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- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
original proposed stratospheric valuation, its byzantine corporate structure, its woeful (or nonexistent) corporate governance, and most of all its flamboyant founder, Adam Neumann. So perhaps it was not a surprise when WeWork, given the continuing criticism, announced...
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- 21 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
as one could with randomized deployment. "There is a perceived cost in doing a portion of the work in a randomized fashion," Toffel says. "But if you want to learn, it requires an investment and some patience. You have to be willing to View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
passions and the impartial spectator is the most fascinating part of Smith's TMS for me. The conflict is particularly important when studying savings decisions, since savings is exactly a decision to delay immediate gratification for a...
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by Ann Cullen
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
vaccination are much greater than those for high technology products. Delays to getting shots in arms can reduce the odds of reaching global herd immunity, reinforce safety and health concerns across countries, and slow down the world’s...
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- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
present to the future. After all, her compensation doesn't change whether she misses the target by a little or a lot; she still gets her full salary (assuming she doesn't get fired, of course). But by shifting profits forward—by prepaying expenses, taking write-offs,...
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by Michael C. Jensen
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
able to make it into stores by Christmas after I get through the inbound trade-lane delays into the distribution centers. We have a terrible mess in intermodal rail. There are bottlenecks all along the system. Gazette:You co-wrote a case...
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- 29 Nov 2023
- News
A Holiday Benefit Dinner in LA; Seattle Club Revival Underway
Clubs News Clubs News Southern California Holiday Gala Will Boost Scholarship Fund After a brief hiatus due to the pandemic, the HBS Association of Southern California (HBSASC) is once again hosting its annual Holiday Benefit Gala on December 9 to support the HBSASC...
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Margie Kelley
- 12 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team
interactions might be more suitable for delayed communication platforms, like email, which allows team members time to think and prioritize before responding. Other topics might require instant communication tools like video conferencing...
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by Tsedal Neeley
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
to be processed more slowly, leading to longer stays in the bankruptcy “hospital.” Not only would professional fees go up (especially burdensome for smaller businesses), but process delays would force companies to wait longer to obtain...
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- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
if an industry or company is suffering due to technological changes or market demands, that’s another story. If jobs are going away permanently, furloughs will only delay making layoffs or making other substantial workforce reallocations....
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people...
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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services
scheduling and high turnaround, so each person gets results back as quickly as possible. Sometimes, though, hiccups do occur and we need to make adjustments. Large jobs -- those bigger in cores/RAM than what is currently running -- can be View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
accelerating rate. While the urgency to act is widely acknowledged, we need to ask, “do people truly grasp the consequences of not reigning in carbon emissions to avoid crossing the global warming level of 1.5°C in the immediate future?” View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
economic recovery is unlikely to do more than delay the inevitable restructuring. As consumers become more comfortable with Internet shopping, the number of categories with significant e-commerce penetration increases. The electronics,...
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- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
measured by asking people how frequently they felt nervous, anxious, or on edge and were “worrying too much about different things.” To measure presenteeism, participants were asked how often they were unable to concentrate on their jobs or how often they View Details
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
before dropping the veneer of perfection: Will the disclosure reveal a solvable operational problem? Any trust that an airline might gain from including a flight’s delay rate would likely evaporate if it seems like many flights spend...
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by Danielle Kost
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By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of...
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Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of...
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- 07 Nov 2007
- Op-Ed
How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple
production delays (the Airbus 380 is two years behind schedule) and customers know this when they place their orders. They will simply operate their existing 747s and 777s a little longer. In addition, no airline manufacturer ever wants...
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