The Great Divergence - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Mar 2007
Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

The recent actions of private-equity groups that are likely to have the broadest societal impact were initially fraught with challenges. For instance, many private-equity groups had failed in earlier efforts... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

out a report card, but also to help make a good CEO a great CEO.” Corporations can mitigate this issue in a couple of ways, he says. For starters, they can hire an outside recruiter to enlist new board members, so that View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

development. This concentration of expertise can be found in places like Silicon Valley, where clusters of experts and firms feed growth and spur innovation. Much of the damage to American competitiveness in View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

03 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 3

impediments to the diffusion of strategy field ideas into antitrust. Publisher's link: https://federallegalpublications.com/antitrust-bulletin/201501/atb-2014-59-4-05-greene-influences-of-strategic-management-antitrust-disco February 2015... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2021
What Do You Think?

Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

Fifth Third’s employees back to the office he remarked that, “We can’t be a great company working remotely We can get the job done, but it’s tough to flourish.” View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 10

Publications August 2013 pub Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Concert Industry By: Bennett, Victor Manuel, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how reducing search... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

hoping to recruit African students more aggressively and to expand our executive education offerings on the continent. Our new initiative, Making Markets Work, has already received great interest from... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need

modern-day doomsayers, referred to the specter of another Great Depression. This was not total hyperbole. While different analysts weighted the "fundamental" causes... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

05 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges Between Education and Business

participants when they came together to report on their group discussions, "Your ideas clearly show the great dividend we can get through cooperation, exchange, and learning from one another." Barriers... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?

during the 2011-2012 flu season, compared to 46 percent of all adults nationwide. “They were a great partner,” Beshears says of Express Scripts. “But even they, who are so attuned to View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

13 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

Science could be suffering and business certainly is suffering. If you try to take something that is science, and then jam it into normal business institutions, it just doesn't work that well for either science or business. Q: Clearly the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

industry life cycle? Tony Mayo: My research with Nitin Nohria on entrepreneurs, managers, and leaders of the 20th century began with the creation of the View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

30 May 2019
What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

this month’s column. Like some other trends, these are traveling from West to East. As Scocimara put it, “companies are adapting, and often the ones that are most threatened are adapting fastest. Retail is a View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

24 Oct 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

innovative solutions? Can Innovation And Creativity Be Managed? High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet Many managers in business experience difficulty dealing with their best creative thinkers. So how does violinist Paul Robertson,... View Details

07 Feb 2005
What Do You Think?

If You Blink, Will You Miss?

process." Steve Carnevale puts it more graphically: "I think blink is very dangerous. Read the book Fooled by Randomness. The author does a good job of explaining that our brain is View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

the public sector or nonprofit world, as well as in the business world. “When we start closing minds, we jeopardize our competitiveness.” I've been concerned about what has happened to View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

Finally, performance pricers relentlessly communicate their value. An example is PACCAR, producer of Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks in a market viewed as a commodity by others. Throughout 70 consecutive years of profitability—a period from dirt roads to superhighways,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

02 Mar 2016
What Do You Think?

Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?

idea that we must all accept some ‘new era’ in which privacy is gone Being able to discuss, with a trusted friend at least, is the kind of freedom that makes us a great county. Giving up this right is a very... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

interact—everything from how people view the role of the individual versus the group to their attitudes, say, about the importance of time or... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

making money and investing, but it's also about entrepreneurship. And entrepreneurship in this country right now is, I think, our great hope and has been the great hope of... View Details