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- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
that the temptation for individuals and organizations to take steps that benefit themselves, rather than the broader social good, is universal and minimizing that danger. Q:... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
social insurance, bankruptcy law, disaster relief, and so forth) have been studied extensively on an individual basis. What struck me, however, was that no one had ever looked across these policies View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
about $40,000. Lending Club, Prosper, Funding Circle and Fundation are using a peer-to-peer (P2P) model. Backed by individual investors, these companies make loan decisions based on proprietary credit models... View Details
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
Choudhury and his team built a “CEO Bot” by providing a large language model with all internal and external communications from the real boss, including emails View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
reality is that some days you need to drive your kid to school.” So, what’s the alternative? Beshears teamed with researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University in 2015 to test... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
and we're seeing some real heroes in our public health system, too. Once we get beyond the individual heroics, however, we should be quite concerned about breakdowns of protocol in the nation's hospitals.... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
we've increasingly observed another phenomenon: ideas flowing back to the U.S. Take wireless technology in Europe, for example, where the standards are more uniform and advanced than they are here. I'm now advising a one-year field study... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
customers, individual consumers—the actual end users—are often located inside the customer firm: This can create a two-stage adoption cycle—first the business must decide to purchase a product or service and... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
effort? If so, what kind of training would be required for those teaching "judgment"? To what degree could this supplement and perhaps accelerate a process of individual self-discovery in the real... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
learned" manual to apply to the 757 and 767 models. Allegheny Ludlum, meanwhile, continuously experiments with its steel products, interpreting and applying the results, while allowing work View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
keep on ignoring what your peers are doing. John Beshears and colleagues looked at whether employees would contribute more money to their individual 401K plans if they learned that their peers were doing so.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
money when those shocks occur. “They should be less concerned about that, because they can ride out those waves,” says Viceira. Thus, for investors looking beyond a 10- to 20-year time frame—including individuals saving for retirement,... View Details
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
traumatic experiences and deep uncertainty about one's future erode or elevate the psychosocial benefits of work. Starting this winter, the team will compare how 1,000 Rohingya households at the Kutupalong... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
"With $4 million, Coke may get $40 million in people's time and attention over the course of the year," says Teixeira. The Super Bowl has always been as big a battle between advertisers as a competition between the View Details
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
functionality. And the market research on individuals who purchase these activity tracking devices suggests that most have the discretionary income to afford an Apple Watch. Q: Will the Apple Watch end up... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
for any individual companies to succeed, and valuations got pushed up
I wonder if you think that phenomenon has gone away?" Marc A. Friend, a general partner with twenty-year-old Summit Partners,... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?
because of social defenses at the organizational level, along with wider cultural beliefs that are resistant to change. Gender Stereotypes in Deliberation and Team DecisionsWomen are recognized less often... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
direct sales? Should I break out individual costs on a price tag? How Can Marketing Better Align With Corporate Strategy? Fixing the Marketing—CEO Disconnect In many companies, the marketing function has wandered far from the firms'... View Details
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
rate—a stark reminder of the perils of owning intellectual property in China at that time. Turning to the Internet itself, and particularly to content-sharing sites, the matter of ownership is challenged in a different way. Content... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
of hospitals rather than a more holistic view of the sector. "We need [talented managers in] hospices and retail clinics and nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities View Details