Leadership

Leadership

May 06th, 2021

Can Financial and Social Missions Truly Coexist Within Companies?

A number of business leaders and researchers have promoted the idea that social and financial goals are complementary. The authors of a recent paper say that may be true, but if so, why aren’t all companies pursuing these dual goals? They propose ways to diminish tensions between the two aims.

By Tomasz Obloj

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Leadership

July 18th, 2019

How to Organize to Remain Professional while Being Profitable

How to remain professional but also commercially viable? HEC Professor Michel Lander explains the different organizational practices used by professional service firms (PSF) and shares key findings on which strategy works best.

By Michel Lander

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Leadership

April 30th, 2018

Using Storytelling to Support Organizational Change

Transformation is a difficult challenge for companies. How can the art of storytelling guide companies through transformative change? Researchers Giada Di Stefano and Elena Dalpiaz turn to Italian housewares and kitchen utensil company — and master storyteller — Alessi to understand the narrative practices for successful change.

By Giada Di Stefano

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Leadership

February 01st, 2016

Building Knowledge through Research in Management | HEC Ideas #4

Does the progress of management techniques and ideas result primarily from an accumulation of experience and some common sense, or does it also require systematic research?

Building Knowledge through Research in Management

Leadership

February 15th, 2010

When the going gets tough, who can you trust?

Across the globe, Michael Segalla was surprised to find that business managers trust strangers considerably more than they trust their bosses. Trust levels nonetheless vary significantly according to national culture, as do firing practices, and firm trust increases somewhat with hierarchical rank and age.

By Michael Segalla

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