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and Entrepreneurial Management) Geoffrey Jones Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Global Climate Change (also listed under Strategy) Gunnar Trumbull Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Globalization and Emerging Markets Reshmaan Hussam Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 IFC: Italy;... View Details
  • 14 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

Meet Cheryl Andrus: Manager. Survivor. A vice president responsible for corporate and product marketing at FranklinCovey in Salt Lake City, Andrus was asked in August 2002 to also take charge of one of the company's business lines. Along... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

My First Job

it’s almost an unavoidable fact that blunders will be made. We might wish we could forget them and focus instead on the more successful stages of work life, but the lessons that we take from those earliest failures have a way of sticking... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 16 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Simple Economics of Open Source

outwardly the situation smells of economic anarchy. Where are the market forces, when thousands of talented programmers—and even many commercial firms—spend inordinate amounts of time writing and sharing computer source code: an activity... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14360 Stable Many-to-Many Matchings with Contracts Authors:Bettina-Elisabeth Klaus and Markus Walzl Abstract We consider several notions of setwise stability for many-to-many matching markets with contracts... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2006 (Revised October 2006)
  • Case

Best Buy Co., Inc.: Customer-Centricity

By: Rajiv Lal, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Irina Tarsis
With FY2005 sales of $27.3 billion, Richfield, Minn.-based Best Buy Co., Inc. was the leading retailer of consumer electronics, home-office products, and related services in North America. Its operations included the distinct store formats Best Buy, Future Shop in... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Service Operations; Business Earnings; Financial Crisis; Failure; Business Model; Leadership; Segmentation; Value Creation; Electronics Industry; United States; Canada; Mongolia
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  • 13 Feb 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

2018 Pearson Education Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan Abstract—Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the cost accounting market and continues to innovate today by consistently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2006
  • Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

at all stores.) But questioning whether Wal-Mart's overall economic impact has been positive or negative reflects a failure to engage properly with the data. More For Everyone First, there is hard evidence that Wal-Mart has grown the... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail
  • 08 Feb 2010
  • HBS Case

Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

Google, the "do no evil" company, gained entry into the Chinese search engine market last decade by agreeing to ban search results on topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese government. To Google's way of thinking, it could do... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

profit from their private information relating to a specific financial reporting element, goodwill impairments, prior to its incorporation by the equity market or recognition by the firm's accounting system. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 29

for Learning from Failure Author:Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 4 (April 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://hbr.org/2011/04/strategies-for-learning-from-failure/ar/1 Give... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Charts & Statistics - Leadership

walks on the moon Color TV market grows Microchips expand possibilities in electronics industry Integrated circuit boards replace transistor technology First ATM installed Influence: Medium 70 1970 s 19 Beginning of biotech industry... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

  Working PapersThe New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks Authors:Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard Posner, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract In the past, judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, February 28

that when Craigslist enters a newspaper’s market, the newspaper repositions itself away from other newspapers by changing its content. This results in greater differentiation between newspapers in a market but occurs primarily in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 29

leverage during bad times. If refinancing-facilitated homeowner-equity extraction is sufficiently widespread—as it was during the years leading up to the peak of the U.S. residential real-estate market—the inadvertent coordination of leverage during a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

Success requires appreciating the diversity at the base of the pyramid and the importance of scale in undertaking ventures there. Witness Manila Water's success in the Philippines and Hindustan Unilever's in South Asia. Failure to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

systematically examined. This contempt for business groups in mature market settings stands in sharp contrast to the intensive research that has been conducted on other major models of large modern enterprises in those economies, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

New Urban Order

“Imagine if we can go from coast to coast with autonomous trucks in two days,” says Lu, noting that using a single human driver for that route would take more than five days. For TuSimple, successfully alleviating the strain on the labor View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
  • 28 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

strategic marketing for Memphis-based FedEx, attributes these failures not to the technology per se, but to a "lack of recognition of the degree to which [IT implementation] requires process change,... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 19 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

Like many business leaders, Donovan Neale-May routinely seeks out information on business innovation and management trends. He reads reports from market analysis firms, white papers from companies in his field, and articles in online... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education