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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
encourage employees in an acquired company to "preserve and internally disseminate the knowledge that made the smaller (acquired) company attractive to the larger one." Vladimir Pavelko expressed his support for such a bonus, saying that "It helps to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-103.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (A) Harvard Business School Case 107-055 In 1996, CEO Fernando Garcia Checa wanted to make customer analytics a part of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
the Jack Welch-style of firing the so-called bottom 10 percent every year." Recruit developed this strategy in the wake of crisis. In the 1980s, Recruit Holdings’ CEO sold shares of a subsidy before it went public. The resulting scandal... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-078.pdf Deep Dives: The Role of Top Management in Linking Relevant Capabilities to Core Activities Authors:Howard H. Yu and Joseph L. Bower Abstract The inability of established firms to make necessary and obvious changes has been a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
the initial results of the study in a new working paper, Management Practices across Firms and Countries,—also coauthored by Christos Genakos of the Athens University of Economics and Business—and have posted a comprehensive collection of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
also hold the position of chief executive officer. Where the CEO and the chairman are the same person, a lead director should be chosen from the non-executive directors. The chairman of the audit committee must also be an effective... View Details
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
strategic postures are reflected—and embedded—in different organizational postures. In 2009 the CEOs of both companies face new global strategic and organizational choices. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
that Section 404 may actually have far less value than its cost. In Stephen Thomas's opinion, "... the new, exaggerated internal controls can make a company ... more risk-averse... And in aggregate it creates new risk to the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
and monitor the CEO, scrutinize the performance of the company's leadership team, oversee financial reporting and disclosure, and ensure compliance with laws and regulations. The recent failures triggered regulatory and legislative responses, including the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
are aware of the new opportunities, and then you've got to motivate and enable them to find an insurance solution that makes sense for them." After all, no one wakes up in the morning excited to buy insurance. "It's a grudge... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
society) than any other development in the past decade. The western dominated economy and society of the past century has yielded way to a new global century, in which no one country or region enjoys an undisputed advantage. Instead, we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
session was devoted to the topic "Profits for Nonprofits: Challenges of Earning Your Own Way." (Starbuck's CEO Orin Smith addressed a related theme—can for-profit companies integrate non-profit values—in his keynote speech... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
service centers, which are primarily owned by physicians. Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration. Amy C. Edmonson: New ways to balance prevention and sick care Those on the front lines of COVID... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
market, such as retail, health care, and construction—that is, jobs insulated from global competition. Those changes have broken the back of America’s middle class in two ways. First, both trends put pressure on wages. They combined to set View Details
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
YouTube views. By contrast, Nestlé's self-explanatory "From Maine Water Springs to You: The Journey of Poland Springs Water" has barely cracked 500 views. So why did one water commercial sparkle on YouTube, while the other fizzled? The answer may lie at the heart of... View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
chains, and speeding communications. The result: "People can spend more time thinking up new products and servicing customers, and less time checking boxes." To get there, most firms must be willing to engage in radical change and... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
that, in the year 2000, we have too few CEOs; we need to grow them. And that comment reveals a basic fallacy and misunderstanding. You can't grow CEOs any faster, because people learn through experience. That's not to say that coaching... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
diverse units, employees, and constituencies. In this chapter, we describe how effective leaders customize their organization's measurement and management system to partner with their employees for strategy implementation. We also discuss how the View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
objective observer, non executive board members) serves as an effective moderator of (thinking fast) on the part of executives. The relationship between the Independent Non-Executive Chairman of a Board and the CEO is particularly... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett