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- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
investigated the CIO losses. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/313033-PDF-ENG Lind Equipment Richard S. Ruback and Royce YudkoffHarvard Business School Case 212-012 Lind Equipment failed to meet its loan covenants with its senior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
popular developmental tools, such as 360-degree feedback and networking; reinterpret them through the lens of women's experiences in organizations; and revise them in order to meet the particular challenges women face when transitioning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
company as an undervalued stock. CEOs and CFOs put themselves in a bind by providing earnings guidance and then making decisions designed to meet Wall Street's expectations for quarterly earnings. When earnings appear to be coming in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
precisely the benefits that will accrue to a retailer from adopting a new technology: This often leads to retailers being reluctant to invest in the new technology. But by structuring your investment as a "call option," if the technology turns out to View Details
- 05 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Vanguard Corporation
has moved many jobs to other countries. They are not perfect. But they aspire to meet higher standards, and in their operations around the world they also try to raise the standards. Q: A critical point for you is that a company needs an... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
successfully alone. The risks are too high. I would ask them first to call a meeting of CEOs of major MNCs concerned with global poverty and explore the idea of establishing the World Development Corporation, proceeding experimentally and... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
even reduce the spread of infection. Visiting your elderly parents or holding an important meeting in-person may increase your sense of control and confidence, but are you helping or endangering others to reduce your own uncertainty? The... View Details
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
most new products don’t succeed in getting market traction or don’t meet forecasts.” One reason for these poor results, he notes, is that most companies—and especially tech firms—approach a product launch as a series of events started by... View Details
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
this requires formal training programs. "Companies hold numerous meetings related to diversity training to make the workplace comfortable for people of different races, genders, or sexual orientations," says Quelch. "Employees should be... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
what business can properly be supposed to support. "I am inclined to think that this intense market pressure keeps most managers in most companies meeting what they have committed to investors, customers, and other core groups," he says.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
response to shifting customer needs; promote transparency by providing the rationale for your pricing; and make sure that prices and the processes by which they are set meet consumers' expectations about what is fair. Read the article:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
enabling detailed coordination among various operating units. Next, they looked at production decisions, which involve figuring out the tasks necessary to meet the goals and deciding how to pace them. These decisions are generally the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
developed by planners and occur independent of the bottom-up process. They are based on macroeconomic factors such as the economic growth rate and corporate growth objectives. The two approaches typically yield different results, which are reconciled during a View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
by democratic institutions as they implement their demand management programs or dictate the design of whole new cities to meet energy targets. Yet, even with all of China's "advantages," the EIA/IEA reports tell us the same story. In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
personal computing and the power of the Internet. CEO Jack Welch responded with his typical high-energy enthusiasm. After seeking out a young mentor in the organization to help him learn, he “suggested” that his senior colleagues find fellow employees under the age of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
Meetings A study of 3 million people confirmed what many work-from-home employees already know: We're swamped, according to research by Raffaella Sadun, Jeffrey Polzer, and colleagues. The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
workers there. Was that a surprise? A: Again, bear in mind that we met a very limited and select group of people. I think different faculty had different reactions based on our initial personal expectations, but given the high quality of Chinese students that we have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
and sophisticated feedback procedures. Grossman points out that unlike their counterparts in the private sector, nonprofit chief executives devote from 30 percent to 60 percent of their time pursuing donations rather than meeting the... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
including financial services, steel production, automobile manufacturing, and retailing. "What we find," Christensen explains, "is upstart companies with extremely low overhead introducing new ways to meet the market's... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
up on current and past podcast episodes of The Disruptive Voice. I have been a regular listener of the series ever since meeting and working with this talented team. Hearing the voice of the late great Clay Christensen at the start of... View Details
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