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- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
environmental record is actually quite mixed. But you wouldn't know it from environmental ratings and rankings that claim to highlight the most environmentally proactive companies. News Corporation was awarded the highest rating of "AAA" in the Global... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location, and patents of firms active in R&D since 1921; and a historical state-level corporate tax database since 1900, which we link to an existing View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
behavior. The leading causes of passenger disruptions on airplane flights. (Source: Research Report: Physical and Situational Inequality on Airplanes Predicts Air Rage.) Source: Micaela Brody They pored through a private database of all... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
from customers. In response, BBA's CEO Julian Boyden and VP of Technology John Wright investigated the option of shifting more innovation activities to customers. The company developed an Internet-based tool containing a large database of... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
thought to enhance creativity. Yet empirical studies of their evolution and evidence of their benefits remain scarce. We develop and exploit a novel database on patent co-authorship to investigate the effects of collaboration networks on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
database of innovations in both technique and equipment. From the data, we knew that—at least until recently—users (including user-manufacturers) were the primary source of innovation. Third, the underlying technologies—fiberglass hand... View Details
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
government institutional development influences the extent to which CSR communications are symbolically decoupled from substantive CSR activities. Our database includes all CSR reports issued by the approximately 1,600 publicly listed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
Silicon Valley or the Napa wine country) that can lead to competitive advantage. Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness has just introduced a new database tool to help corporations and policy makers pinpoint these clusters,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
the proxy statements of 478 large U.S. companies, analyzing executive compensation between 1980 and 1994. "We built a database that enabled us to measure with great precision, using the Black-Scholes formula, how much top executives... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
organizational level, with databases and other communication tools. "Health care is the most information intensive industry in the economy, but it uses IT the least," he said. Atul Gawande reminded the audience that health care... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
years of extensive study, including a comprehensive database compiled under the aegis of the Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research (HCTAR). The keys to success in an age of product proliferation, the authors found, are no longer... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
Drugstore.com can capture in a database all of the current test information available on a particular drug, so that a person can learn about any potential side effects. EE: Are there any non-high-tech cases in the DIS course? Nolan: Oh,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer DataUse It
sophisticated database software, and the Internet would enable them to actually deliver on the promise of customized offerings to each individual customer. But that hasn't happened to the extent it should have, says Cleveland-based... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
Abstract—One of the most important transitions of China from a centrally planned economy to a market-based economy was the emergence of entrepreneurship in two different forms of private enterprise, viz. getihu and siyingqiye. Using a unique View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
and to be a living, updated database of curated research insights, translated into plain language, focusing on the managerial takeaways. The site also lists NGOs [non-governmental organizations] and intergovernmental organizations, like... View Details
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
(defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk-free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that an important explanatory factor is the impact that commodities have on the capacity to pay. We use a newly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
a computerized database of incompatible patient-donor pairs. In addition to direct exchanges, the paper described exchanges that included three- and four-way matches—as well as a system in which a donor could give a kidney to a stranger... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
operations are not well integrated across media. As a consequence, a frequent shopper may be given first-class treatment in the physical store but receive marginal service on the telephone or via the Internet. Retailers need to tap into the same product, customer, and... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
The ethnic composition of U.S. inventors is undergoing a significant transfor ation—with deep impacts for the overall agglomeration of U.S. innovation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual U.S. patent records to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
companies is evaluated by linking the 2007 SBO to the Longitudinal Business Database (LBD). We quantify the dependency of the United States as a whole, as well as individual states, on the contributions of immigrant entrepreneurs in terms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne