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- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
brands and manufacturing network, he intends to reposition the company as a branded retailer of furniture and home fashions. Just as management is poised to implement a new strategy that involves a heavy investment in brand advertising, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
sustainability research and engagement, Steve Waygood. The case describes Aviva Investors' policies on materiality, engagement, and its corporate responsibility voting policy. It then explores how the company is implementing these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
but be ready to change it. Arrive early for a speaking engagement in order to grasp the mood of your audience and tailor your speech accordingly. Let others own their space. Instead of assigning detailed tasks, present general priorities and let your reports decide how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
brain science, personalized care and policy and prevention, provide expert training to health care professionals and scientists, develop health promotion and prevention programs, and advocate on public policy issues at all levels of government. At the onset of the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
Similarly, in the corporate world, talented managers need the right firm environment, the right organizational culture, and the organizational support and time to implement their program in order to succeed. Right person, right time,... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
Digital record-keeping is slowly but inevitably replacing paper records everywhere from the pilot's cockpit to the registry of motor vehicles. But if implemented without proper consideration of how work gets done, the results can make... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Many organizations have implemented incident reporting systems to highlight actual and potential operational failures in order to encourage problem solving and prevent subsequent failures. Our study is among the first to develop and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
manufacturer required. Indeed, the trend toward customers as innovators has the power to completely transform industries. In the semiconductor business, it has led to a custom-chip market that has grown to more than $15 billion. The business challenges of View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
surprise to industry observers, but the SEC's reaction did. On October 4, the SEC unexpectedly announced that it was indefinitely postponing the implementation of shareholder proxy access, pending the outcome of the lawsuit. A Natural... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
of implementing such a broad definition, support the idea of sustainability as the integration—and intersection—of social, environmental, and economic responsibilities that are borne by managers. In for-profit organizations these... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
(CRM) project would require, the bank decided to explore its benefits with a smaller pilot project. It appointed a CRM project team to design and implement a project focused on credit cards. Describes the challenges of the Spanish credit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a $9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the final year of the project, presents the project’s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
on practical measures that businesses can implement to create shared value. Originally published in an online forum hosted by Harvard Business Review, it offers valuable advice about how CEOs, other senior executives, and boards of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
winners and losers into consideration. Both groups need to be encouraged and included in the implementation process, and reassured of their value and worth to the company, Neeley says. For the favored group specifically, Neeley suggests... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
more and more cases, when leaders make critical decisions, they are not choosing among specific, detailed options, each supported by in-depth analysis, nor are they expecting to implement the option they choose in a familiar, predictable,... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
an incident gets reported and that a solution is implemented so that the incident doesn't recur. We can look at whether this happens over time. Knowing this will make a significant contribution to improving patient safety, because a lot... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
cheap, fast, and "easy," don't you think Cisco would have used them? Q: What are the characteristics of successful Web service implementations today? What kinds of companies can benefit most? Are there certain types of processes... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
threaten our world competitiveness. It may actually help us find ways to be more productive." Susan Seitel agreed, saying "there are ways to have both and we have proof. The country's dramatically increasing output comes coincidentally at the same time more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
management make sound strategic choices and ensure efficient implementation of those decisions. They do this by allocating scarce capital resources to the best opportunities, then measuring and controlling performance against projections.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
transistor — emanated from groups of people with complementary skills," say the authors. Furthermore, they argue, creativity doesn't have to come in visionary leaps. Incremental steps count, too, and figuring out how to implement a... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron