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- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
level provides important lessons for executives, policymakers, and the groups who benefit. But such knowledge also suggests more work to be done in order to learn how global business trends, such as industry View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
noted that telecommunications has traditionally been a very segmented market, but from a macro standpoint it is consolidating as well. The prospective merger between Internet portal Lycos and Spanish Internet service View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Take Responsibility for Rising Stars
Many executives believe that leadership development is a job for the HR department. This may be the single biggest misconception they can have. As corporations have broken down work into manageable activities and then consolidated... View Details
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
trend in global labor markets. In the end, students grapple with a very recent phenomenon for entrepreneurial companies—they may start global for the first phases of development and then consolidate into a single location, the opposite of... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
Here's a snapshot of department stores today: Regional brands have all but disappeared; larger players like Federated and May are merging their multi-brand companies, and consolidation continues. Meanwhile, all sorts of retailers from... View Details
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
and unpublished data on unconscious thought were included. Our aims were to provide a statistically robust estimate of the effect size of the UTE, to identify significant moderators, and to discuss possible underlying processes of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
processes for sorting and recycling waste materials that are still employed today. Yet it proved difficult to combine making profits and achieving social value in accordance with the "shared value" model of today. As providers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
mechanism remains unclear for now and provides an avenue for future research. The Bedside Manner of Homo Economicus: How and Why Priming an Economic Schema Reduces Compassion Authors:Molinsky Molinsky, Andrew, Adam M. Grant, and Joshua D.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
envision a future landscape for success. Finally, Takers were business leaders who saw value in industries and/or businesses that others thought were no longer viable. Takers took advantage of industry consolidations and often breathed... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
These structures determine a firm's motivation to seek protection, as well as its capacity to overcome collective action problems within its industry. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
realize the potential threat posed by these new technologies, they invariably enter a downward spiral of cost-cutting and consolidation in a futile effort to become competitive again at the market's low end. Ironically, this 'thumbscrew... View Details
- 20 Jun 2012
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Leadership: What We Know
handbook with the following three goals in mind: Take Stock and Consolidate Progress. Our primary goal is to share what we have learned after almost three decades of accumulated experience teaching leadership. To do this, we cast a wide... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
underlying framework that compels such partnerships as between a food bank in Mexico and a supermarket in the United States, providing insights into the DNA of a successful collaboration that are broadly applicable. Our excerpt from the... View Details
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
efficient scale. Service providers see an opportunity to consolidate this volume, achieving the scale required to provide the service efficiently for a wide range of customers.... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
the long-standing "full service" industry norm, there has been a growing trend toward agencies unbundling the media function from creative and other services provided to clients. At the same time, multiproduct advertisers have... View Details
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
working on as the head of the SBA and what I continue to write about today—access to capital. SBA’s flagship loan programs are made through more than 3,000 banks, where the private sector picks “winners and losers” and the government View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
years: unbundling of agency services, the problem of competing clients sharing a common agency, and concern over consolidation with the growth of holding companies. To understand them, it's first important to appreciate how advertising... View Details
- 20 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2007
Tata & Sons helped revolutionize business practices in India. From instituting the eight-hour work day and paid leave to providing a retirement gratuity, Tata's policies created a standard to which other companies—and eventually... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis
provide a good physical environment in a nonpublic, quiet area of the organization; and later allow those who carried out the layoffs to decompress and debrief. What Do Companies Lose When They Cut Corporate Giving? Corporate Social... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
young firms, given the uncertainties that were a natural part of the entrepreneurial process," Lerner explained. "General Doriot's idea was to create a new kind of organization that established a selection process, supplied funded companies with management... View Details