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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity

Teams equipped with vast budgets and elite credentials make decisions without understanding the reality of people who’ll need to make concessions for them. The decisions we... View Details

01 May 2000
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Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

Summing Up Hard-wiring Performance Is Great In Concept...but.... The responses to the concept of promising and delivering results rather than selling products or services are in, and you've agreed that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

and destroyed much of the country's infrastructure, Mozambique presented formidable risks as a project site. The cost of the plant, which was approximately equal to the country's gross domestic product, made the investment View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact

sometimes we don't." BEFORE: Infrastructure investments made by the Millennium Challenge Corporation in Ghana targeted poor road conditions and a lack of reliable electricity in rural areas. Photo courtesy... View Details

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

Consumers are more likely to consume when a price is vivid and fresh than when it is obscured or distant.— John Gourville In other research, I have investigated how the unbundling of price into routine payments affects the View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union

advancing those reforms, not just being a passive investor. Massachusetts, for example, is looking at ranked choice voting right now, so for our members in the Boston area it’s a moment when they could engage with their representatives... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

01 Mar 2023
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Happy Monday

doesn’t mean 32. It means that there are no expectations that people will work on Fridays unless they want to. The goal is to offer people the flexibility and choice as to how they spend their time. A policy... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons

exchange of letters in which the publisher defended Carson’s source material and its decision to issue the book, Velsicol backed away from its warnings. No lawsuits against Silent Spring were filed before or... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

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WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley - Recruiting

the complexities of balancing work and life. One particularly impactful moment was meeting Qasar Younis (MBA 2008), CEO of Applied Intuition. His perspective on career choices left a lasting impression for... View Details

05 Aug 2014
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A Diversified Portfolio

funded. Dodi doesn't think VCs do this intentionally, "It's just that people invest in what they know and in who they are most comfortable with. When it's a choice between one team View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

05 May 2020
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“Walking a Tightrope”

In this episode of Skydeck, contributor April White speaks to WuDunn about what led to the fragile economic conditions of blue-collar America, what solutions are being developed to address those issues, and... View Details

10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

capital structure for their subsidiaries around the world and allocate internal funds among them. As a consequence, analyzing their choices provides a clean test of what matters for capital structure View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

15 Sep 2003
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The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

test systems. HP experienced both a financial loss and a morale loss, while Teradyne capitalized on an opportunity and preempted a market migration away from its products. Ultimately, financial expectations... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

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Losing Passion for Your Job? Why Quitting Might Be the Right Move | Working Knowledge

going.” Your first success doesn’t need to define you Jachimowicz points to professional athletes who retire due to physical limitations and have no choice but to try something new. Just look at former... View Details

02 May 2016
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Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

Democracy has a dirty little secret. Despite the fever pitch over presidential primaries this year, the truth is there are few people actually voting. Before the most recent round of voting, only some 11 percent of eligible Democrats voted in the primaries, View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

22 Feb 2016
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The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

countries improve trade conditions and build sustainable practices. Back then, fair trade essentially referred to a system of price-fixing, using Resale Price Maintenance contracts to help smaller businesses... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

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Evolving Executive Education: Five Lessons from the Senior Associate Dean

case method, exercises, simulations, and other aspects of our proven learning approach into our virtual programs. I am particularly excited to see the case method—which puts participants in the shoes of View Details

01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

for classroom discussion. Recently augmented by advances in technology, his concept is leading to a significant shift in the nature of case discussion and classroom dynamics. Starting in 1991, Bhide asked students in his Entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

and financial base before they scale. Morrell: For example, with no suitable last-mile infrastructure to rely on in the region, BulkWhiz had to build its own. It was costly and time-consuming—and not a View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

deep financial distress and had no choice but seek a foreign partner. Ghosn, who had never worked in Japan but had extensive experiences in other parts of the world, motivated the middle management at Nissan... View Details