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- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
August, Starbucks Wi-Fi traffic has jumped 450 percent, Hostin said, with most usage in the afternoon and evening. Another benefit: Wi-Fi users stay in the store longer than the non-connected customer, although some people sit in their View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
and downtown Beijing, and during the trip we saw maybe one other car every five minutes or so.” Fast-forward 37 years, and that same roadway is 10-lanes wide and jammed with traffic from 7:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night. During...
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by Deborah Blagg
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
put in place strategies to drive prosperity in the regions. In addition, its policy has also focused on a few strong industries, such as pharmaceuticals, aerospace, and car manufacturing, while ignoring that the broader economy that has...
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by Michael Blanding
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
United States—which is comparable to the number of fatalities resulting from car accidents. Current gun-purchase laws in most states allow the buyer to take home a firearm immediately after completion of an instant background check, which...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
skilled nursing facilities for their recovery, where they could learn how to walk, climb stairs, and get into a car with their new knee or hip. In other hospitals, however, those skills were discussed in a 30- to 60-minute conversation in...
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- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
Super Bowl Sunday is sure to bring the usual barrage of clever soda, beer, and car ads featuring everyone from Vegas showgirls selling Coca-Cola to pop celebrity Psy charming us to buy pistachios Gangnam-style. But at a whopping $3.7...
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- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
where you sometimes see more camel and donkey carts (now there's green energy!) than autos parked outside. India's 300-million-strong middle class is hungering for consumer goods and decent homes. Despite the lack of infrastructure, this year 10 million View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
that the wounds he received from a car bomb in Iraq have left him permanently blinded? On April 6, 2005, Lieutenant Scotty Smiley was grievously wounded by a suicide bomber while leading his infantry platoon during a combat patrol in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
of him and his company. But eventually, when sales of his breakthrough, no-frills Model T began to flag because car buyers became interested in style, not just functionality, Ford refused to face facts. He denied that the world had moved...
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- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
let people broadcast their personal values the way a bumper sticker on the back of a car does." CONCEPT: Enable the viewer to showcase a badge of honor and relate to tribes. EXAMPLE: Fiat's rapping mommy. Last December, Fiat UK released...
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- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
counterproductive response in many of us: “If the car is spinning out of control, it grips our jugular of emotion and makes this negative feeling course through our veins. We feel deflated and victimized,” he said. “We look in the mirror...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
medium's effectiveness will derive more from its abundance of selectable information than from its ability to stir viewer emotions. A consumer can now order a new car online, for instance, selecting from a lengthy menu of carefully...
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
electronic car company founded and led by Elon Musk. Wall Street analysts are wildly divided on the future growth prospects for this company, and analysts’ one year share price targets range from $160 to $500. The case explores in detail...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
idiosyncratic rituals. One woman who lost a spouse years ago told Norton, “I washed his car every week as he used to do.” “There’s no ancient text to say you should wash someone’s car,” Norton says. “But, by doing something personally...
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by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
and health care. For example, all aspects of travel (e.g. airports, flights, hotels, car hire, rebooking, monitoring payments, etc.) can be integrated into a single stream of activity that not only centers on individual support, but that...
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by Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
demand information that the dealer obtains through the initial assessment and subsequent learning in the selling process. With the dealer's average net profit per car in the estimation sample being around $1150, the initial assessment is...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
officials used its science capabilities to develop components for solar panels and are now working on materials for cars that make them safer and more efficient. "Dow is using its science background to address fundamental issues and...
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- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
potential US car buyers to have mixed feelings about the brand, given that it has received taxpayer support to survive during the financial crisis. On the international front, GM is less saddled with negative perceptions, especially in...
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- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
automatic transmission of a car or a complex computer chip than what we used even a few years ago. You don’t need a generation of experience anymore; design and production are getting democratized and more accessible through the...
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- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
in an economy like this, such as car dealerships, for instance, which have closed across the country. And, of course, customers are likely to negotiate for better terms. Q: What are you working on now? A: I'm writing a history of the...
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