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- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
in parts of their economy, and they realize that the fevered output they've enjoyed is likely to slow. They understand the need to increase domestic consumption and imports to offset strong exports. But they see these challenges as...
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by Nitin Nohria
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
At the same time, he adds, there will be "a new set of management and pop psychology books with dubious claims ." Among the potential benefits making it highly relevant, according to David Skinner, is that "its output might...
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by Jim Heskett
- 05 Jul 2004
- What Do You Think?
Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?
threaten our world competitiveness. It may actually help us find ways to be more productive." Susan Seitel agreed, saying "there are ways to have both and we have proof. The country's dramatically increasing output comes...
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by James Heskett
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
do both is by satisfying customers, shareholders, and employees. You can do that only by raising productivity—being better at changing inputs into valuable outputs than the other guys. So the ultimate goal of national policy has to be...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
questionnaire about how much they liked working in a competitive environment versus working with others as a team. A person who selected "like competition" was teamed with other competitors. Once the results were tabulated, Lakhani and Boudreau found a...
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by Michael Blanding
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
has good information about cost and demand functions, product quality, and optimal output mix. Profit centers—defined as business units whose managers have responsibility for overall profits but not the authority to make major capital...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
reserves at all. This finding is robust to considering interest rate shocks, sudden stops, contingent reserves and reserve dependent output costs. Download the paper (purchase from NBER required: $5): http://www.nber.org/papers/w13216...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
standards could indeed be unnecessarily restrictive if they were to specify strict and uniform outputs without regard to country context (e.g., number and diversity of participants, length of engagement). A workable option would be...
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by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 14 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?
services to "make" internally as opposed to what it buys in the marketplace. A firm may integrate "forward" into the channels used to distribute its output to customers, or "backward" into the supply chain...
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- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
unit to the next. One dimension along which a unit of output can vary-a dimension with particular relevance in outsourcing-is the end customer to whom it is delivered. The performance benefits of such customer experience remain largely...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 13, 2007
minds to wander were correlated with activity in this network. The Persistence of Inflation versus that of Real Marginal Cost in the New Keynesian Model Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Periodical:Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking (forthcoming) Abstract This note provides...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
they look at on the global rankings? Bill: There are two basic fundamental systems. One is by reputation and one is by output. What output do you measure? Usually today it is primarily research output in a...
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- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
Considering how much money is spent in the field and the advances that the US economy has made on so many other fronts, that is really shocking. Dafny: And that variation in management practice is also supported by enormous variation in View Details
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
radiologist's experience reading scans from the same customer and involving the same anatomical area was found to produce the largest increase in efficiency, with an additional 1,000 cases of cumulative experience increasing a radiologist's subsequent weekly View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
The price of output is a crucial determinant of this choice, since it affects the size of the pecuniary benefits: higher prices lead to more integration. Because tariffs increase domestic product prices, this effect provides a novel...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
one-year coaching engagement and the outputs from it, including her pre-coaching self-reflection, agreed-upon purpose and outcomes, 360 feedback, the coach’s advice to her, an in-depth coach’s final report, and Lane’s one-pager of lessons...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
preferred ways. The price of output is a crucial determinant of this choice, since it affects the size of the pecuniary benefits: higher prices lead to more integration. Because tariffs increase domestic product prices, this effect...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
lightning-fast." It would of course be impossible for one manager to do all that in a larger organization, and McElheran can't say for sure which part matters most. "Is it the flatness of the organization? Is it a process where the IT View Details
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by Maggie Starvish
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
Union is funded through consumer subscriptions to Consumer Reports, and through private grants. This model has several advantages. By directly linking its output to consumer use of its service, it provides a powerful incentive to meet...
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- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
really a misnomer to call planning strategic,” he says. Rather, most planning is an annual affair linked to the budget process, routinely taking four or five months to complete. “But sales must respond customer by customer in market time, not internal planning time....
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by Michael Blanding