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  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

the institute's culture, which had previously allowed faculty scientists complete autonomy over their research. Center leaders are required to develop a business plan, adhere to agreed-upon performance metrics, and undergo regular... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

technologies, demographic shifts, and consumption trends. They can't develop truly global organizations that operate effortlessly across borders. And they find it tough to ensure that their people adhere to values and ethics. The world... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

adherence and non-adherence, thereby avoiding the complete abandonment of the current system. Herding, Social Preferences and (Non-)Conformity Authors:Luca Corazzini and Ben Greiner Periodical:Economics Letters (forthcoming) Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

challenging the modern supermarkets. Since its founding in 1995, BIM has adhered to a business model based on a relentless focus on costs and operational efficiency, built on private labels and an unswerving limit on SKUs. Unprecedented... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jul 2008
  • Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

co-pays and deductibles on essential medications for chronic conditions can reduce adherence to therapy, leading to expensive hospitalizations, complications, and the like. Here, so-called consumer-driven health plans not only failed to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health
  • 17 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 17, 2008

of management constitute the field organization: store, district, regional, and divisional heads. All these managers are responsible for meeting targets set by corporate headquarters and implementing strategy. To do so, they adhere to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

were asking, 'What standards are we supposed to be adhering to?' " Paine recalls, adding that she heard the same question from executives who, at the time, were facing pressures from many external groups to follow various codes of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

Christianity-monotheistic religions whose adherents have so often clashed-the potential unifying power of this conception has attracted a remarkable range of supporters from around the world as well as considerable media interest. From a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

organizations vary. Culturally tight organizations have stricter social norms and rules of conduct, and people tend to adhere to them more strictly. There is also a greater appreciation of order, a dislike of deviance, and a greater... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 May 2020
  • In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

behavior change. This might be because you need to engage in the desired behavior many times before it sticks as habit. With COVID-19, we’re going through an extended period of heightened adherence to healthy hygiene behaviors such as... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

passes through some of the world's most revered cultural, historical, and holy sites, ending in the city of Hebron/Al-Khalil at the tomb of Abraham. With Abraham as a venerated patriarchal figure for Islam, Judaism, and Christianity—monotheistic religions whose View Details
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

pervasive in the China business context characterized by heavy reliance on personal relationships or guanxi, it went against the founding principles of CDG-professionalism and service quality. Yang had to decide where to draw the line between View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

negotiations regularly culminated with the seller going from buyer to buyer extracting successively higher prices. The students adhered to the letter of my rules, but the auctions looked a lot like negotiations, and the negotiations... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 24 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

firms in an industry adhere to. For example, the dominant design in automobiles today has a gasoline engine, four wheels with rubber tires, a steering wheel, a closed body, and automatic transmission. Designers may change the attributes... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2171497 Reinforcing Regulatory Regimes: How States, Civil Society, and Codes of Conduct Promote Adherence to Global Labor Standards Authors:Michael W. Toffel, Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract In... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

Christianity—monotheistic religions whose adherents have so often clashed—the potential unifying power of this conception has attracted a remarkable range of supporters from around the world. From a notion crystallized at Harvard in 2004,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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