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- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
are totally different. They control access to leadership positions, yet those positions are often filled by those most familiar—that is, those who most resemble men.” She went on to suggest that as male leaders observe their daughters... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Feb 2002
- What Do You Think?
Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?
Queda" (Mike Donahue). Among the many commenting on the Enron case, nearly all felt that change was warranted, but few believed that significant change would come from it. The general sense of these comments was that investors, by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
Summing Up Is intellectual property becoming community property? Is a new generation of users and consumers of intellectual property produced by new technologies bringing totally different assumptions and attitudes to bear on its... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
not clear. Many suggested that the kind of management innovation described by Gary Hamel in his new book, The Future of Management, will more likely occur as a result of forces outside the organization. Tony Gattis described the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
Summing Up: Where Do We Draw the Line on the Use of Technology in Hiring Practices? The idea of using brain scans in hiring, while it generated limited enthusiasm among respondents to this month's column, nevertheless was rejected by only... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- November 2015 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Nestle's Creating Shared Value Strategy
By: Michael E. Porter, Mark R. Kramer, Kerry Herman and Sarah McAra
This case considers Nestlé’s creating shared value (CSV) strategy, which focused on the three categories of nutrition, water, and rural development. In the packaged food and beverage industry, pressure had mounted since the 1990s to improve supply chain sustainability... View Details
Keywords: Shared Value; Health And Wellness; Nutrition; Health; Labor; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Operations; Food and Beverage Industry; Switzerland; Europe; Africa; Latin America; North America; Asia
Porter, Michael E., Mark R. Kramer, Kerry Herman, and Sarah McAra. "Nestlé's Creating Shared Value Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 716-422, November 2015. (Revised October 2017.)
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
are often shaped more by the political climate than by the actual climate. "The issue has become totally intertwined with political ideology," says Richard H.K. Vietor, the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details
- August 1992 (Revised September 2002)
- Case
Star Distributors, Inc. (A)
By: David A. Thomas
Depicts the conflict and organizational problems that emerged in a franchise operation owned by Paul Logan, an African American, and John Heyman, a white American. Provides the opportunity to examine the ways in which race influences managerial behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Conflict Management; Performance Effectiveness; Franchise Ownership; Race; Management Style; Conflict and Resolution; Business and Stakeholder Relations
Thomas, David A. "Star Distributors, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 493-015, August 1992. (Revised September 2002.)
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
among executives that begin to view themselves as 'untouchable.'" Gerald Nanninga added, "If CEOs create a lot of wealth at their company and share it with enough people, they can get away with making themselves extremely wealthy A few silly ratios won't... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
operations." Fair enough. But how can that actually be accomplished? With the help of Bart Blackburn (HBS MBA '97) of SupplierInsight, Paul Deninger (HBS MBA '84) of Broadview, and Ted Fischer of SCB Enterprise Solutions, Upton set... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
and the United States differ is to examine how managers from these two countries trust members of their network, an endeavor that Chua has undertaken with Columbia Business School professors Michael W. Morris and Paul Ingram. "The... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
Summing Up Paul Jackson sums up the thinking of most respondents to this month's column with the comment, " . . . nothing about CEO compensation seems to be 'efficient.'" Brad Millet adds, "The CEO market for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
that we have invested in significantly to understand deeply I'll trust our predictions. And I'll trust the prediction more if it's (from) someone who has an unbiased 3rd party interest in the outcome." Paul Lepley added that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 May 2009
- What Do You Think?
Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?
energy to priority areas for innovation." Amy Sauers added findings that suggest that large firms succeed that "attempted to 'get small' (through the vehicle of) 'lean, mean, heavyweight teams.'" Another ingredient suggested View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
buyout raiders of the 1980s eventually morphed into the legitimate private equity business, greenmailers of a generation ago are now taken seriously as hard-nosed change agents who may be doing the right thing when they take on management View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
to the reality that race issues in major metropolitan cities had to be addressed. The third instance came in the 1990s when global opportunities arose for US-based companies to lead their respective industries through a sustained period of growth. This latest... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
Rospil.info, coauthored with HBS professor Paul M. Healy and research associate Matthew Shaffer, focuses on the Russian anticorruption blogger Alexey Navalny, who advocates tech-savvy ways to expose and encourage prosecution of unethical... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
Today's most successful leaders are focusing on sustaining superior performance by aligning people around mission and values and empowering leaders at all levels, while serving customers and collaborating throughout the organization. Over... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George