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- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
Company based in Boston, Glassman (HBS MBA '69) said issues such as homelessness, women's rights and outreach to the gay and lesbian community have shaped his own life and the life of his business. Seven years ago, for instance,... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
performance. In summary, the polarized claims that corporate voluntary regulation represents a win-win opportunity-or constitutes a smokescreen that allows firms to operate with less regulatory oversight-are misguided. Instead, the key to efficient and effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: Why Can’t Organizations Engage Their Employees?
“Engagement comes from spirit, and if the organization has little or no spirit—if it see mission as simply ‘maximizing shareholder value’—then engagement will remain an elusive thing.” George Yurieff added that “as long as the order entry... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
For its representative in these critical talks, the board should have hired an outside specialist, with properly aligned interests and incentives. More generally, you should look hard at a potential agent's other interests and relationships to determine whether he or... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers
Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
class and how will you apply it in the future?The value driver framework, especially Professor Esty’s belief that value creation can create win-win-wins in society without sacrificing shareholder value. In my onboarding discussions with... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
not? This was a guy who knew the IVK business inside and out and had apparently mastered the mysterious world of IT in just three months. Sending Barton—former Loan Ops VP, now chief IT guy—to New York on the crest of a wave of recovery, Williams had explained, sent... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
causal relationship between diversity and profitability, then management can safely argue that managing for diversity is a way to increase shareholder value. If, however, the relationship is negative, then management cannot morally go out... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce
returns you need. I'm studying family wealth creators around the world. The best, like Alex Birman at Arezzo, often show an interest in business between the ages of 8-14. Develop these wealth generators by providing the right... View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
modern-day sales management. The conversation has been edited for length and clarity: Kristen Senz: What shifts in sales should managers and executives be aware of right now? Frank Cespedes: Prospects are now online and offline throughout... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
That is why we introduced pep+ (PepsiCo Positive), our strategic end-to-end transformation, with sustainability at the center of how we will create value for our shareholders and all our stakeholders. Climate action across our supply... View Details
- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
when other approaches would produce better results for customers, employees, and shareholders and foster better long-term performance of the company. “I’ve been a leader during three recessions, and I’ve never heard a management team talk... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
layoffs. Even so, I remember someone pointing at me in a bar, and we hustled out of there. It certainly left a taste in my mouth of the power of strategy and thought, but I felt really bad about it.” The tension between straight-ahead View Details
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
depends, to a surprising extent, on capable leaders. If boards of directors of public, anonymously-owned companies didn't believe that leadership mattered so much, they wouldn't pay such huge salaries to their CEOs. (By the way, I don't think they are worth that much,... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
conversations with Aisha a little bit. Maybe walk us through that period and how Aisha then inspires you because she in her own right has some deep insights that shape you as a person. Chaudhary: I think Aisha is easily the most... View Details
- Person Page
Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
28, 2024 10:00-11:15 a.m. EDT Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well Professor Amy Edmondson (PHDOB 1996) + More Info - Video Recording – Less Info - Video Recording As the push to innovate intensifies in many industries, the... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Op-Ed
The Real Duty of the Board of Directors
capital. These rights are free from the burdens of ownership. Shareholders thus become temporary, while the corporation is permanent—controlled not by shareholders, but by the board of directors. Under a... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans
Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty
Best-Selling Cases:
1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- News
Holding Business to Account
idea of being a passive investor, along for the ride, no longer appealed to me,” Aiyer says. Shareholders were owners, she realized, and they had a say in how a company ran as well as the ability to influence everything from labor... View Details