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- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
communication—some vendors and futurists paint a scenario where businesses collaborate and compete in profound new ways. But your research suggests that this is not happening and is not likely to happen any time soon. Why have Web... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
fruition. The typical pitfalls encountered in group decision-making are all too familiar. Who hasn't witnessed, for instance, the silence around a conference table as meeting participants turn suddenly speechless, unable to generate novel suggestions? Another common... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
the regulatory and the market conditions that led to their success will remain the same and will not shift significantly in response to sweeping changes in technology, policy, or consumer preference. Some oil and gas companies, for example, appear to be betting against... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
said, in some cases even enabling patients to treat themselves. Resistance to such a scenario is strong in the rules-based world of medicine, he conceded. "Disruptive innovation has been ignored or opposed by the leading institutions in... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
used the actual initial and current or exit valuation data of the companies, but constructed two hypothetical investment strategies. In scenario one, the team used a strategy that assumed an initial investment of $175,000, subsequent... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
loans. However, even if some companies ultimately go under, borrowing could help “flatten the curve” for bankruptcies, preventing a surge that could inflict more strain on the already struggling economy. Hanson compares such a scenario to... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- News
Diving into the 'Shark Tank'
a set of assumptions and wanted us to estimate inventory. I'm a very visual person so I would normally want to write down the info to run the numbers. It's tough to absorb the scenario when there are cameras and everyone is waiting for... View Details
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
challenging negotiation scenarios involving the organization's loan clients. Students are asked to adopt the perspective of the Program Director and to consider how they would act in these negotiation View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
more," says Santana. She and Morwitz then took the findings a step further, to see if they could change the results by changing the nature of the transaction. In a new experiment, they offered a scenario in which a local coffee shop... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
Bolivia's National Association of Quinoa Producers); Houston-based Rice Tec's patents involving basmati rice (the firm withdrew several claims after public opposition); and the aforementioned turmeric patent. They then developed in-depth cases to illustrate win/win,... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- What Do You Think?
What are the Lessons of New Orleans?
Red Cross. They should be listened to for counsel in scenario planning before the next natural nightmare hits. . . ." Nikhil Zaveri proposed that ". . . there should be training and development of citizens by the government,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
classmate working at IDEO connected him with the company. Unlike traditional case writing where a scenario can often be re-created, however, a multimedia case is most compelling when a company is in the midst of a project or challenge—and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
job, 20 percent were students, and 11 percent were stay-at-home parents. For all of them, 40 percent variations in the times they worked from week to week were typical. By comparing the drivers’ pay and worktime trends to various View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
job, 20 percent were students, and 11 percent were stay-at-home parents. For all of them, 40 percent variations in the times they worked from week to week were typical. By comparing the drivers’ pay and worktime trends to various View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
Barasz’s new paper, “Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News,” which recently appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, documents this peculiar preference for worse-case scenarios in a variety of medical... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
the future. Process planning and scenario planning make more sense than fixed projections because they focus on answerable questions. What is required to remain solvent per month? What startup costs will be required to return to “normal?”... View Details
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
Specifically, we test how individuals who have a responsibility to punish transgressions behave when confronted with the social norm of preferential treatment on people's birthdays. We first establish the existence of this social norm using a View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
investigate a puzzling phenomenon in which firms make investment decisions that purposefully do not maximize expected profits. Using an extension to the newsvendor model, we focus on a relatively common scenario in which the firm's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
external risks, companies can call on tools such as war gaming and scenario analysis. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/06/managing-risks-a-new-framework/ar/1 Working PapersDid Bank Distress Stifle Innovation During the Great... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
maybe a US-based open source venture, will step in and grab that territory. And there is much to grab, with the world population soaring to 8 billion people by 2024. But if Facebook does get it right, it can easily grab half that population. Is this an optimistic View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski