• 13 Apr 2020
• Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

months. If normal operations were to resume within one month, 72 percent reported a high likelihood of staying in business. “Fifty percent of respondents believe that the crisis will last at least until the middle of June,” the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

• 02 Jun 2003
• Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

Douglas B. Holt says brand managers have little appreciation for how myths in American culture can be used to create "extraordinary" brand-building opportunities. In this e-mail interview, Holt discusses a recent working paper... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

• 16 Sep 2014
• First Look

First Look: September 16

middle of a $1 billion capital expansion in its effort to become a vertically integrated supplier of rare earth minerals, oxides, and metals. After reporting lower than expected revenues and earnings for the second quarter of 2012, View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 11 Dec 2018
• Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

over the past few decades has generated more wealth than any previous period in human history. But if you look, percentage-wise, at how much of that has gone to the new middle class in Asia, India, and China, and not to the working View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

• 28 Aug 2008
• Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

Handbook of Business History carries an even larger mission: bring the lessons of business history to current research in other disciplines and to the practice of business management itself. A Q&A with coeditor Geoffrey Jones. Key... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo

• 29 Mar 2010
• Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

in their business model—defects that numerous outsiders noted from day one. It was a classic case of wishful thinking. Q: How can managers without executive authority spot the warning signs of denial and help reverse the process before... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

• 09 Nov 2006
• Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

Whereas middle management is actually out there on the front lines. It's middle management, especially salespeople, who, if a sale is lost, they feel it in their pocketbook or... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

• 27 May 2008
• Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global

the current system. Otherwise businesses will lose profitable opportunities and find themselves in the middle of disputes that hurt their future prospects. And poor countries will fail to benefit from what investors can bring them. Absent... View Details

• 17 Jun 2016
• Op-Ed

Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers

undercut a positive message about a product's benefits with safety warnings. That might make you feel uncomfortable and even dissuade you from buying the brand. You might instead buy a competitive product that doesn't flag safety issues quite as much. "Risk View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation

• 29 Jun 2010
• First Look

First Look: June 29

morbidity measures from the Demographic and Health Surveys and health facility based mortality data as reported in the national Health Management Information System. While we find rather robust correlations between the rollout of bed nets... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace