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- 15 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer
recovering—declined even more at 24 percent. Inside the studies Researchers accessed detailed injury data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for almost 2.2 million establishments from 1995 to 2016. They also struck View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
Carnegie Mellon University. This difference in the monthly occupancy rate “suggests that Airbnb guests may be systematically biased against renting from Black hosts,” the researchers write. Based on detailed neighborhood and city data... View Details
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
melting ice cube and assets in bankruptcy that are losing value really quickly." Because the data includes judges’ names on individual filings, Antill was able to determine how specific jurists ruled. He focused on companies that sought... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 14 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Veteran Financial Aid Outlook
$48,000 over two years. The data around the other percentages varied greatly and were impacted by family situation. It doesn’t hurt to apply for financial aid and see what your outcome is. Pro-tip: Summer internships between your 1st and... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
a box of cereal should cost, say, $3.29, and then adjust the quantity accordingly. If the cost to make the cereal is high, the result is a box with fewer ounces and fewer portions. If the cost to make that cereal is low, the result is a box with more ounces and more... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
benchmarks? Defining what growth means Pisano and colleagues fill that gap in a new paper, Long-Term Firm Growth: An Empirical Analysis of US Manufacturers 1959—2015, published in the journal Industrial and Corporate Change, the first systemic attempt to look at real... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
will be crucial. In the arena of digital, data, and design, it’s clear that digital technologies and data science, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, are disrupting operations, business models, and businesses around... View Details
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
potential source of disease, drugs, gangs, crime, you name it. The crimes they do commit are given extra publicity. And yet common sense and the data that we have don’t support the allegations. Think about it: These are the best of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
For John Wu (MBA 2000), “Web3” means more than technological innovation. “It’s a mindset,” he says of the movement toward a decentralized internet that accelerates innovation and gives end users greater collaboration with businesses. “It’s a transformative shift in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
Assessing an organization's impact on a large-scale societal issue such as poverty is a complex and costly effort. In the aftermath of Haiti's earthquake, for example, an organization like Oxfam America could be expected to provide data... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
of naïve idealism, one of naïve cynicism, and an emerging era of rugged idealism. We explain how the role of the corporate leader and society's perceptions of this role have changed and how leaders may now be able to create shared value... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
you have effective teamwork when you can't have the traditional structural features of effective teams, [and so] I shifted my emphasis from teams to 'teaming,'" Edmondson says. Valentine shared that interest in "messy"... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
in the business-to-business space.” Indeed, the kinds of innovation possible in the B2B world seem limitless. By placing sensors on machinery and connecting them to the internet, companies can capture real-time data on their assets and... View Details
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
information is delivered." One possible line would include information about a company's strategy. Brad Keller commented that "It takes more than just sharing financials or performance review data... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors
blocks for developing customer relationships. Third, because deep metaphors are shared by consumers who may vary considerably on the surface, they become very powerful tools for developing new product concepts, communicating about them,... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
physicians could also provide patients with outcome data for local hospitals, nudging them toward facilities with better track records. Such changes could help not only heart attack patients, but also patients suffering from a wide... View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
they could find. The data showed only 4 percent of workers were recruited to their current jobs, while another third found jobs through referrals, and the lion’s share—some 60 percent—applied directly. Those figures seemed wildly out of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
the leaders, entrepreneurs, and innovators that we become later in life, paying dividends that far exceed any minimum-wage salary. Here, alumni share stories about their entry-level errors, as well as the personal and professional... View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
only have to use more data in their selling activities, but there's more cross-functional coordination required. "Improving sales productivity ... affects growth, civic discourse, and the lives of millions of people." If a buyer has a... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
entrepreneurs face when launching new products. Understanding what went wrong Wu and Peterson studied timelines from 314 entrepreneurs across 722 technology hardware projects from September 2010 through June 2019, all crowdfunded through Kickstarter. For each project,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne