Coupling - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

Margolis described a couple quick and simple tools that allow us to get a better handle on the adversity we face: Write it down: Taking a few minutes to write down a problem can save all that time you might have spent commiserating with... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

cost? Yes, it probably would be worth it, she says. Should Hollywood sue Bollywood production houses to fight plagiarism? This bet can be a lost cause for American studios. After showing a couple of scenes of the Bollywood version of the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

29 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019

Business, Too Couples with deliberate rituals feel more satisfied with their relationships. Can businesses also benefit? The Ferrari Way Secretive sports car maker Ferrari opens up about how it has bucked industry trends to achieve... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Oct 2016
What Do You Think?

Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

graduates and former students who are exploring innovations such as battery technology, superconductivity, magnetism, and superintelligent computers. My feelings are buoyed when I read about a “second machine age” fueled by digital technologies, hailed by Erik... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

base—3,000 or 4,000 words at an intermediate level. You're not asking people to have native-like mastery in English, which hovers around 10,000 words. You're simply asking them to develop enough skill to function effectively. A language strategy View Details

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley

03 Apr 2009
What Do You Think?

How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

few lines or a couple of minutes. As a result, entire industries, such as newspaper publishing, are dying along with a generation that buys and reads them. People are reading news online, but they are willing to pay very little for it. As... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News

04 Apr 2008
What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

developed and distributed in China, had to come up with a realistic business plan projection a couple of years ago. It required an estimation of the share of potential revenues that would be siphoned off by others appropriating the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

would jump-start change at SGDU, she began to suspect (correctly) that people throughout the unit were talking about its strategy—and she further suspected that plenty of managers a couple of layers down had insights that she needed to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

03 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 3

MacCormack, Alan, Robert Lagerstrom, and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—We propose a network-based methodology for operationalizing enterprise architecture. Our methodology is based upon using a "Design Structure Matrix" (DSM) to capture the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

couple of years ago with the lies about emissions testing— other companies that have been able to overcome something like this? George: Volkswagen hasn't fully overcome it. One of my students worked for Volkswagen and said [it paid] $27... View Details

Keywords: Re: Liangzong Ma

18 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

Andrew Banks and Royce Yudkoff were considering raising a 5th fund for their media-focused private equity firm, ABRY Partners. ABRY had a strong track record that the co-founders attributed to their group's deep knowledge of the media industry and relationships with... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States

"ghost" condominiums, coupled with immigration, fuel the demand. The supply of housing is limited, due to the topography of the nation, the need to live near jobs, and the fact that the government owns 90% of the land. Add to... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas, John H. Vogel & Charles S. Laven; Construction; Real Estate

07 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 7

couple significantly strengthened the organization's talent, focused on innovation, growth, and provided a learning environment for their employees. Through cost efficiencies and pricing strategies, Elasto Therm was able to achieve higher... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year

the weapon, if the only intention for making the purchase was to do harm within a certain period of time. “The most plausible explanation as to why waiting periods work is this: People have visceral states, such as anger or suicidal impulses,” Malhotra says. “Giving... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

reporting requirements for US senators and representatives mandate the disclosure of all financial transactions in a given year, which allowed Minor to construct their risk preferences. Coupled with no shortage of examples of misconduct,... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

written a couple of chapters in other books on just this topic. Businesses can be powerful generators of social value because of their distinctive sets of competencies and resources. A major challenge facing business leaders is how to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

Luff, Manager, Corporate Philanthropy Programs at Pfizer, Inc.] and Dr. Cook [Joe Cook, head of the Program for Tropical Disease Research at the Clark Foundation] was facilitated by a personal connection that helped to initiate the relationship. Ms. Luff recounted:... View Details

Keywords: by Diana Barrett, James Austin & Sheila McCarthy

30 Dec 2013
HBS Case

HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers

advertising revenues over the past decade, as readers turned from print to more immediate sources of news. Coupled with rising printing, paper, and labor costs, the decreasing revenues created falling margins and increased leverage... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Journalism & News; Publishing

18 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

for improvement and can also be coupled with organizational changes via processes of organizational learning, even in the face of intense efficiency demands. Furthermore, our findings suggest important strategic considerations for... View Details