced the demand for manufacturing workers in areas... View Details
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
felt that the lines are not finely drawn. As she put it: "Men and women are variations on a theme, not opposites . It is possible, and I think likely, that the male-dominated business world selects as leaders women who demonstrate... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
like in the case of email. But sometimes it's substantial, where companies are sending high-gloss brochures." Bottom Line The new method certainly isn't perfect; Gupta says he actually saw more prediction... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
company and grow as fast as possible (e.g., high double digits) or be more conservative and grow sales at a financially healthy rate, like traditional retailers did (e.g., single digits). The primary way e-retailing companies achieved... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
AT&T joined Coca-Cola as an announced partner, and live testing of UPromise's service began. The company still confronted the formidable difficulties of putting an extremely complex business on line and enrolling consumers through its... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
centers can seriously affect an organization's bottom line and undermine its strategy. "My research reveals that what happens in the last 10 yards of retail supply chains is really important. Customers often... View Details
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
Insights Team (BIT), which became the world’s first government organization dedicated to incorporating behavioral economics into policy. BIT saw the tax letter as an opportunity to test the value of behavioral interventions in a context that would affect the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
regulatory requirements—thus preserving the legal right to keep operating the company. It also can mean preventing damage to the brand. Corporate investment in environmental sustainability can help the brand as well as the bottom line.... View Details
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
typical of others that have found “a strong correlation between gender diversity and a company’s bottom line.” Companies in the top quartile of gender diversity worldwide had a high likelihood of outperforming bottom-quartile industry... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
so." Carl Meyer added, "Clearly the board! The danger of favoritism among employees would be far too dangerous." Others figuratively said "not so fast." As Joel Koblentz put it, "The bottom View Details