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- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
tail accounts for a significant share of sales," says Elberse, "it's not clear whether any single producer or distributor can do much to take advantage of that phenomenon." In addition, consumers of niche products may be less loyal to the View Details
- 08 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
response to the WWII experience. We show that internment aggravated existing staffing challenges, impacted the perception of racial lines of distinctions, and recast the category “European business.” While internment was perceived and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
functionalities and markets, and also those that will perform the most fundamental functions, which in my view are search and payments. Another category of winners will be of course the owners of valuable content—be it games, music or... View Details
- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
they were back to doing visits in person and are much happier with the results." Several CEOs mentioned the salesforce as a category especially affected. “Sales were sharply down” because of the pandemic, and some salespeople faced... View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
between the goals of academia and the goals of a corporation in utilizing neuroscience. For Karmarkar, her work falls into the category of decision neuroscience, which is the study of what our brains do as we make choices. She harbors no... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
inventory studies range from 190 million to 3,849 million dry t. The Canadian inventory studies, which included reasonably comprehensive sets of biomass categories, estimate availability to range from 64 million green t to 561 million dry t. The largest biomass View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
the transparency front, it is publishing quarterly reports across nine categories of content, showing how much they take down before users see it. Last May, the European Union passed the General Data Protection Regulation, which places... View Details
Keywords: by George Riedel
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in 2006. A number of large U.S.-based private equity firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
likelihood of valuable outcomes. However, the methods you'll use will differ from, and sometimes conflict with, methods that work when you do know where you're going. There is an increasingly important category of work—knowledge work—that... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
moves as they play these games and these moves interact. They also seek to shape the rules in advantageous ways, for example, by undertaking a merger, or entering a new market. 6 2. Value-net games and public interest games. We will focus on these two View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
government meeting their service requests submitted 60% more requests and in 40% more categories over the ensuing 13 months than users who did not receive such photos. These significant gains in engagement persisted for 11 months... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
pressure from Walmart and other retailers can lead to unsafe decisions by gas can manufacturers and factory owners. This pattern is being repeated across product categories in many nations. When a company refuses to accept price increases... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008
unprofitable, non-dividend-paying, extreme growth, and distressed stocks earn relatively higher subsequent returns. When sentiment is high, the aforementioned categories of stocks earn relatively lower subsequent returns. In Microfinance,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
categories wrong.5 One problem with predicting future success from past success is that managers can succeed for reasons not of their own making. An alternative, circumstance-based theory articulated by Professor Morgan McCall can, in our... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
anxieties about masculine identity by providing an affirmative, if sassy, alternative. These ads increased sales by 40 million cases. From 1993 onward, said Holt, Mountain Dew has led the carbonated soft drinks category in share growth,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
product category to attract the customer into the store (measured by the category market share); (2) sharing real estate in malls by building clusters of SMI stores and brands (measured by sales per square... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
increase in experience, consistent with learning on the job. Answerers who focus on particular question categories provide answers of higher quality but earn lower pay per hour (perhaps reflecting a lack of versatility). Answers provided... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer DataUse It
more elusive than ever. A recent McKinsey study reveals that the annual churn in the wireless industry increased from 17 percent in 1995 to 32 percent in 2000. This trend holds true even in industries less susceptible to turnover. In core retail View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
aspect that the good design of policies on the extraction of oil and mineral resources should take into account. Consumers' Price Sensitivities Across Complementary Categories Authors:Sri Devi Duvvuri, Asim Ansari, and Sunil Gupta... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace