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- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
"Self-regulation" increasingly rings like a mantra in business. Just think of topics in the news over the past couple of months, such as the Italian fashion industry's move toward self-regulation to discourage the hiring of dangerously... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- November – December 2008
- Article
Chief Risk Officers at Crunch Time: Compliance Champions or Business Partners?
By: Anette Mikes
Risk management departments in financial institutions have been undergoing major transformations. New regulatory requirements have raised the bar on compliance, and expanded the remit of risk management significantly. The compliance imperative requires banks to... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships
Mikes, Anette. "Chief Risk Officers at Crunch Time: Compliance Champions or Business Partners?" Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions 2, no. 1 (November–December 2008).
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
dangerous if they become an addiction. The competitiveness framework can help to better distinguish export-oriented policies that make a contribution to long-term sustainable growth from those that do not. 4. Moving on from here There is... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
Future at the New Frontier of Power, author Shoshana Zuboff identifies surveillance capitalism as the danger in our midst—not totalitarian government or even business institutions that practice surveillance capitalism. She presents... View Details
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
the next budget cycle. With a delay strategy, attention can be diverted to some legitimate, pressing issue, the sort of which always exists. There is the sudden budget shortfall, the unexpected competitor announcement, the dangerous new... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
Happiness can be dangerous as well, since happy negotiators tend to accept less than they might otherwise be able to get. "You don't want your happiness to hijack other emotions," says Wasynczuk. "What we teach is not to... View Details
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
took away dozens of a firm's key customers. The crisis could have been anticipated. But because the management believed that only an unexpected burning platform could help push a complacent organization out of its comfort zone, it didn't pay attention to the View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 16 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advice on Advice
tendency to forget it's not about you, how smart you are, and how helpful you feel you can be, but it's about being experienced by the advisee as helpful," Margolis says. "The danger is that you immediately jump to a conclusion... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
or isn't attractive. One other danger of people working primarily with those they like: They may simply have a good time and get nothing done. An experienced venture capitalist recalls the case of a very capable manager who hired... View Details
Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo
- 03 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dealing with the ‘Irrational’ Negotiator
as irrational. We will also describe the dangers of doing so and explain how to avoid making such mistakes. Mistake 1: They Are Not Irrational; They Are Uninformed An executive (who is one of Deepak's students) was recently involved in a... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman
- 09 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
affect the negotiation. Before you negotiate, it is critical that you consider the interests, the power, and the constraints facing each party. In the case of family businesses, many of the parties affected by a negotiation, or able to affect it, will be around for a... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
- 18 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulpit Bullies: Why Dominating Leaders Kill Teams
others—getting the answer 0 percent of the time. That suggests a powerful opportunity to improve performance just by making leaders aware of the dangers of hogging airtime in a discussion. "I want to believe that oftentimes we behave... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
macroeconomic crisis. Once the biggest dangers are behind us, Mr. Bernanke will have to figure out how to get things back to normal. His aggressive stimulation of the economy could easily prove inflationary if he doesn't bring rates back... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
capacity, shelf life, and customer demand. Such risks aren't new. In fact, "the underpinnings of problems today started two decades ago," says Craig Holmes, director of business continuity planning for Aon Risk Consultants, Southfield, Mich. But the View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
engineering fixes to allow users easier control over sharing information on their Facebook pages. In fact, Zuckerberg reportedly was working with engineers for several days doing just that while the world awaited follow-up to the initial disclosures. View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
business partners with line executives. Finance spending as a percentage of revenues will increase, but the profit impact from these partnerships can repay the additional spending many times over. These examples collectively reveal the View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
2011. In the early 2000s, e-commerce was seen as a threat to entire store formats such as grocery, music, and toy stores. But as consumer behavior evolved over the last decade and as supply chains improved, it became apparent that the View Details
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
any entrepreneur looking to build a business around an unconventional product that elicits multiple reactions: How do you balance fun and function in order to avoid the danger of your product becoming a flash-in-the-pan fad? Clocky... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
dangerously blurred. The notion that those who lead and manage our society's major private economic institutions might provide, or be responsible for providing, a public good is quite foreign to our customary way of thinking about... View Details