Internet Of Things - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 2019
What Do You Think?

Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?

How Will the Case Method Have to Evolve to Meet Future Needs? Like any good case discussion, this month’s column generated thoughtful comments centered around several issues concerning whether or not the case method has become outmoded. These included issues View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

16 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

little value. We have a sample of firms that do hire translators, and the things that get lost in translation are actually greater. What is important is having someone who can translate but who also... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

summarized, “If he’d stuck to coaching and coaching alone during his time in Philadelphia, things just might have been different for Kelly in the NFL.” We revisit Carroll as another example of what can... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

20 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All

and jerk of your carry-on up to the overhead. An inelegant flop into the middle seat completes the journey—until the passenger in front shoves her seat back, removing your kneecaps. But new research shows that—in addition to these... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Air Transportation; Sports; Travel

06 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best

Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment, released in May. The pair used a consumer durable goods business in India as a real-world laboratory for the research. "Running this kind of experiment is not the easiest View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

Increased financial disclosure standards on such issues as executive compensation should provide more useful information for investors, policy makers, and regulators. But do the companies themselves benefit? What researchers are now discovering is that increasing... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

politicians and the voters who elected them—fostering greater employment, say. SEC enforcement actions can be costly for companies, about a third of which go out of business after being targeted. Heese... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

When Apple introduced the iPod, it had a simple but compelling tag line for music fans: "1,000 thousand songs in your pocket." The company sold 300 million of them. On the eve of debuting its... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

learning that will be useful to future missions. This might include decisions on how much telemetry data to provide in flight, a useful source of fault-finding data should things go wrong, as well as the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

with other derivatives. Those will continue to occur. However, I believe that the benefits of using CDS will dwarf the costs of mistakes, just as has been the case for interest rate, equity, and currency... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

of a government procurement policy's stimulating demand or stimulating supply don't stop at the border," Toffel says. In the paper, the researchers chalk up the findings to education; in complying with government policies, builders and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

took root, DIS regained leadership in its market. "The process got things on the table quickly," Ludwig says. 3. Be Open And Inclusive Fundamental business innovations almost always require changing the worldview and the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

interaction, coordination, communication, and decision making employees use to transform resources into products and services of greater worth. A company's processes determine its skills and strengths as well as its limitations and... View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

have to be in sync with the government, and by that I mean national, provincial, and local. Without government support you will fail. Q: Any words of advice for Western companies that want to do business with China? A: There are several... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

professionals and understand professional norms. As long as there is a fair hearing, it’s perfectly fine to get relevant information into the decision-making process.” The most important thing for academics to keep in mind, says Moss, is... View Details