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- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
e-book market. New regulations have shaken up the e-book landscape in China, intensifying competition and prompting writers to work harder, according to research by Harvard Business School Professor Feng Zhu. Book contracts that give authors a View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
foreign direct investment. The other thing that surprised me was that some indicators of globalization aren't increasing as many experts have claimed. There is general agreement that the international share of total Internet traffic is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?
lower-income group, so having low prices is very important and that means keeping costs under control. They, like everybody, are facing these inflationary pressures, logistics costs, product costs, and that’s their business model right... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
replacement to silver halide film in our core market?" By seeking to create high-priced, performance-competitive digital products, Kodak missed much of the disruptive growth driven by inexpensive digital imaging. Kodak eventually established a strong market View Details
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
the "patent thicket." In many cases, the pooling agreements also specify the pricing schedule in the agreement that establishes the pool, assuring that no party attempts to extract very high fees or to increase its fees after... View Details
- 25 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout
says Goh, who is also an assistant professor at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School. “You don’t feel like what you are doing is meaningful anymore.” What's the economic price of burnout? Even though physician... View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
companies were overpaying for some tasks, especially lead generation, demos, and certain types of meetings—many of which can be accomplished with either less expensive people or, sometimes, algorithms. Senz: What's the most important piece of advice about View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
exceeding. But the price for his little white lie was extremely high: The company based its demand planning on his sales forecast and consequently ran out of its core product in one of its largest markets at the height of the holiday... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
he began to share his insights more widely with family, friends, and students. In this groundbreaking book, Christensen puts forth a series of questions: How can I be sure that I'll find satisfaction in my career? How can I be sure that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
Change Authors:Chonnikarn Fern Jira and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Suppliers are increasingly being asked to share information about their vulnerability to climate change and their strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. They vary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
successful fights against adware and spyware companies, and coauthored multiple studies that revealed racial discrimination among Airbnb hosts and guests. He also has published numerous articles in top academic journals. That said, he has received his View Details
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
programs must begin with two hallmark approaches. First is a common understanding of the need for integration, and for both sales and marketing to focus on productive sharing of power, information, and resources. Neither the field force... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
successful. The most successful competitors were those that commercialized products on either side of IBM's 360's price and performance standards; these included the much smaller Digital Equipment, with its stripped-down minicomputer, and... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Silence Spells Trouble at Work
employees in organizations ranging from small businesses to Fortune 500 corporations to government bureaucracies reveal that silence can exact a high psychological price on individuals, generating feelings of humiliation, pernicious... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 06 Feb 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?
Kapil Kumar Sopory raised a caution: "The idea of developing a conscious culture with shared values that reflect the higher purpose is very laudable, but it needs a lot of close attention to what sort of high values are to be focused on "... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
smallholder farmers capitalized on existing infrastructure to farm rubber around the edges of established groves, creating a rubber supply parallel to that produced by the foreign direct-invested estates. This increase in supply drove down View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
ripple through the balance sheets of businesses and households alike. Indeed, after years of debate, Congress recently took aim at drug prices through provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act. But there are many systemic factors leading... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker Fixing Price Tag Confusion What do you think of this research? Share your insights and... View Details
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
typhoonski] Related Reading: Deconstructing the Price Tag Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker Name Your Price. Really. What do you think of this research?... View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
price $x vs. downloading from p2p." Of course, pirated content has been available prior to p2p networks. The cassette recorder, for example, allowed individuals to generate unauthorized copies and to illegally View Details