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  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Returning to the Roots

partners, and importers. “A key message is that the company will go on as it is—independent, family-owned, family-run, and with the same values and attention to quality,” he... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; wine; entrepreneurship; family business; innovation; climate change; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing; Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?

and Street expectations I'll take the manager with his nose deep in a book any day." Akram Boutros, along with many others, argued for balance in our assessment of the importance of EI, pointing out... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

History of Excellence - Doctoral

Community Do Yoon Kim Strategy Student Research Balancing Engagement and Polarization: Multi-Objective Alignment of News Content Using LLMs By: Mengjie Cheng , E. Ofek and Hema... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2021
  • Book

Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

smarts—“competence alone is never enough” to ensure trust, Sucher says. The other three elements need to be considered. Motive: Customers are intent on understanding a company’s motive: why they do what they do, and whose interests they... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 05 Oct 2020
  • Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

After earning a doctorate, Ashley Whillans received two tempting job offers: one in her hometown, where she could remain close to family and friends and work reasonable hours for the local government, View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 2014
  • Case

Microfinance Services in Rural Areas--Farmers' Self-reliance Branch of CFPA Microfinance in Shangyi County

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Siqun Yang and Meihua Shen
Microfinance is introduced into China in the 1990s. It had gone through 3 phases since the beginning, namely the pilot phase when all Microfinance practices are sponsored by charity funds based on projects, the promotion phase when the government subsidized some... View Details
Keywords: Rural Entrepreneurship; Value Added; China; Risk Management; Microfinance; China
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  • 15 May 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

How is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Compelling Natural Experiment

Keywords: by Eric Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed & Charles Cohen
  • December 2009 (Revised September 2014)
  • Case

TD Canada Trust

By: Dennis Campbell and Brent Kazan
The case illustrates the role of performance measurement and analytics in translating TD-Canada Trust's service model of "comfortable banking" into operational terms. In 2000, in a banking market where consumers and regulators were typically hostile to mergers and... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Commercial Banking; Profit; Balanced Scorecard; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Banking Industry; Canada
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  • October 2009 (Revised April 2010)
  • Case

Societe Generale (A): The Jerome Kerviel Affair

By: Francois Brochet
This case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in designing their internal controls. It describes the environment in which a derivatives trader engaged in massive directional positions on major European stocks... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Problems and Challenges; Complexity; Cost Management; Balance and Stability; Business Model; Design; Stocks; Crisis Management; Financial Markets; Consulting Industry; Europe
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  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

job that fulfills only one or two drives, no matter how lavishly, would not be a substitute for a job that provides a balanced opportunity to fulfill all four drives. This simple design rule is the fundamental View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 24 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

satisfying when the individuals were grappling with all four satisfactions almost constantly. Stevenson said it wasn't a balancing act, because the four satisfactions provide contradictory emotions and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

Leadership Initiative - Leadership

she served for several years on the Advisory Board of Women in Animation, a non-profit organization striving to improve the representation and career opportunities for women in the animation industry. Currently she serves as a corporate... View Details
  • 29 Mar 2022
  • Book

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

minute, and then builds up creating an asset on the balance sheet,” he says. 3. Companies innovate to have a positive impact on society Leaders who leave legacies head enterprises that make creating public... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2010
  • Book

Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

By: Robert L. Simons
To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into day-to-day actions that will enable your company to win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Innovation and Management; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Competitive Strategy
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  • 23 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

fail to meet their projected targets and 75 percent of new products fail.” McDonald and co-author Christopher Bingham explore eight central tensions in the new book, Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • Web

Rigorous research, rooted in practice | About

Race, Gender & Equity Social Enterprise Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability Case Method Project Creating Emerging Markets Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard Foundry Impact-Weighted Accounts Institute for Strategy View Details
  • 27 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

  Working PapersWhen Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth? Authors:Philippe Aghion, Diego Comin, Peter Howitt, and Isabel Tecu Abstract Can a country grow faster by saving more? We address this question both theoretically View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    The Founder's Dilemmas


    Often downplayed in the excitement of starting up a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: should they go it alone, or bring in... View Details

    • 15 Jan 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: January 15

    stagnated, and the Rousseff administration struggled to find the best balance between reducing inflation, maintaining a flexible exchange rate, and improving the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 Jan 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

    kata to make our lives a little better every day,” Takeuchi says. 2. Ask the right questions When navigating uncertain waters, an ingrained sense of purpose serves as a rudder. To maintain the necessary balance between agility View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz