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- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
Summing Up: Is Job Ownership Nature or Nurture? Employees increasingly are becoming “job renters.” For some, it is a disturbing trend. It doesn’t have to happen. And the phenomenon isn’t universal. These observations by respondents to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
from an alumnus to the president of The Ohio State University at the time, demanding a reprimand or worse. How times change. Of course, a few years later, president Richard Nixon embarked on his momentous trip that literally changed the course of US-China relations and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
with the downside of thinking slow. So here is what my gut tells me about what you said this month: Thinking slow, as Daniel Kahneman calls it in his recent book by that name, is important under circumstances of high risk, uncertain... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
the cause. F. Chircu helped frame the discussion by writing that "When producers want to differentiate themselves, up to a point the safest and quickest way . . . is to add features or increase product complexity. . . . Choice... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?
global challenges on their responses. Sudip Bose put it this way: "Venerated works of Milton Friedman have influenced government policies. . . . But, his shadow will be relentlessly chased primarily by global climatic concerns and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
for a while The technique of continuous forecasting was there, we just needed to adopt and tailor it. continuous forecasting/budgeting/planning requires more effort to think about the future than the former once-a-year event." The ultimate dilemma faced View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
Summing Up In the judgment of respondents to the October column, repeating the development of disruptive technologies is an admirable but elusive target. Respondents commonly asked whether it is a process disrupted by too many... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
Summing Up Does Social Equality Improve Productivity? Inequality in our society is an important and growing issue. It prompted a debate among respondents to this month's column about the causes, specifically the role played by innovation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
might be taken in admissions to sort out the "bad apples," the primary responsibility of business schools is to provide a place where ethics and values can be discussed by all, rather than just those clearing some admissions... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
think most of management is willing to take the long view." These last comments provided a good lead-in to the question posed by Jay Somasundaram: "What types of leadership do we want most?" Where do we find such leaders?... View Details
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
opportunities and substantial returns on investment of the kind suggested by some are years, perhaps even decades, away. It will require not only caution but also a great deal of patience as barriers to economic development are lowered.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
largely by scale alone." Several respondents offered an explanation for these phenomena. Typical was Rahul Sharma's comment: " . . . these high executive compensation packages are . . . necessitated View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
Summing Up Responses to this month's column raise questions about whether Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, requiring that senior managers certify the integrity of the processes by which their companies' financial reports are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
Microsoft caused by (2) a defense personally led by Bill Gates and (3) by the failure of the company's board to provide counsel. In the case of a high-tech company where... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
Summing Up This month's column presented two views of the importance of customer loyalty management, one challenging its feasibility and long-term impact (Michael Treacy, Double Digit Growth) and one concluding that it is one of the most important drivers of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
accomplished, including more freedom for business, more immigration, and big bets by the government and industry to meet imposing infrastructure needs. Ron Kurtz said, “I am concerned that we are facing a decline in the size and spending... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
with options so far underwater that they may not surface in the span of a management career.— James Heskett Is it possible that one culprit is a highly appealing concept universally taught in business... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
James R. Moffett
In 1981, Moffett orchestrated one of the largest and most profitable mergers in Wall Street history – the merger of his oil exploration company, McMoRan Oil and Gas Company, with Freeport Minerals Corporation – creating a $4 billion enterprise. A geologist View Details
Keywords: Agriculture & Mining
James L. Kraft
Kraft created a multi-million dollar processed food supply company. He was instrumental in perfecting the method of preserving cheese, so that it could be stored for a longer period of time in any climate. Consumption of cheese in America per capita increased View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco