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- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
questions: How do men construct masculine identity in high-hazard workplaces that emphasize safety and effectiveness, and what organizational features support and sustain these efforts? To address these questions, we studied offshore oil... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
Cash Flow (RDCF) valuation model to calculate the revenue required to support a given stock price for a given company. Then, the methodology applied a probability that the company would achieve the needed revenues in the next 12 months,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
began to grow steadily, and it seemed as if Dal LaMagna might at last be on his way to creating a business that would do more than merely support him. In the first year, he pulled in about $1,800; five years later, he was booking close to... View Details
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
clients' campaigns. This practice was institutionalized by an arrangement known as the "recognition system" between agencies and publishers, and administered by a set of trade associations. Among other things, the system supported... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
underdeveloped support infrastructure. As the managing director of the Office of Technology Transfer at the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, he works with researchers at the forefront of biology and biotech, yet he faces... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
consensus that embraced international trade and outsourcing while supporting continuous upgrading of workplace skills. In April 2009, the new Prime Minister, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, is balancing short-term responses to a global recession... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
value of this asset over the next twelve months is $125 million). Thus, the larger is the Value at Risk of the assets of the firm, the larger must be the equity cushion to protect the liability holders of the firm against loss within a probability limit that will View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
focuses on basic scientific discovery, it has identified clinical physicians and scientists in the broad research community as its primary customers. Accordingly, the firm is organized to support pure and applied research and the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
initiative that will address a problem hinted at in the overall relationship survey ("this is the 'digging and understanding' layer," says Cunningham); and, at the most granular level, records of each individual transaction that the company's technical View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
Rangoon and e-mailing it to thousands of supporters around the world. There are bootleg copies of academic papers and Snoop Doggy Dogg's latest hits. In cyberspace, even solemn corporations indulge their rebel side, slipping around the... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
sustainability and identify organization design and leadership characteristics of differentiating and integrating that can more effectively support seemingly contradictory strategies. The Euro as a Reserve Currency for Global Investors... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
from their own social networks. Some of these projects are selected and actively supported by senior executives; this support sends clear signals about what collaboration is valued by the firm, which gives... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
degree, such as retail salesperson or cashier. One possible explanation for the highly uneven employment outcomes of college graduates is that the supply of graduates exceeds demand, at least for certain fields. The data support that.... View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
what is the right choice is so difficult. "Access to seemingly endless information online means you can find information to support the feasibility of any possible option. This may actually make decisions harder, not easier,” Hagerty... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
patient has to desire empowerment, the patient has to have the ability to take on the responsibility of empowerment, and the patient needs a support mechanism, such as family members or providers to help. Incapables may fall short on one... View Details
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
said he has been the target of many hateful Tweets reacting to his public support of gay rights. "Whether we realize it or not, there's a cost to making these major overtures," Foxworth said. Elberse asked the players, all of... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
their hypothetical choices were organic milk and vegetables. "We could support some of the story but not all of it yet," Karmarkar says. And so she and Bollinger conducted a second experiment, in which participants reported how... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
turbulence” Badaracco, the John Shad Professor of Business Ethics, argues that, while market-based competition has been with us as long as capitalism, companies have been insulated from it over the last half-century by the growth of large companies View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
and with the firm's future performance. The results do not support the view that executive and outside directors use their connections to extract rents. Rather the company compensates these individuals for the resources these better... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne