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- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
the biggest challenges for organizations are to have the necessary competencies and resources to act upon inputs." Sowmia Gopinathan echoed this comment: " (the) downside is only where expectations of the customers are made high...
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by Jim Heskett
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
enough of a part of the education system." The third issue, said Kuemmerle, is that "red tape is alive and well." Reconstructing For The New Economy Echoing his concern on this last point was panelist Klause Krone, CEO of...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
religion, to continue to prosper economically. We must welcome refugees from exactly the regions banned by the executive order to uphold our society's core values. The exclusionary nature of Donald Trump's order echoes some of our...
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by Staff
- 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
- 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 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
other slums in Asia. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710004-PDF-ENG Echoing Green Harvard Business School Case 410-013 This case presents the leadership challenges that Cheryl Dorsey, the president of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
traditional nonprofits, what's most important is the social purpose, but hybrids also have economic objectives to generate enough revenue to sustain their operations." Echoing Green Battilana and Lee, who were designing the database...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
bubble on the horizon. As in the United States, the high cost of housing can undermine economic competitiveness as young families move farther and farther out, spending more time and more money on housing. If the reasons behind the headlines are unique to Israel, the...
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- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
self-interest the common denominators to them all?" Echoing his point of view, does our current approach to greater accounting transparency through legislation and regulation attack the symptoms and not the disease? If so, is this a...
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by James Heskett
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
Donald Trump has not issued an official platform on student debt, although he has referenced reducing college costs and lowering interest rates on student loans. Hillary Clinton has offered a variety of proposals. Echoing Bernie Sanders,...
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- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
that, “‘imposters’ could well bring in the balancing element in the teams of today where more people are the exact opposite in terms of work output to ‘talk’ ratio!” Cathy Lee speculated about whether imposters “are more loyal.” A comment by jhsmd probably View Details
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by James Heskett
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
frontal assaults against armies that are ten times your size. Those are suicide missions," echoes David Peterschmidt, Inktomi's CEO. Rule Three: Plan And Be Prepared To Pivot It is a common fallacy that fast-moving companies like the...
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by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
perspective to interpret/appreciate the information can (produce) negative energy that is avoidable ." Peter Lee echoed the thought this way: Management must "work to improve trust before emphasizing transparency; transparency...
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by James Heskett
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
prepare a force for the first engagement with the enemy and little more. It is no coincidence that some entrepreneurs today echo Clausewitz's observation and say the purpose of a business plan is to prepare a new organization for its...
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by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
very presumptuous for business schools ... to feel they should 'weed out' or 'license' the moral credentials of students." Alexander Magoun echoed this view when he asked, "Would it not benefit society and corporate culture as a...
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by James Heskett
- 15 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing
the colonel! @kevinelop: OMG!! . . . The Double Down is back at KFC!!! @iamToddyTickles: KFC's #doubledowns for Breakfast. Mmmmm. Mmmmmm. Yummmmmmy. I'm full. Despite his precious Twitter handle, iamToddyTickles appears to be a fully grown man in his profile picture,...
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Re: Michael I. Norton
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
convictions of the Valley's remarkable innovators, who created not just a company but an industry, still echo through the community. Bill Hewlett and David Packard influenced the older generation directly; many of them were early...
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
dealing with Železný, as it echoes their own experiences with local partners. Students are also pushed to extreme sentiments as they realize how poor the position of CME is despite its large ownership stakes; some students have gotten...
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- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
Free Speech at Google In August 2017, Google fired James Damore, a 28-year-old software engineer who had been employed by the company since 2013. The move came after Damore penned an internal company memo titled “Google’s Ideological Echo...
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by Sean Silverthorne