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- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
managers' social initiatives are akin to using a dishwasher to wash clothes. Corporations can contribute best to society if they do what they do best: employ a workforce to provide goods and services to the marketplace and, in so doing, View Details
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by Manda Salls
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
abandon people who have helped him at one stage of his career in order to succeed at another. Such choices—such moments of truth—are fraught with drama, the drama enacted in the conflict between being great and being good. The two have...
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by Richard S. Tedlow
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
serious challenges for capturing value. In order to draw in external contributors, an innovator often waives legal exclusion rights or reveals formerly exclusive knowledge. But as a result, contributors may appropriate a large share of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
ways to fulfill it" still inform today's politics. Excerpts from the book follow. After the death of his mother when he was a young child, and with no father in his life, Alexander Hamilton (1757–1804), who would become America's first...
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- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
have documented the existence of user innovation back to the monks" —Carliss Baldwin After all, who knows better how to improve a product or fulfill a need than the person who will ultimately benefit? For the better part of a decade,...
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by Michael Blanding
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
campaign backfired because the Electoral Commission failed to fulfill its commitment to deliver a transparent and peaceful election. The decrease in trust is stronger in areas that experienced election-related violence and for individuals...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
one order and return them in the reverse order when should DVDs (e.g., documentaries) are rented before want DVDs (e.g., action films). This effect is sizeable in magnitude, with a one standard deviation...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
Miami-based startup offering online English language learning services, had more than 30,000 active students across Latin America in 2012. The company had just closed a $43 million financing round in order to rapidly scale its service to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
I want to raise one who is also an advocate, always using his voice to help others. I want to raise a son who is also a feminist and in order to do this I must strive to be the best role model I can for him. Nitin Nohria, Dean of the...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
year—far more than ever before—and schools are going to have to plan ahead in order to get students back up to speed. Once we’re on the other side of the pandemic, what do you think the biggest takeaways will be in terms of the successes...
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- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer DataUse It
technology at all but with the way you are collecting and using your data, experts say. Although getting your CRM program in order is an essential component of achieving customer loyalty, there's much more that you need to do....
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by Jean Ayers
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
locations begins to dry up? In 1986, a group of social entrepreneurs reimagined education in India, developing a low-cost, "one-teacher school" model to provide educational access in regions that had proven cost prohibitive for government schools. They founded Ekal to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When he was just three years old, Chad Foster (PLDA 21, 2016) was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative condition that would ultimately leave him...
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- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
You want people to touch your product and actually get the brand experience. You could get to a point where stores like Best Buy become just showrooms and fulfillment is done by Amazon because they are much more efficient at it. I could...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
business and life, and gave them practical experience by sending them on consulting assignments with real companies. In the military, he ruffled feathers by resisting orders so he could make sure soldiers had the equipment they needed to...
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- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
rates and order value and reduces fulfillment costs arising from returns and home try-on behavior, that is, customers ordering multiple sizes of the same product. We explore...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
subsidiary is Compartamos Banco, has been a fantastically successful endeavor since it started in the 1990s. But in 2014, Gentera faces challenges in expanding beyond group-lending and micro-credit into microfinance and beyond in order to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
and to calculate metrics to compare their levels of modularity. Our research takes advantage of a natural experiment in this industry, where products exist that fulfill the same function, but that have been developed using very different...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
that his mother is dead. His father soon abandons him in order to seek employment, leaving his son behind in a string of foster homes and orphanages. This establishes a pattern of neglect and desertion that continues for Hajim’s entire...
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- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
historical and hypothetical scenarios. Additionally, we demonstrate that the exponential penalty approach exhibits exceptional computational performance, implying practical viability. Our results suggest that this approach could lead to system-wide savings on the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne