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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
government's support on Newbridge's investment and had to back out of the deal with Newbridge. Weijian Shan has to make a choice between two alternatives: 1) Give up pursuing the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
viable alternative. Original Article Several months ago, the General Electric Company announced that it had closed a deal with Boeing that specified that only GE aircraft engines would be installed on the newest version of 777 aircraft... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
partner rather than a competitor for global trade and resources Dealing with Asia, and especially China, requires a more nuanced point of view because understanding of language, culture and business practice can be easily misunderstood... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
which involve projects by foreign companies to develop and manage large infrastructure projects in Indonesia, the book details the ways such deals can go bad both for the companies and the countries they operate in. It also examines how... View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
the design choices that might mitigate these biases,” according to the paper. Acquisitions, exclusive deals, and strategy. Economists draw on economic theory and empirical methods to value exclusive deals in... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
designed to introduce students to a wide variety of choices faced by founders, including whether to quit a big-company job to found a new venture, whether to found with a best friend, how to split the equity within the founding team, how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
the person who was best suited to lead the early stage of company development is no longer the best person to continue leading the company. Now, the product has to be sold: You have to create a sales organization, manage multiple functions, View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?
capabilities"—and to keep those doors open. For both sexes, it's important to keep the range of choices open in educational opportunities and other activities. We have lost the capacity to fall in love,for many reasons, but above all... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
choices between safety and affordability, all of us involved in policy cannot rest,” he told an audience of some two hundred participants gathered in Spangler Auditorium. Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly took an opposing... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
company results as their own personal results; and do the reverse too, dealing with family as just a company exercise." Tak Okamoto suggested that the concept poses real problems for managers. As he put it, "I judge 'just... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
and induces safer behavior that becomes the status quo for future choices (the initial history effect). While both effects operate indirectly through choice inertia, the primacy effect also operates directly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
2016 New York: HarperBusiness Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice By: Christensen, Clayton M., Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon, and David S. Duncan Abstract—The foremost authority on innovation and growth presents... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
the years. The effect of policies to deal with the ongoing global crisis and new policy choices remain to be seen. Understanding these phenomena—the determinants of capital flows, the effects of foreign... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Chick-fil-A Foundation, lists some simple but powerful ways people can affect others and create a legacy of service. His stories aim to help people demonstrate life-changing compassion, understand courage, make brave choices every day,... View Details
- 16 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Is MySpace.com Your Space?
number of Hollywood studios struck advertising deals with News Corp, MySpace's owner, including several who crafted profile pages featuring movie characters. I don't think News Corp really minds MySpace's racy image. We asked John... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
When did you realize that you wanted to make a career change? (Diogo left a career in management consulting in October 2014 to become founder/executive producer of Adaptation Now, a documentary film project that will tell the stories of the communities View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
against their best intentions, by the demands of the moment? Welch proposes a transformative solution to deal with this pressure and shares her own life-tested strategy to help people regain control of their View Details
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
eliminated. Voters who backed that candidate as their top choice have their second choice picks redistributed among the remaining candidates until one receives 50 percent of the vote in the recount, and a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
supermarket, stopping to linger as long as they wanted or moving as quickly as they wished. A one-size-fits-all approach to health care doesn’t work. ©iStock/AndreyPopov “There is more choice available to the consumer than ever before,... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
Provide Wisdom? By: Lee, Charles M.C., Paul Ma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We compare the performance of a comprehensive set of alternative peer identification schemes used in economic benchmarking. Our results show the peer firms identified from aggregation of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel