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- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
competition for the past 20 years: an ad hoc, laissez-faire vision promoted by the United States versus a managed vision relying on multilateral rules and international organizations promoted by the European Union. Although the American... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
and acquisitions are back - with a vengeance - in the 1990s. Across the global business landscape, some $1 trillion in M&A; deals were completed last year. That figure includes one hundred transactions of $1 billion or more in the United... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
actually providing health care. There are signs that this is changing. Gawande, in a recent article in The New Yorker, describes what health care can learn from The Cheescake Factory, a chain of 160 full-serve restaurants. Almost in a tone of amazement, he marvels at... View Details
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
"Where is the historiography of business? Why have businessmen, and now women, had to fight their way into history?" Yeager is conducting research on Miriam Beard and Henrietta Larson, who were deeply engaged in writing about... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
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- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
started talking. OPM 4. Back in 1978 Prof. Arch Dooley opened OPM 4’s first classroom session by coming up to me (in the first row, of course) and shouting out to the class that I was an “entrepreneur in heat!” He then went on to describe the View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
collaboration by making information available when and where it's needed. They routinely capture data on processes to discover how work really happens. Finally, they study these data in an effort to find ways to improve execution. Taken... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
invaluable after she and Mitchell launched the foundation, including making connections to donors and to people who have become members of Reset’s advisory board. “It’s definitely been a useful network, a way to find people who are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
social impact. And the way to magnify that impact is to give away valuable knowledge to anyone who can use it. Bridgespan is unique in another equally important way. It is a pioneer in the application of data-driven strategy and... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
But most admired organizations are admired for a reason. They usually have processes and cultures in place that make their people better. You take someone from one of those organizations and put them somewhere else, and they'll miss that system that made them great.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Abstract Existing performance metrics utilized by the PGA TOUR have biases towards specific styles of play, which make relative player comparisons challenging. Our goal is to evaluate golfers in a way that eliminates these biases and to... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals By: Sippl, Kristin Abstract—While much is known about transnational climate governance, less is known about... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. We use "quality" to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
experience on performance. We do, however, see evidence of a moderating effect of team familiarity on the relationship between these two variables. Our paper identifies one mechanism for uniting knowledge acquisition and knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
trade war develop between China and the United States, the territory's two largest trading partners, Fung said, "Hong Kong will be affected." One fear: the possible cancellation of China's most-favored-nation trading status by Washington.... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
February 1926 article described the development of "a separate educational unit across the river [with] living accommodations for one thousand students, small houses for instructors and unmarried members of the Faculty, students and... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
result of a recent $10 million gift to Salesianum’s endowment. “A $10 million gift is rare for any secondary school,” Kennealey observes. “The impact was tremendous and has gone a long way toward making our experience affordable for all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
had a great influence on him. "He is my hero," he says of John, who is four years his senior. "I followed his lead. He did well in school, so I did too. He worked several jobs, and I did the same. In fact, every job I worked, he had first." This positive influence... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
are not as ethical as we think we are. In Blind Spots, leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
effect on small business job creation, and thus, the jobs gap overall. Although there is no way to accurately measure the gap in this market, the evidence strongly suggests an imperfect market and acute impediments to creditworthy... View Details