Argus - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?

distinguished academics, one from each field, to examine these issues and write a careful, sophisticated essay arguing their conclusions on the issue. There are companies that benefit from environmental activism. DuPont, when it... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

31 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

continued real wage gains. Some would argue that such expectations, especially for those at the top of organizations, are getting out of hand. After all, substantially higher gains in compensation, much of it in the form of stock option... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 1

that have informed LGBT organizational research from the late nineteenth century to date. The frames include a "medical abnormality," "deviant social role," "collective identity," and "social distinctiveness" view of sexual... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

employees, arguing that while agency theory provides a useful framework for analyzing compensation, it fails to consider several psychological factors that increase costs from performance-based pay. We examine how psychological costs from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

relationships depend crucially on the function involved: those closer to the product ("product" functions, e.g., marketing, R&D) behave differently from functions further from the product ("administrative" functions, e.g., finance, law, HR). We... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

multi-sided markets. In this paper we argue that there is a fundamental unity in the architecture of platforms. Platform architectures are modularizations of complex systems in which certain components (the platform itself) remain stable,... View Details

01 Oct 2020
What Do You Think?

Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?

associated with short-term shareholder value." Critics of the study have suggested that it was conducted too soon after adoption of the Statement. For example, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff suggested that the Statement was intended to foster long-term change. Other... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

trust/privacy among its user community. In the past, growth at any costs appeared to be the de facto strategy. Now many voices such as regulators, advertisers, ethicists, shareholders and users argued for a more responsible approach to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

"global manager," if there is such a thing anymore? "Today, I would argue that you don't put that qualifying adjective in front of manager—we all simply operate in a global environment," Bartlett says. "It used to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 17

Management (forthcoming) Abstract Consumers who buy a product intending to use an accompanying mail-in rebate often do not redeem the rebate. To explain this behavior, we argue that consumers use an anchoring and adjustment approach to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Apr 2009
What Do You Think?

How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

earth. Listen carefully to a friend over a cup of tea. I cannot imagine, now, a prosperity that will be based on smoke, mirrors, silicon, electrons, and tiny fingers." Many argued from the proposition that "it all depends."... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News

12 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career

fulfilled? A: Many managers will express opinions about whether it is possible to hire talent or not, just as many football fans can argue whether signing expensive free agents is likely to improve their teams' prospects. What our work... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Sports

05 Mar 2008
What Do You Think?

Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?

of management, which Hamel argues clings to time-worn management innovations of the twentieth century to which the founders of new-generation firms were largely not exposed? Hamel, admitting that he does not have all the answers, poses... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action

In his book, Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work (Harvard Business School Press), HBS professor David Garvin argues that Nike left open a critical gap between encouraging innovative thinking and... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

22 Feb 2022
News

An Rx for Small Business Recovery

cluster concept pioneered by Michael Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor (Renewal Leave) at HBS, Mills argues that organizing a region’s small and large businesses around specialized industries—such as biotech in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2003
News

Patrick Moreton

was its reasoning? It argued that the marketplace has changed because new technologies — such as cable, the Internet, and satellite TV — facilitate new and diverse sources of information and content. The competition they provide, the FCC... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Telecommunications; Information

01 Sep 2007
News

Getting Security Right

on emerging geopolitical and economic trends, and on vital lessons from military history. You argue that it is not the war in Iraq or Islamic extremists who pose the greatest challenge to U.S. leadership in the coming decades, but rather... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

lead their facilities to prioritize different external pressures and thus adopt different management practices. Specifically, we argue that external constituents who interact with particularly influential corporate departments are more... View Details