Science And Technology Studies - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine

thought. However, that wasn’t that case, according to the study, Creating Exercise Habits Using Incentives: The Trade-off Between Flexibility and Routinization, published by the journal Management Science in... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

31 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom

generating goodwill in a nonaggressive way. Q: You write a lot about interactions between humans and technology. Are computers the perfect tool for customized marketing? A: The tailoring of messages via computer View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

economic data that it collected and published. He made it a priority of government to study the nature of business cycles and to bring business executives to Washington, D.C.,... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

October 2019 (Revised December 2019)
Supplement

Extend Fertility: Conceiving the Market for Egg Preservation (B)

By: Debora L. Spar and Olivia Hull

Keywords: Strategy; Information Technology; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Science-Based Business; Marketing Strategy; Business Plan; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Mission and Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Integration; Health; Health Industry

Citation

Purchase

02 Apr 2014
What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

Pradip Shroff added: "The simple fact is that leadership is an art and science of blending various styles based on the situation." Yan Song summed up this point by commenting that,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

29 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

as a research agenda or needed areas for study for the coming years in this area? Everyone is intrigued with the sudden globalization of our business. Real estate is a people business, and whether developers... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

investors, and builders can learn from the African experience, where public-private partnerships and deployments of new technologies are illuminating new ways to approach the... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

Administration I study business leaders, government leaders, religious leaders, social activists, and other individuals — past and present — who exercise real, worthy impact.... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

03 Feb 2011
What Do You Think?

Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?

leadership, governance, innovation management, the networking of organizations, and social responsibility—as the "single most important development(s) in the area of management in the just-ended decade of the new century."... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

much broader setting. "Students would ask me about the possibility of establishing a global system of business ethics," Paine says, "and whether cultural clashes of one degree or another were inevitable. I needed a systematic way to View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

25 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

while studying the manufacturing floor at a leading, technologically advanced global contract manufacturer's plant in Southern China, where tens of thousands of workers assembled mobile devices under close... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

this e-mail interview with Laura Linard.Linard: You write that a reason to study the historical role of government in risk management is to better "understand government and its role in the new... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

03 Oct 2012
What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

skills, and engineering capabilities" resulting from the clustering of universities, suppliers, and manufacturers in industries such as biotechnology, electronic components, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

make a global decisions supports, a more global perspective in managing supply chains." Globalization of Retailing A study of three global retailers—Carrefour,Wal-Mart, and Ahold—sheds light on the... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

27 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Social Network Marketing: What Works?

it's important to understand both who influences purchase decisions in online communities and which groups of users can be influenced. “Viral campaigns truly leverage the network aspect of these social networking sites.” "By understanding... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising; Publishing; Retail

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

fatigue people feel from the technological environment, and always being connected through video chat. How can people minimize that? Neeley: Tech exhaustion is a symptom of us overusing video for meetings... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates

When the FBI charged Shawn Hogan and two others with defrauding eBay of about $21 million in affiliate marketing sales, Benjamin G. Edelman was watching closely behind the scenes. Edelman's name rarely came up at the time of the 2010... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Publishing

19 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

need for global collaboration accelerates and companies recalibrate their remote and hybrid arrangements, Choudhury and colleagues present the first real-time data on how... View Details