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- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
through those to success." Morino also noted that while there are many similarities between the goals of a venture-funded start-up and those of a grassroots community organization, investors need to be... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
solve, the contributing factors that have caused this problem to remain unsolved until now, Madhav's theory of change, questions about whether these activities (inputs) will affect the outputs and have an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
words in their statements of values. The first issue raises the question of whether companies should have anything in mind other than immediate business considerations; the... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17
positive theory of integrity that has no normative content and argue that there are large gains from putting integrity into finance-into both the theory and practice View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 13
organizational characteristics affect the stringency of monitoring through reputation, customer loyalty, differential impacts of government sanctions, and the standardization and internal monitoring View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
What kind of a device are you using to read this article? And what does your body posture look like? Are you hunching over a smartphone screen, arms tightly at your side? Are you slouching over an iPad or laptop? Or are you stretched out... View Details
- 02 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Spending on Happiness
Can money buy you happiness? Yes—so long as you spend the money on someone else. According to new research, giving other people even as little as $5 can lead to increased well-being for the giver. That's the insight into the secret of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
research has evaluated this alternative view and developed a theory based on the effect of past savings on growth through the adoption of new technologies (mostly through... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
that triggered economic chaos in that nation. Along with Argentina's current struggles—the sharp devaluation of its currency, rampant inflation, and civil unrest—past financial problems remain unresolved and much on the View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
stress. (The company's approaches to wellness are described in Johnson & Johnson: The Promotion of Wellness.) General Mills offers mindfulness training with on-site meditation to help employees focus as... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
is created, which increases both interest in the brand and intent to buy. The idea is aligned with Pavlov's theory of classical conditioning, he says. If you show somebody a stimulus (the brand) and then you... View Details
- 05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5
PublicationsThe Labor Illusion: How Operational Transparency Increases Perceived Value Authors:Ryan W. Buell and Michael I. Norton Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract A ubiquitous feature of even the fastest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
innovation. PDF not available. Intellectual Property Rights, Imitation, and Foreign Direct Investment: Theory and Evidence Authors:Lee Branstetter, Raymond Fisman, C. Fritz Foley, and Kamal Saggi Abstract This paper theoretically and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
the benefit of the product in the mind of the consumer. Krauss also observed that most product advertising on the Internet fails to complement campaigns being carried out in... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
of dollars off my data." It's hard to go into the mind of Ello's founder [Paul Budnitz], but my guess is that they genuinely believe there is a backlash and they're... View Details
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
are the opposite of what we'd expect based on large-company compensation patterns. Q: Can you explain the difference between stewardship theory and agency theory? How do these View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
speculation—and then, hopefully, sell it? “One of the top questions screenwriters talk about in their online communities is whether to pitch or to spec,” says Luo. In her paper published by Management Science, When to Sell Your Idea:... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
college, this lower potential to later enter the US workforce weighed heavily on the minds of potential student migrants. Due to some policy quirks, some nationalities were de facto exempt from H-1B visa... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
reputations on this issue are increasingly on the minds of the branded companies’ own employees—and on job candidates. Kost: I wonder if people think about the human and environmental toll View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
nostalgic memories of startups that bring to mind my favorite line from the movie Blade Runner: “The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.” Remember Boo.com, Webvan, eToys, Pseudo.com,... View Details