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29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

tourism, and potentially resource extraction from places like the moon and asteroids. In many ways, those ideas seem very sci-fi. But technology is well-developed for several of them, and it’s more about finding the right business cases.... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

motivated by the positive reputational effects of making what is morally the right choice, and the potential negative effects of turning a blind eye. Practical steps employers can take to shield high-risk employees include: extending the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

pandemic has had many tragic consequences, one potential positive side effect is that it may lead to lasting improvements in these healthy hygiene behaviors. Leslie K. John (@lesliekjohn) is a Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

those suppliers move downstream, potentially into competing with you, as they struggle to earn some kind of return? If your inputs are all becoming commodities and you don’t have a lot of differentiating complimentary assets as part of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

31 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 31

interactions reduce inefficiencies from information asymmetry. Second, banks price loans to cross-sell other fee business. These effects are additive. A one standard deviation increase in both bank relationship strength and cross-selling View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

In the process, he shows how organizations can best equip themselves to take advantage of potential sources of competitive advantage that arise in the global setting. In International Finance: A Casebook, Desai provides case studies on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

29 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

PublicationsForeign Direct Investment and Growth: On the Role of Complementarities, the Search for Mechanisms, and the Potential for Linkages Authors:Alfaro, Laura, and Matthew Johnson Publication:Encyclopedia of Financial Globalization... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Feb 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?

the short list of potential character flaws.”She also recommended using a technique called values profiling in hiring imposters. In hiring, should we give self-confidence a greater weight than humility? What do you think? Original Article... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 May 2010
Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

and capacity utilization is high. But we suspect that a third and potentially quite strong effect is the uncertainty that is created by government involvement. Q: These findings present something of a dilemma for public policymakers who... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

Ferri, on leave as a visiting assistant professor of accounting at NYU's Stern School of Business, sees a number of avenues for future research on executive compensation, including its influence on risk-taking and the effects of regulation and disclosure regimes on... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

02 May 2005
What Do You Think?

Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?

the time, I bet he would have spent significant time on the online underground." Fernando Polo dismissed the potential pitfalls of bias caused by listening only to outspoken users of the Internet by saying, "Excuses such as... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

people likely contracted the virus several days (and up to two weeks) before showing symptoms and, thus, would have been in contact with other people (solid line in Figure 1), unknowingly spreading the virus. Quarantining an infected person after reactive testing only... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

13 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

government as their partner because government has the potential to provide scale and permanence. But the problem is that you also need efficacy and efficiency, and the constancy of both. And for many reasons the public sector is not very... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

all levels is cutting programs. How will this affect the evolution of performance management? Morino: Relatively speaking, there's been remarkable progress in the nonprofit sector in the area of performance management, but the potential... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

platform businesses. We have five major themes in the book: 1) The world’s most valuable companies are all platforms, in part because platforms have network effects, with the potential for a winner-take-all or winner-take-most outcome. 2)... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

of legal systems. Many of the arguments have been theoretically, rather than empirically, informed. The subject of "capitalism," too, which is thriving in American graduate history programs, appears to have the potential to... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

enormous collective negotiating power with respect to keystones. The same mobility that allows them to escape devastating technological transitions allows them to potentially "leave" a keystone that is trying to extract too much... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

first day talking to the global partner and reviewing objectives. The next day, they take cars and translators to interview potential customers. If all goes well, they'll generate insights like those students had about laptops in China.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

30 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

of plant-level data provides evidence of capital deepening and a decline in total factor productivity following the introduction of wrongful-discharge protections. This last result is potentially quite important, suggesting that mandated... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

years or, more often, 10 years. Researchers can’t observe the potential immediate adjustment costs faced by native workers, such as temporarily lower wages or higher unemployment. It’s thus impossible to conclude that immigration has no... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

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