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- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
all linked to this. In their survey in twelve countries of seventeen leading transnational brands in categories ranging from the quotidian (petrol and dairy) to the trendy (cell phones, athletic wear, autos, and soft drinks), Holt and... View Details
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
“receivers,” Kominers and Shapiro observed that moderators need to be aware of information that enables a receiver to create false beliefs or harm others. “The existence of two different categories of information is one of the core... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
categories represented significant opportunities and challenges. The smartwatch category was new and poised for growth when Apple released its watch in April 2015, but the use case remained uncertain, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers
“women’s problems”) so that everyone, regardless of gender, race, or other minority category could use their talents and do their jobs with respect and dignity. That utopian fantasy is increasingly possible now that the numbers of women... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
strategy would be a very risky move Ryan Raffaelli: We often define radical innovations as "competency-destroying," meaning that they render all related products and services in the same market category obsolete. While the Apple Watch is... View Details
- 04 Apr 2005
- What Do You Think?
Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?
organizations required to meet quarterly earnings targets. This raises the question of just how practical it is: Won't it always be relegated to the "nice to do" category of activities and responsibilities? How is knowledge... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
indicate that the enterprise is only in the early stages of product development." Each kind of social capital, Higgins contends, helps mitigate three categories of investor uncertainty: technological, firm-based, and market-based.... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
marketing organization, selling 46 products, including pouched milk, cheese, butter, ice cream, and infant food through a million retailers across the country, and is the market leader in almost all the categories in which it operates.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
says Iyer. "But we found exactly the opposite." When the researchers examined 22 years worth of data on reported crimes in a variety of gender-specific and gender-nonspecific categories they were initially surprised by what they... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
information," he writes. "The crucial questions include, What information should we collect? From where? How should it be obtained and by whom? Next, organizations interpret information. At this point, the crucial questions include, What does the information... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
fully extended attraction models (Cooper and Nakanishi 1988). Utilizing a database of store-level scanner data for 25 categories and 127 brands of frequently purchased branded consumer goods, we find that about 18 percent of a total of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
myth because successful application of loyalty systems by retailers goes beyond tiered rewards—they offer individually tailored rewards. Tiered reward systems create some form of stratified shopper segmentation—a shopper belongs to the silver View Details
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
which the art world uses market categories to separate and organize large amounts of information, which in turn allows buyers and sellers to accurately assess the value of various works. This investigation led to a related lesson that art... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
four categories: An offshorability index of 100 to 76 was ranked as "highly offshorable," or Category I; 75-51 (Category II) was "offshorable"; 50-26 (Category III) was "non-offshorable"; and 25-0 (Category IV) was "highly... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
views, respecting their opinions, and acting on their needs and their wishes to the extent that it's possible. And the fifth category was a grab bag of things. But the most important aspect here was collaborating—that the team leader... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
70 percent market shares in the categories it competes in. "Most companies believe that in times of crisis you have to drop your costs. That typically leads to erosion of consumer value because you actually erode your product... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
category known as “new nuclear,” which offers the potential to dramatically reduce costs and rapidly ramp up installations when compared to today’s nuclear power plants. But the success of new nuclear—and perhaps the future of the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
infrastructure needed to support women with children.” Myers, Lakhani, and their co-researchers queried nearly half a million scientists across some 20 categories for their work in mid-April, roughly one month into widespread shutdowns... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
brick and clicks are Home Depot and Pet Smart. What did Home Depot do right? Rajiv Lal: Home Depot thought about the challenges facing their business very strategically. They've gone category by category and... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
elucidate the huge differences in appointments and pay among top executives. “I believe that some type of discrimination would be the most likely story” The categories they studied included level of education (e.g. high school vs.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel