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- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
DC. Jim Aisner: The newspapers point out that a federal government shutdown has occurred 17 times before, but that really doesn't provide much solace, does it? Joe Fuller: The thing that's particularly unnerving about this shutdown is its... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 22 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture
Why is it that many of the same companies appear repeatedly on lists of the best places to work, the best providers of customer service, and the most profitable in their industries? In their new book, The Ownership Quotient, HBS View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
To compete with truly 'sticky' customer service, you're going to need to get creative . . ." Jim Coyle suggests that this may involve putting in place effective service recovery programs that "fix problems when they are brought... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?
treatment of what Jim Collins calls "Level 5 Leadership" in perhaps the most systematically researched of the current offerings, Good to Great. The Level 5 Leader who is capable of leading an upward change in the direction of an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Apr 2021
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?
important person in the company,” and encourage associates to feel psychologically safe and willing to take reasonable risks. “Observing John, I realized that the best leaders also possess qualities that make great teachers,” says DeLong, who’s the Baker Foundation... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jan 2024
- What Do You Think?
Do Boomerang CEOs Get a Bad Rap?
boomerang CEO? Other competitors in the industry? Other organizations in general? Performance expectations? Critics of the notion of bringing back a former CEO can back up their arguments with a large-scale research study by a team led by View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
York, 2017) James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Harper Business: New York, 1994) Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t (Harper Business:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
effect of much of this alleged activity is to tax long-term investors in order to reward short-term investors. In a two-year-old paper, "Who Cares About Shareholders? Arbitrage-Proofing Mutual Funds," Eric Zitzewitz, assistant View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 May 2021
- What Do You Think?
Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?
made it clear that “we believe broad participation and trust in the election process are vital to its integrity.” Some of the signatories were recruited in a Zoom meeting of more than 100 CEOs organized by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Feb 2020
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?
She backs it up with extensive research, much of it her own. Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, builds her book around the “five core elements of rebel talent.” They are: Novelty... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
Blacks. My concern is Hispanics which wield significantly more economic buying power, land ownership It seems to me that everywhere I look Hispanics are being left out.”), and more systematic mentoring (Paul, a graduate of HBS, recommended “ asking each HBS View Details
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
School Professor Sumantra Ghoshal questioned whether shareholders are even “owners” in the common sense of that term. As he put it, “If the value creation is achieved by combining the resources of both employees and shareholders, why... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Much Does 'Deep Purpose' Matter to the Bottom Line?
before purpose, you get an Enron. Ranjay Gulati, the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, recently identified this quest as a search for “deep purpose.” Gulati considers deep... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jul 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?
as the result of exporting jobs to China, India, and other developing economies. Still others argued that the issue relates to end objectives, not the means, of achieving greater productivity. Jim Noon characterized the first point of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Jul 2005
- What Do You Think?
How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?
research, Paula Thornton commented that "trying to get professors to pick up studies that are needed by the business community has been frustrating." Arthur Fullerton includes on his list of today's curricular inadequacies:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jun 2023
- What Do You Think?
Is the Anxious Achiever a Post-Pandemic Relic?
(iStockphoto/Anchiy) The late Professor Anthony Athos, an unforgettable member of the Harvard Business School faculty to all who knew him, used to have a favorite non-activity. He would take a break, leave the office, and take a seat on a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
failing adequately to make the case for change? What is too early or too late? How does a leader determine the timing of the most important decisions for his or her organization? Jim Collins has suggested, for example, that “any... View Details
- 01 Feb 2023
- What Do You Think?
Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?
workforce, a benefit to organizations that have jobs that fit the strategy. Remote work strategies appear to be so popular with new generations of potential employees that Tsedal Neeley, the Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
party applications/advertisers and users” assigned the task of making sure third party companies are following company guidelines on privacy. Jim suggested, “Total transparency, including what was collected and what was sold FOR EACH... View Details
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
level. Their work has been both influenced by and reported recently by several academics. Harvard Business School professors Michael Luca and Max Bazerman track experimentation in decision-making back to the Book of Daniel, BC 167-164.... View Details