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- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
“Given the dire economic times, one of the first things you’d expect small businesses to do is to slash some employee benefits,” says Dafny, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of...
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- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
operations took somewhat of a back seat. There were just too many new things to think about and explore, and everybody's attention was focused on "breakthrough improvements," so the mandate for...
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
identity, a community of shared values, and trust-based relationships with employees, customers, community, and investors. Boards often do not ask the right questions about these things nor have the data to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
outcome information, and have the judges look at them and judge them on things like artistic merit, feasibility, furthering cultural dialogue, and some sense of commercial viability," Nanda says. There were...
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- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
are ill equipped to teach them. Attitudes are taught implicitly through cultural norms, not through explicit discussion. Very few academic schools (if any} make this distinction..." Mike Wyman opined, "I believe the only thing...
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by James Heskett
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
re-read Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, which I assigned to a class a few years ago and had Professor Muhammad speak to them...
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- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
findings of this project is the enormous readiness of many in the business community to roll up their sleeves and do things in their communities and companies to make America...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
that if you do things strategically, you can create significant value for the firm. The CSO is in the best position to change this perception, but he needs to have the data and the tight business case to communicate that." CSOs...
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- 02 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?
judging from per capita declines in both natural and unnatural deaths worldwide. While the problem of nuclear weapons proliferation remains with us, the 21st century challenges relate to such things as space...
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- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wired and Black: Focus on Careers
New economy companies may be moving at the speed of light, but they still need managers who can get the job done, according to career development experts who spoke at the African-American Student Union conference, "The Digital...
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by Carrie Levine
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
venture and how you behaved when things didn't go well." History points to the importance of people skills in successful ventures, agreed Sahlman. But what roles do operating experience and technical...
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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
success. You try to enshrine your success. You build up bureaucratic processes to make sure you do things the same way next time," he said, adding that bureaucracy is the enemy of small companies that...
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by Carrie Levine
- 17 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?
industries, to name two, will be affected. And of how the Internet performed so dependably in spite of almost unimaginable demand. But what about more basic issues? Must we...
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by James Heskett
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
that compared to an algorithm that has access to much more data on worker outcomes and has been trained to recognize these patterns.” Studies in other settings have shown that many things we typically think View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a...
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- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
thing is that while each has its own independent identity and strategy, they all come together to make the Nobel Prizes happen. They all share allegiance to the core identity of what they all want to do:...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
Summing Up Fixing the Way We Work There is a lot wrong with the way we work, but very little of this is due to new networking capabilities or communications technology. Neither can we blame increasing globalization and the demands View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
you need to be a willing to listen to the other person and recombine things that they say,” Koning says. “On the flipside, you want to make sure that the other person is sharing their ideas and not filtering themselves. Otherwise, it’s...
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by Michael Blanding
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
became part of my identity, but clearly wouldn’t fly during an interview. Silverthorne: What is the worst thing that academic job-seekers can do that will ensure they’ll never get an offer? Rouen: There are...
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- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
negotiation, I'm not sure how I can know whether I'm more powerful than you or you're more powerful than I am or we're equally powerful. One of the things that we've done to further the research is that the...
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by Mallory Stark