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- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
Too much innovation merely increases complexity without creating economic benefits for either the producer or the consumer. In his book, The Paradox of Choice, Barry Schwartz maps the adverse impact View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
permitted by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is realigning media ownership. Among other changes, the Federal Communications Commission recently relaxed restrictions on ownership of multiple television... View Details
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
attempts to calculate the economic value of the lead, with an estimate of conversion rates. Competitors also do this to some degree, but probably not to the level View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
on the shaky side. That difference is a critical concern in Eastern Europe and Africa. On an optimistic note, I think that entrepreneurship is going to be the most important economic driver in a lot of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
It draws from previous work by Urde (an associate professor at the Lund University School of Economics and Management in Lund, Sweden), John Balmer (a marketing professor at Brunel University in London) and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
The recent twin economic and pandemic calamities should cause us to rethink the status quo for health insurance compensation. Must General Motors be a benefits company that happens to make cars? Is it in the best interest View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
the firm's walls: customers. It is riskier economically and organizationally to adopt. "The thing that struck me right away was that e-buying and e-selling for the firms in my sample were fundamentally different activities," McElheran... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
Sitaraman, The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) ORIGINAL COLUMN: There is increasing talk about stimulating $1... View Details
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
efficiency becomes asymptotic such that incremental improvements are nil." If this were the case, it could have real significance for economic planners. Allen Greenspan, take note. What do you think? Original Article Every so often a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
assistant professor of economics at the University of Michigan, demonstrate that adopting advanced pricing technology can allow a firm to seize an edge relative to its... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance
insurance coverage going forward,” the authors write. Small businesses, which account for more than 40 percent of economic activity in the United States, prioritized employee health insurance premiums as the... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
American ideology that had emerged. Once again, Holt traces this brandtopia from beginning to end and finds that it too melts down, this time in the early '90s as widescale economic restructuring led to new ideals View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
We suspect that the mistakes happen when firms choose managers at any level—from CEO to business unit head to project manager—based on what we call "right stuff" thinking, borrowing the term from Tom Wolfe's famous book and the 1983 movie View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 02 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?
inputs to machine learning and the creation of artificial intelligence. Each of these related fields of activity and opportunity encompasses a wide swath View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
A: The compensatory consumption thesis is particularly focused on how straight white men from working and middle class backgrounds, those below the top 10 or 15 percent, create a meaningful sense of identity as men. These men have lost... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
paper Does Planning Regulation Protect Independent Retailers? (forthcoming in The Review of Economics and Statistics). "Planning regulation ended up harming independent retailers," she writes.... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
business and finding reliable vendors and distributors. And while companies need to have strong, viable business and economic models, Stevenson said, he also warned against marrying tradition at the risk of... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 included the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, a $25.9 billion program that prompted many hopeful startups to flood the... View Details
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
understudied subject of business research. After all, the economic activity generated by these deals is huge—North American M&A deals in 2011 were estimated at $450 billion. But another reason, says... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower
entirely on faraway academics and organizations to solve local problems. This frustrates Ashraf, who for more than a decade has studied behavioral economics in the context of developing countries. She... View Details