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- 01 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters
conception of what their job duties were, with employment contracts focused heavily on their particular task in the manufacturing process. For these workers, things like proposing a morale-boosting monthly birthday celebration or suggesting that an awkward dividing... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
the key risk factors have developed from a pressure to enhance productivity, eliminate waste, remove supply chain duplication, and drive for cost improvement," says William L. Michels, CEO of consulting firm ADR North America, Ann... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
timeline also removes uncertainty and instills confidence in the process. The combination of confidence and convenience can generate momentum and enthusiasm not just for early adopters and the early majority, but for the late majority and... View Details
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
fewer bookings of guests of color. In 2018, Airbnb announced it would no longer display guest photos prior to the acceptance of a booking request—a proposal that Luca had made two years earlier. Airbnb also reduced the prominence of host photos, View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
analysis to find the underlying conditions that created the symptoms that they had experienced. Then they regularly practiced developing counter-measures—changes in work, tool, product, or process design—that would remove the underlying... View Details
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
learning and development.” “The important point is to avoid the wrong pattern—investing in training without first identifying and beginning to remove barriers that block system effectiveness” Training and development should be nested in a... View Details
- 10 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points
inflection point," he said. "In Michelle's case, it's coming at a moment in time when the structures are removed and the rules are suspended. A moment in which she can reflect in¬wardly about what she wants, and then act to redefine the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
disciplines from which such a model could be produced—foundered for many years on disagreements about the nature of business firms and the ultimate purpose of business. The decision (made very early in the history of university-based business education) to View Details
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
actually removed AI from their marketing and sales messages. While it might not make sense to lead with AI, there’s value in weaving it through the product presentation, especially when it comes to transparency and explaining the... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 06 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End
each site, post-Olympics. Renovations made after the Games, they discovered, were a key factor in a venue’s sustainability—specifically, removing features such as a track and reducing the stadium’s capacity. Ongoing reinvestment was... View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?
that its supply chain limps along. We believe the appreciation of these behavioral dynamics on supply chain management can provide the key to understanding and removing the many and oft-repeated examples of inefficiency that plague it.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 10 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone
whole, and the students won’t have to take on huge debts. But removing that burden for students ends up costing taxpayers up front, which meets resistance. Solving social problems longer term involves appealing to both companies’ altruism... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
10,000 senior marketing executives based in San Jose, California. “There is often a disconnect between practitioners and academics, who tend to be far removed from operational complexities and market dynamics.” Donovan Neale-May,... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
of price differentials. But the world is not so homogeneous as to have removed arbitrage from a company's strategic tool kit. In fact, many forms of arbitrage offer relatively sustainable sources of competitive advantage, and as some... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
organizational entry points. What entry-level jobs truly require a four-year degree to succeed? Can you remove degree requirements or other barriers to cast a wider net? What skills and training will help people grow? Many companies will... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
this reliability (at rock-bottom costs). Packages like SAP further help remove commodity maintenance activities and allow firms to better analyze customer information and provide service at the sharp end. The package of skills needed... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 04 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?
matter how much willpower we adults think we have, we are still susceptible to tempting distractions. Deliver Us From Temptation For Piovesan, the findings have clear implications for how employers should design their office environments. If they are not able to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
for your product or service, as well as to remove the inhibitors to purchasing. The most successful companies follow this two-pronged strategy of providing a reason for the customer to buy, while eliminating annoying problems in the order... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- Research Summary
Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach
This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details