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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
have to be willing and able to tear down in order to build up. The old and proven and venerable must sometimes give way to the new and innovative and transformational. But we should also note that capitalism is far from perfect. While... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
McKinsey to found Acorn Systems where he developed software to incorporate time equations into ABC. The software modeled how, for example, the time to process a customer order would vary depending on whether it was a standard or a custom... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
audiences anywhere in the world. We have to work faster and more collaboratively. We have to be able to work seamlessly across all those turfs and tiny territories that used to characterize big bureaucracies. And that's a new culture, a new way of working. There's... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
On It? The Effects of Overnight Sleep on Subjective Preference-Based Choice, forthcoming in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Sleeping on a decision may not lead to a happy outcome. ©iStock/vadimguzhva In order to test their... View Details
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
technology expertise they need. And thus the link to savings—to attract an investor, companies must put collateral into the project: money from savings. With access to technology, the company improves its productivity and contributes to... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
“Because the money was not immediately available during the Ebola crisis, we had more human losses than we should have, which rolled back development gains made in Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea.” High finance, wide impact: The Mulan... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
firm that provides capital advisory services to mid-sized, privately-held companies. Constantini cited his development of a company, Boston Financial, as one of his most rewarding projects. "I was able to do some creative, innovative things in View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
cases of the model are a long-lived pressure group offering rewards and punishments to a series of targets (public or corporate officials) in exchange for policy favors, or that of a long-lived extorter who demands money in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
participants were given a series of seven letters and asked to create as many words as possible," the paper explains. "The last series of letters was presented in a different order for each participant so that we could track who... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
entertainment: building a business around blockbuster products-the movies, television shows, songs, and books that are hugely expensive to produce and market-is the surest path to long-term success. Along the way, I reveal why entertainment executives often spend... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
If the COVID-19 crisis lasts four months, 65 percent of small retailers say there’s a good chance they’ll be forced to close permanently by the end of the year. Among restaurants and bars, 70 percent expect to go out of business if social-distancing View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
90 percent ownership of a toilet or access to a toilet. So, you can build toilets, but how do you get people to use them? You have a huge communication exercise by government, by NGOs, by players, trying to ensure that people understood why they should use the toilet.... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 1
so, we could connect the dots maybe in ways that other people couldn't. So that's number one. Number two is, from the get go, our notion was green is green. Right? So this is not a feel good marketing campaign. This is really because this is the wave of business... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
depicting the circumstances as it does, the movie will still send a message, says Mandelli. “The message is of women being ambitious, and that being okay, and the message of women wanting to make money and that being okay,” she says. “I... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
ad, followed by a longer period of joy, in order to get the most 'attention' bang for the buck," Teixeira says. This finding flies in the face of focus groups of the past, which found that viewers responded most positively to ads that had... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
before bed, can help couples and families bond and provide comfort at a time when so many other aspects of our lives have changed, Norton says. “With little kids, we don’t mix up the bedtime ritual. We do the same thing in the same order... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
acquisition (CPA). However, these standard online advertising metrics are plagued with attribution problems and do not account for dynamics. These issues can easily lead firms to overspend on some actions and thus waste money and/or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
being sold and measuring the effectiveness of an ad campaign. Improved technology promises to solve the age-old problem once stated by retailer John Wanamaker: Half of the money spent on advertising is wasted, but no one knows which half.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
of whom could benefit from using 3-D printing technology in different ways. In order to reach them, the company faced three options, which Cespedes spells out in a Teaching Note accompanying the case: (1) developing an outbound sales... View Details