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- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
fixing easy-to-solve problems had greater improvement in safety climate than those focused on identifying a bunch of hard-to-solve ones. "To our knowledge, this tradeoff between analysis and action in... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
the company acknowledged, the USLP was an unprecedented commitment. Each of the plan’s overarching goals was broken out into specific action areas and targets, which totaled more than fifty measurable items.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
workers to attend when sick, including work overload, lack of backup, and understaffing. Some occupational cultures have the same effect, glorifying “toughing it out” as an indicator View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
foster that. While teaching the case, Mikes asked students to participate in their own scenario- planning exercise, deciding actions to take in Asia if they ran LEGO. Importantly, students had to figure out... View Details
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
The story behind Dean Kamen's Segway scooter, and his combustive meeting with the kingpins of Apple and Amazon. Excerpt from Code Name Ginger. 5. Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
starting to come due for a culture not used to paying them. “Thousands of years of environmental degradation have put more strain on a finite amount View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
presentations had been essentially identical and the audiences at first blush quite similar, the attitudes he encountered were disparate. "In Northern California, 80 percent of the audience thought climate change was largely man-made and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning to Make the Move to CEO
and people part of the equation. Tushman, for example, asks a fundamental question: As a leader, what do you have to do to cause an organization to change? "Over all of this, we use a number View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
clear: many retail segments are under assault by cheaper, more convenient retailers selling online. "The surprising thing is that despite the success of lots of big businesses in having developed Internet... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
series of ecosystems, they urge, with "keystone" companies such as Microsoft and Wal-Mart providing for the health of all who do business with them. What are the best... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
"then we can more considerately say how big an organization needs to be to accomplish the ends " Srinivasan questioned whether size alone matters, pointing out that size has to be considered alongside such things as "conviction focus ability to create a... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
company as opposed to their department or themselves; hire people whose values and skills fit the culture and strategy, thus reinforcing and sustaining the community of purpose. In addition, leaders spend a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
actions from around the globe. They then adjusted those actions for each country or region to make them comparable in categories such as the total percent of gross domestic... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
Often the CEO is portrayed as 'the only person in the world who could do this job' You can thank the financial press for this mystique." In pointing out the futility of the effort, Rebecca West commented that "the current... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
much broader setting. "Students would ask me about the possibility of establishing a global system of business ethics," Paine says, "and whether cultural clashes... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-066 Mohamed Azab and Seha Capital In January 2011, Mohamed Azab, founder and CEO of health care investment firm Seha... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
from the tragedy? For one, small decisions have big consequences. Key concepts include: Words and actions by leadership shape perceptions and beliefs of organization members. Leaders need to hold a delicate... View Details
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
out the costs of leaving the EU, citizens have not heard a forward-looking plan on how the country could leverage EU membership more effectively in the future, if the country would decide to stay. The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
a way to do it," with some cautions and advice about how to make such information available to all. For example, Praveen pointed out that, "It is essential to have a culture of mutual trust but we... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
Life was hard enough for the one-third of Americans who had wrestled with anxiety prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, the disease that has killed almost 100,000 in the United States, left millions unemployed, and socially distanced many... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost