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- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
and 2021 that were compiled by Capital IQ. The research team matched those transactions to financial data supplied by Dun & Bradstreet, as well as information on IT spending provided by Aberdeen Strategy & Research. Finally, they... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
annual checkup is costing me, so I don't perceive it as a cost. If health care providers could make the costs of these procedures more salient—perhaps by sending me periodic reminders that these procedures are costing me, say, $50 each... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
important issues to the fore. Wingspanbank is an Internet-only bank that markets itself with the claim, "If your bank could start over, this is what it would be." Created in a record four months and launched with a huge advertising campaign last summer, Wingspanbank... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
requirements provided a major stimulus for the emergence of local firms in Germany and Spain. U.S. firms were unable to develop internationally competitive products partly because of a rush to capture lucrative contracts dependent on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
Smarter Policy” to help provide evidence on matters of small-business financing—looking in particular about whether and how the financial crisis created a credit gap for small businesses. Despite gathering information, however, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
Rosabeth Moss KanterHarvard Business School Case 308-107 IBM already competed for talent by being a best workplace. It was one of the first companies to provide paid vacations, health insurance, sick leave, job sharing, and domestic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
good type (someone who is actually providing the contracted service) or a bad type (someone who is using one scam or another in order to get paid despite not actually having done the work or provided the... View Details
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
solely up to management to ensure a company retains its competitive edge, a proactive board can help to provide the guidance needed for the future. Related Reading: Managing for the Longterm The Real Duty of the Board of Directors... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
offers new hope for growth to companies frustrated by their hit and miss efforts. This book carefully lays down the authors' provocative framework, providing a comprehensive explanation of the theory and why it is predictive, how to use... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
DC. Jim Aisner: The newspapers point out that a federal government shutdown has occurred 17 times before, but that really doesn't provide much solace, does it? Joe Fuller: The thing that's particularly unnerving about this shutdown is its... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
stock turnovers that drive LEGO's business model. Senior distribution manager Asger Juncher Métais said the group should assume that all retailers want quick lead times and fast stock turnover, capabilities where LEGO is strong. The company can View Details
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
"The USDA could be looking for a scapegoat," he speculates. "A positive signal from a fellow bureaucratic actor could diffuse the blame and provide political cover were the department to approve a faulty product."... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
But in the focus groups, viewers did not have the option of skipping the ad the way they do in real life. A surprise at the end of the ad has no effect if the viewer doesn't bother to wait for the end of the ad. Video-ad designers also have to extend the opening... View Details
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
Third, we provide some new evidence of the recent shift of large U.K. retailers toward smaller retail formats, which followed the introduction of new and more restrictive planning constraints for the opening of large retail stores. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
operations. Carliss Baldwin: A bookshelf and books provide a low-tech example. A bookshelf is designed to be between 12 and 24 inches in height and have a flat bottom and sides. That is a simple architecture with three flat interfaces.... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
a challenge for researchers who wish to study them and for the governments, business leaders, and citizens striving to improve life quality in them. The limitations of the dominant development paradigm coupled with the need to focus on consumers View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
provide the tool kit and get a community of support around it, maybe we could get more experiments done, and we could make more progress as a result.” To learn more about the o-Lab and the creation of business theories: The Organization... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
company that reflects their personal values, U2 also provides a model. "Any CEO who thinks his or her job is primarily about maximizing shareholder value is living in the past," Koehn says. "The game of what kind of capitalism will define... View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
disappeared, Treasury quickly ramped up its issuance of money-like claims. However, as the anticipated debt burden grew, concerns about rollover risk eventually trumped the desire to cater to money demand, and maturity structure was once again lengthened. So we think... View Details
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
revenue by outside audit firms) without providing much or sometimes any guidance about how to improve actual mission performance. I'd like to see a renewed focus on mission performance rather than on financial performance, which in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne