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- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
portal is a tool for everyday life, something they click on dozens of times a day. But unlike a telephone or a directory, it is an intelligent, radically interactive tool that can customize itself to each user's needs, building a relationship that's View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
the macroeconomic potential-for incomes, productivity, and delivery of critically needed services-is huge. A call for "better management" may sound prosaic, but given the global payoffs, it's actually quite radical. Read the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
start-up firm in Silicon Valley when one of his employees decided to quit and go work for a direct competitor down the street. "I told him, 'Hey, you can't do that. Didn't we make you sign a non-compete?' " Marx recalls. "He kind of... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
article has changed minds, but I do hope it encourages people to open their minds to consider new possibilities. Things that were once seen as relatively safe are now understood as likely to be quite dangerous, such as coal burning's... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
are some ways forward, says Fuller. Companies might need to embrace automation technologies that can help reduce labor hours per unit, an approach Fuller has seen start to take hold in the garment industry. There could be regulatory aid, too, with Congress assessing... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
structured finance instruments can be characterized as economic catastrophe bonds but offer far less compensation than alternatives with comparable payoff profiles. We argue that this difference arises from the willingness of rating... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
science. It’s the same tools as social science—the experiment, treatment, control, human subjects, statistical inference, using the scientific method. Outside of academia, the happiness field has become fairly polarized. You have the scholars who do the science, where... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
state after an outbreak of illness. Approved the first generic versions of Coreg, a widely used medication for high blood pressure and chronic heart failure. Proposed new standards for formulating, testing, and labeling sunscreen drug products and established a UVA... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
public documents. More generally, a wholesale revisiting of the rationale for departing from conformity in the reporting of book and tax income seems long overdue. Given that financial report accounting has evolved over the years while tax accounting remains View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
than half of its call center employees quit only a few months after training. "Wipro presented us with the problem of figuring out whether there was anything we could do to reduce turnover," Gino says. "We thought it was... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Web
Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity
better informed, more discerning, thoughtful practitioner. Cultivating the courage and patience to understand others' worldviews and experiences is labor that will enable you to operate differently at work. Gathering information in an effort to become more discerning... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
Georgia, partnered with a local school district that had a dismal graduation rate. The company staffed its factory with the district's most at-risk kids, leading to a graduation rate that soared among those students as well as other... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who cowrote the paper with HBS Associate Professor Yuhai Xuan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov, a graduate student in the Economics department at Harvard. "What we show is that, in this context, the effects can be View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
experiencing them. There is also an issue of skepticism. Clust has about 175 buying cycles (products actually on sale) at any point in time, compared with about 4,000 aggregated demands. YesMail's emails have a response rate of 15%, which... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
from that rate hike and from just saying it again and again and again. And lots of people shifted and started feeling that Obamacare wasn't working as a result of that. And it came right around the same time as the Comey revelations.... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
This case consists primarily of excerpts from term sheets and prospectuses for six securities offerings made by U.S. companies during 2009-2010, just after the financial crisis and recession of 2008-2009. There are three issues of senior unsecured notes, one floating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
around seventy months in 2002. The length of time it takes to develop a drug is obviously a major driver of the cost of developing the drug, Pisano said. "The productivity of R&D biotech is certainly not increasing," he observed. "It seems to be... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
permanent cash flow shocks and transitory discount rate shocks to asset prices and returns. An increase in the cross-country correlations of cash flow shocks raises the risk of a globally diversified portfolio at all horizons. By... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
inspired by the work of Food Solutions New England, an organized network of agricultural experts, farmers, academics, concerned citizens, and regional grassroots organizations working to overcome barriers to increased local food production. “Their work is View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
content that hopefully powers the marketing of companies. But is that advertising? A lot of the work we do for our clients involves media not on a rate card or in a typical distribution unit. Is producing the telephone “hold” music for... View Details