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- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence, Competing on Internet Time, and Judo Strategy. "The theory was to explore interesting topics with interesting companies, and use the field research as a... View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
India, China), but they overlook significant ethnic markets within the United States. For example, the combined African-American and Hispanic markets in the U.S. are larger than the economies of all but 13 countries, and more than 2... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
rewards programs as a defense mechanism. They just try to copy what the competition is doing. If that is all that you do, then you are not clear in your own mind about what can be done with the help of these... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
geographic regions. We do find that both shorter path lengths and larger connected components correlate with increased innovation. We discuss the implications of our findings for future social network research and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
A year of COVID-19 limbo has turned the notion of self-care into a mainstream pursuit. After all, with the pandemic’s end on the distant horizon, we all just need to hang in there a little longer—even CEOs.... View Details
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
psychological scientists of the modern era. These readable essays highlight the most important contributions to theory and research in psychological science, show how the greatest psychological scientists... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
A host of organizations — among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines — have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting workforce. Books... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
creative than their younger peers. Again, this turns out not to be the case: “While it's true that young minds may produce a higher volume of ideas, business guru Frans Johansson argues in his book The... View Details
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
The sport of rodeo kayaking—the use of specialized kayaks to perform acrobatic tricks and maneuvers in rough white water—began around 1968 when an avid sportsman by the name of... View Details
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
exemplify the best in operations vis-à-vis strategy? What are they doing differently from their competitors? A: The companies that jump to most people's minds are big ones, such as Dell Computer, Southwest Airlines, Toyota, and Wal-Mart.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
If you've spent any time on Twitter, then you're probably familiar with the "humblebrag"—a brag veiled in a complaint, so as to sound less blatantly like a brag. Here's an example from the Twitter account of Ari Fleischer, former White... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
loopholes, deductions need to be reduced. The right policy is to lower the rate substantially and end most deductions. That's a policy economic theory supports, and almost everybody in the private sector agrees with—though some will lose... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
Retirement, education, and medical care are focal in the minds of voters, so setting up tax-deferred savings programs around these issues is a political winner. Also, given the political power View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
weakening both consumer confidence and the consumer spending—much of it on credit—that has been buoying the U.S. economy. Companies should bear eight factors in mind when making their marketing plans for... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
what we say ‘yes’ to are things we can control." “I am really walking the talk in terms of my research right now,” she says. “The weight of what’s going on underscores what really matters. We should be View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
behavioral patterns that have worked in the past,” Goldberg says. “Changing behaviors takes time. I’m a big fan of continuous refresher training to keep the issue front of mind... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
Authenticity over Exaggeration: The New Rule in Advertising
interactivity, including Thought tracing. Firms infer states of mind from the content of a Web search and serve up relevant advertising; a market born View Details
- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
consistent with established economic theories of accounting. That said, the results suggest that accounting has a broader political role than was previously thought. What surprised us was the significance... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
look ahead to the post-COVID era, it will be important to keep this perspective in mind as the problem of income inequality will almost certainly worsen. Lagace: Your book describes the work View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
economic motives behind individual concerns for privacy. Recent theories of privacy demands in commercial contexts have assumed an economically aware and sophisticated consumer, capable View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace