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- 01 Jun 2021
- What Do You Think?
Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?
school or relatives who had contracted the virus. Others were laid off, many for reasons we’ll probably never know. Others took advantage of the pandemic to retire early from the paid workforce. These phenomena were even more marked for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
exit in two or three years, they will probably need to hold investments for a longer period of time, he said. To invest in Europe, you need flexibility above all else, the panelists agreed. For an industry that prides itself on local,... View Details
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
"human inventory" mistakes will include only severance payments and relocation costs, not lost productivity and knowledge, or damaged customer relationships and human lives. Because they will be regarded as "planned reductions," they View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
ensemble for, give or take, close to 40 years, but this past summer was their final concert tour as a group. "The Medici String Quartet is one of the very best such ensembles, probably one of the very best ever. One of my favorite... View Details
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
price you can. As you walk out of the shop, you can’t shake the feeling that you just got fleeced—forced to pay just slightly more than a local would pay. The fact is, you are probably right. No matter how vigilant you are, it’s hard to... View Details
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
subsidies, global warming, rising medical costs (especially in the U.S.), growing retirement commitments (worldwide) and, on a more mundane level, the implosion of frequent-flyer mileage programs. (To this list, the authors of another new book, Seeing What's Next,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
cities between 1910 and 1930. Instrumenting immigrants’ location decision by interacting national changes in migration flows across ethnic groups with pre-existing immigrants’ enclaves across U.S. cities, we find that immigration raised marriage rates and the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
day, 7 days a week and is available from one's own home without a trip. While Amazon has been compared to Walmart, it's probably most apt to compare Amazon to category killers. Amazon's sales are only a fraction of Walmart's, but like... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
low-income parents than existing U.S. tax policy. The optimal policy increases the probability that low-income children move up the economic ladder, generating a present-value welfare gain of 1.28% of consumption in our baseline case.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
relaxed, and agencies have begun adopting hybrid conflict-of-interest policies wherein competing accounts are served by a common agency—augmented by safeguards to protect confidential information and avoid conflicts of interest. Despite these changes (and View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
accumulation of patents generates an increasing number of claims on sequential innovation. We study the equilibrium innovation activity under three regimes: patents, no-patents, and patent pools. Patent pools increase the probability of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
sorts, on an epic scale. “If you have a local leader who is from your social category, you are probably more likely to approach him or her for help.” As Harvard Business School professor Lakshmi Iyer and her colleagues discovered, it's... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
these firms will soon be acquired at a sizable premium, and the involvement of the activist increases the probability that this will happen. Thus, hedge funds are better at identifying undervalued companies, locating potential acquirers... View Details
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
probably never again amount to more than about 10 percent of total employment in any of the world's developed economies and (2) the return of manufacturing activity to the US will have to be accompanied by increased productivity, View Details
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
rather than creative manipulation." He suggests that this should be of special value to long-term shareholders. These responses suggest a wide variety of views, with most coming down on the side of modest returns on investment, at best, from Section 404. It is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
Internet2 was born. Today, sophisticated networks are being hooked up today among Europe, North and South America, and the Asia-Pacific region. Cisco and Microsoft are involved "in a big way," Nolan said. Right now, Internet2 is View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
promote entrepreneurial activities have struggled to date. A lot of times, it’s probably fair to say that there are well-meaning government officials who don’t really understand the intricacies of the process and make poor policy... View Details
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
Equipped with rubber bands, the bags un-fussily but effectively deal with garbage in a weightless environment. "It sounds silly, but trash in space is a big deal," he said. "Sometimes the best technology is the simplest." "If [Americans] built... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
According to Martinez, "There is probably some research done on the inflationary impact of regularizing illegal residents in the U.S." Roberto J. M. Rodriguez asks, "What is the U.S. economic labor demand that could be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
diversity were important? A: These factors have been hypothesized in the prior literature to affect the probability of civil war. Some findings in the cross-country literature are quite robust, such as the fact that poor countries tend to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace