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- 31 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap
natural remedies we had had personally found success with were absent from pharmacy shelves, and why we had a different standard for the labels in our medicine cabinets than we did for products everywhere else. The more we searched, the more we came to understand that... View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
fully extended attraction models (Cooper and Nakanishi 1988). Utilizing a database of store-level scanner data for 25 categories and 127 brands of frequently purchased branded consumer goods, we find that about 18 percent of a total of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
racial category members to understand the diversity across and within racial categories. Vinluan will join the BiGS Visiting Fellows Program in spring 2023. Jamillah Williams, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University As a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
marketing organization, selling 46 products, including pouched milk, cheese, butter, ice cream, and infant food through a million retailers across the country, and is the market leader in almost all the categories in which it operates.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
says Iyer. "But we found exactly the opposite." When the researchers examined 22 years worth of data on reported crimes in a variety of gender-specific and gender-nonspecific categories they were initially surprised by what they... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
information," he writes. "The crucial questions include, What information should we collect? From where? How should it be obtained and by whom? Next, organizations interpret information. At this point, the crucial questions include, What does the information... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
myth because successful application of loyalty systems by retailers goes beyond tiered rewards—they offer individually tailored rewards. Tiered reward systems create some form of stratified shopper segmentation—a shopper belongs to the silver View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
do with so many of my clients is sit down with this special tool that I call Eight C. Each of the different Cs is just a different category or type of health and support that you might be able to get as a working parent, that would be... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
indicate that the enterprise is only in the early stages of product development." Each kind of social capital, Higgins contends, helps mitigate three categories of investor uncertainty: technological, firm-based, and market-based.... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
but this is partly based on the categories they play in, not just the fact that they are [direct to consumer],” says Amed. At a time when much of the fashion industry has suffered, Amed points to the success of LA-based Entireworld, known... View Details
- 12 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Electric Mobility in India
a current count of 280 million 2-wheelers in India – a number projected to rise to 400 million in the next decade –, this category is responsible for the highest automotive emissions in the country. To achieve decarbonization in India, a... View Details
- Web
2.1.1 Citing Sources & Plagiarism | MBA
MBA staff. Proper Citation Students are responsible for learning the proper forms of citation. Rules for various categories of citations can be found in the HBS Citation Guide , including: Quotations : When using the words of someone... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
imperative. IBM’s “new collar” program is one example on a large corporate scale; it creates points of entry for people who lack traditional credentials. The pool of people in this category is vast: Any job posting that requires... View Details
- 10 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists
infrastructure needed to support women with children.” Myers, Lakhani, and their co-researchers queried nearly half a million scientists across some 20 categories for their work in mid-April, roughly one month into widespread shutdowns... 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
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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
summation of total resource costs for a given process. Q: When calculating personnel cost rates, what are the main categories to include for each resource? A: The major drivers of personnel cost rates are: Salary & Benefits Space cost IT... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
which the art world uses market categories to separate and organize large amounts of information, which in turn allows buyers and sellers to accurately assess the value of various works. This investigation led to a related lesson that art... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
four categories: An offshorability index of 100 to 76 was ranked as "highly offshorable," or Category I; 75-51 (Category II) was "offshorable"; 50-26 (Category III) was "non-offshorable"; and 25-0 (Category IV) was "highly... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
views, respecting their opinions, and acting on their needs and their wishes to the extent that it's possible. And the fifth category was a grab bag of things. But the most important aspect here was collaborating—that the team leader... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
70 percent market shares in the categories it competes in. "Most companies believe that in times of crisis you have to drop your costs. That typically leads to erosion of consumer value because you actually erode your product... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette