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- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
state's sovereign fund investors) when his competitor is able to arrange to have state aid or investment provided or withheld in large quantities to a potential customer's country of origin depending on whether that customer favors a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 15 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?
strategies—external aids like Internet blockers, nicotine patches, and swear jars. At the same time, studies show that few people use these supportive strategies. Why? “We know these kinds of strategies are helpful, and we know they tend... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
aspects to generate shared meanings that aid in the creation of markets by establishing the foundation for valuing goods. While the ability to generate valuation metrics for new market categories is an important and essential... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
programs than the entire budget of the WHO and has played a major role in aiding recovery in the Ebola-hit economies of West Africa. The Commission's report hints at but never quite concedes that the World Bank should take a more... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
company failing to “mind the gap,” we could ignore it. But somewhat similar charges were lodged in the case of cheating on vehicle emissions technology at Volkswagen just months earlier. A proud engineering group was “encouraged” to apply its expertise to develop... View Details
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
sense to do business with that country. What part of that country is the best trade partner? Who are the best contacts?" Analyzing Data Of course, immigrants most likely to aid trading decisions are those who work at the firm. But because... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
the patient, not the practitioner, comes first. In these organizations, management is not a dirty word. In fact, managers and doctors are recognized for exhibiting mutual respect and aiding the transfer and adoption of good ideas across a... View Details
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
they will continue to put up with lower rates of return while financing our growth? Or will this be the decade in which investors, aided by their board representatives, obtain an increasing share of the fruits of productivity increases?... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
problems. Werker's research adds to a body of work, largely in Africa, that examines fragile states, foreign aid and investment, and conflict and governance. Into Africa Werker found his way to Africa after taking a leave of absence from... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
of spending on traditional aid programs in areas such as health care and food access in developing countries, GiveDirectly transfers cash directly to the poor. As experiments have shown this approach to be an effective and efficient way... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
Then, we saw the addition of a new dimension, interactivity—that is, the ability to take account of millions of individual consumer responses with the aid of electronic databases," he continues. "By using toll-free telephone... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
Repetition of interaction may improve learning, since experience working together aids in the identification, transfer, and application of knowledge among members within a group. Additionally, experience need not be constrained to one... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
important activity for pioneering entrepreneurs, they are unconsciously aided by other actors who are acting out of self-interest rather than from a desire to actively help these entrepreneurs. Furthermore, entrepreneurs are View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
it this way, privacy has been losing ground rapidly with the ascendancy of big data and the Internet of things. The retreat of privacy has been aided by personal use of networking apps like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, search devices... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
flag. Q: What are you working on next? A: This paper is a presentation of the methodology and a collection of descriptive statistics. I also have a series of papers that return to the case study of the Korean entrepreneur, characterizing how ethnic inventors in the... View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
prices, both of which were beyond the control of MME. MME was aided by record gasoline prices and ethanol usage mandates in the 2005 energy bill. U.S. ethanol demand is projected to increase; however, corn and ethanol price swings could... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
loans to fight poverty around the globe since the end of World War II, nearly half the world's six billion people still live on less than $2 a day; a fifth get by on less than $1. At times, foreign aid has even worsened the plight of the... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
Should organizations receiving government aid be allowed to use resources to pay them? What do you think? To read more: Jake DeSantis, "Dear A.I.G., I Quit!," The New York Times, March 25, 2008, p. A25. View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
to their specific needs—e.g., insurance for long-term care and drugs; easy access to integrated teams that specialize in treating chronic diseases and disabilities; pre-tax savings accounts for uninsured health care needs, such as hearing View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
This is partly because the relationship between infrastructure spending and economic growth, if focused only on the United States, has been hard to update. The US Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, after all, was signed into law through the Federal View Details