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- 20 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 20, 2007
business practices with political savvy and a pioneering spirit, J.R.D Tata is remembered as one of India's most important and influential business leaders. Tata is an example of a 20th century business leader who applied contextual intelligence to a variety of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
element of structure and control during an uncertain time. The fact that many of the types of exercises mentioned were repetitive and contemplative in nature suggests that this may have been a quality the CEOs sought out, consciously or... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
platforms. We explore this "rating aggregation problem" and offer a structural approach to solving it, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in stringency and accuracy, (2) reviewers to be influenced by existing reviews, and (3)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
But technology has changed all that. “These always-on technologies mean that we’re always in constant interaction with others. We wanted to see if that is a good thing.” They spent a year compiling data from 600 small groups, running... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 05 Sep 2008
- What Do You Think?
Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?
conviction," and foster the realization "that life is filled with ambiguity." Tony Prehn pointed out that "The case study method ... is also an organic learning tool that updates itself as business environments and contexts View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
job machine started sputtering around 2000. There's something structural here, because it started before the recent downturn. Moreover, we and others discovered that virtually all the net new jobs created over the last decade were in... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
different functions, divisions, and cultures. Several project management principles-scoping out the challenge, structuring the boundaries, and sorting tasks for execution-help leaders facilitate effective teaming. Leaders can also foster... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
the early 1990s, but to reposition the company to lead the industry. The powerful lesson from the IBM story is that innovation is not a side business to running the real business. Innovation is the business. Breakthrough innovations that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American business education over the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
democratize information and change the way that stocks are traded, threatening the industry's product and business model. There were upheavals and stagnation in established core financial markets such as the U.S., Japan, and Western... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
diverged from their American counterparts in using public relations strategies not only to contain fallout from criticism, but also as opportunities for changes in corporate culture aimed at promoting a positive bond with consumers based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
Influences on Megachurch Pastors is an early-stage paper that looks at how leaders maintain the values of their institutions even as their industries rapidly change around them. Using the example of pastors who oversee enormous churches,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
Over the past decade, socially-focused websites have attracted hundreds of millions of users and changed the social fabric in fundamental ways. The likes of eHarmony and Match.com enable us meet new people. Platforms including Facebook,... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
simple steps that don't require long cycles of implementation." In his remarks, Paul Deninger of Broadview examined some of the forces of change at work in manufacturing today, including an influx of communications technologies,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
of influence. With this in mind, the paper seeks to achieve five objectives: (1) Define the domain of psychological influence as consisting of those tactics which do not require the influencer to change the economic or View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies and structures of developed economies. The growing literature on the business history of emerging markets... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
support the creation of highly differentiated products. It also deals with issues of change in an already successful context, and of managing highly creative staff who are vital to a company's business model. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
return-regression R2 and 16% worse in measurement error variance; firms choosing specific peers only modestly underperform. Structural estimates suggest that, absent frictions, the underperformance of index-based benchmarks imply a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 31, 2007
small cell therapy start-up in Cambridge, Mass. If proven successful, Pervasis' product, Vascugel, could change the way vascular disease is treated and have a major impact in a large and underserved population. However, Vascugel had not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace