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- 15 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk
expertise among the spaghetti bowl of supervisory bodies; second, encourage rating agencies to improve their modeling of new and complex derivative products; and third, induce new investors to evaluate the ratings issued by the agencies against improved internal risk...
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- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
economic models predict that they do not systematically differ. With online grocery data, we show that people are decreasingly impatient the further in the future their choices will take effect. In general, as the delay between order...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
Schering-Plough filed a lawsuit accusing Upsher-Smith of violating Schering-Plough's patent. The companies reached an out-of-court settlement in which Upsher-Smith agreed to delay its entry into the market, and Schering-Plough agreed to...
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by Max H. Bazerman
- 25 Oct 2006
- Op-Ed
Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance
chunk of potential managerial wealth, and shareholders can remain assured that incentives are well aligned. Managers will not, however, know if they should try to accelerate earnings or delay them. They will not know what stock price they...
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by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
Piovesan Abstract To encourage worker productivity, offices prohibit Internet use. Consequently, many employees delay Internet activity to the end of the workday. Recent work in social psychology, however, suggests that using willpower to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
It’s India Above China in New World Order
insolvent. The banking problem is one of the biggest costs of the delay associated with developing a vibrant, domestic private sector. Here are our concerns for India. How will India rein in its fiscal deficit? How will India discipline...
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by Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is...
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- 14 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid
Great Britain, and the United States. Let's face it. Medicaid enrollees are treated like second-class citizens in this country, with some providers choosing either to ignore them or treating them only after considerable delay because...
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by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
Thursday afternoons, and even which rides were not part of any routine. All kinds of service companies may benefit One reason routines—and the ability to predict them—is important is that routine customers may tolerate service changes, like higher prices, or glitches,...
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- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
a role that Jack Welch is striving to play in his post-CEO life. Fighting groupthink is probably just as worthy an endeavor as attaining buy in. But what are the risks in fighting groupthink for the leader and his subordinates? What's the likelihood that it can View Details
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by James Heskett
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
percent on those investments. RECOVERY DELAYED While that response to the crisis may make rational sense, it also may explain why Spain took so long to recover from the recession. “If you make [shorter-term] investments that will turn up...
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- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
considerable risk to the company's bottom line. "Nothing good comes from waiting," Pottruck believes. "If you're going to change your business model, face the music. Delaying just erodes your position and gives your...
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by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
filing date rather than at patent grant—on the timing of licensing deals in the biomedical industry. We find that post-AIPA U.S. patent applications are significantly more likely to be licensed before patent grant and shortly after 18-month publication. Licensing View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
incentives involve delays in compensation that may make a job much less attractive to managers with shorter-term needs or interests. On the other hand, it may serve as a way of sorting out managers with a longer-term view of the job. What...
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by James Heskett
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
resilience and success. Hise O. Gibson is a senior lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. Anita Lynch is an executive fellow at the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard, and a board member of the Nasdaq US Exchanges. You Might Also Like: Why...
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by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
Silicon Valley deceiving itself in thinking that security and privacy in the use of its products can be preserved? Is Apple’s refusal to unlock the phone, as important as it is to its business future, anything more than an effort to delay...
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- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
companies like Amazon have been contemplating. For years, logistics have been managed by principles such as that of "postponement and speculation." The idea is that to approach the best match between supply and demand at a reasonable cost, a supplier has two...
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by James Heskett
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
both for-profit and traditional not-for-profit institutions to rethink the entire traditional higher education model. For the vast majority of universities change is inevitable. The main questions are when it will occur and what forces will bring it about. It would be...
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- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
partners...—Andrew McAfee Better information sharing among alliance partners may have subtle yet important benefits. One of the most common and striking dysfunctions of manufacturing supply chains is the "bullwhip effect," where information gaps and View Details
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by Andrew McAfee
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
in-person pitch meetings has stymied an industry used to schmoozing. “Informal networking is so critical to deal flow,” Gompers says. “And of course, less time is being spent on networking because you’re not physically together.” The pandemic might also View Details