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15 Dec 2023
News

The Musts of 2023

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details

26 Jan 2022
News

Making Peace with Anger

convince an employee that wasn’t performing to measure to get up to the level that we were expecting. And now, all of a sudden, I was confronted with my wife saying, “I want to get separated and divorced,” and all those tools that had always been able to View Details

11 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

likely to be seen “coming from a genuine place because this is something that is now done in this work environment versus if a manager sort of does this out of nowhere.” Ignoring the problem won’t make it go away Of course, a manager... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

play As a venture develops, McDonald suggests borrowing from others’ ideas. There are plenty of examples of companies doing this successfully: Uber drew inspiration from the carpool-match service Zimride (which became Lyft). Instagram adapted Snapchat’s stories... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

15 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'

not as idiosyncratic or unique as we once thought. You look for the same sort of reasoning you would have used for other skilled labor markets and staff,” Greenstein says. “There are HR people who are used to this. When you get into the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

higher in the future, then the price is going to start rising today. Although expectations of all sorts are important, one particular set of expectations—about the state of the overall economy and one's own future income—is especially... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Future of IT Consulting

in sorting out action plans for their various lines of business. By the end of the decade, more than 60 percent of the computer communications will be computer-to-computer.— Nolan and Bennigson Newness and complexity have been a second... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting

09 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase

working paper, Ascarza and coauthor Nicolas Padilla, a doctoral candidate at Columbia Business School, show that a statistical tool known as a deep exponential family model can effectively sort the most relevant variables and account for... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Retail; Service

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

tackle different sorts of markets or different sorts of problems.” How to boost patents by women In recent years, progress has been made toward gender parity in science, as more women enter STEM fields and... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

effort, and money to the legal issues? No. That's a good reason to hire a competent lawyer. Excellent legal talent can be retained for relatively little money up front at the early stages. It will cost much less to get it right at the beginning than to try to View Details

Keywords: by Staff

11 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

inclusively." One of the stories that I included in my book Rebel Talent was about the airline pilot Captain “Sully” Sullenberger, who lost power in both jet engines over the Hudson River shortly after taking off from New York City. He had served in the military, flown... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint

01 Feb 1999
News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

it's supposed to." Bower continues: "Theoretically, when an industry has excess capacity, prices fall and the least efficient producers can't survive." But, Bower adds, that doesn't always happen. "In many countries, for all sorts of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

31 Aug 2021
Book

Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate

power really works." In many ways, the book comes across as a sort of modern update of Machiavelli’s classic political treatise on power, but with plenty of non-Machiavellian twists. Instead of talking about how princes, plutocrats, and... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

01 Dec 1997
News

Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

Martha? First, she's a celebrity, and celebrities are often lightning rods. Second, the fact that she is focused on the home and hearth is sort of counterculture. She has the guts and the talent and the insight to take that on. People... View Details

22 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture

pool of prospective employees grows. -- The cost of selecting among many applicants is offset by cost savings as prospective employees sort themselves into and out of consideration for jobs. -- This self-selection process reduces the... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Joe Wheeler

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

database of startups and investors, to analyze collaboration patterns. The authors also sorted through press releases, news articles, and regulatory filings to augment and verify the data. Of the Crunchbase startups examined, 16... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Sep 2023
News

Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

study its internal innovation accelerator, Genesis Labs. Launched in 2017, the program sought out the sort of high-risk, high-reward projects that tend to get screened out of the typical R&D process. It succeeded in generating a lot of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

16 May 2024
News

On the Job

people knew that maybe had worked there for 20 years, and think about the new ideas that were coming to the table and sort through how they could work in the system, that’s what really got us to the next level. JH: The energy business got... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

04 Nov 2009
What Do You Think?

What is the Role of Government Vis-à-Vis Capitalism?

commits itself to democratic capitalism . Our focus should be on sorting out these tensions rather than clinging to a notion that 'free markets' are efficient (good) and 'government' is inefficient (bad)." Several commented on the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

31 Jul 2023
News

Striving for Imperfection

heat shielding. But most importantly, they’ve accepted that failures are actually part of building a space program, which is something NASA sort of didn’t accept, even though they had some. Their big rocket launch recently had what they... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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