RESEARCH 2015 R E S E A R C H , 2 015 The Doctoral Programs at Harvard Business School educate scholars who make a difference in the world through rigorous academic research that influences practice. More than 140 strong, HBS doctoral students represent diverse backgrounds, degrees, undergraduate schools, and disciplines includ— ing economics, engineering, mathematics, physics, psychology, and sociology. They examine the most critical issues in business management through rigorous research
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292). The History of WorldCom “WorldCom began in Mississippi as a small provider of long distance telephone services” (Lyke, 2002). However, due to deregulation in the telephone industry as well as aggressive leadership by CEO Bernie Ebbers, the company quickly grew due to many acquisitions and mergers in the 1990’s. This decade was a thrilling time of growth, high expectations, and technological advances. Industries in the telecomm industry were excited by the expectation of high demand for long
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John Muiga Wanjiku School of Human Resource Development, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya Email: mjwanjiku@gmail.com, Abstract — These paper looks into customer relationship management which is a company-wide business strategy designed to reduce costs and increase profitability by solidifying customer loyalty and explores it in context to e- business. It goes ahead to relate social networking revolution and its implication to business both positively
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information technology with e-commerce, a system that allows managers to view point-of-sale information, and the possible use of RFID chips in the near future. After reviewing the 2005 Harvard Business School study of Wal-Mart, it is evident that this company has been successful in expanding its operations in several foreign markets. Wal-Mart had established itself as the largest retailer in both Canada in 2003 and Mexico in 2004. Through acquisitions, partnerships, and go-it-alone strategies, Wal-Mart
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asserted his moral right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work. Published by Ashgate Publishing Limited Gower House Croft Road Aldershot Hampshire GU11 3HR England Ashgate Publishing Company Suite 420 101 Cherry Street Burlington, VT 05401-4405 USA www.ashgate.com British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Killick, Tim British short fiction in the early nineteenth century : the rise of the tale 1. Short stories, English
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Information & Management 45 (2008) 257–269 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Information & Management journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/im IT governance for enterprise resource planning supported by the DeLone–McLean model of information systems success Edward W.N. Bernroider * Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Department for Information Business, Augasse 2-6, 1090 Vienna, Austria A R T I C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Article history:
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Leadership Is a Conversation by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind The command-and-control approach to management has in recent years become less and less viable. Globalization, new technologies, and changes in how companies create value and interact with customers have sharply reduced the efficacy of a purely directive, top-down model of leadership. What will take the place of that model? Part of the answer lies in how leaders manage communication within their organizations—that is, how they
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an American public multinational corporation that runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. The company is the world's 18th largest public corporation, according to the Forbes Global 2000 list, and the largest public corporation when ranked by revenue. It is also the biggest private employer in the world with over 2 million employees. The company was founded by Sam Walton in 1962, incorporated on October 31, 1969, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange in 1972
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From Followers to Market Leaders: Asian Electronics Firms in the Global Economy Henry Wai-chung Yeung Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 1 Arts Link, Singapore 117570 (Tel: 65-6516 6810; Fax: 65-6777 3091; Email: HenryYeung@nus.edu.sg; Homepage: http://courses.nus.edu.sg/course/geoywc/henry.htm) Forthcoming in Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Vol.48(1), pp.1-30, 2007. Acknowledgement An earlier version of this paper was presented as the Asia Pacific Viewpoint Lecture at the International
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actions being required shortly after the legislation passed and others in the subsequent years. While the law specifically applies to publicly-owned corporations, the provisions of Sarbanes-Oxley are also being required as well of privately held companies and notfor-profit organizations by large corporations to whom these organizations are suppliers and by lenders, insurers, investors, funders of these smaller and private entities. SarbanesOxley’s reach far exceeds
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