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- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
risk not only doing too much themselves but also losing these valuable employees, who can become frustrated that they aren't being challenged to build their skills and careers at the company. If You Had To Design Your Company Today With A...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
studied in other contexts as part of a larger project on innovation. One of the big problems in innovation is how to free yourself from preconceptions, to get outside your expectations and normal tendencies, so that you can create something really new, without creating...
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- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
surpluses/deficit on a sustained basis if normal adjustments through exchange rate movements work sluggish. This is a possibility that has become very real over the last few years. Export-oriented countries might get trapped in...
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by Christian Ketels
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
that Kanter calls IKIWISI (I'll know it when I see it). She compares it to improvisational theatre: you make the best judgment you can in the moment and remain prepared to adjust to whatever new conditions arise. "Personally, I hate...
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by Nick Morgan
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
waters, with asymmetric and unpredictable shocks hitting throughout the value chain. In such an interconnected and uncertain world, entire production networks are at risk of disappearing. Many companies interviewed in our project took...
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- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
their products, most demand the same from themselves. In so doing, they are at risk of letting their egos take over and letting their protective shells harden. When things go wrong—which they inevitably do—they assume the fault lies...
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by Martha Lagace
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
Muller III, and Anywhere (Siko) Sikochi Abstract—This study examines whether rating agencies assign more stringent and accurate rating adjustments for issuers with higher default risk and whether this leads...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Tech Standards By: Lerner, Josh, and Jean Tirole Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://www.sciencemag.org/content/343/6174/972.figures-only August 2013 Management Science Observation Bias: The Impact of Demand Censoring on Newsvendor Level and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
investment flow adjustment costs in the developing economy. We calibrate the model to match the Mexico-U.S. trade and FDI flows. The model is able to explain (1) why U.S. shocks have a larger effect on Mexico than in the U.S. and hence...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
Management (forthcoming) Abstract Consumers who buy a product intending to use an accompanying mail-in rebate often do not redeem the rebate. To explain this behavior, we argue that consumers use an anchoring and adjustment approach to...
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system...
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- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
predicted ratings and rating adjustments. These results, however, weaken when incumbent rating agencies face increased competition from other rating agencies. Together, these findings suggest that credit rating agencies strategically View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
trust was no doubt engendered in an earlier day when defined benefit (DB) pension plans were offered by lifelong employers like IBM and General Motors. Today, that system is all but extinct. Merton explains that employers underestimated the cost and View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
pharmaceutical sales teams in Belgium and sports teams in Canada. These results suggest that a minor adjustment to employee bonuses-shifting the focus from the self to others-can produce measurable benefits for employees and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
low-quality ad-sponsored competitor. In addition to competing through adjustments of tactical variables such as price or the number of ads a product carries, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider...
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Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
good judgment—good from whose perspective?" Few questioned that good judgment can be acquired, possibly at some risk and cost of mistakes. This still leaves us with the question of whether it can be taught. (Michael Hogan and Al...
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by Jim Heskett
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a...
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- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
nearly sinking CNET by diverting essential resources into Snap!, "Know your limits. Only enter markets where you have a strong competitive advantage. Don't ever risk your core, unless you have to." "Singularity of...
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by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
suddenly erupt in a full-blown crisis. The CCA approach is well-suited to capturing such "non-linearities" and to quantifying the effects of asset-liability mismatches within and across institutions. Risk View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Property), lured by the prospect of exciting careers in a hot market. But the question arises: After several boom years, is commercial real estate ripe for another fall? I don't see risks that you would associate with a bubble.—Stephen...
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