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- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
proteins at work in the business of life. "The book of life" that made dramatic headlines last year—and was really a first draft of the human genome sequence—is destined to change and challenge medicine, ethics, and business far... View Details
- 03 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Feeling Separation Anxiety at Your Startup? 5 Tips to Soothe These Growing Pains
was fair game to chat about. A typical chat might go: Full Stack Engineer: “I’m thinking of moving the ‘Learn More’ button to the bottom right of the home page.” CEO: “Sounds good. What do you think about what that potential customer said... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
clubby groups that are widely criticized as the handpicked "captives" of self-serving management. With White House support, congressional leaders are intent on shifting the balance of power in the boardroom away from management. Senator Chuck Schumer's (D-NY)... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
Francesca Gino, Lisa L. Shu, and Chia-Jung Tsay Publication:Emotion Review (forthcoming) Abstract Moral problems often prompt emotional responses that invoke intuitive judgments of right and wrong. While emotions inform judgment across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
move on, become more ambitious." Nike and Dow Chemical are examples of companies that have made it to the innovation stage. After Nike faced accusations about violations of human rights by... View Details
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought
important tasks with corporate clients, then, is figuring out what the right questions are. "Managers need to grasp something fundamental," he says. The ZMET method is modeled after some basic theories of the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
managerial attention—if that—is focused on the problems of employee capability and motivation. Somewhere between theory and practice, precious human capital is being misused, wasted, or lost. Having studied more than twenty companies in... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- Op-Ed
World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention
stadiums, are borne by national and local governments. In terms of human capital costs, FIFA itself employs only 400 people, according to the organization's website. Even if each of its 209 country members employs another 50, that adds up... View Details
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
The August 2016 cover of Consumer Reports featured a striking quote by a 32-year-old nurse with $152,000 in student loans: “I kind of ruined my life by going to college.” While obviously an extreme case, her plight offered merely the latest example of media coverage... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
degrees of outside influence they will and should tolerate. A Rich founder whose firm is lacking in human capital, experience, and capital may benefit greatly from a VC's experience, contacts, and financial resources. A downside is that... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
Summing Up In the judgment of respondents to the October column, repeating the development of disruptive technologies is an admirable but elusive target. Respondents commonly asked whether it is a process disrupted by too many factors—some of them a product of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents
Like many people interested in the tangled connections between health care progress and intellectual property rights, I avidly followed the Myriad Genetics case, decided by the Supreme Court this June 13. In sum, molecular diagnostics maker Myriad sought "the... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
If a dike or dam has sprung a number of leaks, there are many possible ways to respond. The initial impulse is to assiduously plug one hole after another, hoping that the situation will right itself. Another approach—and often a more... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
formats, digital rights management systems, wireless network infrastructure, and handset capacity), and the key dynamics—music delivery method, pricing, mobile-PC integration—that characterize mobile music business models. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing Challenges of the China Olympics
the Chinese government's role in Tibet, Sudan, and other alleged human rights abuses threaten to derail its plans to stage the Olympics as China's coming out party. Tight security in Beijing may take some of... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
pricing, and more. The annual capital budget for New York City alone is about in excess of $5 billion. In London it is £6.3 billion, or more than $10 billion. Add up the major cities of the world, and that's a lot of direct procurement power. Neighborhoods, districts,... View Details
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
non-obvious, second-order effects—things we can't see clearly right now. The human tendency in trying to predict what will happen in the future is to extrapolate in a straight line from today. So we imagine... View Details
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
business for China," Greyser says. It achieved mixed results. When first awarded the Games, the country promised improvements in human rights and media access, on which it largely failed to deliver. On the... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
CRM and voicemail systems Technology can scale human efficiency, but only up to a point." Ganesh Ramakrishnan added, "The technologies to communicate, collaborate and access infinite information have evolved and spread much... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jun 2003
- What Do You Think?
What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?
Summing Up An overarching theme of an unusually large number of responses to the June question of "What can aspiring leaders be taught?" was that of context. That is, the suggestion that while it may be late to teach ethics and "distinguishing View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett