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When to Pass the Reigns; a Page from Coach Lloyd Carr's Playbook
Merrill Lynch recently provided us with a perfect example of poor succession planning. As more and more baby boomers go into retirement in the next decade -- with some staying on board but taking a back seat -- organizations will need to learn from failures like this. After leaders put their plans...
Tags: Leadership, Lloyd Carr, Football, Leader, University Of Michigan, Management, Lori Deschene
Blog posts 2007-11-28
Rank-and-Fire Management Isn't So Hot After All
Jack Welch is famous for implementing GE's brutal performance evaluation, where employees are ranked against each other and the bottom 10 percent of the list gets booted every year. Such "forced ranking" systems have long been controversial, with experts divided on if they are truly effective. New research from the...
Tags: University Of Michigan, Employee, Performance Management, Jack Welch, Team Management, Web Site Development, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Management, Internet, Andrew Hines
Blog posts 2007-03-28
The Influence Of Domestic Firms On Foreign Direct Investment Liberalization
This paper investigates the influence of incumbent firms on the decision to allow foreign direct investment into an industry. Based on data from India's economic reforms, the results suggest that firms in concentrated industries are more successful at preventing foreign entry that state-owned firms are more successful at stopping foreign...
Tags: University Of Michigan, Industry, Entry, Foreign Direct Investment, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Currency & Foreign Exchange, Strategy, Investment, Finance, Management
White papers 2006-03-01
Towards a Global Civil Society
There is a powerful impulse in the world today hastening the process of international economic integration. Economic integration means greater inter-dependency among countries, greater international trade, greater market integration in commodity prices, and more extensive flows of investment and revenues. The process of globalization incorporates a number of factors: the...
Tags: University Of Michigan, Integration, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), Globalization, Investment, Finance, Strategy, Management
White papers 2005-11-21
Endogenous Favoritism In Organizations
This paper addresses the issues of authority and communication in the management of innovation within an organization. In particular, the paper shows that when the principal can fund only one of two competing research or investment ideas, it can be optimal for the principal to listen to only one of...
Tags: University Of Michigan, Principal, Real Estate, Leadership, Sales Force Management, Investment, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Sales, Finance
White papers 2005-11-01
Examining the Relevance of Emotional Intelligence Within Educational Programs for the Gifted and Talented
This study explored the relationships between emotional intelligence, locus of control, and self-efficacy among gifted and talented students participating in a two week long summer educational program. Result revealed statistically significant correlations between these variables. Gender was found to moderate the relationships. Result of this study alludes to the theoretical...
Tags: Tools & Techniques, Management, Leadership, Emotional Intelligence, University Of Michigan
White papers 2005-09-28
Outsourcing and Offshoring Under the GATS
Globalization and the growth of outsourcing and off shoring are challenging international trade regulations. This paper asserts that current GATS framework suffers from several weaknesses including an inadequate classification method, difficulties in determining rules of origin and an opening for protectionist approaches through an inconclusive interpretation to footnote 9 to...
Tags: It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Strategy, Management, Globalization, Outsourcing, Offshoring, University Of Michigan
White papers 2005-06-01
Why We Need the Independent Sector: The Behavior, Law, & Ethics of Not-for-Profit Hospitals
Among the major forms of corporate ownership, the not-for-profit ownership form is distinct in its behavior, legal constraints, and moral obligations. Not for- profit hospitals systematically provide both private and public goods that are in the public interest, and that other forms fail to provide. Two hypotheses are proposed to...
Tags: Leadership, Management, Hospital, Business Ethics, Healthcare, Ethics, University Of Michigan
White papers 2004-10-22
Structural Homophily or Social Asymmetry?: The Formation of Alliances by Poorly-Embedded Firms
Recent research shows that pre-existing network structure constrains the formation of new inter organizational alliances. Firms that are poorly embedded in a network structure are less likely to form alliances, because they lack the informational and reputational benefits that richly embedded firms enjoy. This paper examines the types of ties...
Tags: Structure, Management, Strategy, University Of Michigan, Alliance
White papers 2004-07-26
Price Prediction Strategies For Market-Based Scheduling
In a market-based scheduling mechanism, the allocation of time-specific resources to tasks is governed by a competitive bidding process. Agents bidding for multiple, separately allocated time slots face the risk that they will succeed in obtaining only part of their requirement, incurring expenses for potentially worthless slots. We investigate the...
Tags: Agent, University Of Michigan, Real Estate, Strategy, Business Operations, Management
White papers 2004-01-28
A Hybrid Model of Decision-Making in Closed Political Regimes
In this paper, the first cut information about an exploratory agent-based modeling project is presented where the aim is to develop a tool for intelligence analysts to employ in studying decision-making processes in closed political regimes such as Iraq, North Korea and Syria. The hybrid of the landscape metaphor (Kollman,...
Tags: Management, Business Operations, Research & Development, Leadership, Tools & Techniques, Decision-making, University Of Michigan, Regime
White papers 2004-01-18
Modular Design Approach for Development of Electrical, Electronic, and Software System Architectures for Multiple Product Platforms
Modular systems provide the ability to achieve product variety through the combination and standardization of components. In this paper, new optimization algorithms and software tools are presented that allow EES system design engineers to develop architectures/modules that can be shared across product platforms for OEMs and across OEMs for suppliers....
Tags: Management, Strategy, Marketing, University Of Michigan, Software, Engineering, Strategic Planning, Tools & Techniques, Productivity, OEM, Channel Management
White papers 2003-06-09
Information Technology and the Transformation of Scientific and Engineering Research
This paper describes the information technology IT impact on transforming various economic and social dimensions of the world, and in particular focuses on the impact of IT on transforming scientific and engineering research and allied education. In February 2003 the National Science Foundation sponsored an invitational workshop on the topic...
Tags: Government, Strategy, Homeland Security, Information Technology, University Of Michigan, Management
White papers 2003-03-13
Breakthrough Leadership
Breakthrough leadership is critical for the expression of the human needs for believing, belonging, contributing and transcending, especially in trying times. Extraordinary events positive or negative are temporary openings for breakthroughs in personal growth, organizational development, and human progress. Breakthrough leaders seize these moments to explore a world of new...
Tags: Breakthrough Leadership, Leadership, Management, Breakthrough, University Of Michigan
White papers 2003-01-01
Motivation
Motivation consists of a set of psychological processes that arouse and provide direction to goal-directed human behavior. A high employee motivation level at the workplace enables the employees to do their best at the job. This increases the organizational productivity. The paper examines motivation and its effects on job design....
Tags: University Of Michigan, Motivation, Leadership, Recruitment & Selection, Management, Human Resources, Workforce Management
Presentations 2003-01-01
Strategy In The New Competitive Landscape
An organization’s strategy is as an assortment of integrated actions for gaining sustainable competitive advantage in the market. In today’s highly dynamic business environment, the competition between organizations has intensified. More and more firms arrive in the market with better, innovative products. In such a scenario, the significance of strategy...
Tags: University Of Michigan, Organization, Strategy, Management
Presentations 2002-11-01
The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Low-income markets present a prodigious opportunity for the world's wealthiest companies to seek their fortunes and bring prosperity to the aspiring poor. Bringing modern IT equipment to Tier 4 villages makes possible such applications as tele-education, telemedicine, micro banking, and agricultural extension services. New business models must not disrupt local...
Tags: University Of Michigan, Fortune, Banking, Strategy, Financial Services, Management
White papers 2002-01-07

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Accident Fund Names VG's Food and Pharmacy Policyholder of the Year
EAST LANSING, Mich., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- VG's Food and Pharmacy has been named Accident Fund Insurance Company of America's Policyholder of the Year for their commitment to keeping workers as safe as possible on the job. President Lisa VanGilder accepted the award on behalf of VG's...
Articles 2008-09-22
Sustainability Education Innovator Rick Bunch Appointed as Managing Director of Erb Institute at University of Michigan
Brings two decades of experience to post ANN ARBOR, Mich., Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan today announced that it has named Rick Bunch, one of the foremost sustainable business education experts in the world, as its...
Articles 2008-09-17
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Articles 2008-09-01
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