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- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
social networks involves selling access to members based on their personal information. Subscription and freemium models get talked about, but even Wikipedia can't make such models work. Q: So what fate does Ello face? Any advice for them? JD: View Details
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
facilitates cooperation in the generation of intellectual capital ranging from new product development to research. It helps explain why the Gen Xers we discussed several months ago find it quite natural to work in teams, either in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Davis Abstract—As firms scramble for competitive advantage, boards—once the cautious voices urging management to mitigate risk—are now calling for breakthrough innovation. Indeed, avoiding risk is now seen as the riskiest proposition of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
increased when the rules were introduced. We conclude that managerial fiduciary duties affect equity-bondholder conflicts in a way that is economically important, has impact on ex ante capital structure choices, and affects welfare. Read... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
financial crises (we were lucky to have thought of that over a year ago), and on salesmen. There's been growing interest in the topic of salesmanship over the last several years. In 2008, the University of Reading hosted a conference View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has... View Details
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
want to capitalize on the first-movers' research and development. . . . Regardless of the type of complexity, whether product- or choice-related, the consumer is ultimately overwhelmed." Addressing the issue of product complexity, K.... View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
always struggled with disruption. They face three problems: denial, greed, and overload coupled with incompetence. Denial: It isn’t happening I like to call this the “crossed fingers” view of the future. Firms desperately want to believe... View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
of powerful CEOs making up Trump’s Strategy and Policy Forum. Goldman’s Lloyd Blankfein even created a Twitter account in order to issue his first tweet objecting to the President’s decision. A responsibility to be heard Immelt’s statement is a clarion View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
saving, accumulation of capital or resulting improvement in income. Without capital, innovation is not rewarded. In fact, it is regarded as risky. Failure can produce starvation. Therefore, labor-intensive practices do not change. What... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
with the project at hand. Specifically, we study an academic researcher’s (1) personal background (gender and country of origin economic advancement), (2) professional development (time since PhD completion and editorial review board (ERB) membership), and (3) ad-hoc... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
Chu, Joe Lassiter, and Mike Roberts. Initially, Sahlman recalls, there was some resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA '96) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner's Venture View Details
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
spend some or all of their bonuses on others—thereby creating what the authors call a "prosocial" workplace—are happier as a result. Managers can enhance that effect by providing opportunities to share the wealth. Aurora View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future
"quarter") exercised no influence on his investment strategy. He believed that conservative funding was called for in an industry in the midst of technological transformation. Therefore, he always had cash in a depression. He... View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
significantly increased the returns on capital. However, contrary to what economic theory might lead us to expect, the cost of capital as measured by long-term real interest rates has not increased, but actually fallen. We View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
just as global capital markets are imploding in the fall of 2008. NovoCure, Ltd., has developed an electrical-field-based therapy, called Tumor Treating fields, for the treatment of cancerous tumors. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
associated with the program rollout, we use both population based morbidity measures from the Demographic and Health Surveys and health facility based mortality data as reported in the national Health Management Information System. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
Professor William A. Sahlman calls "the problem of simultaneity." If, as the business school defines it, entrepreneurship is the pursuit of a business opportunity requiring resources beyond one's control, Polished was all... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
appropriate and helpful ways now. There’s the mix of a long list of problems, potential solutions, potential solution providers among entrepreneurs in and outside of government that’s a call to action. What we’ve witnessed over the last... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
Lerner, and Jean Tirole Abstract The sub-prime crisis has shown a harsh spotlight on the practices of securities underwriters, which provided too many complex securities that proved to ultimately have little value. This uproar calls... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace