Virtual Learning - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

capabilities that enable consistent execution can also hinder learning and innovation, leaving organizations rigid and inflexible. By optimizing their processes for efficiency in the short term, organizations become brittle. In the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

strength. Through a 10-day field experiment involving over 500 high-powered computer programmers, the researchers sought to determine just how employees would respond to working in environments somewhat customized to how they like to work. They divided the participants... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

financial and non-financial measurements in four perspectives: financial, customer, internal process, and learning and growth. The approach quickly evolved into a new system for describing and managing strategy.2 Many of the organizations... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

opportunity to engage in a virtual dialogue on these matters. Some major corporations are starting to take the lead in this effort, including United Technologies Corporation, Philips (the Dutch electronics and health care giant), the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

technical and academic writing over the past decade has focused on mergers and acquisitions, which are typically negotiauction situations. But one of the main messages in the book is that the deal strategies and structures that have developed in M&A are applicable... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

both a lot of hope and a lot of rage and frustration and confusion intermixed. Yet the American people and the economy have come through those crises, more often than not, both stronger and sounder." The big question for us today, she continues, is whether we will... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was a U.N. treaty that by 2006 had been signed by virtually every country in the world except for the United States. The treaty established three main goals: the conservation of biological... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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