Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Virtually every 21 st century business scandal is reducible to a morality tale of a technology that allows us to do things we couldn’t before, coupled with major institutional failures that were enabled by failures of omission and commission of corporate leaders. These lessons are valuable, but incomplete for today’s world.

Ethics 9

Ethics CFO Technology Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2018

For example, if a researcher wants to understand how employees respond to particular incentives, the results of a study measuring how undergraduate students in the U.S. respond to those incentives will have limited generalizability, and may not be at all relevant in most work contexts or in other cultures.

Metrics 10

Metrics Ethics Incentives Policies 10

N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

I don’t know about you, but it’s almost as if we have raised a generation of leaders who feel they have a moral and ethical obligation to be politically correct – WRONG. And if you succeed by learning to be politically correct in an organization what is the incentive to be anything else? How sad is this?

Politics 375

Politics Blog Leadership Diversity 375

Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2016

The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. While the production system requires more worker skill and effort, employers have incentives to retain these valuable workers through improved working conditions. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. Sponsored by Accenture.

Lean Manufacturing 9

Lean Manufacturing Supply Chain Apparel Compliance 9

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In evaluating any relationship in the value chain I’m looking for value, talent, performance, leverage, efficiency, economy of scale, work ethic, integrity, character, discipline and many other traits irrespective of your skin color, age, etc. A sense of entitlement is not a substitute for work ethic and a desire to achieve.

Diversity 350

Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2015

It’s not technologically difficult for publishers to add platform-like elements, and vice versa. Sometimes, they also hope to develop a content management system that other publishers can license and use to distribute their content. Platform and publisher incentives are better aligned when a platform is new.

Business Model 8

Business Model Content Incentives Audience 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

Individual reluctance is mirrored in the health care system's belief that more care and technology can stave off death, and that what we don't talk about won't happen. But it always fails eventually, and when that occurs, our system, by and large, does a lousy job. And often that strategy works.

Health Care 12

Health Care Document System Education 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

This blog post is part of the HBR Online Forum The CEO's Role in Fixing the System. We have been deploying technology, re-engineering, training, and adopting modern IT-enabled management platforms to help our workers improve their productivity, hence their income.

Industry 10

Industry Strategy Supply Chain Long-term 10

First Friday Book Synopsis

APRIL 5, 2011

Here are brief excerpts from two articles featured by McKinsey & Company. I suggest you read them in the order in which they appear here, then click where indicated to read each in its entirety. I presume to suggest, further, that you register to receive email updates on other resources that are also available at [.].

Crisis 80

Crisis McKinsey Resources Article 80

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

One of our most important current innovations,” he wrote, “may not be technological. Beware of purely ethical arguments around diversity and fairness. What it does take is changes to business systems (career management, leadership criteria, product and service design and delivery). Entrenched business systems often are.

Diversity 9

Diversity CEO Skills Training 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

There is reason to worry that the reward system in our field, particularly in the publication process, is misaligned with the goals of good science. What will the advent of big data mean for management research, given the incentives in our publication process I’ve described above? If not, whose interests does it serve?

Management 8

Management Retail Construction Ethics 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2010

And the result of an undersupply of disclosure is toxic, perverse incentives. And the systemic result of that is crisis, stagnation, and decline. There are big and small, worse and better, more and less ethical ways to do the latter. Are you fighting the future — or are you fighting for the future?

GDP 15

GDP Hypercompetition IPO Information 15

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

’ It fostered a false sense of security for employees, paying higher salaries than the marketplace, thus keeping employees dependent upon the system via golden handcuffs. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. The Auditing Firm Employed by Enron.

Strategic Planning 57

Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57