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18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18

challenges for educators because it requires a facility with different kinds of knowledge and wide-ranging learning abilities. We report on the development and delivery of an information technology (IT) management course designed to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

6 I got to work in my basement on starting FreeMarkets. The first thing we did was raise some money, and then we built some software. We found some pilot clients and started to develop market-making skills, a supplier database, rules for... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

health care has led her to study nurses, who, as direct care providers, are at the center of the web of supply chains of equipment, supplies, medications, and even physicians. Singer received a grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

read in Washington since it was submitted to Congress in January by a Congressional Oversight Panel. Congress created the five-member panel last October when it enacted the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to rescue... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

22 Jun 2021
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The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

Jones Industrial Average soared amid a “bonkers” real estate market. Professionals have been looking around, and recruiters have data and stories to grab even the most contented employee’s attention. "You could have a two-hour meeting in... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

customers routinely selected cards that although profitable for the bank could be a poor fit for customers’ needs—leading to low satisfaction scores, cancellations, and occasionally, financial distress. To that end, the company’s Behavioral Economics team had View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

strictly online. Who reads newspapers? Old guys. So this is an industry that is being dramatically transformed. “The reality for the advertising industry is that the old model is broken.” As broadband enables new forms of entertainment... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

change their companies' values, build healthier relationships with investors, revamp incentive systems to create long-term value, and develop stronger succession plans. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

makeups support more chain restaurants, but that other factors, including suburban sprawl and public transit commuters, also have some impact. Read the paper:... View Details