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- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
first, these operations eventually become profitable. The WDC would be a center of research and learning about the impact of business on poverty... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
philanthropy because even global companies tend to focus corporate giving on local nonprofits. Charitable behavior is a key area of interest for Marquis, whose research and teaching focuses on businesses'... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
place in today's supply chain, as well as the far-reaching impact of information technology advancements. Outlining the program's curriculum, they explain how the participants leave the program armed with... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
wagon, so what?" Fumbling the Future was published in 1988, and the impact of this book reverberated throughout Xerox, stimulating many responses. As the story was... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
is thus imperfect. "Sometimes this vagueness (and the consequent inability of parties to agree on a negotiated, 'reasonable' license) will lead to expensive litigation whose cost and risk can impede the... View Details
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
warned. "Business cannot sit this one out" and ignore reality, he said. Yet the nature of any given industry today presents business with unique challenges. One session View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
entitlement, relates to social role or behavioral expectations within society. We do have a greater expectation of niceness from women than from men. There's a body View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
patterns of their male colleagues," says coauthor Kolb. And without women in high places, younger women lack the role models and mentors to... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
protection in the pharmaceutical and life sciences arena, said Chesbrough. But if you're in IT, forget about it. Can you sustain the pace of innovation necessary for success? The answers to the previous... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
myself, perceive of business history as playing a central role in enhancing our understanding of key issues in contemporary management and... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
that preserve the legitimacy of capitalism—even if those rules don't directly support their companies' profit margins. "Managers have an agency responsibility to the market system as a whole," he said. View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
in press Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Artful Paltering: The Risks and Rewards of Using Truthful... View Details
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
paper, The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring .) For Future Study Next, the researchers plan to study whether government crackdowns... View Details
- 23 Apr 2008
- Op-Ed
The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations
firm's actions were threatening the system. A newly formed prudential regulator would regulate financial institutions that had some type of explicit government guarantee such as deposit insurance. In that View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing
so—intercollegiate sporting events generated an estimated $2 billion in revenue and $1 billion in profit in 2010. Winning programs prosper in diverse ways including ticket and... View Details
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
immigrants might increase labor market competition for native-born workers, lowering their wages and their employment prospects. Cultural. Immigration is associated with the influx of people with different... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
region are starting to pull back from their welfare state philosophies and encourage the privatization of the economies. These are gradual changes. The governments are trying to minimize View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
Excerpted with permission from "The Dual Edged Role of the Business Model in Leveraging Corporate Technology Investments," in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives, View Details
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
Farronato, Andrey Fradkin, Boston University; Bradley Larsen, Stanford University; and Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Sloan School of Management. We asked Farronato, whose interests include economics, innovation,... View Details