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17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

experiencing them. There is also an issue of skepticism. Clust has about 175 buying cycles (products actually on sale) at any point in time, compared with about 4,000 aggregated demands. YesMail's emails have a response rate of 15%, which... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Women's History Month | Baker Library

that allows them to uplift themselves and their communities, suggesting that empowerment is an essential factor in breaking cycles of poverty and fostering equitable societies. You can download a PDF to read the full article on Women and... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

to solve the problem - is an organization in trouble. Are there other lessons? We've awakened to the fact that in software, total quality counts. In the 1960s, we assumed that the replacement cycle would automatically filter out software... View Details

29 Mar 2016
First Look

March 29, 2016

healthcare—i.e., patient-centered outcomes achieved per healthcare dollar spent—can define quality and unify performance improvement goals with health outcomes of importance to patients across the entire cycle of care. We describe the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 8

exhibit less support for government-led redistribution and greater acceptance of wage inequality (e.g., United States versus Western Europe). If individual nations evolve along this pattern, a vicious cycle could form with reduced social... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2020
News

New News

means paying out even more. I’m hoping that’s going to lead to a virtuous cycle of more subscribers. In terms of our pricing, we purposely went a bit low and modest. Not all South Asian Americans are the same, but a large proportion—about... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneuship; digital media; startups; news; business models; young alumni; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Business School professors Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan, engages with leading health care providers in the U.S. and around the world to measure and manage patient-level costs over complete cycles of care for a variety of medical... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

Short Takes

to several common organizational problems. For example, they examine how a majority group's perception that a minority group or individual is performing poorly can mushroom into a self-fulfilling cycle of negativity. Discouraged at being... View Details

11 Sep 2018
News

Bringing Government Up to Code

is one of the keys to fixing the system is having technologists want to work in government and having government have the ability to hire those technologists, and it becomes either a virtuous cycle or an unvirtuous View Details

20 Aug 2015
Blog Post

AVICII: REFLECTIONS ON MANAGING THE BRAND OF A GLOBAL SUPERSTAR

platforms like Soundcloud and YouTube looking for undiscovered talent that our company might be interested in working with. I also enjoyed working the promotion cycle that goes on behind the scenes when releasing music. How do we expose... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

01 Jun 2010
News

Get Well Soon

improvement science that emphasizes rapid cycles of small-scale change. Their finding that an accumulation of small changes can add up to significant gains is leading the way for health-care reform that is just as revolutionary as its... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

16 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

who don’t agree with them to avoid being demonized themselves. Getty The task of a new leader is to shift the cycle from losers’ dysfunctions to the unified team that is able to win. It’s time for a turnaround! Divided constituencies must... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

March 2024 (Revised February 2025)
Case

Doing Business in São Paulo, Brazil

By: Laura Alfaro, Hise O. Gibson, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Pedro Levindo

The case gives readers an overview of key factors of doing business in Brazil, including Brazil’s economic transformation since its colonial years until 2023, when leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in for his third term, after the most polarized... View Details

Keywords: Business Cycles; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economy; Macroeconomics; Business History; International Relations; Political Elections; Taxation; Consumer Behavior; Brazil; Latin America; Sao Paulo

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26 Aug 2010
News

Income Inequality and Financial Crises

Keywords: Prof. David Moss; income inequality; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Mar 2010
News

How to Spur Prosperity

LERNER: The federal government lacks a clear, rational process for spending $40 billion to boost the nation’s clean-tech industry. Across the decades and around the globe, governments have tried various approaches to kick-starting entrepreneurial activity. In his new... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

August 2019 (Revised February 2020)
Case

New Hope Liuhe: Building an Integrated Agri-Food Business

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Shu Lin, Natalie Kindred and Nancy Hua Dai

In October 2018, LIU Chang (Angela), chairman of Beijing-based New Hope Liuhe (NHL), was considering the strategy of the firm. With $9 billion in sales and a presence in nearly 20 countries, NHL was China’s largest animal feed producer and a major pork and poultry... View Details

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24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

Chair of the Finance unit, has spent the past four years investigating ways to help low-income families break out of this cycle and thus gain some of the benefits of being connected to the world of financial services. Programs providing... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

28 May 2019
News

Research Brief: Field Research

investing. Whereas most randomized control trials have long learning cycles of years or more, PAD’s interventions are delivered digitally, “so we know immediately who listens to what messages, and we can conduct surveys by phone in near... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Crop Production; Agriculture

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

levers that politicians pull to spring the trap, including appointment of favored regulators, control of budget appropriations, and direct arm bending of regulators on behalf of companies they favor. In all these models, the cycle of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Jun 2013
News

Five Bright Ideas

company in 1992. The long-standing SABIS method, a cycle of Teach, Class Practice, Individual Practice, and Check, involves the teacher presenting one point at a time, with students mastering it via repeated examples of use, various... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

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