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- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
should be done? Some thought that, quite simply, bad things happen on occasion and that if governments didn't get in the way too much, things would sort themselves out. Others were worried that governments would intervene with populist... View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?
do you control an epidemic that is sexually transmitted?" he asked the group. "People have suggested all sorts of things," some fairly outlandish. One suggestion he recalled was simply encouraging people to have sex less... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
identity crisis of sorts because their jobs and their family roles no longer allow for the authoritative (some would say patriarchal) roles of the past. To compensate for this felt emasculation on the work and home fronts, men are now... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
steadily look to the US for some sort of leadership” (Phillippe Gouamba). Actions by the Federal Reserve appeared to weigh-in more heavily than other factors in the thinking of several respondents. Keckjr_showme’s commented, “To be as... View Details
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
Parsons. "If one is paid only on the profits of his division, then he has incentive to poach people from another division. You don't want that." Within the Methodist church, at least, there is a check on this sort of behavior:... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
particularly balancing security interests with economic interests to avoid provoking precisely the sort of damaging confrontation that we would like to avoid. Recovering the US business community’s voice in the legislative and regulative... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
in this organization in whether or not employees are selected via channels that are likely to sort on the alignment of their preferences with organizational objectives. I find that employees selected through such channels are more likely... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
historically had consequence and those that contemporary scholars have claimed to have had consequence is truly staggering. If we want anything like a realistic idea of how the world got where it is this has to be remedied. “Our debates should be over what View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
its neighboring countries. Now take a country like South Africa where the domestic corporate scene is actually quite developed and creative, exporting ideas, exporting managers to the multinationals who work there. What sort of foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
to using funds to repair the broken infrastructure. Since sizeable commitments of this sort can further exacerbate the fiscal deficit, already high, it can worsen an already weak fiscal situation. As Indians say, we're on a sticky wicket,... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
threat of increased service competition," says Campbell. Differences Across Markets Customers and companies trade off between price and service. "Every customer has his or her own level of service sensitivity," says Buell. "There's a View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
fundamental reason why we use theory here is that we’re trying to sort out all the possible rules you could ever try to use,” says Shapiro. “We’re reasoning about policies that have never been tested.” One of the first findings was that... View Details
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
deliberate, using higher cognitive processing. While we might be likely to relegate gut feel to Type 1 thinking, Huang has found that what investors mean by the term is actually a combination of Type 1 and Type 2 decision making. “When people are making these View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
Improve Firm Value? Evidence from the Business Roundtable Challenge. "The delay was a big surprise," says Bo Becker, who coauthored the paper with colleagues Daniel B. Bergstresser and Guhan Subramanian. "Nobody thought the case had much merit. But all... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
after a merger." Tony Eckel said, "Properly applied, they are investments in the continuity and stability of the organization." Some were vehement in their opposition. "I view a retention bonus as a sort of blackmail... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
Media Wise That sort of approach isn't possible in today's media-rich world—and probably wouldn't be very effective anyway. "It's more like the Vietnam War now," Deighton continues. "The ideas have to belong to the people you're... View Details
- 04 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks
effectively rewire some of the links in the network," says Stuart. "That sort of heated environment creates a rush of investment activity that increases the number of participants hoping to quickly take a company public. It... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
that is, top management's connections to major biotech firms. In contrast, upstream social capital-team members' ties to important research institutions-had no impact at all on the new organization's success. "In this industry," Higgins theorizes, "these... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
development has never been more urgent. Companies of all sorts realize that to survive in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment, they need different leadership skills and organizational capabilities from those... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
afraid of what's to come and pleading with God to let him off the hook because he says, "I have no courage, I am weak, and I want to get out of here. I just can't do this." Kenny: You mention his father, what was his childhood life like? What were the View Details