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- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
Microsoft became dominant in software for PC operating systems; and the belief by entrepreneurs and investors alike that online grocery orders to the long-gone Webvan, the largest single start-up during the Internet bubble, would become a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
they'll learn by doing this, but it will be much more effective if we really have an understanding that a manager is also a teacher, and that therefore a manager needs to know... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
2005 on business solutions for alleviating poverty. The work combines chapters from a variety of perspectives—business, academic, government, nonprofit—to examine the nature of poverty, how the poor can become producers as well as consumers, and the roles to be played... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
leadership has the courage to initiate the measures necessary to do so. We've discovered that standard initiatives such as employee surveys, interviews by external consultants, and even relatively... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
Machine." GE is the headhunters' favorite fishing hole. It not only provides for its own needs, it also develops the CEOs for most of industrial America. What is it that companies like GE, Microsoft, McKinsey, P&G, and Goldman Sachs are doing, and how are they... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
Tax strategies used by top executives on their own taxes can also show up in the companies they run. Source: Melpomenem New research shows that top executives who prefer to reduce personal taxes appear to also influence the strategies of... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
additional relief—and soon—providers and policymakers should expect much greater disruption in insurance coverage going forward.” Some 60 percent of small businesses offered health insurance before the pandemic. Through June 15, 95 percent of those continued to View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
says. Clusters are not a new concept, notably studied in the United Kingdom by Alfred Marshall—he called them industrial districts—in the early 1900s. Manufacturing clusters can seemingly happen in any industry in any location, from... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
in the modern economy. With so much riding on innovation, creativity, and spark, it is essential to attract and retain quality talent—but what good does this talent do if no one is able to speak their mind? The traditional culture of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
Bumping up against accepted theories in process improvement, a new research paper from Harvard Business School questions the value of prioritizing problems identified by frontline employees. Citing a hospital safety improvement program... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 17 Jan 2023
- Book
Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them
officials. Soltes turns his hand to corporate crime after making a media splash with his 2016 book, Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of a White-Collar Criminal. Based on personal visits, letters, and phone calls with 48 disgraced... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
(Editor’s note: Fix This! is a series of occasional stories about industries that provide bad consumer experiences and how they can be fixed.) Consumers routinely list buying a car as the worst shopping experience imaginable. So it may be comforting to View Details
- 22 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Side Effects: The Case of Propecia
by the company, Wosinska said. As to the question of whether direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) ultimately works to sell prescription drugs, Wosinska said studies indicate it creates market growth for all players, but not much market... View Details
- 31 Oct 2006
- HBS Case
Governing Sumida Corporation
examines how CEO Shigeyuki ("Shiggi") Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired "committee system" for its board of directors, the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a collaborative project undertaken View Details
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
from regulators rose by 15 percent. He also found that the nature of many violations was more severe in towns without newspapers. “If you can do whatever you want and no one is looking, you’re more likely or... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
If average profitability is under pressure in many industries influenced by the Internet, it becomes all the more important for individual companies to set themselves apart from the pack—to be more profitable than the average performer.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
space and development tools in the cloud and scale up as needed rather than purchasing their own expensive hardware and software. By comparing rates of investment before and after AWS was introduced in 2006, Nanda and his colleagues could... View Details
- 01 May 2020
- What Do You Think?
Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?
workers more fully in their work? What has to be done to assure adherence to an organization's values by everyone? Do effective organization cultures and remote work mix? What View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett