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- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
Wildebeest added: “There is a good case to be made that deficits from loose monetary policy are the actual cause of the ever-widening income disparity in the US and nearly every major economy.” (JohnfrmClevelnd reminded Wildebeest that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
from one another's disparate experiences. "I think this carries over to venture-funded startups, in which having a diversity of venture capitalists around the table is actually critical to their success," Gompers says. "Take two people... View Details
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
contexts navigated without great foresight. Instead, entrepreneurs can arrive at innovative ideas through the collaborative integration of a disparate set of local problems and solutions. By illuminating the goal formation process in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
chain partners. This should help small business and stimulate increased consumer spending on local services. Innovation is a Biden theme, one of the pillars of his campaign, which he also applied to addressing racial disparities in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
strategy comes into question when students take the first standardized test aligned with the more rigorous Common Core State Standards. While the test results show that, on average, Uncommon’s students still perform well compared to their district peers, they also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time
interviewed have a broad view of their societal and ethical responsibilities. "It's not something that we went fishing for, but it came through very clearly that many of these people, some of whom came from great poverty, are aware of the economic View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
and outreach across the Society's various departments, transition NGS from its many disparate and independent direct mail efforts to a more integrated and strategic e-commerce strategy, and leverage the NGS relationship with its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
lags are highly correlated across technologies. The productivity differentials between the state-of-the-art technologies that we consider and the ones they replace combined with the usage lags that we document, lead us to infer that technology usage View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
with which they can be used. Cheap labor is not really cheap if workers are unproductive. Input costs can be overshadowed by logistical costs, delays, and inefficiencies. There are hidden costs of outsourcing. The most obvious is the cost of management and coordination... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
they realize the disparity between the CEO’s chosen direction and their expectations, which can lead to a permanent breach. When Omar Ishrak became the first outsider CEO of Medtronic in 2011, the board gave him a clear mandate: to revive... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
changing definitions of success and diversity, barriers faced by women at work, the expectations of work and family, and present-day implications for the pipeline of future women leaders. Students consider the role of the School in addressing View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
socioeconomic disparities in health and mortality is a well-established fact. Many pathways have been adduced to explain inequality in life spans. In this article we examine one factor that has been somewhat neglected: people with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
billion at the end of 2007. Lan is at an interesting point in history as the low-cost model was recently implemented. While early results have been strong, observers wonder if the airline can successfully manage three disparate business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
measures of environmentalism. The team homed in on California primarily because it was (and is) the state with the largest number of municipal green-building policies. But the state also sports a wide range of environmental diversity among its private citizens. The... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
distribution An effective channel steward considers the channel from the customer's point of view. With that view in mind, the steward then advocates for change among all participants, transforming disparate entities into partners having... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
basically the same things, which forced the two firms to compete for suppliers. 87 Ford and GM also had disparate styles and software, which made it very difficult for suppliers to streamline their systems. To solve these problems, Ford,... View Details
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
make it into the next product line. BD: Yes, I think the ways in which they grow in smaller companies is more dynamic and more externally oriented, less internally dependent, the same way a large company might. DL: But in both cases it's really important to have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
slices, lacking a grounding in practice. "A more holistic approach would bring together disparate skill sets in a very practical way, thinking about strategies and how to actually effect change in health care," she says. Another... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
particularly large gender disparity was reported between male and female executives. For example, in 1999, only 5 percent of women executives were then earning $80,000 or more, but 23 percent of male executives were in the $80,000... View Details
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
prominent South African leaders, like Nelson Mandela, and to the national soccer team. But by the mid-1990s, Surve, like many of his comrades, grew frustrated by the huge economic disparities that existed in South Africa, even though its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace