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10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

retail asset productivity will not recover anytime soon. The Internet has created a daunting situation for category killers, one that will eventually impact almost all of retail. The focus that made category... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

04 May 2021
Book

Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

treasuring relationships through unconditional love, infinite support, and the constant fostering of growth, to watching colleagues grow beyond their own expectations by helping them do new things and take... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

13 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

May 2017 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity By: Akcigit, Ufuk, John Grigsby, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—We build on the analysis in Akcigit, Grigsby, and Nicholas (2017) by using... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Interviews - Creating Emerging Markets

field. We make mistakes, and a lot of things still need improving, but corporate social responsibility is a major corporate concept.” Download Transcript India Anu Aga Thermax Private, Ltd. (Engineering... View Details

14 Sep 2012
Working Paper Summaries

What Do Managers Do? Exploring Persistent Performance Differences among Seemingly Similar Enterprises

An abstract is unavailable at this time. View Details

Keywords: by Robert Gibbons & Rebecca Henderson

What You Don't Know About Making Decisions

Most executives think of decision making as a singular event that occurs at a particular point in time. In reality, though, decision making is a process fraught with power plays, politics, personal nuances, and institutional history. Leaders who recognize this make... View Details

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

Internet has spawned many two-sided platforms, and all the software platforms that run our computers, PDAs, and mobile phones have only emerged recently. Q: You note in your research that in many multi-sided markets, one side View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

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07 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

Internet boom, companies armed with nothing more than a PowerPoint presentation of a lousy idea could secure tens of millions of dollars—which... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

that people did not speak up about things they deemed important. Most of those were not 'bad news' things; to our surprise we found that people were reluctant to voice what they perceived to be good ideas,... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

11 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

fields, the authors note. But the rise of the internet over the last few decades pulled the rug out from under old media’s business model. By 2017, 45 percent of all newspaper... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

04 Sep 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search?

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien

08 Dec 2021
Blog Post

The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) and the Transition to Venture Capital

Memme wrote in his article for Medium. “The ability to combine critical thinking skills, an understanding of what it takes to commercialize innovation, and my love of all View Details

10 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

How to Live Happier in 2023: Diversify Your Social Circle

want to be friendly and ask questions. So, we try different things with new people, and that can be good for us.” In other words, it’s not that being with our significant other isn’t good for us, but the variety that being with strangers... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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ECONOMICS OF THE ADVERTISING AND MARKETING SERVICEC INDUSTRY

Professor Silk’s recent research has been focused on the economics of the advertising and marketing services industry. He has conducted econometric studies of the effects of scale and scope on the... View Details

March 2025 (Revised March 2025)
Case

Good for the Seller, Good for the Buyer and Good for Society: Sampo-yoshi, Sustainability and Trust at ITOCHU

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Bethelehem Y Araya

In 2024, ITOCHU CEO Masahiro Okafuji was at a crossroads. As the thirteenth CEO since ITOCHU’s founding in 1858, he had fueled the company’s growth since 2011 by bringing ITOCHU’s founding philosophy of Sampo-yoshi (good for the seller, good for the buyer and... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Trust; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Japan

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14 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

because we can do it, should we? Is it simply the right thing to do, even if it costs us in the short run?" Employees and customers, especially of the younger generations, expect leaders to take a stand on... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology

28 May 2024
In Practice

Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

New graduates entering the job market will face a very different landscape from even a year ago, with a murky economy and potentially more limited career prospects. Though unemployment figures in the US remain near historically low levels, the pace View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

26 Sep 2023
Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

applications, internet and mobile communications, and AI, especially when tied to machine learning and deep learning. “One of the major effects of big data on businesses is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

only thing that this sort of learned pragmatism gives me is the opportunity to engage my colleagues who have the real power to make a difference in this country." And he said, "We'll see." So I guess he's... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

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