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- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
A year ago, most experts thought the US economy was thundering headlong toward recession, as the Federal Reserve moved at a historic pace to slow inflation by bridling interest rates. Yet, despite recent tremors in the stock market, no... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
is enough interest to go further? Which is the better strategy for young innovators? What are the pros and cons of each? Can the risks be measured and mitigated? “The pitch or spec dilemma touches any... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?
headquarters that drove you to study them further? David J. Collis: Little academic research has been done on the topic even though it is clearly of interest to CEOs and often is a focus View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
business and finding reliable vendors and distributors. And while companies need to have strong, viable business and economic models, Stevenson said, he also warned against marrying tradition at the risk of innovation. The Mixed Blessing... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
abandon their ethics to get it.” When applied to individuals, the question prompted an interesting exchange between Sandeep and Phillippe Gouamba regarding the effect of wealth and poverty on the tendency... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
communications, even if that role proves slow to evolve. The ability of consumers to obtain information instantly about the products and services of greatest interest to them... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
you get customers to act in the best interests of the firm? Of my mantras, number one is: Your customer is probably your most powerful asset." To explain how certain... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
Countless brilliant academics harbor hopes of someday winning a Nobel Prize, arguably the world's most prestigious award. But two renowned branding professors are interested in understanding what makes... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
dialogue," in which the team engaged in "Pulse Check" meetings every week to discuss their feelings about their work, about themselves, and how the PTO goal was to be achieved. Some of the more View Details
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
women." Marlis Krichewsky presented an interesting hypothesis when she classified male and female managers in three groups: those who conform to the gender role model, those who imitate the role model View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
that voice should vary greatly." How can we know when customer inputs to product development count most? What do you think? Original Article Is it my imagination, or is marketing research and interest in customer views on anything View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
Original Article A recent article in Harvard Business Review, “Culture Is Not the Culprit,” by Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague noted that “When organizations get into big trouble, fixing the culture is usually the prescription.” The article seeks to refute that notion.... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
Practitioner’s Guide is targeted at young accounting PhD job seekers looking for teaching and research positions, we thought it contained interesting advice that could help out many job-seekers. We asked Rouen about his job tips in this... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
solicitation of interest from sovereign wealth funds alongside traditional buyers. IPOs require a leap of faith from investors who have to bet on a new company. The new GM... View Details
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
restaurants during the period between August and October 2015. In an interesting twist, the restaurants were not told they were essentially enjoying a free ad ride. This allowed the researchers to separate the impact View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
absolutely want jobs. But we want competitive jobs that can last in a demanding global economy. MP: The sectors where you can generate the most jobs quickly tend to be in things like healthcare and construction—inherently local activities. But any economy is an View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
interesting hypothesis in commenting that "We will always be able to identify examples of leaders that 'buck' the now orthodox definition of the balanced, emotionally... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
the confidence and skill to analyze the viability of innovations in terms of their technological, public policy, and structural impact and to have a sure sense of the mood... View Details
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
well known for decades: general management. The old way, centered around cases involving the leadership of large corporations, was not working. (I can speak from experience, because I led one of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Aug 2019
- What Do You Think?
Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?
How Will the Case Method Have to Evolve to Meet Future Needs? Like any good case discussion, this month’s column generated thoughtful comments centered around several issues concerning whether or not the case method has become outmoded. These included issues View Details