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- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
number of key aspects of the old deal offered by companies that simply aren’t as compelling to the rising generation born after 1981 as they were to their boomer parents: full-time work in a traditional... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
ended up a casualty of both Uber and Lyft’s aggressive pricing policies. A second common mistake is the failure to build, establish, and maintain trust. Platforms by their very nature require two unfamiliar... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
Primarily interested in incentives for growth in developing countries, the researchers began their study in India, where a large portion of businesses are family-owned. But they ended up finding similar... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Alstyne Abstract Platform-mediated networks encompass several distinct types of participants, including end users, complementors, platform providers who facilitate users' access to complements, and sponsors... View Details
- 09 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 9
assessing the startup health care company's 2014 marketing plan. On December 31, 2013, Vaxess had obtained an exclusive license to a series of patents for a silk protein technology that, when added to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
Hutchison Whampoa group as an English-language broadcaster of mainly Western fare that targeted the top five percent of Asia's socioeconomic pyramid. But by the end View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home
coronavirus is changing everything we know about how to get work done. The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition Many parents are working and caring for kids at home. How can managers set expectations? Choudhury: It's a great... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
transformed life and work in the second half of the twentieth century. I chronicle the evolution of the new high-tech industries from their beginnings by the first-movers until... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
Piovesan Abstract To encourage worker productivity, offices prohibit Internet use. Consequently, many employees delay Internet activity to the end of the workday. Recent work in social psychology, however,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
obligated to take care of each other in the workplace—more so than men are obligated to take care of female employees. Anecdotally, she noted the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
faces as general manager at various stages of the organization's development—and how his style, priorities, and approach must change as the needs of the organization change. Provides an opportunity for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
market—they must demonstrate to an independent panel from the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) that a new product works better than existing options for an identifiable group of... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
conversely, the flaunting of a busy life and a dearth of leisure time. In addition, people’s relative interest in buying luxury experiences versus luxury products is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
If one thing has been made clear by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is this: The health care system in the United States (and most other nations) is not set up to respond to a large-scale medical emergency that affects tens View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
others. This chapter reviews research on how these biases manifest themselves in the core processes of organizations—that is, how people are hired, compensated, developed, and evaluated—all of which are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Moreover, there is something resembling "intelligent design" in finance, whereby regulators and legislators act in a quasidivine capacity, putting dinosaurs on life support. The danger is that such interventions in the natural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
It’s easy to understand why so many people embrace transportation network companies like Uber and the growing number of other ride-sourcing startups, which enable drivers to make money using their own vehicles. By allowing passengers to... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
organization that will execute a larger end and then endure. This connection is critical because a worthy leader wants the people whom he or she motivates to respect the organization and to serve that enterprise from such a place. This... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese