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- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
business in India during the decades of the 1970s and 1980s. Bajaj Auto, the leading two-wheeler manufacturer in India, for a long period could do little to fight a slow-moving bureaucracy in a highly regulated country deeply suspicious...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and Daisy Azer (Columbia University Press) Through ten stories of struggles and successes in fields such as health care, education, agriculture, transportation, social services, and security, the authors show how collaborative creativity can shake up even the most...
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- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
Excessive bureaucracy was the biggest source of perceived risk in South Asia. There were regional differences also in how leaders in different regions responded to the same risk. In both regions business leaders reported having to...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
known of what influences auditors' ability to identify and report dangerous, illegal, and unethical behavior at factories. Drawing on insights from the literature on street-level bureaucracy and on regulatory and audit design, we theorize...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
It is difficult to conceive of any policy that would be more destructive to American business innovation. Given global competition, it is not in anyone’s interest to force a union bureaucracy into businesses that must be innovative and...
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- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
most densely populated areas in the world. The slum's living conditions are abysmal by Western standards and gets little to no support from the local government due to the entrenched bureaucracy that has seemingly misaligned interests in...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
the need to recoup shareholder value after paying a two-times premium for Sirtris with his desire to retain Christoph Westphal, Sirtris's co-founder and CEO, and other key individuals at the company. His desire to protect Sirtris from GSK's size and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
leadership style to “drain the swamp” of the Washington bureaucracy and deliver results for the American people. The United States is not a company, of course, and its citizens are not employees, but voters still were drawn to his...
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by Christina Pazzanese
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
Petrom's legacy as a state-owned company, such as lack of investment, aged assets, operational inefficiency, and bureaucracy while successfully managing the triangular partnership between the acquirer OMV, acquiree OMV Petrom, and the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
communism as a result of too many layers of bureaucracy and not enough market (true enough). But I then tell students that I made a mistake and that this chart actually represents the managerial organizations of one of the most successful...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
to get the message out. ’Cause they’ll listen. They’ll listen to it. They’ll listen to you.” The Teen Advisory Council is an experiment in progress, with six schools participating and plans to expand to a dozen in the coming year. It can be difficult to infiltrate the...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
do. He and Dick Nesson considered trying to set up a “health-care high school” in Boston, but the educational bureaucracy proved insurmountable. Reflecting his continuing interest in health care, he joined the board of pharmaceutical...
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- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
after paying a two-times premium for Sirtris with his desire to retain Christoph Westphal, Sirtris's co-founder and CEO, and other key individuals at the company. His desire to protect Sirtris from GSK's size and bureaucracy occurs in a...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
grassroots community organizations; the increasing tendency of businesses, large and small, to identify the inner city as an untapped market; a drop in urban crime rates; and the "unshackling" of inner cities from the entrenched and outmoded View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
nuclear engineering.” Those kinds of things are impossible for a bureaucracy to keep up with.Fuller: Very hard for a bureaucracy to deal with. Right. Kerr: With all the resources and all the best interests,...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
people out in the field with the goal of protecting workers’ rights to make sure that they’re safe and dignified—15,000 FTEs, a $15 billion discretionary budget, hundreds of regional offices around the country. Fuller: So I don’t think that many people immediately...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
toward teenage pregnancy, some kind of engagement with the criminal justice system or drug use, or poor performance on standardized testing, which the education bureaucracy gets upset about. So, if 40 years ago there were guidance...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
the word No. The Conversational Firm: Rethinking Bureaucracy in the Age of Social Media by Catherine J. Turco (MBA 2003) (Columbia University Press) A fast-growing social media marketing company, TechCo encourages all of its employees to...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
vision, both short and long term, and articulate your vision in ways that excite others. Understand your personal privilege and give back to the community. Maintain your integrity, sense of humor, and commitment to others. Avoid View Details