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- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
lifespan in the fashion industry. "What used to be a six-month turnaround in fashion is now six weeks," she said. Morse said his company is competing with an ever-more crowded market in cosmetics, a high-margin business that has enticed many retailers: Think...
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- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
2000 From humble beginnings as a Levi jeans store, Gap, Inc. by 2000 had grown to become the world's leading specialty clothing retailer. Its CEO, Millard S. Drexler, the "merchant prince," was credited with transforming Gap...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
and OnDeck is preparing an IPO later this year that has been valued at $1.5 billion. While the online market is in the earliest stages of transformation, it is clear that the traditional small business bank lending model has left gaps...
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- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
brands in the world. Professor Anita Elberse discusses the keys to Sir Alex's long-time success. 7. Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management? Published: July 5, 2012 There are many reasons for the trust gap between employees and...
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- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
realize how big the gap is between making decisions in established corporations and making them in start-ups. And that's one of the main reasons many first-rate executives find it hard to adjust to the entrepreneur's world. Not only are...
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by Walter Kuemmerle
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
cross-ownership, Porter also said that the keiretsu system's unique strength lay in its ability to work across sectors. "We want to maintain that," he said. Beyond Business Vogel described a gap in current political leadership...
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by Hilah Geer
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the Process of Innovation
data-driven analytical approach to understanding new market opportunities. "That's a great process for finding gaps in well-established markets," says Christensen, "but it's a bad process for making intuitive bets."...
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by Loren Gray
- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
or $250,000, or simply will not lend to small businesses with revenue of less than $2 million, as a way to limit time-consuming applications from small businesses. This is problematic as over half of small businesses surveyed are seeking loans of under $100,000,...
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- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
equity industry in light of its recent history. Compared to the U.S., Europe is a relative newcomer on the private equity stage. Europe saw a few private equity efforts in the 1940s but only really began in the early 1980s. During the last twenty-five years, Lerner...
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- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
competencies] they can." The gap in levels of efficiency between markets for goods and for talent remains wide. Can it be closed? What will it take? Should it be closed? What do you think? Original Article Two seemingly unrelated...
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by James Heskett
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
we identify a profound and consistent gender gap in entrepreneur persuasiveness. Investors prefer pitches presented by male entrepreneurs compared with pitches made by female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitch is the same....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
Business School professors Kyle R. Myers, Karim R. Lakhani, and eight colleagues from institutions including Yale and Northwestern, published in the journal Nature Human Behavior in July. There’s already a “well-documented, persistent gender View Details
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
regulation. This would include at least three parts, all of which are all hard to accomplish: Disclosure rules on who gets to see what is in the credit algorithms. Increased expertise at the regulatory agencies. Data collection to know who is getting loans and where...
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- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
expression of corporate purpose and guide for decision-making for most publicly owned firms in the United States (and the United Kingdom). I argue that narrowing the compatibility gap between capitalism and justice and reversing declining...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jul 2024
- Book
Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead
just look straight at the goal, and at the distance between where we are now and where that treasure is, the gap can be overwhelming and paralyzing. It's important to know and reflect on what treasure you're seeking, but that doesn't mean...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
programs to support children and education—but they're often not coordinated, resulting in gaps and redundancies in service. This a fertile area for collaboration. "What you see in some places are business, civic, and education...
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- 09 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 9
capabilities in its Australian workforce in now underutilized facilities near where its design capabilities were centered. Was this a short-term problem, or had the commercial market changed forever? The (A) case examines possibilities that company might pursue to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
using the onset of daylight savings in some countries to test how interactions changed before and after the one-hour time change. “Two individuals have the same job and are doing the exact same kind of work. The only thing that changed is the temporal distance,”...
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by Michael Blanding
- 21 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish
experimentally with a small staff, focusing specifically on those countries or regions that have received little or no direct foreign investment. It would bridge the gap that now exists between multinationals and other development...
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by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
students recognize the yawning gap between espoused aspiration and reality in our classrooms? And perhaps most importantly, how long can society survive without growing a stronger field of emerging leaders?
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