When a CEO is dismissed, peer CEOs often turn fiscally conservative, dialing back on research and development, acquisitions and capital expenditures. Firing a CEO can change the strategic decision-making of CEOs at competing firms. Two Harbert...
Managers should consider their own conduct. Employee insubordination is often a reaction to abusive supervision and/or non-productive managers, according to two Harbert researchers. Jeremy Mackey, assistant professor of management, and Katie Crawford, a doctoral...
Fans see teams, sponsors separately. Long-term naming rights agreements with sports arenas and stadiums present little downside for large organizations because customers can differentiate between teams and the sponsors. Research by Brian L. Bourdeau, associate...
Remember what the ‘A’ stands for New technologies can enhance human decision-making in supply chain firms, but technological control mechanisms and computing power have their limits. The human factor still reigns supreme. A recent editorial by Harbert’s LaDonna...
Online inventory errors frustrate customers Your son desperately wants that hot new video game, or your father can’t wait to get his hands on the latest and greatest new indoor painting tools. Before you race across town and fight traffic on a rainy night, you jump...
