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  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

The Business of Biotech

as an acute, fatal disease," Maderis concludes. Hitting the Target When human lives are at stake, the urgency involved in turning such predictions into reality goes beyond the wish to reap financial rewards from years of investment. Steve... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

that explores the mechanisms’ distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms—within-firm productivity improvement shifts the productivity distribution rightward, while selection and market reallocation shifts the revenue and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

ignores the implications of past successes when valuing future innovation. We show that two firms that invest the exact same in research and development (R&D) can have quite divergent, but predictably divergent, future paths. Our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

have documented the modest (though reliable) link between household income and well-being, we examined the accuracy of laypeople's intuitions about this relationship by asking people from across the income spectrum to report their own happiness and to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

  Working PapersDo Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States Authors:David H. Autor, William R. Kerr, and Adriana D. Kugler Abstract Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands

crossings every year and focuses on finding beneficial traits such as improved flavor, longer shelf life, and pest and drought resistance. Traditionally, this has been a highly labor-intensive R&D process, but Tomato Vision has recently begun employing the use of... View Details
  • Article

The Best of Both Worlds: Integrating Conscious and Unconscious Thought Best Solves Complex Decisions

Two studies address the debate over whether conscious or unconscious mental processes best handle complex decisions. According to Unconscious Thought Theory (Dijksterhuis & Nordgren, 2006), both modes of thinking have particular advantages: conscious thought can follow... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Values and Beliefs; Information; Knowledge Management; Management Skills; Management Style; Measurement and Metrics; Success; Research; Cognition and Thinking; Personal Characteristics; Perception
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  • 1998
  • Journal Article

Ford's Model-T: Pricing over the Product Life Cycle

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
The pricing decisions monopolistic firms make over time are determined to a large extent by the complex interplay of two distinct sets of elements: demand- and supply-based considerations. Demand factors include the possibilities of (a) exercising dynamic price... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Price; Information; Demand and Consumers; Monopoly; Product; Sales; Complexity; Auto Industry
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  • 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
Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy
  • 06 Apr 2016
  • What Do You Think?

As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?

lauded by some for defending the integrity of its products and the security of the owners of its products. All of this makes for a classic Harvard Business School case problem. We should be well prepared to discuss it. And now the story has updated itself. As some of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer
  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

inaccurate and increasingly troublesome. Management is a set of well-known processes that help organizations produce reliable, efficient, and predictable results. Really good management helps us do well what we more or less know how to do... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
  • 17 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions

option is for companies to "de-risk" their pension plan by putting assets into more predictable investments that generate enough income while still reducing the risk due to market or interest rate volatility. To do that, some... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Aerospace; Financial Services
  • 21 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jul 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

approach has supposed." Marie Taillard adds, "we are shifting away from thinking that we can predict or control the behavior of others ." Because economics is a study of value, Deepak Alse comments that "what we need... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 29 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

assortments, but systematically and predictably displaying extremeness seeking for non-alignable assortments. Across three studies, we show the extremeness seeking effect, contrast it with extremeness avoidance, and explore its underlying... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

sharing accurate information,” says Jordan. You Might Also Like: Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online? Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 06 Sep 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

sporadic disruptive efforts by individual governments and their leaders, and wars. If predictions of the end of cheap oil are not accurate to the barrel or a certain date, they must be directionally right. This assumption raises questions... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Reimagining China and India

is behaving in predictable ways once you understand their circumstances and historical context. Do multinationals treat India and China largely as sales opportunities? Yes. I think most multinationals traditionally have gone to these... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management; Retail Trade
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Laura Scher of Working Assets

predictions of those who warned that a company whose bottom line wasn't the bottom line could never survive, Scher has molded privately-held Working Assets over the past fifteen years into a business with 500,000 customers, 100-plus... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 09 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 9, 2007

Paper No. 9680.) Abstract Patent pools are an important but little-studied economic institution. In this paper, we first make a set of predictions about the licensing terms associated with patent pools. The theoretical framework View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace