the Women's Initiative - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

life sciences. The initiative was started in 1997 at the behest of Dean Kim Clark. We asked professor Gary P. Pisano, who heads up the... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

experimentation that is required for the initial commercialization and diffusion of technologies. A New Categorization of the U.S. Economy: The... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

privacy they enjoy. Our view is that initiatives to make disclosure practices salient and understandable to consumers are clearly desirable from a policy perspective, but our results recommend caution on restricting View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

Women-owned businesses are just as financially strong and creditworthy as the average U.S. firm, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Women's Business Research.... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

19 Mar 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

Businesses It was entrepreneurs from the fringes-of-society who gave birth to the green business movement starting in the 19th century, Geoffrey Jones tells us. Teach Teaching... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

combat these scourges is for rich countries to double their foreign aid budgets, and Gordon Brown, the United Kingdom's chancellor of the exchequer, has called for a new Marshall Plan to fight poverty. Both... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

04 Jan 2021
What Do You Think?

How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?

organization. Is it possible that I have that sequence wrong? Or that it might be wrong to even think of it as a sequence of priorities? What if initial efforts instead concentrated on inclusion? What if we tried to engage View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

If a dike or dam has sprung a number of leaks, there are many possible ways to respond. The initial impulse is to assiduously plug one hole after another, hoping that the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

A New Ecosystem for Business and Society

dominant form of organization has been of a hierarchy. Now and in the future, Clark said, many more people in the organization will be responsible for taking action and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers

have been increasing their footprint of small urban stores. In February, Walmart announced plans to add 270 to 300 small stores during the fiscal year, adding to the existing stable of 346 Neighborhood... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

28 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

that they may want to provide a lot of information initially to attract investors in the first place. Then as the platforms mature, they can scale back View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

18 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

they tackle issues of funding and growth. In the meantime, they continue to share the initial results of what may be the largest quantitative... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

Markt in 1997 (a creation of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, or Deutsche Börse), there is a new and receptive home for initial public offerings. To learn the practitioner's point... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

01 Apr 2019
What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

a confluence of factors that muddy the analysis” such as “the extremely deflationary push of technology,” one that is not measured correctly because of productivity increased by the greater capabilities of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

undermine those foundations. Since 2007 when we carried out our initial research, we have experienced a global financial collapse that destroyed the economic position of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Feb 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business

why they're going to be compelled to buy." A key issue is who do you do business with initially who lets the venture start moving down the "right" product road... View Details

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

departments, simplification of strategic-planning and capital budgeting processes, and massive overhauls of corporate structures and processes—all in an effort both to shift initiative to those deep in the... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

Wagaroo. The initial iteration of Wagaroo was based entirely on trying to develop an effective matching algorithm. Prospective owners filled out surveys, indicating preferences about factors such as size,... View Details