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- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
accountants should audit the public option’s financial statements to certify that its administrators stated expenses accurately, just as they do for private insurers. Unlike Medicare, this version of the public option would break even,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
actually been marked by steady decreases in concentration since World War II. Executives, they write, "need to break free of the biases that lead them to pursue larger and larger cross-border deals. There are better, more profitable... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
was nothing if not a closer. His company had to break into international software markets because the local one was virtually nonexistent. To succeed, Infosys needed to build a track record, which meant closing deals quickly. One... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
necessarily need an outsider to provide an outside perspective, however. Occasionally a creative, clear-headed insider can break free of both his company's and his own preconceptions by adopting a novel point of view. This was... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
team.) Team members could click on each occupation ("Architectural Drafters," for example) to review information from a database developed for the U.S. Department of Labor. The database, O*NET, describes hundreds of occupations and breaks... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
"It's not just that we wanted to break the ice with a piece of software that people would view as a game rather than a communications application," one Sony executive explained. "It's also that we wanted to establish the... View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?
a cerebral rather than an emotional pursuit. Falling in love presupposes that there is some sensitivity, that there is some innocence that each of us possesses such that…we cannot help but fall [in love]. But in world where, when you fall, you View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
on local employers to provide admitted students with mentors and paid work experience starting in grade nine. Co-author of the recent book, Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools Create a Pathway from High School to College to Career, with... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
gradyreese Always on, always connected isn’t always better when it comes to solving problems at work. In fact, teams get better results when they collaborate only intermittently, according to recent research. Insights on work collaboration highlight the study, How... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
research, Sucher's team is looking to interview people who have conducted layoffs—or who figured out an alternative. "We'll be focusing on individual experiences of the layoff from a managerial point of view," she says. "Did they bring people together to... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
School Note 706-492 Describes the basics of how to break down costs into productivity and input prices and then compare those cost drivers between competitors. Purchase this note:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
the things we can’t control are emotionally taxing, so, now more than ever, we need to take the personal time we have accumulated.” On days we do work, we should build in mini-mental health breaks to take a walk or enjoy coffee with a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
offering returnees benefits such as tax breaks and permanent residency for family members. In 2011, TalentCorp took over administration of the REP, and through adjustments to incentives and application requirements was able to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
company. The company resisted the decision for over a year before agreeing to the break up. The case follows the argument made by the company and each of the investors. It also describes the actions by the company to convince its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
of Soviet times were abandoned—and with them the schools, hospitals, and infrastructure that had been built and sustained by large Soviet subsidies. Western economists urged the Kazakh government to break up the collectives into privately... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
Felix Oberholzer-Gee: Companies can purchase almost every input they need: labor, office space, a great brand. But sometimes, the price system breaks down and there is no market. In my research, I have been interested in this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
challenges, not on the hard work of winning hearts and minds, Shapiro ultimately lost his company. He was forced to sell Monsanto to Pharmacia-Upjohn, which bought it for its pharmaceutical division, valuing the agricultural biotechnology operations at essentially... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
large established multinationals or smaller companies expanding rapidly into overseas markets, it is imperative that participants and their sponsoring organizations view themselves as active participants in a competitive, global business environment. In closing,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
later in the day, test performance decreases by 0.9% of a standard deviation (95% CI: 0.7%–1.0%). However, a 20–30 minute break improves average test performance by 1.7% of a standard deviation (95% CI: 1.2%–2.2%). These findings have two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
80% of the wineries in the U.S. break even or lose money. An even greater percentage lose money on an economic basis (i.e., after a charge for the cost of equity). Tegan Passalacqua is a successful, young, Californian winemaker who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne