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- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product which can be easily stockpiled by end-consumers as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg
towards renewable energy production and CCS, with plans to inject captured carbon into depleted oil fields in the North Sea. Total is targeting 50% renewables in their portfolio mix by 2050. Their strategy... View Details
- September 2019
- Case
Shell: A Company of Opportunity?
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Emer Moloney
The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as “Opportunity Owners” and employees, or “Opportunity Seekers,” to browse these statements of need and engage when they had... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Energy; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Human Resources; Employees; Retention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Labor; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Strategic Planning; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Business Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks; Technology Platform; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Netherlands
Fuller, Joseph B., and Emer Moloney. "Shell: A Company of Opportunity?" Harvard Business School Case 320-025, September 2019.
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
that the only way to create this new market was to build a huge library of content that was made specifically for mobile devices, and then pursue whatever marketing investments are necessary for people to sign on for a monthly plan of... View Details
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
industrial production (Alfaro and Chen, 2014). Using a unique worldwide plant-level dataset that reports detailed location, ownership, and operation information for plants in over 100 countries, we construct a spatially continuous index... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Trained as an industrial engineer, Tucker is interested in the perspective of frontline workers in productivity and process improvement, including how internal supply chains and other... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
facilities are more lenient when their organizational scope includes products and services, like selling cars, where enticing customer loyalty can enhance profits. On the other hand, compared with independent facilities, subsidiaries or... View Details
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Losing Passion for Your Job? Why Quitting Might Be the Right Move | Working Knowledge
making a change, such as creating an exit plan or seeking out a career coach. As a result, Jachimowicz says, they may miss out on discovering an exciting new passion. “Some people who pursue work they are really passionate may jump from... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
within the organization,” says Fieldhouse. “We built a manager’s training course; individual development plans that focused on adaptive and executive function skills; workplace performance scales; and transition and career movement... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
announced plans to roll out the program commercially in 2016 and signed an agreement with Sri Lanka to put all of that country online. The NextGen Angels are all under 45, and most are entrepreneurs themselves. That’s the angel group’s... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
Plan C or D that gets implemented. That has been true more often than not in my experience.” Banking on Blood The “blood” portion of Fisher’s career began after receiving her MBA, when she joined Haemonetics, a global provider of blood... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
home-cleaning product line, opened nearly 500 company stores, and doubled sales (it doesn’t disclose figures). The future looked bright — until last August 29. That’s when Hurricane Katrina almost ruined everything. In the storm’s... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert over the different segments of their View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
centers can seriously affect an organization's bottom line and undermine its strategy. "My research reveals that what happens in the last 10 yards of retail supply chains is really important. Customers often experience stockouts not because the supply-chain View Details
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
continuously update plans and actions against rapidly shifting challenges. 1. Pierce the fog of war Carl von Clausewitz, a Prussian general and military theorist, coined the term "fog of war." He understood that a strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
workplace interactions. Building on West and Zimmerman's (1987) now classic articulation of gender as "the product of social doings," we describe this organizationally induced behavior as "undoing" gender. We use this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Leemore S., Igal Hendel, Victoria Marone, and Christopher Ody Abstract—Anecdotal reports and systematic research highlight the prevalence of narrow-network plans on the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance Marketplaces. At the same... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
and the United States: Dr. Werner G. Seifert, chairman of Deutsche Borse (the German Stock Exchange) and an architect of the planned merger between his Frankfurt-based organization and the London Stock Exchange; James L. Cochrane, senior... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
total organic product sales in 2015 were $43.3 billion, an increase of 11 percent from the previous year’s record level and far ahead of the overall food market’s growth rate of 3 percent. “We’re a little bit like the Uber of farming, in... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
device company selling products to physicians for use with patients suffering chronic end-stage disease, to a medical technology company providing life-long solutions for people with chronic diseases. With the new vision setting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne