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- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
difficult professional situations. Members can seek help through call centers and in-person meetings with accounting experts in the field to discuss how to best handle difficult situations. In addition, the Ethics Advisory Committee View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
resources to meeting that customer's needs. This article will show you how to identify the best primary customer for your business by analyzing perspective, capabilities, and profit potential; allocate resources through structural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/709021-PDF-ENG Sustainability at Millipore Harvard Business School Case 610-012 This case describes Millipore Corporation's approach to becoming a more environmentally sustainable company. As he prepared for his quarterly View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
even reduce the spread of infection. Visiting your elderly parents or holding an important meeting in-person may increase your sense of control and confidence, but are you helping or endangering others to reduce your own uncertainty? The... View Details
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
most new products don’t succeed in getting market traction or don’t meet forecasts.” One reason for these poor results, he notes, is that most companies—and especially tech firms—approach a product launch as a series of events started by... View Details
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
this requires formal training programs. "Companies hold numerous meetings related to diversity training to make the workplace comfortable for people of different races, genders, or sexual orientations," says Quelch. "Employees should be... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
what business can properly be supposed to support. "I am inclined to think that this intense market pressure keeps most managers in most companies meeting what they have committed to investors, customers, and other core groups," he says.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
response to shifting customer needs; promote transparency by providing the rationale for your pricing; and make sure that prices and the processes by which they are set meet consumers' expectations about what is fair. Read the article:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
enabling detailed coordination among various operating units. Next, they looked at production decisions, which involve figuring out the tasks necessary to meet the goals and deciding how to pace them. These decisions are generally the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
developed by planners and occur independent of the bottom-up process. They are based on macroeconomic factors such as the economic growth rate and corporate growth objectives. The two approaches typically yield different results, which are reconciled during a View Details
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
career counselors who meet with employees to discuss their futures and how to prepare to leave. Furthermore, the focus on voluntary attrition means Recruit always has room to hire fresh talent with new ideas and new skillsets. Build an... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
listen, it wouldn't be as efficient as just solving the problem now and then discussing it later. Because there is so much variation, we need to fix first, explain later." Said another worker: "Everyone is happy: Management sees what they want to see, and we... View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
has to be implemented across a large, distributed organization. "Large firms definitely had some work to do to adopt," says McElheran. "But it seems that the best firms had practices in place to deal with the complexity. The real stumbling block was that their... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
International Tax Competition Matthew C. Weinzierl, and Jacob KuipersHarvard Business School Case 710-038 How do (and how should) governments design fiscal policies to compete in a globalized economy while meeting internal policy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
of management constitute the field organization: store, district, regional, and divisional heads. All these managers are responsible for meeting targets set by corporate headquarters and implementing strategy. To do so, they adhere to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
Union is funded through consumer subscriptions to Consumer Reports, and through private grants. This model has several advantages. By directly linking its output to consumer use of its service, it provides a powerful incentive to meet... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
building and online meetings. When NFL draft picks join their teams, they will be able to participate in the league’s organized virtual off-season. This will involve virtual workouts and online meetings between coaches and players,... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
use tools they already had, or they neglected to request new tools to meet the challenges of an evolving financial system." -David Moss Among the proposed new regulations: higher capital requirements; leverage limits; FDIC-like insurance... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
(forthcoming) Abstract We suggest that online dating frequently fails to meet user expectations because people, unlike many commodities available for purchase online, are 'experience goods': Daters wish to screen potential romantic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
focus of negotiators to aspects of the situation that generate helpful insights. Level Two Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its 'Behind the Table' Challenges Author:James K. Sebenius Publication:Negotiation Journal 29, no. 1... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel