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- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
jobs." Luthra rebounded into other jobs, holding C-level positions at several multinationals. In 2001, 35 years after losing the IBM job, he took a gig as CEO of the... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?
size of a company's headquarters—it could be that profitable companies waste their money on large headquarters—but it does suggest that companies should not necessarily be... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
Watch out. Apple hopes to claim a new frontier on your wrist. The company announced its new Apple Watch on Tuesday, sending journalists and a bevy of other observers, online... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
role that savings may play in a person’s decision to return to work, for instance. “It raises the question: What are the other things that are holding people back from employment?” Kluender says. “We're... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
talent during the 2020 season, and millions on top of that for coaches, managers, and other front office staff. How can teams ensure that these dollars are well spent? And what... View Details
- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
part of the individual, Toffel says. But it also signals the values and culture of the company the CEO heads. “If one of your company’s core... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
Office of Education at USAID. Christensen's influential book was not about AIDS; it described companies that were well managed yet were blindsided by rapid advances from... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
Both impact investing and traditional philanthropy are on the rise after the decade-long economic boom following the Great Recession. But when does an impact investment make a bigger difference than a grant? The question is far more complicated than simply evaluating... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
got essentially no response at all. Clearly, these employees were unsure of their roles. Since then, Gulati has seen similar uncertainty abound in other "support function" departments, such as... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
being engaged and given incentive to change. I don't know what tool or technology could be used for that, but anything that improves communication between and with providers, that kind of standardization, would be huge." View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
customers to take their business elsewhere. With new Internet-only banks and brokerages popping up regularly, established firms must find innovative ways to hold onto their customers. "Traditionally, strategy was institutionally... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Trained as an industrial engineer, Tucker is interested in the perspective of frontline workers in productivity and process improvement, including how internal... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
What kind of a device are you using to read this article? And what does your body posture look like? Are you hunching over a smartphone screen, arms tightly at your side? Are you slouching over an iPad or laptop? Or are you stretched out... View Details
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
for customers? Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution? Millions of people have been harmed by cigarettes, defective merchandise, pollution, addiction and other... View Details
- 23 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Status: When and Why It Matters
today. Looking at grand cru-classified wines of the vintages from 1991 to 2008, Malter found that the wines from the first class earned three times as much as wines from the second class, holding constant... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
they're not burning cash and they're cash-flow breakeven. They made a lot of cash during the last years of the boom, and because Steve did such a good job of streamlining the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
cannot be a credible champion for world trade. “Xi Jinping’s words are more of a PR stunt,” he wrote. Wildebeest added, “[A]ttempting to do meaningful work in China is basically a hassle from day one, top to bottom. Large View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
solving a problem with varying states of interaction with teammates: zero interaction with peers, intermittent interaction, or constant interaction. “Once upon a time, work in real workplaces was intermittent,” Bernstein says. You would... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
(main price + other charges) stimulate people to look into the details of what they get for their money. Thus, price framing can be used as a tool to induce consumers to acknowledge additional points View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
says. In December, for example, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) issued an amicus brief related to a case in which telecom equipment giant Ericsson sued Dell and six other... View Details