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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
is best positioned to manage its own internal conflicts, often by pressing for deal terms that will overcome internal objections and by effectively "selling" the agreement to key constituencies. Far less frequently have analysts... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Developing the Global Leader
how complex it can be to do business around the world. The capacity to simultaneously develop a global and local perspective. "This is much easier said than done," George says. "And it's almost impossible to achieve without a great View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
failures of education and public health, state capitalism, radical movements and terrorism, and pandemics. The Eleventh Disruptor The business leaders also identified an eleventh disruptor: the inadequacy of existing government and multilateral institutions to View Details
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
recency) but are more cautious (positive recency). Paper not available Learning and Equilibrium As Useful Approximations: Accuracy of Prediction on Randomly Selected Constant Sum Games Author:Ido Erev, Alvin E. Roth, Robert L. Slonim, and Greg Barron. Abstract There is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
as they must try to achieve two goals simultaneously: protecting their citizens by being directive, and punitive towards rule-breakers; and assembling and relying on the right knowledge to deal with this pandemic threat. This calls for... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
state-owned construction company strike one deal after another in South Carolina despite political backlash and in New York where well-established competitors dominate? The case examines the U.S. market entry strategy of the CSCEC,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
dynamics that are less investment-oriented than a traditional deal and more oriented toward indirect tools to make money." The Payoff Sometimes the strategies software companies employ are so complex that it isn't immediately evident... View Details
- 04 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?
more sober view of the task of leading adaptive change (driven by the people with the problem) as opposed to technical change (driven by authority). They address, for example, the "faces of danger" (marginalization, diversion, attack, and seduction) and ways... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
groups across industries. The most common KPIs are closed deals and salesperson performance against quota, which, on average, firms measure monthly. But a closed deal is an outcome and lagging indicator.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
quest for the Next Big Thing. The problem with corporate entrepreneurship, of course, has been that the entrepreneur must deal with the challenges of securing resources and support within an organization focused on operations that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
living in areas of the US that lost more European immigrants because of the laws’ restrictions didn’t benefit economically. If anything, natives’ employment in immigrant-intensive sectors, such as mining, declined more in areas that lost more immigrants because of the... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
opportunities and substantial returns on investment of the kind suggested by some are years, perhaps even decades, away. It will require not only caution but also a great deal of patience as barriers to economic development are lowered.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
genome, Goldberg has focused his most recent efforts on explaining the impact of this revolutionary discovery on the agribusiness system. "All industries that deal with living things or organic compounds will have a common language... View Details
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
the amount of false information flowing on their platforms; the specter of the January 6, 2021, attack on Congress hangs heavy over the debate. But Kominers and Shapiro say the findings go beyond this year’s elections and have far-reaching implications for businesses... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
deals (investors, employees, suppliers, and so on), Sahlman has concluded that the proper way to analyze any decision is to begin looking at what can go wrong, then at what can go right, and what decisions can maximize the reward-risk... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
public companies to become targets for private equity-backed, take-private transactions. We consider the characteristics of 483 private equity-backed deals in the 2000-2007 period relative to public companies and find that, in addition to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2021
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?
load multiplied as soon as we started formulating” a plan to cope with the pandemic. He, along with Mark Tover, fears the added burnout associated with the job. This raises the questions of whether middle managers will experience increased burnout in the coming months... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
verify their gut with a more quantitative analysis. What type of investor are you? Neither approach is necessarily better, says Huang. Rather, both are investors’ ways of managing and rationalizing risk. Checklist investors deal with... View Details
- 05 Sep 2008
- What Do You Think?
Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?
that it: (1) is time consuming. (2) requires of students a great deal of synthesis of many individual decision making situations to form generalizations. (3) is an imperfect way of teaching quantitative techniques. (4) is based on the... View Details
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
a second publisher seeking to close the deal was "shadowing" Grand Central's every move and a preemptive offer of well over a million dollars would be required to secure the acquisition—an exceedingly high amount for a book by a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne