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  • 07 Sep 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

while abandoning any semblance of "professionalism." As readers, we are left to speculate how, if at all, this might have led to such phenomena as Enron, the management revolving door, and even today's subprime mortgage mess.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 19 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

State. And, he has immense resource wealth to finance his efforts. I don't know if he'll succeed politically, but if he does not abandon human rights and constrains political power, then Russia could be a very good place to invest. Q:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 5

regulation by offshoring or by abandoning the market; or ignoring the regulation by continuing with entrenched business practices. The path a profit-maximizing firm will choose depends, in part, on the expected cost of non-compliance,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

incremental shifts towards sustainability to abandoning for-profit business entirely and re-wilding and conserving millions of acres of lands in Latin America. The book's distinctiveness lies in the use of original empirical data and the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

is still thriving—while dramatically reinventing it? How do you envision a change in your current business model before a crisis forces you to abandon it? Innovation guru Vijay Govindarajan expands the leader's innovation tool kit with a... View Details
  • 21 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 21

experience in comparison to Wal-Mart's focus on low prices. This strategy worked well for Target in good economic times. The economic crisis of 2008-2009, however, caused shoppers to abandon Target in favor of Wal-Mart. In the spring of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

the same problems as Bitcoin. There's no reason for the regular consumer to use it” Even recent high-profile data breaches have not led consumers to abandon credit cards in significant numbers. "Security doesn't work for the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail
  • 06 May 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

a number of companies have adopted an intriguing approach, which at first seems counterintuitive. Essentially, these companies have abandoned their efforts to understand exactly what products their customers want and have instead equipped... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

donors will give money over the Web and won't show up at its fundraisers, it has to create its own network, and has to make human connections so appealing and enriching that people won't abandon them easily. I'm not worried. We have a lot... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 21 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 21

idea fully or abandoning it. By contrast, writers who can attract buyers at any stage sell worse ideas earlier and better ideas later. The results have interesting implications not only for the timing of the sale of ideas, but also for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

going to entail is major public investment that is going to be a continued stimulus for the economy. The event may even provide a long enough stimulus that it might be able to turn around some of the sections of Johannesburg that have been View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 26

religion—an increasing number of people are abandoning their faith. As commitment wanes, religious involvement may become detrimental to well-being, and individuals may be better off seeking new affiliations. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

is being abandoned by the two remaining large capital exporters—the U.K. and Japan—that had maintained similar regimes. The conundrum facing policymakers is how to reconcile mounting pressures for increased tax burdens on foreign activity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

adjust products to highly protected markets or respond to limited local competition. In the contemporary global economy, political risks partially declined with the spread of liberalization and the abandonment of anti-foreign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

energy came in the factor markets (for land, labor capital, and knowledge), and it required the abandonment of feudalism. Unlike trade, capitalism spreads by political decisions and by political units such as states. As a consequence,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2016
  • First Look

May 17, 2016

and announcing the product launch through social media channels, the company finds significant customer interest. With only two weeks of promising data, the CEO must decide whether or not to abandon the planned sale to pursue the new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 19

empirical results are consistent with the model's predictions: inexperienced writers are excluded from the market for earlier-stage ideas, restricting their choices to developing the idea fully or abandoning it; writers who have a choice... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

isolated and abandoned to the wolves. This happens despite success, and sometimes because of how success was achieved. It happens to results-producing CEOs pushed out of companies; for example, Mark Hurd of Hewlett Packard, who fudged... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing
  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

research and discuss his contributions to management and economics. We look at three distinct bodies of work. In the first, Clark (in conjunction with Robert Hayes and Steven Wheelwright) argued that the abandonment by U.S. managers of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

business. Indeed, sometimes the inherent conflicts are just too large. At times, says Urquhart, "we'd find that there was a mind shift partway through the year," as people would abandon the most innovative and risky parts of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman

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