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- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
Washington and Manhattan. On-the-ground presence would have provided invaluable local intelligence on fast-changing currents of opinion. Beyond broad polling that indicated 70 percent support for the new headquarters, it is not clear...
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- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
inclusive design choices in a forthcoming article in the journal Marketing Intelligence Review. What follows is a condensed version: Build awareness. Digital platform builders must recognize how their design choices and algorithms can...
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- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
intelligent choices of where they think their markets are, and how much money to spend at an early stage in order to insure that the brand is available in those markets. #4: Disclosing inventions without a nondisclosure agreement, or...
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- 30 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date
intelligent as well.” The research, published in the paper It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask: Question-Asking Increases Liking, examined data from online chats and face-to-face speed dating conversations. In addition to Brooks, the coauthors were...
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by Rachel Layne
- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
you’re not accustomed to reflection, it might feel weird, like you’re wasting time. But you would be wrong. In fact, reflection helps leaders make better decisions faster. Leaders must constantly assess a dynamic environment to gain contextual View Details
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by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
- 09 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Climate Goals, Housing Policy, and Corporate R&D Collide, Social Good Can Emerge
For almost four years, Omar Asensio and his colleagues have been studying the impact of federal energy programs on low-income neighborhoods. The intersection of technology—artificial intelligence, in particular—and public policy has long been an area of focus for...
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by Glen Justice
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
the customer would do in the future. As with other artificial intelligence tools, the drawback to this technology is that the model acts as a sort of black box, so researchers can’t determine the exact factors that trigger predictions....
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- 30 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies
borders of modern-day nations with the cultures and civilizations of the ancient time periods, the team used maps from the 2006 edition of The World Factbook, published by the Central Intelligence Agency.) There appeared to be no...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
themselves more highly on career-related characteristics like intelligence and competence. More strongly associate leadership with women. Increasing the number of women case protagonists that students encounter is an evidence-based...
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by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
People make snap judgments all the time. That woman in the sharp business suit must be intelligent and successful; the driver who just cut me off is a rude jerk. These instant assessments, when we attribute a person's behavior to innate...
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- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
does (not) mean we have the tools to understand what it is saying. Judgment is still crucial ." Debra Bordignon put an interesting twist on the issue, saying, "Where systems, tools, and artificial intelligence reach their...
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by James Heskett
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
travel industry. People eager to shake off their COVID-19 cabin fever are gearing up to take vacations, raising Airbnb bookings by 52 percent last quarter from a year earlier. Harnessing artificial intelligence to reduce racial economic...
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- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
the class toward her personal passion, precision medicine. “Health care is rife with examples like these—and such applications of big data will only expand over the coming years. I spend a lot of time thinking about questions like, How will artificial View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
startups that might not see the same flood of resumes as Google or Facebook but nevertheless have very specific qualifications in the workers they are seeking to hire. “If I’m a small data science startup, I may need someone who knows a particular type of artificial...
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- 29 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)
down, his intelligence dims and his memory becomes less quick, so that he risks committing many errors in his business.” “In a sense, these are very early concepts of corporate social responsibility,” says Harvard Business School...
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by Julia Hanna
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
can all be defused. Confusion Some idea-killing questions and concerns muddle the conversation with irrelevant facts, convoluted logic, or so many alternatives that it is impossible to have the clear and intelligent dialog that builds...
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by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
essentially use history as a research tool to understand why some succeeded on an ongoing basis and others failed. Q: What do you mean by the term "strategic intelligence," and why is it so important? A: I define strategic View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
enthusiasm you may have for the word itself. Now the topic has been thrust into our everyday lives with disclosures, or leaks, of alleged US secret intelligence information by Edward Snowdon. Increasingly, we are asking ourselves...
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by James Heskett
- 04 Nov 2015
- What Do You Think?
Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?
the social sensitivity factor within the team” (Julia); and “Emotional intelligence could be a factor... Women tend to have more of it than men, through nurturing, but it seems that men can learn it.” (Paul B). Lest we became too involved...
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by James Heskett
- 01 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?
This would require greater promotion of the site to creators of content, some of whom were raising issues about their split of the revenue. It also required a rewrite of the recommendation algorithm that led viewers to related videos, thus building engagement....
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