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- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
technology firms, whether privately held units or (more typically) dysfunctional publicly traded entities. These investments may keep some companies with promising technology afloat when they would otherwise be liquidated. Q: In your... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
market responsiveness and to improve accountability and morale. Has flattening delivered on its promise to push decisions downward? In this article, I present evidence suggesting that while firms have delayered, flattened firms can... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
acknowledged his job involves competing against the promise of autonomous electric cars. “The government needs control.” Panelist Harriet Tregoning, former director of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Economic... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
its human capital," says Rivkin. "So if we're really falling down in that arena, we have an economic problem so important that business leaders can't sit on the sidelines." On the positive side, this could be a promising... View Details
- 02 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Spending on Happiness
a promising route to lasting happiness. Supporting this premise, our work demonstrates that how people choose to spend their money is at least as important as how much money they make," the researchers explain. "Our findings... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
promise of 'everyday low prices.'" Nuzzo said Abercrombie & Fitch had considered using the Web as something of an outlet for clearance items, but quickly decided that its site should be more reflective of its overall sales... View Details
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
promising new technologies, a set of knowledgeable managers willing to take risks, helpful regulatory and tax conditions, and robust markets in order to exit investments. Despite these challenges, the past few years have seen a surge of... View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
to speed COVID-19 vaccination—to dig into the economics of the virus. The group noted in the paper that many countries worked to ramp up vaccine development and production over the last year. The US, in particular, launched Operation Warp Speed, which invested in View Details
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
policies. At the risk of oversimplification, the argument is that globalization combined with free markets has created disruptions that have led to social costs. This has fostered populist governments who are promising to reverse the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
of Big Brother in 1984 may be late arriving, but it is here. This point of view can be summed up by these words: In today’s world, the only assurance of security and privacy is a promise made verbally by a person who will honor it. If... View Details
- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
effect helps us to achieve." Casandra Levine agreed, but introduced a cautionary note. The promise of what can be accomplished by predictive analytics in raising the quality of life and functionality for our society is astonishing,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
Content Commercialization: Evidence from Blogs, published last year in Management Science, Zhu and coauthor Sun, of Boston University, bring an empirical approach to a question that has had many anecdotal responses but no firm results: How does the monetary View Details
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
the Internet and promised one-hour delivery of a wide range of products, including an entire evening's complement of food and videos, with no delivery fee and at a price roughly equal to what one would pay at retail. As it turned out, the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
pollution, the redevelopment promises enormous health and social welfare improvements by providing sanitation, safe drinking water, and basic services to Dharavi's residents. Realizing these benefits will depend on first rate design that... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
Organization 13, no. 5 (September 2006): 653-676 Abstract While early neo-institutional studies did not explicitly tackle the issue of agency, more recent studies about institutional entrepreneurship have brought it to the forefront. Institutional entrepreneurship has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
“And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. So, I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Deregulation does not necessarily lead to lower prices to consumers.” Judging Foreign Startups Nataliya Langburd Wright, Rembrand Koning, and Tarun Khanna “Can accelerators and investors pick the most promising startup ideas no matter... View Details
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
frustrated.” The research conducted by Ivashina and Lerner was made possible through collaborating with one of the largest limited partners, which provided what Ivashina calls “unprecedented data” about how people are compensated, with a View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
In the severe economic, social, and scientific turbulence churning at the dawn of the twentieth century, people were eager for any semblance of stability and predictability. From this need for certainty emerged a group of entrepreneurs who View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
integrate it with all the information that is being generated on the Web. To date, there is no company that allows one to take quickly all this information 'in the cloud' and integrate it with the vast arrays of information in the physical world." Difficulties... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace