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- 15 Dec 2023
- News
The Musts of 2023
translated that into a world where she had to deal with a lot of discrimination. I think it was the humor that did it. I think if it had just been the pink outfits and their dolls and this sort of, this message, I don't think it would... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
of this sort could be a valuable addition to many if not most companies in at least five ways: as a source of knowledge and expertise, as a sounding board and constructive critic, as a driver of accountability, as a stimulus for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2021
- Op-Ed
How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback
reports delivered to employees at all sorts of companies. I’m often struck by the way the process can break down. First, what the givers intend to convey and what they actually express to recipients may differ dramatically. Second, what... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino
- 11 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
likely to be seen “coming from a genuine place because this is something that is now done in this work environment versus if a manager sort of does this out of nowhere.” Ignoring the problem won’t make it go away Of course, a manager... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
higher in the future, then the price is going to start rising today. Although expectations of all sorts are important, one particular set of expectations—about the state of the overall economy and one's own future income—is especially... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
not as idiosyncratic or unique as we once thought. You look for the same sort of reasoning you would have used for other skilled labor markets and staff,” Greenstein says. “There are HR people who are used to this. When you get into the... View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
power really works." In many ways, the book comes across as a sort of modern update of Machiavelli’s classic political treatise on power, but with plenty of non-Machiavellian twists. Instead of talking about how princes, plutocrats, and... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
play As a venture develops, McDonald suggests borrowing from others’ ideas. There are plenty of examples of companies doing this successfully: Uber drew inspiration from the carpool-match service Zimride (which became Lyft). Instagram adapted Snapchat’s stories... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 09 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Identify Great Customers from Their First Purchase
working paper, Ascarza and coauthor Nicolas Padilla, a doctoral candidate at Columbia Business School, show that a statistical tool known as a deep exponential family model can effectively sort the most relevant variables and account for... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
people knew that maybe had worked there for 20 years, and think about the new ideas that were coming to the table and sort through how they could work in the system, that’s what really got us to the next level. JH: The energy business got... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
in sorting out action plans for their various lines of business. By the end of the decade, more than 60 percent of the computer communications will be computer-to-computer.— Nolan and Bennigson Newness and complexity have been a second... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
effort, and money to the legal issues? No. That's a good reason to hire a competent lawyer. Excellent legal talent can be retained for relatively little money up front at the early stages. It will cost much less to get it right at the beginning than to try to View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
heat shielding. But most importantly, they’ve accepted that failures are actually part of building a space program, which is something NASA sort of didn’t accept, even though they had some. Their big rocket launch recently had what they... View Details
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
inclusively." One of the stories that I included in my book Rebel Talent was about the airline pilot Captain “Sully” Sullenberger, who lost power in both jet engines over the Hudson River shortly after taking off from New York City. He had served in the military, flown... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots
study its internal innovation accelerator, Genesis Labs. Launched in 2017, the program sought out the sort of high-risk, high-reward projects that tend to get screened out of the typical R&D process. It succeeded in generating a lot of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
gained higher levels of education and workforce integration, leading analysts to blame ingrained bias and “occupational sorting” for the difference. Occupational sorting occurs when people select jobs based on their demographics. For... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner
Martha? First, she's a celebrity, and celebrities are often lightning rods. Second, the fact that she is focused on the home and hearth is sort of counterculture. She has the guts and the talent and the insight to take that on. People... View Details
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
restructuring their lives and letting go of a big part of their identity as employed people. Although most welcomed the freedom and flexibility, many retirees described unexpected feelings of being at loose ends, and it typically took from six months to two years (or... View Details
- 22 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture
pool of prospective employees grows. -- The cost of selecting among many applicants is offset by cost savings as prospective employees sort themselves into and out of consideration for jobs. -- This self-selection process reduces the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
it's supposed to." Bower continues: "Theoretically, when an industry has excess capacity, prices fall and the least efficient producers can't survive." But, Bower adds, that doesn't always happen. "In many countries, for all sorts of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons