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- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
the answers in ways that are right for you. By asking these questions, you can craft new strategies for staying on top of your game. Publisher's Link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
Management for Corporate Leaders in 2010, says she's still following up with both banks and plans to turn the research into teaching case studies. She's also looking at how risk management works in industries such as electrical and nuclear power, at View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
own profits when one side is subsidized in equilibrium. By contrast, if platforms make positive margins on both sides, the same investment has the regular, expected effects. Our analysis implies that the strategy View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
policy solutions, a challenging proposition in a politically polarized environment. This paper focuses on how CEOs engage in the political process to encourage government policies that will foster sustainability transitions and address other social problems. Distinct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
pursued flexible business strategies beyond its "core" business, even distributing condoms. It maintained a high standard of corporate ethics. It was effective at building contacts with local business and government elites,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
this strategy actually worked, up until now. “LEED [adoption] is not just something to pay attention to when there's a bid to rebuild city hall.” In a new paper, Public Procurement and the Private Supply of Green Buildings, authors... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
"What I’ve said that turned out to be right will be considered obvious, and what was wrong will be humorous" —Bill Gates, The Road Ahead, 1995 In 2001, I wrote a book explaining why accelerated growth strategies created value for some... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
investing, bringing transparency to the financial services market, and enabling retail investors to invest their capital in a way that aligned with their values. However, getting to scale and profitability in the crowded robo-advisors View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
school's new online education program. "We often think of ideas in the visual space arising through creative genius. But they actually are shaped through experience," Anand said during a summit session called "Transforming Giants: Forget... View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
be overlooked if not forgiven. Clinton will doubtless try to pin Trump down on policy and expose his lack of detailed knowledge. Trump will try to stick to broad brush strokes, avoid policy specifics and leave enough white space for... View Details
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
exodus. Generational expectations about what makes a good job are changing, employees are fatigued from the year-long pandemic and there are labor shortages everywhere. Employees have had the time and space to think about what really... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 23 Mar 2021
- Book
Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World
could you send an email? Rather than select in an ad-hoc way, we need to choose the tool that facilitates work. Blanding: You also talk about strategies for working with global teams. What are your top tips for collaborating across... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
have the time and space to focus on satisfying customers, many service organizations today are actually undermining their people's ability to serve. You must manage your customers. You must be deliberate about involving your customers in... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
prices. These stores kept their costs down partly by moving into low-rent commercial spaces and hiring unskilled, low-wage workers, rather than trained pharmacists. Against predatory pricing Although these competitors didn’t sell... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
opportunities, but also created challenges throughout their organizations. At the Multi-Channel Retail panel, speakers from three retail companies, all heavily invested in multi-channel selling, talked about how they were tailoring their View Details
- 18 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'
divestment vs. engagement. Today’s leaders in the finance space face a dilemma: Do they use their financial “seat at the table” to convince a company to become greener? Or do they divest their funds, sending a signal to the company and... View Details
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
focuses on the economics and strategy of digital: how organizations need to adapt and change in this new environment, and the individual skills required to succeed in a digital economy. "You know that a significant change has taken... View Details
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
Sotheby's, but the establishment of Saffronart in 2000 changed the discourse in the market space by incorporating ideas from the academic discourse into their auction texts. Because Saffronart focused on auctions of only modern Indian art... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
their stock recommendations when they have an educational link to the company. A simple portfolio strategy of going long the buy recommendations with school ties and going short buy recommendations without ties earns returns of 6.60% per... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
You’re the founder of a growing startup and it seems like just yesterday that you were a team of five, sharing a co-working space with one table and five chairs. There was an open flow of communication in the room and unless someone’s... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin