Disparities - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

part of your goal was to be able to mix and match some of the databases of items for sale, which you could do on a hosted version but couldn't do if they were off in disparate places. Randall: Right. For instance, right now we run... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

12 Jan 2016
First Look

January 12, 2016

socioeconomic disparities in health and mortality is a well-established fact. Many pathways have been adduced to explain inequality in life spans. In this article we examine one factor that has been somewhat neglected: people with... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

distribution An effective channel steward considers the channel from the customer's point of view. With that view in mind, the steward then advocates for change among all participants, transforming disparate entities into partners having... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Patient–Physician Gender Concordance and Increased Mortality Among Female Heart Attack Patients By: Greenwood, Brad, Seth Carnahan, and Laura Huang Abstract—We examine patient gender View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

education, and the arts—Forged in Crisis spotlights five masters of crisis: polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, President Abraham Lincoln, legendary abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Nazi-resisting clergyman Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and environmental crusader Rachel Carson.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

media environment controlled by the Chinese government. At the same time, this case offers insights into the structure of the highly fragmented Chinese consumers market, exploring the socio-economic disparities in income and media access... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

make it into the next product line. BD: Yes, I think the ways in which they grow in smaller companies is more dynamic and more externally oriented, less internally dependent, the same way a large company might. DL: But in both cases it's really important to have... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

prominent South African leaders, like Nelson Mandela, and to the national soccer team. But by the mid-1990s, Surve, like many of his comrades, grew frustrated by the huge economic disparities that existed in South Africa, even though its... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

objective was "to gain insight into hospital problems in order to serve them better," in a market where service would make the difference since price disparities were rapidly vanishing due to increasing competition. The candid... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

undermines creative thinking in tasks that draw on knowledge from multiple cultures. Three studies (a network survey and two experiments) found that ambient cultural disharmony decreased individuals' effectiveness at connecting ideas from View Details