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01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

(MBA 1984) and Dan Olmsted Skyhorse Publishing Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The authors believe autism is new, that the View Details

28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

driven by large aggregator NPEs and is not the behavior of small innovators. We find further suggestive evidence of NPE opportunism, such as forum shopping and targeting of firms that may have reduced ability to defend themselves against litigation. Finally, we find... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2015
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The Business of Love

to design women-friendly online dating options: not a larger dating pool but a smaller, curated one; not anonymity but transparency—real names, attached to real Facebook profiles; and, most vitally, control of a streamlined online dating... View Details

Keywords: April White

27 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

evacuation took place, four people at a time clinging to a "basket," a large donut shaped contraption with nets through which we laced our arms, as a crane lowered us 400 feet to the boat's deck. The lengthy (eight-hour) trip... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

sequencing and a sustained effort, you don't make progress. Our single-issue focus lately works against us. There's also a tremendous mismatch between the time horizons of politics and of competitiveness. Most things that matter for... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

03 Mar 2017
News

Big Blue’s Big Bet

of innovation in fields as diverse as real estate law and songwriting. But it is in the health sector where Watson’s impact is most tangible, where its benefits are literally the difference between life and death. “What I focus on,” says... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

helps them hedge real interest risk and inflation risk, or because it helps them reduce the volatility of their portfolio of stocks and bonds because its return is negatively correlated with the returns on those assets. This article... View Details

09 Feb 2016
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February 9, 2016

that emerged from experimentation. Interpretation of such observations leads us to new propositions about the interplay of design and identity in times of radical change. Overall, the propositions suggest that after a dramatic shock,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

mortgage disclosure documents, consolidating the federal government’s highly fractured financial services regulatory agencies, and requiring that financial institutions increase their capital during sound economic times to provide a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

orders (parcels versus documents), time of delivery (8 a.m. versus afternoon), and other variables. There is also an unfair assumption in "fair" pricing policies: You do not determine what is fair, the customer does. An average... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

the various actors in the system are not designed around value, nor is competition reinforcing improvements in value. For example, let's take the prescription drug benefit, the big reform of today that everyone is talking about. This is not a View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

10 Aug 2022
News

Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

And then, develop portfolio tools and management towards that. And that was a real groundbreaker in the way they offered their services. And then, they went even further. They hired a financial gerontologist—which I don't know if many of... View Details

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

three owner-directors must decide whether it is time to stop customer acquisition for a while to "get their house in order." At that moment, though, one of Shuberg Philis perhaps most important business opportunities so far... View Details