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- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
that eventually resulted in a historic windfall for the drug maker soon after it began marketing UK-92,480 under the brand name Viagra. Pfizer was able to develop and launch a wildly successful and profitable new drug because it... View Details
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
found the whole thing perplexing. “We show that people are prone to sharing more information in the very context in which it's more dangerous to share.” "I didn't understand why people were putting all this information out there," says John, now an assistant professor... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes
Historians.) Hisano’s paper looks at how industry players and regulators collectively decided what any given food is supposed to look like—and redefined the marketing meaning of “natural.” The quest for summery butter and orange oranges... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
well. Most successful enterprises are adept at refining their current offerings, but they falter when it comes to pioneering radically new products and services. Kodak and Boeing are just two of the more recent examples of once dominant companies that failed to adapt... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
affiliate in Plainsboro, New Jersey. That all changed when its breakthrough drug for type 2 diabetes, Ozempic, hit the market in 2018. By some biochemical mystery, it also turned out to be a powerful tool for weight loss—which led to the... View Details
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
causing global warming and turn that energy and resources into actually improving our way of life with limited impact on our world." Tom Dolembo questioned whether agreements are necessary. He believes that change driven by... View Details
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them
School, along with actions you can take now to make a lasting difference. What is Unconscious Bias? Unconscious or implicit bias is the term for the mental processes that cause a person to act in ways that reinforce stereotypes even when... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
harshly to punish such behaviors. When they make these judgments and decisions, sometimes the victims of the unethical behavior are identifiable, and sometimes they are not. In addition, in our uncertain world, sometimes an unethical action View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
creation of a system for managing breakdowns that causes people to voluntarily recommit to the vision and maintain these commitments through to the implementation of the breakthroughs required for the realization of the vision. Download... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
clear that the business models that succeed in the Internet sector and e-commerce in emerging markets such as Latin America will resemble those in the United States," says Kennedy. Despite this lag time, the Net is nonetheless View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Help the Black Community. And in this episode of Skydeck, Rogers and I talk about the makings of America's racial wealth gap, why he thinks it is a root cause of the nation's racial crisis, and the tangible steps necessary to help erase... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
Lately, competition in the biotech industry has become more heated than ever, as a steadily increasing number of companies enter a market that, despite its risky nature, has the potential for enormous rewards in the future. "It may... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
pharmaceutical division and a diagnostic division. The company's antiviral drug Tamiflu dominates the market for prevention and treatment of seasonal influenza (flu). Tamiflu, however, could also play an important role in responding to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Working PapersMarket Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in Europe Authors:Christopher S. Armstrong, Mary E. Barth, Alan D. Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Abstract This study examines the European stock market reaction to sixteen events... View Details
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
Publications In press Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes When Doing Good Is Bad in Gift-giving: Mis-predicting Appreciation of Socially-responsible Gifts By: Cavanaugh, A., F. Gino, and G.J. Fitzsimons Abstract—Gifts that support a worthy View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
The alleged benefits of flattening flow primarily from pushing decisions downward to enhance customer and market responsiveness and to improve accountability and morale. Has flattening delivered on its promise to push decisions downward?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
dubbed "a market for know-how." The new entrants became sellers; established pharmaceutical companies became buyers of the technology. This market for know-how reduced the barriers to entry.... View Details
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
Programs By: Hanson, Samuel G., David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop a model of government portfolio choice in which a benevolent government chooses the scale of risky projects in the presence of market failures and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
which was facing numerous challenges: a rapidly decreasing market share, falling revenues, and cratering investor faith. Heins went about cutting costs—including the layoff of more than 5,000 workers in May 2012—scrapped plans to make the... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
Students of recent United States real estate history can't help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail... View Details