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- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
for others?" But there was little controversy and not much discussion. These conversations, the offline talks before the big meeting, the CEO's backing, and the meeting itself seemed to produce agreement. So we started... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
looks like electrons or gas in the tank. The striking thing about these other sectors is that they invented new things that met new customer needs, or existing needs in different ways. Whereas with energy, what we're looking for is basically the same product but View Details
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
Bayer (later part of IG Farben); and steel producer Krupp. Managing the internment risk World War I brought the first wave of civilian internment, creating a turning point for companies and triggering them to develop strategies for... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
single-payer system. Few national politicians are working to uncover why the public exchanges aren’t working for either insurers or consumers. While it’s difficult, the question everyone should be working to answer is: How can the system View Details
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation outcomes within the strategy literature by considering "ambivalent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
often produce divergent predictions. We show that subjects are particularly more likely to make decisions consistent with the Undefeated refinement if they report a higher understanding of the decision setting. This supports the use of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
ESG—factors), both because of its importance to socially conscious investors and as an indicator of long-term corporate health. Firms such as Morgan Stanley Capital International crunch hundreds of factors from carbon emissions to the percent of women on corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
contribute ultimately to shareholder value. There is some empirical evidence to support Kay's thesis. For example, Fortune's 100 Best Places to Work regularly produce more profit than a matched set of competitors. Kay's response to this... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
able to practice blink are unable to describe how they do it, any more than an artist can describe how he or she produces a work of fine art. But many believe that it is a learned behavior. In fact, some of the experts described in the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 May 2002
- Book
Bringing the Master Passions to Work
speeding along. He would like to wire his will into the lives of millions—by creating a structure that will constrain their behaviors according to his wishes. He is the ambitious demon of our age—one whose incarnation in the Carnegies and Rockefellers and Morgans of... View Details
Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
produced multiple blockbuster hits. ESPN, ABC, and other cable and broadcast properties were producing record profits. Attendance was up at Disney parks and cruise ships, while the Shanghai Disney Resort,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
Information Systems Research Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View By: Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu Abstract—The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content production model to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
produce and sell personal computers. They all learned the importance of being smart, effective stewards of themselves, their employees, and the opportunities and resources they controlled. They saw the importance of carrying out their... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
readers? Use data science. Make money by doing deals with television and filmmakers and book publishers. The case describes the challenges of matching readers to stories and of helping writers produce better stories by supplying feedback... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
many in these industries have also propels them to introduce new work that questions and challenges these norms, even though that is more risky. "So you have to ask, 'Do I want to direct or reflect? Do I want to simply reflect people's tastes as I see them or do I... View Details
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
"oversell," producing more in equilibrium. By contrast, we find that with incomplete information, high-cost firms will often "under-sell" in equilibrium, that is, supply less than their monopoly output. Low-cost firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
no inherent antipathy between global capitalism and nationalism. It's definitely true that globalization has tended to produce reactions within societies, sometimes against it, much the same way that economic historian Karl Polanyi... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
$500,000 over just the first 10 years of the remaining working life of the trainee. I suspect there are few infrastructure investments that could produce as good a return as fast as this one. How much impact could $500 billion of funding... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
that after an NPE lawsuit, a company on average produced fewer future patents and invested less in research and development than comparable companies, hurting chances for future success. If the majority of NPEs are, in fact, patent... View Details
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
increasingly rewards innovation, transient competitive advantage, and the kinds of leadership that produce them? Are today's business heroes challenging our ideas about leadership? What do you think? For Additional Reading: Jim Collins,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett