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- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
global beauty powerhouse over the last two decades; and Shu Uemura, the Japanese makeup artist who created an exquisite, and now global, brand. A further complication in reaching a definitive answer to whether there are gender advantages... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay
The research offers a cautionary tale for would-be entrepreneurs, identifying industries where the self-employed have both struggled and thrived. High-capital startups have declined Kerr says there’s clearly been a shift in the makeup of... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 20 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms
match those of their executives. These are all areas for future study, says Kempf, including understanding how the political makeup of an executive team affects a variety of decisions related to hiring, investment, and corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 12 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?
portfolios. They examined all companies that held at least one drug patent on the market as of 2003. The researchers focused mainly on small-molecule drugs, not biologics. That’s because of how the compounds are structured chemically. The complicated chemical View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat
has 40,000 employees spread out around the world.Photo: iStockPhoto In the other camp are those who believe that despite all of these powers, the United Nations merely reflects the agendas of the 193 member states. Either way, the national View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
If women wanted to shake up their makeup regimen 10 years ago, Sephora was the place to go. Beauty product junkies loved Sephora’s candy store-like display of sample-size face creams, glittery lip glosses, and eyeshadows in every shade... View Details
- 13 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams
When Harvard Business School professor Vincent Pons went to Kenya to conduct research in advance of the 2013 national elections, he discovered surprising lessons about how the ethnic makeup of teams affects the work they do—now published... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
Making the best international trading decisions may be as easy as taking a stroll around the local neighborhood. A recent research paper states that it's possible to predict whether a US firm will trade with any given country by studying the ethnic View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
management ranks. Koning and Ferguson took a broader approach. They reviewed data collected by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission between 1971 and 2014, determining the racial makeup of every large private-sector workplace in the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales
perceived as more similar. Karmarkar says online retailers are likely to be just as surprised as she was about how strongly the category makeup of online displays affects sales. “I’ve already gotten some good feedback from people in the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
studied reflect the makeup of 80 percent of US and 90 percent of worldwide companies. The most important “implication is that the precautionary motive to preserve the buffer was inhibiting sales before,” says Kim. “Policymakers can take... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
to control for in the ongoing exploration of changes in our chemical makeup on the job. Comments by others raised the question of whether our hormonal makeup might actually change on and off the job. Joe... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
often has as much to do with their relationships with one another as their concern for the company. "Boards are populated by living, breathing people who have their own interests, and understanding the makeup of the board is very... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
plans for future workforce makeup and training, and its search for opportunities from digital infrastructure and automation. What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology Technology doesn't drive disruption—customers do. The... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
the risk of alienating employees and potential recruits who don’t hold the same beliefs. Activism can present an even more significant risk in terms of how customers will respond. Lessons for managers The results suggest that CEOs must proceed thoughtfully, weighing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
any real changes in the way they operate. My favorite characterization of this stage comes from a Fortune 100-level CIO. He says they're just "putting lipstick on a bulldog." The bulldog doesn't suddenly become beautiful because it was forced to wear... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
the merchandise layout, and especially, talking with and touching potential consumers. "I'd make up every woman who stopped to look," Lauder remembered. "I would show her that a three-minute makeup could change her... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
racial makeup of loan officers—a job that’s become more nuanced in a largely automated mortgage origination process, Sunderam says. Loan officers are critical to the process Loan officers play an important role for would-be borrowers,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- What Do You Think?
When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?
elements in any organization’s makeup and success—along with vision, strategy, marketing, financials, and the like I came to see, in my time at IBM, that culture isn’t just one aspect of the game--it is the game.” He set about personally... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
customized nature of the process is essential to its success. You can't just pull it off the shelf." Underscoring the findings of Breaking Through, Thomas notes that changes in the racial makeup of American business executives will... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross