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- 10 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points
her future was uncertain now that her professional champion was departing. It was unclear whether her boss had retired of her own volition or had been forced out—or something in between. All Michelle knew was that on an otherwise... View Details
Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
professionals may be confronted with a sense of psychological impasse and how they can free themselves. Martha Lagace: What sorts of thoughts, feelings, and images do people experience when they face an impasse? Timothy Butler: First,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
purchasing agent may be motivated by monthly targets and pennies ground out of suppliers. To succeed, the supplier may need to create a more promising set-up with more sympathetic parties involved in the negotiation. When talks stall,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
friend, more workers are scaling back, stepping away, or choosing alternative professional opportunities that help them balance these demands. Companies that ignore this emerging crisis risk losing their hardest-to-find and highest-paid... View Details
- 11 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities
There’s a new frontier in diversity programs focused not on race or gender but on cognitive ability. The growing interest in neurodiversity—hiring people with cognitive disabilities like Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)—is motivated by... View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
governments have started to list state-owned enterprises, have selected professional managers to run them, and have given them more financial autonomy. We argue that the transformation from owner and manager to majority shareholder has... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
bias and moderate its ill effects. Only then can we be assured of the reliability of the financial reports issued by public companies and ratified by professional accountants. Professional accountants might... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
vigilance when they are auditing their clients. Of course, auditors might deny that litigation risk is what motivates them to uphold quality. The profession has high standards of conduct and their reputation matters. View Details
- 24 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?
firms that had employees switch to remote work believe that it will remain more common at their company even after the COVID-19 crisis ends. “These estimates suggest that at least 16 percent of American workers will switch from View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
motivates employees to execute strategy effectively. The value of these programs is measured by the value they create in the enterprise, not by how little is spent on them. An adequate technology infrastructure and standard transaction... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
long distances, among other differences, he said.) Deceit and denial fostered ethical drift. Enron's ethical drift was further motivated by a desire to manage the credit rating and to manage the need for cash and earnings volatility, in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
problems, taking money from friends and family may send a negative signal about the startup's prospects, especially if the startup is beyond the early launching stage. One serial entrepreneur observed that founders who fail to raise capital from View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
problems are Embraer's partnerships trying to overcome?" As a company, conference participants said, Embraer had made a number of smart moves. Its human resources strategy was rejuvenated for flexibility, so people were motivated to... View Details
- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
professional accounting firm, conduct an audit of the records pertinent to this dispute and to mail the results to the employee. (This would be far less expensive than going to court.) Having this information would diminish the employee's... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
humans are often irrational—and the fact that the logic of real-world decisions therefore sometimes flies in the face of established economic theory. “Most of my research projects are motivated by puzzles or strange patterns of behavior I... View Details
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
(Financial Times/Prentice Hall 2000). Edited by Subir Chowdhury, a consultant and author specializing in quality management, the book pulls together practical and accessible essays by twenty-six leading-edge academics and business View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
inherently wrong with pay for performance, only in the way that specific plans have been designed and implemented." Mathews Daniel Kapito helped frame the challenge. As he put it, "People are different pay linked to performance will only View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
surprises for new CEOs arise from time and knowledge limitations—there is so much to do in complex new areas, with imperfect information and never enough time. Others stem from unexpected and unfamiliar new roles and altered professional... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
motivation for working all these hours is not actually to produce high-quality work. In fact, there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that it’s going to undermine the quality of the work.” Confronting deeply held beliefs has been part of... View Details
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
States. In short, their study shows that family CEOs on average work fewer hours relative to nonfamily-affiliated managers in all the countries they studied. Family Vs. Professional To launch the study, the researchers hired 15 students... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel