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- 01 Apr 1998
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Plunging Into the Net
almost four decades ago, this change is clearly more evolutionary than revolutionary. During the last five years, the Internet - and more specifically, its most user-friendly thoroughfare, the World Wide Web - has emerged as a preferred... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
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Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
while Asians prefer arbitration or out-of-court settlement. Management-labor relations in Asia are also generally less confrontational, families figure more prominently in organizational structures, and ties between government and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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Drive-In Nation
pressured to move quickly to improve its products and attract more buyers. Snow adds that in their factories, the Japanese often prefer to customize existing systems and equipment rather than installing the latest fancy technology. “Their... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
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Books
researching consumer preferences for colors and styling may be losing sales because the overall atmosphere in their showrooms makes people feel uneasy. Zaltman analyzes numerous examples of consumer behavior; delves into detailed... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
Dubbed by Fortune as one of the most powerful businesswomen in the world, Margie Yang is proud to be part of an ever-growing number of Asian-born female executives and entrepreneurs. But she prefers to put the spotlight on The Esquel... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
generalization of Black and Scholes's valuation method made it possible to customize financial claims to suit the preferences of buyer and seller alike and to price those derivative claims directly. Thus Bob's theories are the analytical... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
as examples of how the firm has responded to clients’ changing needs. While his future looks bright at Merrill, O’Neal doesn’t speculate about whether he will be asked to take its helm, a move that would make him one of the highest-ranking African Americans on Wall... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
(measured in number of barrels produced), efficiency (cost per barrel), and reliability (production “up” time) came to exceed the industry’s previous benchmark. What did the men think of the changes? Everyone we talked to preferred the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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The Baby Business
families. By viewing this widespread activity through the lens and logic of markets — and daring to define it in terms of supply, demand, and property rights — Spar aims to bring realism and thoughtful public-policy debate to a subject that most people would View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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The House that Howard Built
about entrepreneurship as an opportunity. As young faculty colleagues, he and Stevenson had become friends. “Howard was a curious, interesting, independent kind of guy,” says McArthur. “He preferred to pursue what interested him,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy
had done. Instead, what Gluck did was take the world’s most prestigious and self-confident consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, and revolutionize it. Gluck joined The Firm (McKinsey preferred upper-case designation for itself) in 1967... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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Robert Goodwin
without asking them to leave their families and companies for extended periods. We actually prefer for them to stay working at their jobs so they can leverage their networks and influence in the company to assist our partner... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
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Globalization Revisited
preferences for such programming over alien, standardized content often manifest themselves. “There are many other dynamics that can also undercut the viability of globally standardized products over time,” Ghemawat said. He added that... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
our credit card or for users who choose not to connect a card and would prefer to answer questions instead. How do we make those estimates more accurate or how do we account for things like the fact that a grocery bill should be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
still true today: eBay enables users to trade with other people without regard to time and distance. It makes inefficient markets efficient. What kind of communications devices do you use? I may be the last person on earth who does not have a BlackBerry. I View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Around the World
the field about customer preferences for new products. Second, they learned how to function as a team to bring out the best in everyone (something they practiced in FIELD 1). Third, they learned a bit of humility by discovering that ideas... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
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Higher Returns
practices and sustainable products. They're the ones checking the packaging and labeling to ensure that there is a positive social and environmental impact message as well, specifically on consumer products. And they prefer to work for... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
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The Path out of Polarization
good to have the voices on the left or on the right to make it clear why one direction would be preferable to another. But now, when the extremes are disagreeing over facts and they’re shouting, they don’t give me time to understand... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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One-on-One with Jim Breyer
pattern recognition. Our partners combine tenacity and confidence with a large dose of humility. Accel prefers early-stage companies. Isn’t that the riskiest strategy? It is certainly the riskiest part of the business. At the same time,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
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Business Answers the Call
preference to neighborhood schools. For Nielsen, the key to meaningful ed-ucation reform is getting topflight candidates to run for school boards. “There is no more important position from which to transform a school system than the... View Details