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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
approach to competition becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. Without a distinctive strategic direction, speed and flexibility lead nowhere. Either no unique competitive advantages are created, or improvements are generic and cannot be... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
providing a basis for the British and Dutch components of Unilever to coexist with one another. Undoubtedly some Special Committees worked better than others, depending on the relationships between the individuals involved. The View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?
large required up-front payments to help make insurance coverage more affordable. Legacy insurers are often using systems that evolved from the traditional approach of hand-processing contracts and checks, which makes adapting to the View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
arrangement and a commitment contract that made the $30 payment conditional on both attending the provider visit and meeting an ART adherence threshold. Third, the passive control arm received routine care and no incentives. Participants:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Quantifying the Economic Impact of the Internet
entrepreneurship, and productivity.” Consider also the social benefits of the Internet, harder to quantify but including the power of access to information as well as greater flexibility in balancing work... View Details
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
flexibility they need to work and be caregivers. Indeed, Healy and colleagues find that between 35 and 55 percent of the gender wage gap for executives reflects differences in the types of jobs that women... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Birth of the American Salesman
Influence People, published originally in 1937, remains one of the most popular and draws in part on lessons the author learned working as a salesman for Armour. Q: You trace the world of selling in America and the salesman from the... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
enhanced creativity and reduced intergroup bias. In contrast, the present work uncovers a potential downside of foreign experiences: increased immoral behavior. We propose that broad foreign experiences (i.e., experiences in multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
organizations to flexibly respond by devising new arrangements and renegotiating the old ones. Salient examples requiring some truly complex negotiations include the convergence of computing,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
Working Papers Learning from the Kursk Submarine Rescue Failure: The Case for Pluralistic Risk Management. By: Mikes, Anette, and Amram Migdal Abstract—The Kursk, a Russian nuclear‐powered submarine, sank in the relatively shallow... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
enabling new players to innovate without understanding how the technology building blocks they are using actually work inside. This suggests that there are new rules of competition, where firms should move beyond commoditized parts and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
Authors:Steenburgh, Thomas J., and Das Narayandas Publication:Chap. 9 in Legends in Marketing: Philip Kotler, 114-122. Sage, forthcoming An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book235569 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
software deployments, and new coordinated routines across teams. The best can use this as an opportunity to experiment and learn where technology can deliver service or enable more flexible work... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
and Nohria examine how an organization built around the four-drive theory might look. The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of work. With it, life... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
began to appear in the 1990s, with French historian Laurence Fontaine's Histoire du colportage en Europe: XVe-XIXe siècle, a work translated into English and published by Duke University Press as History of Pedlars in Europe in 1996. This... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
well as well-being. For example: Abundant communication. Regular briefings, communication from many levels, town hall dialogues. Cross-training, so people can fill in for one another. Flexible work... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bundle?
separately. "Bundling is pervasive in several markets, and it works in many cases," says Vineet Kumar, an assistant professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School. People appreciate bundles even at places like McDonald's,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
A proposal out of Harvard and MIT to rethink how kidney transplants are allocated could result in a fairer system giving patients longer lives. The new empirical model, which is intensely data driven, would provide a flexible framework to... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
benefits for caregivers—if only employees would use them. While 65 percent of employers said they offered flexible working arrangements—the most common caregiving benefit—only 39 percent of employees said... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
Working PapersIncorporating Price and Inventory Endogeneity in Firm-Level Sales Forecasting Authors:Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur, and Ananth Raman Abstract As numerous papers have argued, sales, inventory, and gross margin for a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace