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- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
assignments as frequently as every two or three years, performing a variety of jobs in military operations activities. While these short-term job assignments are satisfactory for many DoD activities,...
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- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
the Toyota Production System or cartels in the steel industry. That was one of the real differences in teaching MBAs; part of my job was to try to tap the wealth of their collective experience and knowledge so that they could, in fact,...
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- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
Let’s face it: 2020 was a tough year, as COVID-19 surged across the world, killing more than 1.5 million people, shuttering companies, causing widespread job losses, and fundamentally altering the way people work and live. Given the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
telecommuting is "dangerous to health"—the title of the column that prompted these responses—depends on several factors ranging from organizational culture and job type to skill level and personality. Eleanor Latimer adds...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Nov 2000
- What Do You Think?
Succession at GE: What’s Next?
herself/himself with competent people who are smarter than her/him ... (and who) wields power ... with responsibility and not ego." In total, that's a tall order. Jeffrey Immelt, are you up to it? Original Article GE will have a new CEO soon, regardless of whether...
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by James Heskett
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
Devil Wears Prada, who is ambitious and gets sucked into a cutthroat job that starts to change her for the worse. "This kind of thing happens. You take a job because you want to pay back student loans and...
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- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
for examining this question. Results indicate that nonnative English-speaking employees experienced status loss regardless of their English fluency level. Yet variability in their self-assessed fluency-an achieved status marker-was associated with differences in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
since the Federal Reserve Board had helped to bailout investment bank Bear Stearns. Deflation, not inflation, had become a top concern. Interest rates were near zero percent. Five million jobs had been lost. The new Barack Obama...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
along with a camera and other features. By September 2007, just 74 days after the June launch of the iPhone, Apple and its mobile carrier partner AT&T Mobility had sold one million units. When Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
managing director for its U.K. business, the core health insurance business was in a perilous state. BUPA was losing market share, and the company's profits had been dropping. Gooding suggested, with a bit of humor, that she might not have taken the View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
2017 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Entering StartUpLand: An Essential Guide to Finding the Right Job By: Bussgang, Jeffrey J. Abstract—Many professionals aspire to work for startups. Executives from large companies view them as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
with them we were able to create a very different organization—less top down, more participative, one that offered more challenging jobs and informed people about results of the business on a regular basis. That began my intellectual...
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
an overview of the context for managing layoffs in France. It describes the legal responsibilities of managers in conducting layoffs, recent unemployment trends, and the financial, health, training, job placement, and other benefits that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
and/or competitive best practices. The goal of stewardship is to identify the gaps. Managers may realize that their channels serve neither their customers nor their channel partners well, but it is too late. Closing them is the job of the...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
fierce business competition, your bargaining endowment can spell the difference between closing the deal and being shut out. A healthy bargaining endowment explains how Darren Rovell won a job on national television while other journalism...
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by Michael Wheeler
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
feelings and aesthetics rather than ideas, a stronger interest in people rather than things, prefer jobs in social or artistic areas, extraversion expressed as gregariousness rather than assertiveness, and neuroticism, characterized by...
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by Bill George
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
There's a lot of worry afoot whenever companies merge. Wall Street worries about the stock price. Employees worry about potential job cuts. And consumers worry about the fate of their favorite products: Whither the price and the quality?...
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- 02 Jun 2003
- What Do You Think?
What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?
the shaping of values and ethical behaviors just as it does with various skills needed for the job? If so, does this suggest an added dimension for business school training, i.e., the preparation of leaders who can "teach" ethics and values on the View Details
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by James Heskett
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
sharing system recording employees’ creative work—a control system often used to promote local experimentation—on the quality of creative work, job engagement, and financial performance. While, on average, the mere introduction of the...
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- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
of Uncommon Service is that to achieve service excellence, you may need to make some tradeoffs. Is that a hard sell for some managers who are motivated to excel in all areas? A: Frei: Even superstar managers would probably admit to being better at some aspects of their...
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