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- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
the recollections of an enraged top executive who started out with the company as a part-time store clerk in the summer of 1938: "After almost twenty years of steady decline and cutbacks, a debilitating paralysis had overtaken most stores in a growing View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
Sun Aware of the impact that modern society was having on the environment, Ashley Telkes had always tried to be cognizant of her own impact on the environment and to take reasonable steps to mitigate her own effects. Having already implemented a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
inflation nor deflation, a remarkable number of new banks have appeared, the top income tax rate is 35%, and the S&P 500 stands at 976. Because the world has become more dangerous as well as poorer, everyone looks to the United States... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
box office. The main measure that the paper uses to approximate a writer’s “observable quality” to the buyer is the number of writing credits for movies that have been released by major studios five years before the sale date of the pitch... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
stakes for advertisers are huge. Americans were exposed to over 5.3 billion online video ads in July 2011 alone, with Hulu generating the highest number of video ad impressions at more than 963 million, according to data from comScore. So... View Details
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
avoid them. "They become overhead," Gulati says of support departments. "And so this pathology continues. They escalate the number of requirements that businesses have to conform to—which they are now the custodians of—to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
crisis nor as a necessary cause of future problems. In particular, I do not share the concern that a government plan would use its scale to lower costs to a level that would drive private plans out of business. First, a large number of... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
doubt, create small experiments. Pick one loaded for success that doesn't require much change and one that demonstrates the virtues of changing. Don't bet the company, and don't waste time. Just act, simply and quickly, to have something concrete and positive to use to... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
markets grow as the number of people who are on the network grow, same as we saw on the phones. As they get bigger, many more people will come to them because that's where you go. "Now we see that the Internet land grab is really... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
Industry, 2005–2016 In 2015, the U.S. health-club industry generated revenues of $25.8 billion, up from $14.8 billion in 2004. Members of health clubs accounted for 17% of the population, up from 14%. The number of clubs had grown from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
"compensation provisions"), one side can help the other, and vice versa, via a number of devices, alone or in combination. These include a) shaping the form of the agreement (e.g., tacit v. explicit, process v. substantive); b)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts in interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number of structural changes that forced an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
with a number of questions. What were the implications of moving from an open hiring market to the placement of cohorts of BTR graduates in high-priority schools? Was BTR's model sufficient to prepare new teachers to join struggling... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
should publish these numbers or revise them just enough to avoid controversy.” Value-Based Insurance Design at Onex Joshua R. Schwartzstein, Amitabh Chandra, and Amram Migdal “The operating executives of Health and Benefits for Onex... View Details
- 11 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?
own scale, Wheeler intentionally has users distribute a fixed number of points among the different skills. A high self-rating in one area must be paid for by corresponding lower rating in others. "There's a very deliberate reason for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
hardware and software. A small number of basic functions repeatedly are put to good use by the typical user. They are the need-to-have functions. The functions thought by designers to be nice to have may enhance marketing efforts and... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
especially for emergencies. A byproduct will also be the transfer of best practice among larger groups of practitioners working in teams. These forces may elevate the role of management. This sounds good. Do you agree with it? Whether or not you agree, a View Details
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
researchers were able to find similar private firms for a good number of public firms. The team then studied the investment patterns of public and private companies within the match sample. "In particular, we looked at the level of... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
effective over the 40 years Strickland has operated it. He wants to replicate this strategy across 100 or 200 cities, but progress has been slow. Is the current intensive approach correct, or should he change it? What would be at risk? How can he best provide his... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
number of which offer Internet access. What these statistics suggest is that "the most precious currency today is information," said panelist Jim Breyer, an early investor in Facebook and a director of Wal-Mart Stores.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace