ideas - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jan 2022
News

22 tips for 2022: Get your ideas heard at work

21 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

nightly fee. Of course, now we know the idea as Airbnb, a $10 billion business with 1.5 million listings around the world. But back then it must have seemed crazy. The liability issues alone seemed insurmountable—to say nothing of the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Accommodations; Financial Services

10 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos

Consumers delight in using smartphones to record their experiences and surroundings, but for businesses, such devices present tricky challenges. Suppose a customer encounters a hair in her food, a spill in an aisle, or a rude clerk. Historically, these problems were... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Food & Beverage; Air Transportation; Retail; Service

29 Apr 2022
News

Elon Musk Has Big Ideas for Twitter. Users Should Buckle Up.

Blog Post

How U.S. Laws Protecting America's Best Ideas Are Killing Innovation

By: Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun and Scott Duke Kominers

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2013
Other Unpublished Work

Infrastructure for Ore: Benefits and Costs of a Not-So-Original Idea

By: Louis T. Wells

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2011
Chapter

Reversing the Null: Regulation, Deregulation, and the Power of Ideas

By: David Moss

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Government and Politics

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October 14, 2019
Article

A Guide to the Big Ideas and Debates in Corporate Governance

By: Lynn S. Paine and Suraj Srinivasan

How corporations govern themselves has become a matter of broad public interest in recent decades. Amid this many commentators and experts still disagree on such basic matters as the purpose of the corporation, the role of corporate boards of directors, the rights of... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Mission and Purpose; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Performance; Measurement and Metrics

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16 Mar 2014
News

Why Completely Trusting Enterprise Software Review Sites is a Bad Idea

26 Nov 2013
News

Feeling Anxious? Why Trying To "Keep Calm" Is A Terrible Idea

27 Apr 2020
News

The pandemic is liberating firms to experiment with radical new ideas

15 Jan 2020
News

Why Doing the Easy Parts of Your To-Do List First Can Be a Bad Idea

23 Jan 2015
News

How U.S. laws protecting America’s best ideas are killing innovation

28 Jul 2009
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Idea to split Coyotes home games draws criticism from observers

01 Nov 2012
News

The Idea That Led to 10 Years of Double-Digit Growth

12 Mar 2024
News

How to Bring Good Ideas to Life: The Paul English Story

23 Apr 2014
News

Timing plus smart ideas are the keys to being an entrepreneur

Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) launched Wildfire Interactive, now a Google company, to connect companies and customers through social media. (Published April 2014) View Details

01 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?

businesses function alongside other institutions such as labor unions in an environment in which all are subservient to democratically elected governments. Are free trade and free markets quaint ideas from the past? What do you think?... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett