Peer To Peer - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews

Each week, millions of consumers visit crowd-sourced review websites in search of recommendations for everything from taco stands to car dealers. Among the influential leaders in the field is Yelp.com, which in the third quarter of 2012... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Food & Beverage

03 Sep 2014
What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

peers judge them to be such," according to management writer Gary Hamel. Theoretically, the idea of employees choosing their bosses sounds attractive. There is little... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage

07 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

most managers feel that they face two undesirable options: Express their true thoughts and alienate their peers or suppress them, avoiding genuine discussion. Most choose the latter. Yet, when interpersonal attributions are suppressed,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

peers didn't respect him. His lack of leadership ability was masked by his good speaking skills. So I hope our article will cause every reader to go back to their companies and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley

15 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

"What I’ve said that turned out to be right will be considered obvious, and what was wrong will be humorous" —Bill Gates, The Road Ahead, 1995 In 2001, I wrote a book explaining why accelerated growth strategies created value for some... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology

08 Jan 2007
What Do You Think?

Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?

assess the impact of this work. Dick Meza said that "it will have to run the gauntlet of peer reviews and further research ." Lorenzo Ferlazzo observed that "the current lack of standardized... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

capabilities, such as conducting detailed quantitative analyses; connections, such as peer networks and team-based affiliations; confidence, such as learning-based efficacy (or confidence in my ability to... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

to study must have had a compounded annual growth rate in revenues, profits, and market capitalization that exceeded the 50th percentile of industry peers between 1997 and 2006 or for the CEO's tenure.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

K-12 and the community college system. How did you convince companies to get involved? How did you go about working with peer companies that you didn’t control, without telling them there’s only one way... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

particularly those of Richard Kahn, whose multiplier effect became crucial to Keynes's thesis. Meanwhile, Keynes discarded some of his own wrong-headed arguments and excess verbiage.11 Schumpeter, working almost alone, seldom exposed his... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

including the behavior of peers and co-workers, the goals set for employees, or even the amount of lighting in a room. This research is already having an important impact on business management. Many leading scholars in the management... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

Six National Football League head coaches were fired on December 31, or “Black Monday,” as it’s known in the sport. The infamous tradition begins immediately after the conclusion of each NFL regular season and represents efforts by underperforming teams View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

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