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- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
instead a scenario where the traveler can summon a pooled vehicle that takes her and several other riders from where they live to where they work, saving them hours and saving the city money. No cash changes hands, reducing both petty... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
scenarios that show how teaming to innovate provides the spark that can fertilize creativity, clarify goals, and redefine the meaning of leadership. Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation by Linda A. Hill, Greg... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
Trelstad: Hold virtual fundraising events and engage loyal donors Organizations need to think quickly and practically about cash flows and revise their scenarios for getting through the crisis and then a less optimistic 2021 scenario.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 08 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
Reclaiming Feminism: A Celebration of International Women’s Day
U.S. couple of decades ago, would only broadly cover three categories. My life journey over the past 23 years has highlighted how different I was in every scenario I found myself. From the time I realized I was gay (weird, not normal,... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
goal was to drive practical and tactical conversation about what women should know and do when faced with #MeToo-type issues in the workplace,” she says. “So we structured the discussion using three possible scenarios that the panel then... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
timing of its effects make clear that the Indian diaspora was not a very important factor in India becoming the leading country on oDesk for fulfilling work. In fact, multiple pieces of evidence suggest that diaspora use of oDesk increases with familiarity of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
her chin. Now if I spend some time setting up that scenario and then follow up by asking you to tell me how much you like Mac computers, I promise you that you'll rate them more highly than you would have if I hadn't just talked about how... View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
alternative in a given choice set range between 17% and 83% depending on how the alternatives are displayed both in the data used for estimation and in the counterfactual scenario under consideration. This occurs even though the market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
profitability will come with a venture-fueled increase in scale can also lead to the all-too-familiar scenario in which a startup exhausts its capital without ever achieving sustainable growth. Emphasizing profitability and financial... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
be higher and the pay-for-performance sensitivity will be lower relative to a scenario in which the measure is not mandated. In contrast, if the mandated measure's informativeness dominates the measure's sensitivity to effort, then effort... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Likewise, major fleet operators, like Amazon, Fedex and UPS, offer the perfect scenario for EVs. As Erika noted, “They typically have fixed and shorter routes that work well with battery life.” Indeed, in 2019, Amazon pledged to be carbon... View Details
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4.2 Student/Faculty Ventures | MBA
instructor. Faculty members in either scenario should take care not to act in a way that might create real or perceived conflicts of interest—for example, the faculty member should ensure that all participants or students have equal... View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
the costs and benefits of land placed under different uses. Policy scenarios then determine the amount of land under each land use and the implications for costs, benefits, and carbon emissions. A "low-carbon development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
Sometimes, maintaining a toehold in a market was a best-case scenario that ultimately reaped dividends—something today’s managers might want to remember when considering any emerging market where the political situation could change... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
potentially relevant patents agree to a price cap on royalties just before a standard is set—after which the standard-setting body is prohibited from discussing pricing. Price commitments have the potential to create a scenario that is... View Details
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
"data-driven decision style" (David Cawlfield), the development of "early warning indicators" combined with an "external interference mechanism" (Gopal Padinjaruveetil), scenario planning of the type... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
Yet others viewed it as a means of getting more for less out of people, something to be tried when other approaches don't work. Howard Esbin likens it to "strategic scenario planning or futurism. The more one is able to ask 'what if'... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
conducting research in order to understand what sort of product language might be most successful. (This research is less of the focus-group variety and more of a broad-based assessment of cultural trends and scenario building.)... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- News
To Build Connection in Quarantine, Clubs Go Virtual
share ideas and activities focused on solutions. “Each week, we take the best available new information and share it. Then we talk about where we are now and where are we going,” says Seftel. “We ask, ‘what are the scenarios out there and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
startup’s ideal first hire? What marketing channels are best to invest in? How aggressively should an executive team align sales with customer success? Early stage founders, sales leaders, and marketing executives often face one, and sometimes all, of the above View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne