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- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
entitled "Choice, Chance, and Wealth Dispersion at Retirement." This paper looked empirically at households' wealth levels at retirement. The authors assess the role that luck, asset allocation, and savings decisions had had in... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
on strategy-focused organizations, the authors describe a multistage system that enables you to gain measurable benefits from your carefully formulated business strategy. This book shows you how to: Develop an effective strategy—with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
production and "customization" of materials. The engineering or applied science-based culture of many German firms kept power and authority closer to the factory or subsidiaries. Craft production meant skilled workers also... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
matters, the more you will matter." Says Ng, “The better you understand what matters to those who matter, the more you’ll be able to align yourself with work that matters. And the more you do work that matters, the more you will matter.” About the View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
work at NASA’s Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation that launches contests for NASA and the federal government at scale. NASA has completed over 350 crowdsourcing projects, many with the assistance of our lab. About the View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
cancel company events that would have required customers or employees to travel to Indiana. And Apple CEO Tim Cook authored an op-ed in The Washington Post to oppose the legislation. The public outcry against the RFRA seemed to make an... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
writing this book, just because the intellectual quality of the discourse of Hamilton and Gallatin was so high," says McCraw, author of the Pulitzer Prize—winning Prophets of Regulation, and Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter... View Details
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
Editor's note: According to the authors of The Handbook for Teaching Leadership, Scott A. Snook, Nitin Nohria, and Rakesh Khurana, we have reached a crossroads in leadership education. Many experiments, approaches, and techniques over the... View Details
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
the workforce. Companies also pay a price, both directly and indirectly, often in ways they don’t fully understand, the report found. The Gazette spoke with its author Joseph B. Fuller, professor of management practice and co-chair of the... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
comparisons on the commission of a particular type of gaming: the self-downloading of an author's own SSRN working paper solely to inflate the paper's reported download count. We find significant evidence that authors are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
formal authority than newer partners, and the only formal leadership role was a chairman position, which, after being held with a founder for 30 years, was rotated every two years. Further, Pentagram had no corporate office; each partner... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
Ross to write the paper "Performance Pricing in Tough Times." Shapiro, an authority on marketing strategy and sales management, is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. Ross is a... View Details
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
the early years of the 20th century, as much as any business in America, is marked by dramatic changes in the context in which CEOs had the opportunity to forge their identity and the fortunes of their companies," the authors write... View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
Markets and Multinational Transfer Pricing Authors:Romana L. Autrey and Francesco Bova Abstract Gray markets arise when a manufacturer's products are sold outside of its authorized channels; for instance, when goods designated for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
Author Martha Lagace is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: damircudic] Click to watch. Book Excerpt Chapter 1: Problems as Opportunities By Mitchell Weiss There is a particular and much loved kind of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
bungles things when it wades into the private sector. Lerner's book studies where public efforts to spur entrepreneurial activity have gone right and wrong—there are many more of the latter, the author acknowledges—and offers policy... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
competitiveness. We also include a number of special chapters focusing, among other things, on environmental regulations and competitiveness, a paper that was authored by Professor Porter and Professor Daniel Esty on innovation and also... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
develop their own apps and profit from them, but Apple holds final authority over what gets sold on its platform. Compare Apple's controlled approach with Google, which runs its Android on open-source software, allowing users to customize... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
elaborate a definition of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition builds on the analytical success of previous approaches while enabling the analysis of business models through the analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
self-examination caused many to ask whether they were making all they could of their lives. Author Po Bronson struck a newly exposed nerve with the book What Should I Do with My Life? His message is about a good life measured by peace and... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson