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David A. Frankel

classmates until the end of his second year but he embraced the opportunity to be a VC “on the inside.” Being able to sit in Spangler for lunch kicking around ideas with a talent like Dixon “was an amazing position to be in. I was not View Details

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1.17 Field Based Learning / Independent Projects | MBA

Information Private information on individuals and organizations must be labeled as such, stored in such a way as to prevent unauthorized access, and destroyed when no longer needed. Informed written consent must be obtained for any... View Details

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

Drucker became skeptical of the methodology, particularly when it was tied to monetary incentives that led managers to game the system by understating what they could achieve. Slowly, the notion of stretch goals emerged. Jim Collins and Jerry Porras put a memorable... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

organizational processes that help explain pioneers’ divergent trajectories. For these category commoners, scattershot rhetorical attacks generate unanticipated costs while benefitting competitors; embracing imposed labels constrains... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

investigations and advice of chemist Bernhard Hesse. However, the USDA didn’t require the use of certified dyes—or even the certification of food dyes, much to Hesse’s chagrin; it was still legal to use uncertified dyes, provided the food View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

and look at it more clearly. Release your emotional grip on the problem: Based on a Harvard Business Review article “Pull the Plug on Stress,” by Bruce Cryer, Rollin McCraty, and Doc Childre, Margolis recommends you first recognize the emotion you’re feeling, View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

state after an outbreak of illness. Approved the first generic versions of Coreg, a widely used medication for high blood pressure and chronic heart failure. Proposed new standards for formulating, testing, and labeling sunscreen drug... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

09 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018

separate studies by the type of entrepreneurial behavior considered: entry into entrepreneurship, performance outcomes, and exit from entrepreneurship. This literature shows common results and many points of disagreement, reflective of the heterogeneous nature of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

defined as those deemed acceptable by a given society or group. The moral labeling is therefore a collective process. A worker and a supervisor cannot together deem a practice moral; instead a larger collective needs to agree to the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2020
News

Unleashed

[(MBA 1995)] described McCord’s presentation, known as the Netflix Culture Deck, as “the most important document ever to come out of [Silicon] Valley.”) McCord also challenged employees to question each other’s actions if they were inconsistent with Netflix culture, an... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Mar 2010
News

Eric Schiffer

product that didn’t do well, or it could be something that the new product replaced. Or maybe it’s just a package or labeling change. These special buys, or closeouts, are about 50 percent of our products. Around 95 percent of what we buy... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2009
News

Read All About It!

manufactured consumer goods first used the union label as a way to show solidarity through their purchases. One hundred years later, men and women, and even teenagers, organized to protest sweatshop production in various countries around... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

16 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

products of value to someone. The purpose of this chapter is to build a robust and versatile language that is capable of representing large technical systems. The language is based on elements I have labeled functional components. The... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Jun 2007
Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

options. Several conclusions emerge: 1. As suggested by the example above and further elaborated on below, the dual-reporting system can enable opportunistic behavior by managers at the expense of investors and tax authorities. This insight, from an emerging body of... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

08 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

of the early banking system was also an eye-opener. I didn't quite appreciate how opposed Thomas Jefferson was to the idea of banks. A: I think for Jefferson, the part of his brain that was labeled "finance" or "money"... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking

01 Jun 2000
News

The Business of Biotech

follows that our potential to develop a particular disease will matter less and less to insurers. The general consensus, however, is that new legislation will be required in the meantime for this and a host of other issues, much of it relating to the regulation and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores

that merchandise would no longer carry individual price tags and that shoppers might be overcharged at the register. More recently, customers have expressed concern that electronic shelf labels could be used to raise prices between the... View Details

Keywords: by Raymond Burke; Retail

18 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

offer a warning label to accompany the practice of setting goals. Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation Authors:Lucy White and Alan Morrison Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

literature on globalization. At the crudest level, historical evidence avoids spurious labeling of some phenomena as "new," and by so doing can challenge current explanations of their determinants. Historical evidence is crucial... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Dec 2021
News

Higher Returns

practices and sustainable products. They're the ones checking the packaging and labeling to ensure that there is a positive social and environmental impact message as well, specifically on consumer products. And they prefer to work for... View Details

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