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1.5 Attendance | MBA
Personal Illness Students are encouraged to stay home from class when they are not feeling well. Personal illness absences are designed to excuse a student from class in these instances and include absences due to: Isolation due to a... View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
isolation is of great interest, we believe that the analysis of interactions between business models can highlight important hidden insights. In this paper, for example, we show that contrary to the popular view, p2p and iTunes can... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
new ways to support the community. In early March, the organization had to close all of their on-site programs and figure out how they could continue to help the community’s vulnerable populations, especially school-aged children, families struggling with food... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
have transformed themselves into highly competitive organizations. Although a considerable body of research has traced the macroeconomic reforms of these emerging economies, little post-reform evaluation, other than isolated case studies,... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Releases
simultaneous learning, planning, and execution. The authors identify the common traps that can derail leaders early on - such as becoming isolated or attempting to do too much - and offer prescriptive advice on how to avoid them. They... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
to isolate exogenous shocks to local ethnic populations, and identify a causal link between local networks and firm trade links. Firms that exploit their local networks (strategic traders) see significant increases in future sales growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
combined with more sophisticated methods of analyzing it, provide managers with powerful tools to help them isolate the effects of various marketing instruments. The framework developed by Gupta and Steenburgh helps managers think through... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
you are able to grow helps reduce the demand on essential workers and contributes to your family’s health,” Zmick says. “And it’s a great way to relax when you are struggling with isolation and uncertainty.” About the Authors Howard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
the café. “It’s the oil that makes the engine move,” Marietta says of Appalachian culture. “It took over 150 years to develop, and it’s dependent on the geographic isolation and biodiversity of the area. You can’t replicate it.” “It’s the... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
So you really watched your step and were careful about what you said.” Can’t you just imagine it? Headquarters vs. the engineers, engineering vs. manufacturing, manufacturing vs. sales, etc. leading to Boeing vs. customers and the public. If this were an View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
problems that hold back the rest of their economy. The problem is, isolated zones for processing foreign inputs and exporting all these outputs are the antithesis of cluster development. Emerging nations must create programs and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
Through hundreds of years of experience in the sciences, and decades in commercial product development, researchers have discovered a lot about how to design experiments to maximize learning. We know, for example, that an effective experiment has to View Details
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
attractiveness led to a 36 percent increase in pitch success. But for female entrepreneurs, their looks had no apparent effect on the success of their pitches. The second study was an experiment designed to isolate the effect of gender on... View Details
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
locations, others alter service offerings according to the opportunities presented by the local markets. The bank studied by the researchers, which operated in 644 geographically isolated markets, offered different levels of service... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
imperialism, there is reason to believe that John Holt is not an isolated case of a company assuming this form. Holt and others function as intermediaries between global business, which rarely invests in small African markets and where... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Abstract—Conversation is a fundamental human experience, one that is necessary to pursue intrapersonal and interpersonal goals across myriad contexts, relationships, and modes of communication. In the current research, we isolate the role... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
and push for improvement from their employees and clinicians. If we can shift attention to the organizations that have found a way to achieve both aims—financial and quality—that’s really the exciting direction. But getting there is not going to happen through... View Details
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
management level.” If only they could be heard. Often these individuals remain buried in hierarchy, impacting only their isolated areas of influence. In the working paper Organizational Toolmaking: Transformations in the Influence of... View Details
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
viewpoint will become more isolated and narrow." Brenda Walker, who chided me for not supplying the Internet link to the David Brooks column that I referenced, suggested that "trusted sources of information filtering will have... View Details
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
Nike managers failed to pick up the relevant market signals and learn from them. It took them too long to figure out that consumers wanted something different from what Nike was offering at the time. Unfortunately, Garvin states, this is not an View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron