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- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
project goes poorly, and Hrad is left with the decision of how to rescue the relationship and avoid a similar problem in the future. The case allows the examination of how to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Non-Repatriation of Foreign Cash Negatively Affect U.S. Firms’ Operations? Evidence from Product Market Competitiveness By: Alhusaini, Badryah, Rick Laux, Henock Louis, and Anywhere Sikochi Abstract—Cash holdings provide the crucial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
mainstream (i.e., not SRI funds) investment organizations, we provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. The primary reason survey... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
"consumer choice and honest competition are usually achieved without a public provider. We don't need government-run grocery stores or government-run gas stations to ensure that Americans can buy food... View Details
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
product." “"Whenever you invent something, you open up a trajectory and people are going to come after you.” The other choice companies have is to keep an idea secret in order to protect the value... View Details
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
Sharing News That Might Be Bad
successful; it has engendered feelings of trust, empowerment, and commitment to both you and the company. The right choice lies closer to blunt truth than to denial. It hasn't... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
harshest months of the lockdown. The level of control Sandra and her coworkers have over their working conditions may sound like a reasonable baseline for all workers. Indeed, access to dignified work,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
were Ms. X, what would you do?", in literature we get to see "the rest of the story." Because we are searching for examples of moral leadership, we want to understand the impact of characters' choices on the situation they... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
good thing not to have any privacy policy,” John says. It’s almost as if you had the choice of two banks in a sketchy neighborhood, one with bulletproof glass and one without. For their last experiment, the... View Details
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
on a systematic selection and analysis of articles, the paper outlines an emerging consensus on the definition and process of institutional entrepreneurship. It also presents the previously identified... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
punctuated by bursts of progress until an agreement is reached or breakdown occurs. Decision makers make hard choices (such as to make an unfavorable concession) only when they lack more attractive... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
approach to the “pitch or spec” dilemma by constructing a model that links this choice to writers’ past experience and their confidence level about this particular idea. The model also predicts the average... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
that how much you save is really what matters for how much you have to retire on. It's better to be lucky than unlucky, as far as investment choices go, and choosing the right asset allocation (and... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 02 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?
overly risky.” Unlike most situations where making an important decision based on gut feel is seen as a negative, venture capitalists and angel investors often brag about the wisdom of their midsections.... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
companies, on communities, and, most of all, on employees. "The initial drive was to build empathy around the decisions that are so core on a human level," Sucher says. "They wanted people to learn about that." Green... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
case, product divisions). And just as obviously, no one likes to give up power. Leadership from the top, aimed at promoting a "one-company" mentality, is often the only way forward. One of Oosterveld's View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
difficult decisions over what investments to keep and what investments to cut. How they made those choices and what effect they had on business... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
the organization for which that person is responsible. Government leaders make choices affected by laws and the founding documents of a nation; judges issue decisions anchored... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
two-and-a-half-day simulation puts students in charge of a brewery for 7 fictitious financial quarters. Working in four- to five-person teams, players make decisions on everything for running their business: types of ingredients to use,... View Details