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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
limitations and failings of his country's other companies. "It's not enough to do research on the 'can' aspect of Japanese management. There must also be work on the 'cannot' aspect," he said. "We have difficult problems, so this is a good time to do research."...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
withering critiques at business schools in recent years. Warren Bennis at USC’s Marshall School of Business argues that they are “institutionalizing their own irrelevance” by becoming too focused on scientific research that has little connection to business reality....
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- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
workers trained on such software was taking on work that used to be done in the workshops. The seemingly anecdotal homers encapsulated micro-struggles for recognition, ones in which the identity threats that craftsmen were facing were challenged. These artifacts View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
appeal only “to the madness of the crowd,” letting complex issues such as energy independence go unresolved. “Between their corruption, their stupidity, and their playing to the crowds,” our political leaders have failed us, Dimon said, to another round of applause....
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
so long.” * * * * * As president of Echo Lake Productions, Douglas Mankoff (MBA 1995) is doing his bit to foster movies that might fall through the cracks at a big-budget studio. In 1997, Mankoff raised a private equity fund to finance...
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- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
according to the Olmsted brothers' initial landscaping plan, contrasts pleasingly with the buildings' red brick and echoes their white painted trim. White-flowered shrubs and trees such as Japanese barberry, white fringe trees, and...
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- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
about the possibility of such hard-charging professionals turning off. "It has to be this way," explained one consultant, echoing many of his colleagues. "It is the nature of the work. Clients pay huge sums of money and...
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by Leslie A. Perlow
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
independence—or loyalty—interdependence and being part of a network of connections and relationships? “These questions are crucial when you are choosing partners, working out issues with partners, or letting go of partners,” said Perel. In an evening fireside chat,...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
are echoed by their counterparts in the Global South. All these magnates—Ratan Tata, Anu Aga, Adi Godrej, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Devi Shetty and Rahul Bajaj, to name a few—have built, to general acclaim and acknowledgement, organizations...
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- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
School Case 719-002 Donald Trump and the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act In January 2018, President Donald Trump was full of optimism. He had just signed the most substantial legislation of his young presidency, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), making major changes to the tax...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
the students' was 0.60. The students estimated that between 21% and 42% of U.S. jobs are potentially offshorable. Echoing Blinder, the student data suggested a positive correlation between offshorability and education. The student data...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
into Moss’s analysis and recommendations. Warren and two Democrats embraced Moss’s views on the need for a systemic risk regulator. But the two Republican members issued a dissenting minority report. The partisan clash of views foreshadowed the political debate now...
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- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
are already taking place.” On a Monday evening in early May, the South Scranton Intermediate School’s auditorium echoes with the voices of students, teachers, and parents, all wedged into uncomfortable wooden seats etched with decades of...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
we’ll be reading about the startups by some of these young people who are lying flat,” he notes. Even so, tang ping continues to echo in the online forums where China’s youth congregate. The concept has parallels in other countries,...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
Chemdex founder David Perry echoes Rosin’s sentiments: “If you are serious about being an entrepreneur, the contest is a great experience because it will hold your feet to the fire on deliverables.” That said, Perry readily admits that...
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- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
slogan, mano a mano. Seizing this as a chance for great publicity, Kelleher hyped the event as "Malice in Dallas," gave 700 Southwest employees the morning off and brought them to the event to cheer him on. The arena soon echoed...
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- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
issued a dissenting minority report. The partisan clash of views foreshadowed the political debate now echoing in the corridors on Capitol Hill. The Case For More Regulation Looking at the historical record, Moss makes a strong case that...
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- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
argues that they are "institutionalizing their own irrelevance" by becoming too focused on scientific research that has little connection to business reality. Ten scholars echo Bennis's criticism in the December/ January 2008...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
Humana health-care system, a view echoed by others. Moving the needle on safer, more efficient health-care delivery is as difficult as implementing organizational change in any business, with the important difference that doing so is a...
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- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
space, and asks how the voice assistant should fit in with Alphabet's larger portfolio of products and services. While the mobile phone was the major platform for Google Assistant, Alphabet had recently introduced a range of smart home speakers to challenge first-mover...
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Dina Gerdeman