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07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

World Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist' What do you think of this research? Share your insights below. BOOK EXCERPT Have You Created a Real Network... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

birds. But developing feather-covered wings didn't get the job done. Rather, it was understanding the circumstances of what made flight possible, starting with Bernoulli's theory of lift, that led to experimentation View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

risks—a process that can release more equity capacity. Finally, Merton argues, the job of managing the company's derivatives portfolio should not be delegated to in-house financial experts. The strategic importance of how a company... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

02 Oct 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

been unable to keep pace in no small part due to the reliance on hierarchy and the dominant position given very highly compensated CEOs." Jackie Le Fevre put it this way: "Short answer to the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

among the permitted lenders. After all, small businesses generate almost 2 million net new jobs a year and employ 47 percent of the workforce. Even though macroeconomists rarely give them their due, Mills... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

largely from Mexican readers—not surprising in view of the central role that Vicente Fox, the president-elect of Mexico, is expected to play in upcoming discussions of NAFTA 2.0. There was little argument among respondents about the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

the short and medium terms to feel confident again in China’s stability? A: Investors are prone to panic, as we’ve seen; they tend to rush for the exits. In reality, China is generally in a position to... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

10 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

As a young teacher at Harvard Business School, Brian J. Hall called on longtime professor James Cash for a favor: Hall wanted to study the inner workings of General Electric, and he needed Cash's help to get in touch with top-level... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

engaging the patient to the point that she may take action that is not in her best interest?” (The American Cancer Society in October pushed back its age for recommended mammograms in part because they can lead to false positives View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

not commercialize the innovations. It was Steve Jobs and his Apple team that saw the possibilities during visits in 1979 and made them the cornerstone of the Macintosh. In... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

have long-term implications. A channel steward is better positioned to have a clear perspective on these issues and is likely to foster a similarly unbiased view on the part of other participants. Moreover,... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

06 Nov 2017
Research Event

Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

administrations can be a hindrance to positive change. “There are huge design opportunities in Africa,” said John Fernandez, an architecture professor at MIT and the director of the MIT Urban Metabolism... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Sep 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation

value-creating tradeoffs. Effective negotiators get past stated positions (what a party demands) and understand the underlying interests (why the party wants what it demands). What's The Strategic Way To... View Details

14 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump

If marketing is a profession, and I hope it is, then I suggest there are five rules that marketers should not follow in the interests of self-respect and respect for the profession. It pays to pander. No it... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Deighton

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

revolutionary leader. Teddy Roosevelt was unfiltered, because he was a vice president who got the top job following the assassination of William McKinley. John F. Kennedy was a filtered leader with 13 years in the House View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

07 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Innovation in Asia

in the U.S. may soon have as much to fear about losing their jobs to overseas competitors as call center employees do today. Executives debated "The Present and Future of Innovation in Asia" during... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Nov 2013
Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

that we call disruption are already at work in this relatively new category that has anointed Twitter as the leader of the pack. Sustaining a successful business position generally requires two things: having a successful View Details

Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology

30 May 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?

by the United States. Nearly all of it involves the trade of manufactured goods. Much less attention is being paid to trade in services, which represent 84 percent of all employment in the US, 80 percent of global spending, and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

business leaders for intensive discussions of the spiritual dimensions of leadership and how their personal beliefs govern their lives and positively influence the roles they... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

food they consumed to the jobs they took. Environmental quality does behave like a luxury good.— Forest L. Reinhardt All that has changed, partly due to alarming disasters such as the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 View Details