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- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
titanium fabricator that recently has been plagued by poor deliveries and a lack of capacity. At the time of the case, Ti-Tech must decide which of four orders to accept, with capacity making it impossible to accept all four. Each order... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
refinement to use is critical because it can lead to dramatically different predicted outcomes. To better understand which refinement is more predictive of actual behavior, we conduct a controlled experiment in a setting central to operations management-a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
percent were "highly satisfied" with the way they allocated their time. In assigning tasks, managers often act as if human capacity is limitless. The result is "initiative overload" and an inappropriate allocation of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
capacity in global markets to provide capital in an economy, and that increases their ability to absorb risk.” Thus, diversification becomes self-reinforcing, making global financial markets more stable, at the same time allowing... View Details
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
hours available to maximize ad revenue—the shift to popular content crowds out niche shows. (The researchers did not study the effects on viewing habits created by digital video recorders and on-demand programming.) Online, there are no View Details
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
Compounding the challenge of supporting this population shift, governments from developing to industrialized countries are limited in their capacity and political will to devise solutions to accommodate expanding urban populations.... View Details
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
institutions. They have the capacity to determine their own fate and in so doing take the indispensable university to new heights. In performing that critical task, they must understand not only current realities, especially the threat of... View Details
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
There are two myths in defining creativity. One is the genius myth—that creativity is tied to genius. To the contrary, I've found that although some people have extreme levels of talent, everyone with normal human capacities is capable of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Gates, and ThorCon Power, whose lead investor is Acadian Asset Management founder Gary Bergstrom, have publically committed to goals on cost (< $0.07/kwh), availability (full-scale demonstration by 2025) and deployment rates (ramping installations toward the 100... View Details
- May 2011
- Article
Extreme Productivity
By: Robert C. Pozen
A veteran top executive at two giant mutual fund companies, the author has also been an attorney, a government official, a law school professor, and a business school professor-sometimes simultaneously. Over the years, he has devised a number of principles and... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Time Management; Performance Capacity; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Productivity; Personal Development and Career
Pozen, Robert C. "Extreme Productivity." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011).
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
capacity for innovation. “The whole perspective of how firms influence policy environments is a relatively new question to economists.” It would stand to reason that the companies lobbying most on a particular issue would be those with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
their leaders to recognize the importance and take advantage of advances in communications technology to remain relevant and competitive. J. W. Carpenter reported that "Our study shows that without the capacity to absorb... View Details
- 31 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Improving Fairness in Flight Delays
tend to have fewer connecting passengers and often fly into airports that are less capacity constrained. Legacy carriers fell somewhere in-between. Worst airports for connections. Passengers scheduled to transfer in Newark, Chicago... View Details
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
revenue-producing capacity of the worker from $60,000 (a rough figure for the hospitality industry) to $110,000 (a similarly rough figure for “health care and social assistance”). A $30,000 investment in human infrastructure, based on... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
involve the mutual processing of another's experience, built around discourse and analysis, and I argue that they lead to not only linear growth in individuals' knowledge, but also growth in their individual and relational capacity for... View Details
- 20 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 20, 2007
emergencies? What must they do in advance to create the capacities they will need in the face of disasters? Answering these questions requires differentiating three different types of disaster situations. Each presents a different set of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
the future, both in terms of growth and competitiveness against other countries? A: The USA is by far the strongest economy in the world, not just in size, but in its capacity to do research, to be productive, and for entrepreneurship.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
and training. Lower turnover means that the company's capacity for retaining customers is that much greater. And customer retention is vital for financial institutions. "Furthermore," note the authors, "given the... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
and 2000, the global generating capacity of wind power grew from 13 megawatts to 17,400 megawatts, but two-thirds of that capacity was in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the United States. Wind turbine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne