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- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
mark fifty years after the event, the statistics that marked extreme achievement on Everest were blown away as new records for the oldest, most often, and fastest climbs were logged in over a one-week period. Excelsior! It's an... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
Blockbusters break sales records and exceed expectations. Around 100 pharmaceutical brands exceed $1 billion in annual sales. Procter & Gamble has 23 such brands. Speed. It's not just the sales volume; it's the speed of the sales... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
Gravity, the space thriller released last week, features two of Hollywood's brightest stars: George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. It rocketed to an October record $55 million gross in its opening week, well on its way to returning a profit... View Details
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
Under Armour finds itself with a new record to beat: making the leap from $5 to $10 billion in sales—a feat only accomplished to date by competitors Nike and Adidas. At the heart of this challenge is how Under Armour can maintain its... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
organizations have made sizable investments in information technology. They’ve used their IT systems to replace paper records with electronic ones and to improve billing processes, thereby boosting revenue. But so far, IT has been of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
President of Product Development and cofounder, closed on a $41 million investment round. Their firm was one of the hottest companies in the health information technology field. They provided core data warehouse technology to enable analytics from electronic health... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
Ross: In our experience, the best tact is the "sandwich" approach to organizational change: drive the concept from the top while developing skills and a track record at lower levels, usually through pilot programs in discrete... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
strategy and more on the processes by which the company allocates resources. Top managers must know the track record of the people who are making resource allocation proposals; recognize the strategic issues at stake; reach down to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
"We were selling seven to eight million cubic feet per day and I was responsible for it. I thought we should take a better interest in it," says Thomas. The problem was that although he was in charge of the machines that View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
Over just a few months, the United States stock market plunged almost 20 percent—then in one day rebounded a record 1,000 points. 2018 seemed just that kind of year in business: restless, surging, full of surprises. Big-name retailers... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams
with Kenya’s electoral commission, Pons and his colleagues tracked the efforts of teams of canvassers as they braved the slum’s twisting streets, knocking on doors and trying to convince occupants to register to vote. For each of 15,000 interactions, they View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
industry is broken. It's in terrible shape. We're here [at the conference] because we know it; we're here because the public knows it, and we are concerned about the fact that they know it," he said. According to Mills, the 1990s lured new, unsuspecting investors... View Details
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
studies to check on shifts in price elasticities of demand and price-attribute tradeoffs can usefully improve the profitability of pricing decisions at a time when cash is king. Keep an eye on the new consumer. No one has a perfect record... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
which for years has remained wedded to a well-developed competency in centralized controls and efficient execution but has steadily lost ground, posting a record $38.7 billion loss in 2007. Such an execution-as-efficiency model results in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
firms. They also affect trading signal classifications, back-testing inferences, track records of individual analysts, and models of analysts' career outcomes in the three years following the changes. Long-Run Stockholder Consumption Risk... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
all borrowing is bad. Record low interest rates for mortgages and other loans are providing a crucial cash injection to people and business owners as the COVID-19 pandemic grinds on. That said, creditors will likely bear the brunt if... View Details
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
interactions to remote medical scribes, thus freeing doctors from the burden of having to manually input information into an electronic medical record (EMR) and giving them additional time to focus on patients. Shakil and Tran had grown... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest
and spending decisions.” Origination volume of refinance mortgages below and above the conforming loan limit following the first two rounds of quantitative easing, as recorded by LPS Field Services. FHA loans are excluded from the data.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
the things they cleverly do is ask users to sign in using their Google account (or by establishing a new account). When you use something like Google Maps, Google keeps records and can mine that data to see where you’ve been and what... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Bill Bornstein, chief quality and medical officer of Emory Healthcare in Atlanta, is responsible for the smooth implementation of CPOE at Emory Healthcare, which is a vital part of its $50 million electronic medical record initiative. By... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne