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- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
of control), (iii) increase DM total and performance-based pay. The results are generally consistent with the explanation that firms redesign their organizations through a set of complementary choices in response to changes in their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
thought about this. For the asynchronous work, we’ve used our own SaaS product, Stack Overflow for Teams, which allows us to break down silos, store evergreen knowledge internally and share information on the latest products.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
delegating authority to them.” Currently a marketing manager at General Mills, Sundy has a long-term goal: He’d like to become a member of the U.S. Senate, “to influence public policy and make a real contribution to society.” — GE Martín... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
bonds generates a crowding out of corporate lending. For a given domestic firm, new debt is less likely to be a loan—i.e., the loan supply contracts—when local banks have purchased more domestic sovereign debt and when that debt is risky... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
giant and added to his growing expertise in what it takes to “compete for a share of the entertainment hour” — a talent his beloved hometown baseball team, in dire economic straits back in San Francisco, sorely needed. Bye-Bye Giants Top: Trophy time: Giants lead owner... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
microorganisms use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to photosynthesize sugar, proteins, and fat—the latter in the form of an oil that can replace fossil fuels in applications where batteries either can’t store enough power or are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
mind-set and will be expected to offer your CEO deep insights on key business decisions. This article explores those developments in more detail and explains other findings about the latest requirements in each of seven C-level jobs: CIO, chief marketing and sales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
maintaining a high level of exploration. Solutions improved most on rounds with social influence after a period of separation. We also show that storing subjects’ best solutions so that they could be reloaded and possibly modified in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
necessary rigor and protocol to E Ink’s manufacturing efforts. And a new commitment to employee training resulted in E Ink University, an effort subsidized by a Massachusetts state grant that offered courses in Six Sigma, lean manufacturing, and project management.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
paying her salespeople on commission, she offered generous wages and team-based bonuses. Moreover, her salespeople were instructed to encourage customers to test products and to help them find the best products for their skin types, not... View Details
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
beauty retail: fruit of the month meets Sephora, meets Allure.com. It is a monthly box filled with a curated assortment of the hottest samples from high-end beauty brands. The samples are paired with a website that includes an online magazine and View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
Lead Times Authors:Santiago Kraiselburd, Richard Pibernik, and Ananth Raman Publication:Production and Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract It is generally a well acknowledged fact that, ceteris paribus, reducing the lead times... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
and complementary effects across channels to provide sales forecasting, promotion planning, and customer relationship management guidance to multichannel managers. We investigate three contingencies in a sales analysis of a leading U.S. retailer who adds a new retail... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
the increasing role of technology (digital and mobile) as well as the use by consumers of alternative signals of status, such as wearing less prominently branded apparel, being less conformist (e.g., entering a luxury store in a casual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
These practices can generate substantial revenues for firms, and while price discrimination, targeted ads, and information sharing need not be detrimental to welfare, consumers are generally uncomfortable... View Details
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
she befriended the descendants of coffee entrepreneurs, interviewed local historians, and pored over old documents in the backrooms of rural municipal buildings. Click on image to view slideshowProduction Zones and Collection Points for Coffee in Chiapas" by Karl... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
Stephen A. Greyser Abstract—When a Major League Baseball club signs a Japanese star player, it obviously tries to commercialize its investment in the player. The initial focus is on home attendance (ticket sales) and television audiences, plus View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
experiment in which they showed a group of graduate students four laptop bags and had them choose which one they liked the best. All four bags were similar—same price, same color, generally the same quality—but each had different... View Details
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
information, we couldn't have accessed it effectively anyway. Email systems were not widely available, let alone mobile devices with capacity to access the data. Now the capacity to store and access information through cloud computing is... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
marketers as "post-purchase dissonance" and "buyer's regret." He maintains that increasingly these are contributors to depression. Catherine Getches, who asks "whatever happened to the generic aisle" in... View Details