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- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
companies and entrepreneurs. Q: What sorts of hurdles remain? A: One challenge is general distrust in the approach. PRT is complicated—numerous small vehicles rather than a few large vehicles, computer control in place of drivers.... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
the splits. That’s just in a microcosm of how we are trained since kindergarten, that a solution to a problem fairness, quote/unquote, will emerge when we go and split things equally. That turns out to be problems in personal life and all View Details
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
to using funds to repair the broken infrastructure. Since sizeable commitments of this sort can further exacerbate the fiscal deficit, already high, it can worsen an already weak fiscal situation. As Indians say, we're on a sticky wicket,... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
threat of increased service competition," says Campbell. Differences Across Markets Customers and companies trade off between price and service. "Every customer has his or her own level of service sensitivity," says Buell. "There's a View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 03 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is It Even Possible to Dam the Flow of Misleading Content Online?
fundamental reason why we use theory here is that we’re trying to sort out all the possible rules you could ever try to use,” says Shapiro. “We’re reasoning about policies that have never been tested.” One of the first findings was that... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
opportunity for improvement. The average taxpayer has one interaction per year with us, but a small businessperson with a few employees may have to deal with us fifty times a year. If you fall behind, you can get in all sorts of tangles.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
it." Fred held my wallet and I walked out onto the ice which gave way immediately. I did a sort of butterfly stroke to break the ice to the dog. I don't, and did not then, speak "dog", but I can tell you that I distinctly recall the very... View Details
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
geographies, it seems reasonable to expect the contest for recognition to intensify. Many moral gray zones provide readily available intra- and inter-occupational sorting mechanisms. In global labor markets, moral gray zones will likely... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
siblings, that makes this even harder. Some sort of childcare solution is necessary. If employers could be flexible with an employee’s scheduling, that would enable the parent to support their kids’ education, particularly when they’re... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
historically had consequence and those that contemporary scholars have claimed to have had consequence is truly staggering. If we want anything like a realistic idea of how the world got where it is this has to be remedied. “Our debates should be over what View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
its neighboring countries. Now take a country like South Africa where the domestic corporate scene is actually quite developed and creative, exporting ideas, exporting managers to the multinationals who work there. What sort of foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
career change at that point and why you decided to join the nonprofit? Ingersoll: There's a lot of different things all sort of converging at once. I heard Robert Reich speak. He was a former Secretary of Labor, and he said that if we... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
Silverthorne: Talk a little bit about the origins of the series. Youngme Moon: First of all, I'm a listener of podcasts, and when I started listening to them, I was delighted by how they sort of seamlessly fit into these little nooks and... View Details
- 11 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?
confident about and what you need to work on." According to how the points are allocated, the app sorts the user into one of five basic negotiating styles, derived from Wheeler's past research (see chart) each with its own strengths and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
activity was cyclical in the way that the weather was cyclical with changing seasons. Even the vocabulary of "barometers" and "cycles" was carried over from meteorology to economic prediction. Forecasting, through the use of statistics and economic charts, provided a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
constrained by its prior thinking about the industry and what its strengths were. It sort of said, "We have a razor/razorblade business model, and the way that we make money is through selling film, so we need to find a way to... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
International, was a pioneer in the evolution of microfinance. It began in 1961 as a sort of pre-Peace Corps program working on community development with the poor in Latin America. In the 1970s it experimented with and developed a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
for moderate-income people, including police, firefighters, teachers, nurses, and other sorts of workers. These people help build communities and keep them stable and functioning; they deserve to be able to live where they serve."... View Details
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Cristina Ros Blankfein
people buy the product again from that channel and make sure we keep driving that metric. How did you decide to take the leap? Jen and I went to Whole Foods and bought all sorts of purees and juices and extracts and some bottles we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
So what we’re saying is, OK, if people are going to buy homes with low down payments, we need to recognize that these sorts of mortgages are riskier. Regulators should limit the use of adjustable-rate mortgages for these loans, which... View Details