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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
informing and connecting the buyers, users and sellers of technology. One of CNET Networks' first employees and senior executives, with past responsibilities including COO, CFO and Vice Chairman, Bonnie assumed his current role in 2000. The next year, he directed the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
Abstract— The IBM PC was the first digital computer platform that was open by as a matter of strategy, not necessity. The purpose of this chapter is to understand the IBM PC as a technical system and set of organization choices in light... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
writers are excluded from the market for earlier-stage ideas, restricting their choices to developing the idea fully or abandoning it; writers who have a choice select better ideas to sell at a later stage... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
or incentives, but a model of innovation that too often fragments efforts by treatment modality (drugs, devices, diagnostics, and clinical treatment). We may improve individual technologies of health care, but fail to provide integrated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
health care professionals, physicians are challenged to minimize the likelihood of errors that could harm patients while simultaneously making efforts to understand the causes of illnesses and develop better ways to prevent, treat, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
focuses on a European private equity firm-Ardian-and the process it uses to sell one of its portfolio companies and the decisions around that sale. Key issues include the choice of an auction or acceptance of a preemptive bid, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
shantytowns. But in an effort to grow her organization and help more people, she eventually began courting private donors, public authorities, and the general public. By 2016, her nonprofit had helped 70,000 people. As her own position of... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 02 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving
base and brand clout. Restaurants also discovered the benefits of operating multiple virtual restaurants: They gained more visibility on food delivery apps at little additional cost or effort to them. Meanwhile, cloud kitchen operators... View Details
- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
designs in response to feedback, Gross had a better understanding of the incentives driving their creative choices and what spurred them to try out new ideas. “Think of them as having a choice between three... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
and raises questions facing key decision makers at the time. The cases ask readers to weigh choices and consequences and wrestle with momentous decisions, provoking them to rethink which factors made the difference between constructive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
management should have” first sought to have the tariffs on motorcycles to the EU removed, but failing that: “restated HOG commitment to American manufacturing of its products adding that if (the) tariff stands HOG will have no choice but... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
securitization of other asset classes because securitized loans are fractions of syndicated loans. Therefore, mechanisms used to align incentives in a lending syndicate are likely to reduce adverse selection in the choice of CLO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?
impact, the incentive model will reward the farmers leading the cooperative on sustainable dairy production. In parallel, Arla HQ is offering technical assistance and support for farmers, sharing resources and best practices so that farmers can make informed, empowered... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these workers are 1) what guidance to deliver and 2) what kind of training (if any) to provide. We examine these choices in the context of mobile money platforms—systems that allow... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
another's, or peer pressure to work on behalf of the larger group. All of those forms of incentive influence individual decisions, which are driven by expectations of future outcomes. “We make choices in anticipation of what the... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
products, but they became worldwide brands because of the capabilities of Unilever. Their success rested on the choices made on strategy and organization, on the recruitment and development of managers, on the allocation of spending... View Details
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By: Vincent Pons
Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.
He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
increasingly brought to the market by networks of firms, each focused on only specific pieces of the overall puzzle. Competition takes place both between competing platforms and between products that build on top of these platforms. Managers must therefore make... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
http://bit.ly/BuySocialzStrategyBook August 2013 Marketing Letters Structural Models of Complementary Choices By: Berry, Steven, Ahmed Khwaja, Vineet Kumar, Andres Musalem, Kenneth C. Wilbur, Greg Allenby, Bharat Anand, et al.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
short-run orders as they continued to expand the business. The 2008 recession forced them to reexamine all aspects of the business, and it retained profitability after painful cutbacks in the organization. To continue their growth into the next decade, they are faced... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel