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- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
social and political systems; identify opportunities to fill those voids, for example, by building or improving market institutions yourself; and exploit those opportunities through a rigorous five-phase process, including studying the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
lifeblood of most companies as they allow existing companies to grow within markets where they have already gained a foothold. What kills companies is trying to introduce sustaining innovations into disruptive markets and vice versa. View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
forthcoming Abstract Discussions of the economic impact of open source software often generate more heat than light. Advocates passionately assert the benefits of open source, while critics decry its effects. Missing from the debate is View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
O'Reilly, Amy Elliman Fenollosa, Adam Michael Kleinbaum, and Dan McGrath Periodical:Academy of Management Learning & Education (in press). (Special Issue: Challenges and Opportunities for Executive Education.) Abstract As professional schools, business schools... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
managing change. Instead, they develop many disconnected initiatives to bring about change — initiatives that by their piecemeal nature are doomed to failure. "In light of that," Beer explains, "we formulated this profiling process, which allows a leader... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
(RCT)—was limited in many ways. While statistically rigorous and still considered the “gold standard” in clinical research, traditional RCTs were time-consuming, costly, and limited to testing just one new drug at a time. Adaptive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
work. We then describe how key elements of this approach can be incorporated into Organizational Behavior doctoral programs to help students produce research that is both rigorous and relevant. This approach can help faculty and doctoral... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
history? American Capitalism presents a sampling of cutting-edge research from prominent scholars. These broad-minded and rigorous essays venture new angles on finance, debt, and credit; women’s rights; slavery and political economy; the... View Details
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training
MIT and a conflict resolution program at Mercy Corps), McGinn and her colleagues laid the foundation for Girls Arise, expanding and strengthening it through rigorous field testing. Once refined, project managers Annika Rigole and Clément... View Details
Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
their reputation and brand," says Rangan. CSR should be treated as a business discipline and practiced with the same professionalism and rigor as other aspects of a firm's strategy. "For example, many of the programs that come... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
undermine Hong Kong's position as a financial center in the long-term. Hong Kong's position as a global financial powerhouse was due in part to its rigorous emphasis on compliance and enforcement-allowing companies to report under Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
Their success stories are counterbalanced by a dissection of the monumental failure of RCA, long the world leader in electronics but today all but extinct. For all of these companies except RCA and Ford, a key to their early success was a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
a scientific method in solving problems . Managers focus on making decisions with little information, not through a rigorous review of the details." According to Gerald Nanninga, "A big difference between doctors and managers is... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
and Goldman Sachs emerged relatively unscathed, its public image took a large blow as people questioned the inner workings of the bank. To address the situation, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein called for the creation of the Business Standards Committee (BSC) to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
provided me with a unique opportunity, because all the changes that were made to the text survived as archaeological layers for me to excavate. The ever-expanding Essay became my way of making sense of the larger question I was facing—namely, how a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
systems are simple and flexible, rather than rigorous or sophisticated. The second part of the paper challenges conventional characterizations of NGOs as being dependent on donors for money. It argues that there is an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
strategy as a first-mover and the effort to demonstrate that investments can have both positive financial and social returns. Protagonists Eric Rice and Patrick Kent must find ways to show that it is possible to drive impact through a public markets vehicle and show... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
improve the care of patients with diabetes by contracting an app. They go through a rigorous evaluation of the FDA regulations, the existing market, and potential commercial competitors to try and identify a market opportunity. Since... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
in automating than in informating. Consumers have been forced to conform to the rigors of automation as they track their own packages, make their way through infinite branches in automated telephone systems, waste their time waiting for... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
workday events can make or break employees' inner work lives. But it's forward momentum in meaningful work—progress that creates the best inner work lives. Through rigorous analysis of nearly 12,000 diary entries provided by 238 employees... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne