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- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
market is not a market in any traditional sense of the term. Rather, it resembled more of a closed ecosystem in which selection decisions were based on highly stylized criteria that often had little to do with the problems a firm was... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
the larger field of organizational research. We test this assertion by analyzing studies of negotiation published in top peer-reviewed management, psychology, sociology, and industrial relations journals from 1990 to 2005. Our findings reveal a continuum of open View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
team that wrote hundreds of cases for the new school, now flourishing in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. At the same time, Lodge undertook a three-year research project in the remote province of Veraguas in Panama to study the process of change in a developing country at... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
firms, less strongly across firms, and often violated in community-based development settings. The exceptions in turn were of two types: In four cases, closely collaborating teams within single firms created modular View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
How did you get them to set aside their differences, their traditional rivalries, and work together? Litow: We created a governance structure in which the community college system, through the City University of New York and the chancellor of the city university View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
same hyper-detailed analysis and speed-of-light response that helped them close the deal. In practice, Ely notes, such cultures result in overpromising, overdelivering, and—consequently—overworking. “The underlying motivation for working... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
"Perhaps there's too much policy and procedure in place and not enough thinking." For David Brewster, lessons included the "failure of strategic planning to consider the small, frontline detail . . . a matter of getting View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
of several South American nations. Its operations in numerous energy-related industries have done much to improve the economic infrastructure of that continent's emerging countries. On the other hand, the close connections of some groups... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
Working PapersRunning Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What to Do About It (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract The Internet's current numbering system is nearing exhaustion: existing protocols allow only a finite set... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
Sustainable Evaluation System Strategy By: Eccles, Robert G., and Peijun Duan Abstract—China's sustainable development faces three challenges: first, the follow-up momentum of sustainable economic growth and economic transformation is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
Engineering team. At the moment, it appears that the government is unwilling or unable to share the method by which Apple’s phone systems were unlocked. For one thing, the company that hacked into the iPhone for the FBI did it with... View Details
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
University have distinguished between what they call System 1 and System 2 thought. System 1 thought describes our intuition: quick, automatic, effortless, and influenced by... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
Why are so many businesses—though seemingly intent on fostering innovation—unable to get new products through their organizations and into the marketplace? Ed Ludwig faced such circumstances as the new president of New Jersey-based Becton Dickinson's Diagnostic... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
where informal but highly effective relationships may exist, introducing an EHR system might generate formal processes that, at a certain level, become counterproductive. "In large practices, where staff might be less likely to interact... View Details
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
Brian Kenny: In September of 2013, President Obama sent shock waves through American higher education by announcing plans to create a federal rating system that would allow parents and students to easily compare colleges. He said he would... View Details
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
best-known authority, TRUSTe, are more than twice as likely to be untrustworthy as uncertified sites. This difference remains statistically and economically significant when restricted to "complex" commercial sites. In contrast, competing certification View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
"Firms today have access to a wealth of information about customers and sales prospects," says Narayandas. "Now more than ever before, companies are able to leverage technology to work more closely and to collaborate in new... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
Cores, while closed collocated organizations tend to develop systems with larger Cores. Our findings represent a first step in establishing some "stylized facts" about the fine-grained structure of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
On Amazon, sniping is much less effective, since the automatic extension rule means that other bidders always have 10 minutes to respond. And sniping is not without cost: Planning to make a late bid may mean that you fail to make a bid, either because the auction View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
Sciences Modularity and Organizations By: Baldwin, Carliss Y Abstract—Modularity describes the degree to which a complex system can be broken apart into subunits (modules) that can be recombined in various ways. Modularity is important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne