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- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
the company and the industry." And Lorenzo Ferlazzo comments, "I would maybe run a slew of guidance measures in commentary . . . and suggest analysts use their own initiative to communicate their interpretation to the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
short-term moves such as layoffs, interpreted by some as running counter to the Statement’s ideals, were balanced by concern for the long-term survival of the organization so important to other employees able to keep their jobs. In the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
more than 14 million Google results). But the initial characterization of this concept in Getting to Yes (Fisher, Ury, and Patton 1991) as well as many later interpretations can be problematic, limiting, and even misleading in several... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “When this type of work is outsourced it should not be viewed as a mere commodity.” Teleradiology is the reading and interpretation of CT, MRI, X-ray, and other diagnostic images. Increasingly,... View Details
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
to advertise when media stories of trips and bonuses remind consumers of their extravagance and malfeasance? For consumers to change banks is burdensome but they can easily move assets among their accounts at different firms. No advertising by a brand might be View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
ideas, assesses their importance today, and explores their potential for the future. Through its wide historical focus, this Reader challenges the widespread assumption that creativity research is mainly a product of the second half of the 20th century. Featuring... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
Sources of Inefficiency in Health Care By: Chandra, Amitabh, and Douglas O. Staiger Abstract—In medicine, the reasons for variation in treatment rates across hospitals serving similar patients are not well understood. Some interpret this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
internal and external developers of new products. Successful firms devise peculiar organizational configurations to collaborate with external researchers, who act as interpreters of the evolution of technologies and sociocultural models;... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
2012 and was poised for explosive growth. Readers who are too young to recall the dot-com crash might reasonably ask whether my interpretations in 2001 were idiosyncratic—perhaps because I was, as an academic, either excessively cautious... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
transmitted electronically and interpreted by specialist doctors working in city hospitals. When the time from data collection to treatment can be cut thanks to mobile health care, lives can be saved. Mobile health is gaining traction in... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
some circumstances, charities with identical objectives can differ by obtaining funds from distinct donor groups. The model then provides an interpretation for situations in which the number of charities rises while total donations are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
meanings is built by leveraging on external interpreters (designers, firms in other industries, suppliers, schools, artists, the media, etc ) who share its same problem: to understand the evolution of socio-cultural models, and propose... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
age. Beyond that, to keep the US economy strong, if you want to improve employment levels in this country, you have to consider removing barriers to hiring such as overly liberal interpretations of workers' compensation rules and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
had had to be actively created. Supply alone did not generate demand. Second, this was a case in which actors other than the producers (that is, the artists) interpreted the product to explain and construct its value to consumers,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
this is relevant in many contexts. For example, suppose that you noticed that most of your employees weren’t enrolling in your company’s 401k plan. One interpretation would be that the employees have thought carefully about the decision... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
rentals, their "dynamic inconsistency" is attenuated. We interpret our results as evidence that myopia has a meaningful impact on decisions in the field and that people learn about their myopia with experience, allowing them to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
know what they're driving at, but they don't always bother to tell everyone what's in their head, and if they do, the translation is not always clear," Kanter says. "So CEOs make speeches all the time and think everyone is View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
U.S. manufacturing stage a comeback? Pisano: There are real reasons to be optimistic: The U.S. economy is quite resilient, and it's quite flexible. These are things to build on. We wouldn't want anybody to interpret what we are saying as... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
toward sharks. Given that nature documentaries are often regarded as objective and authoritative sources of information, it is critical that documentary filmmakers and viewers are aware of how the soundtrack can affect the interpretation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
rates as needed." The researchers interpret black hosts' lower prices as evidence of a similar, but permanent, disadvantage. In particular, they maintain that their findings show how black hosts have a harder than average time attracting... View Details