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- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
control. With the path-based approach you've got to have your eye out for how easily is this thing going to integrate with things I haven't even thought of yet. "A key question to ask yourself as you are building View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
doesn't increase its debt limit on October 17, it will start defaulting on its bills—an unprecedented event in the nation's history. Senior Lecturer Joseph B. Fuller, a member of the School's Entrepreneurial View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
percent of explained variance) accounted for more than three times the variance compared to owners (11.12 percent). Coaches accounted for 29.08 percent of explained variance, and general View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
technologies is particularly great" for GM. 77 One way GM is attempting to become more like Dell is by selling cars online. 78 Toward the end of 2000, GM began testing its consumer Web site, GMBuyPower.com, to bring customers online... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
chairman at AT&T as it was being broken up. "In the regulated days, Bell system employees—myself included—genuinely believed they were doing the best they could and acting in the best interests of... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
processes of production and distribution. This was a massive innovation over the older model of a single owner who tried to oversee everything. Under managerial capitalism, ownership became dispersed, but... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
isn't that the UK system is better—in fact, gazumping can wreak havoc on people's lives. But the point is that deal protection, which is a kind of shut-down move, should be a highly negotiated point in the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
pointed out. Panelist Dean Donovan, managing partner of Bain & Company in South Africa, said the imperatives for African governments are many, and are all intertwined. The key underpinnings include a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
trick is to make sure your employees are happy." Taking issue with this, Zbigniew Becker suggested, "Educational programs do have a crucial role to play in installing/strengthening in future managers the conviction that attitude... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
reaction on capital markets. It was written by Harvard Business School assistant professors Gwen Yu and Francois Brochet, with MIT Sloan of Management doctoral student Patricia Naranjo. Although targeted at... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
territorial tax system and a one-time mandatory repatriation tax. Repeal of the estate tax, elimination of personal exemptions and most itemized deductions, and repeal the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
do with how to get control of our work lives and our personal networking technologies hit my desk within a matter of days. Two were of particular... View Details
- 06 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best
just given it—conditional versus unconditional. Doug J. Chung, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit, and Das Narayandas, the James J. Hill Professor of Business Administration, explain what kind of... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wired and Black: Focus on Careers
New economy companies may be moving at the speed of light, but they still need managers who can get the job done, according to career development experts who spoke at the African-American Student Union... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 12 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict
feel. Lees and Cikara found similar results for other scenarios, involving changes to selection of judges, campaign financing, and renaming of a state highway. (The researchers purposefully stayed away from... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
set up a payment system under her new company’s name—all in one day and all on her mobile phone while (I hope) doing her regular work. Needless to say, she can mentor me any day. Of course, reverse mentoring... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
weighting system where each opportunity can be rated against the factors discussed in this article. Nonconsumers exist in every market. When the highest-potential opportunity has been identified, build a preliminary business case for it.... View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
hypothesis that if there were more women who were venture capitalists then there would be more points of intersection with women entrepreneurs. In our research using information from 1995 and 2000, we documented all the women in the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
Jacoline Loewen pointed out that "Asking the customer's opinion is great for quality control check(s), but for creative strategy get beyond the client." Gerald Nanninga commented that "consumers are very good at explaining frustrations... View Details