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- 17 Jun 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Excellence Comes From Saying No
and harder and harder. To break out of that you don't need any more capability, but you do need enormous courage to say, if I am going to be really good at something, I am going to be bad at something else. If I am going to compete on View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault
should be honest when answering these questions if they want to figure out how to fix a job. Their answers will vary from job to job and organization to organization, depending largely on the goals of a particular position in relation to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?
more union workers experienced a 1.5 percent drop in wages over the same period—even though in both cases employment numbers remained unchanged. At firms with unions, the company negotiates with union representatives first to create a View Details
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by Avery Forman
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
profits of competing platforms in a market of fixed size are decreasing in the fraction of sophisticated users. When market expansion is introduced, the fraction of sophisticated users that maximizes competing platforms' profits may be...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
more than it charged light users. The original basis for pricing telephone service, including both a fixed monthly charge and a usage charge, represents the same kind of thinking. The person who chose to price advertising services as 15...
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by Benson P. Shapiro
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
who don’t realize there is a cost for Facebook’s “free” service. Miki Saxon recalled that “Tim Cook once said, ‘If it’s free, then you are the product.’ It seems that Americans are just waking up to that fact ” Malcolm Harper commented,...
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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
achieving the complete elimination of all waste in pursuit of the most efficient methods.” The system is based on two principles: automation with a human touch, and each process producing only what is needed for the next process in a continuous flow. According to...
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- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
one’s pre-tenure years when the opportunity cost of time seems especially high,” he writes. Colleague David A. Moss concurs. “The first priority should always be to identify truly important problems to work on,” says Moss, the Paul Whiton...
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
not an option, this process helped companies share implementation costs and leverage each other’s competencies to discover new ways of doing things. Some companies took more extreme measures to support their ecosystem, for example...
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- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
medicine. They do not know if they received good value for the money. Partially as a result of this lack of transparency, increases in employers’ health care costs have outstripped inflation and workers’ wage increases for decades....
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- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
disclosed and a fix was available, the research says. Is it all about costs? The authors found evidence that one of the main drivers of the delays are the costs associated with software updates, both in...
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- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
clients' campaigns. This practice was institutionalized by an arrangement known as the "recognition system" between agencies and publishers, and administered by a set of trade associations. Among other things, the system supported standards for granting of credit to...
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- 22 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Why You Are Unhappy at Work
feeling. What can be done to improve the office environment? Research by Harvard Business School professors suggests these problems are not only common—but solvable. Here are some of our most insightful stories about unmotivated employees and what can be done for them....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
your developers are following secure coding and testing practices. Those who aren't may be costing your company large sums of money. One multinational database supplier estimates that releasing a major patch (a View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
prices across the board, instituting price-match policies with online retailers, or accepting that they will lose sales to customers who are showrooming. In all of these circumstances, either because of price reductions or fixed View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
to remedy the information-sharing glut that is slowing health care innovation and harming patient care, according to panelists discussing "Digital Health: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation" at the Digital Initiative Summit held March 30. This problem will not...
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- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
direct sales? Should I break out individual costs on a price tag? How Can Marketing Better Align With Corporate Strategy? Fixing the Marketing—CEO Disconnect In many companies, the marketing function has...
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- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
spread the high fixed costs of development and commercialization over their high sales volumes.” Those larger companies also may have benefitted from brand reputation, which could see customers flock to...
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- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
ways that are often invisible. A provocative new book by economists Adam B. Jaffe and Josh Lerner describes what's wrong, but shines a light on ways to fix the system, too. Their book, Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent...
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by Ann Cullen
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
the importance of building in opportunities to measure the costs and benefits. "A skeptic of regulation would say that SOX wasn't needed at all, that the system would have fixed itself," he...
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