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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
economy.” Just as important, ARD’s support of Digital and dozens of other unproven little companies ushered in a new era of corporate culture. At Digital, the engineer was king. Hierarchy was out. Controlled chaos was in. Like Jack... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
didn't plan for those to be control areas on our survey work, but that's what they've become. And the results are dramatically different in those geographic areas where we never ran any ads, where we never did anything. Hanna: Jim, as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
and the craftsmen involved in producing them. The Accelerating World: Speed vs. Control by Emmanuel Cassimatis (MBA 2009) (Emmanuel Cassimatis) Over the past five decades, several mysterious and seemingly unrelated events have taken... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
coefficients aggregate discrete choice model-which accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success-and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control for unobserved quality in athletics and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
parties and then decide whether to attempt to raise new capital, declare bankruptcy, or try to lead a controlled wind-down. The case explores crisis management, decisions by principals operating in the zone of insolvency, construction... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
with open disagreement). The paper thus provides micro-foundations for the idea that bringing a project inside the firm gives the manager control over that project, while explaining concentrated asset ownership, low-powered incentives,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
sharing by default, but this can hardly explain why freeriding is so pervasive. Similarly, some p2p applications such as BitTorrent force users to share, but users can always decide how much to share and ultimately control their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
circuitry forms a pattern of pixels that can then be controlled by a display driver to create letters, numbers, and images. The display, which uses no backlighting (unlike LCD screens), has the appearance of the printed page, can be read... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
patterns with the calorie labeling present. These findings highlight the potential importance of portion control interventions that specifically activate consumers' self-control. Environmental Federalism in the European Union and the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
monitoring" and entirely absent in those with "tight monitoring." The results are consistent with an experimentation hypothesis in which tight monitoring of decisions leads to more control but less learning. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
space.” (courtesy Joseph Landon) Joseph Landon VP and CFO, Planetary Resources “Everything we consider precious on earth is available in limitless quantities in space.” (courtesy Joseph Landon) Which is fine for small satellites, but what about the bigger, more... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
larger number of organizations. The researchers have also started to work on management experiments, modeled on the randomized control trials adopted in the medical field. This experimental approach is much more costly and labor-... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23
correctly report that they click fewer advertisements, controlling for the number of advertisements they actually click. Results are most pronounced for commercial searches and for users with low income, low education, and little online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
to deal with the big risks introduced by that decision; and Jim Triandiflou, founder and CEO of Ockham Technologies, who worries about losing control of the company as he and his cofounder consider various financing offers. By engaging in... View Details
- 11 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 11, 2006
policies; others maintain that circumstances beyond the government's control had placed the country in an unsustainable situation, and that the successful renegotiation opens up new opportunities. The case presents the story of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
out of efficiency, cost, and risk mitigation issues. The elements are interdependent, yet not all stakeholders face the same image and branding exposure. Supply chains also translate to attenuated control; that is, your company can exert less and less View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
software when they enter a new network, for example. Another weak spot is that hot-spot carriers can't control the user's experience. A Capital Idea? Venture capitalist Geoffrey Moore, who wrote Crossing the Chasm and Inside the Tornado,... View Details
- Profile
Brian T. Bedol
it as much as that I enjoy the challenge. There’s nothing wrong with cashing out and going sailing. I’ve been lucky in that I’ve had time to recharge after selling a business. I’ve not always controlled the timing of getting back involved... View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges
to and efficiency of irrigation, utility control and monitoring software." She added “leak detection,” “water treatment,” and “infrastructure” to the list and noted, “our aging infrastructure struggles to efficiently deliver clean water... View Details