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- 13 Feb 2018
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New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
avoided nor occurs in an environment with flexibility—results in reduced prosocial behavior. That is, we investigate whether individuals use time to quickly find ways to decline prosocial asks and thus whether surprising individuals with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
Enlist ‘witnesses’ to report or handle harassment Companies should openly encourage people to speak up when they notice a problem. “There are times when plenty of people know about it, but don’t do anything about it, maybe because they... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
Playing on social media, particularly when the playful activity occurs in real time during a live event, can charm an audience—while in some cases costing little to do so. Dutch shipping container company... View Details
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
"decouple" payments to European farmers. Explores the logic behind agricultural supports, with a focus on the economic, political, and cultural context of French farming. Discusses efforts to reform the CAP in the context of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21
observed variation in payout patterns over time than the traditional motives. The most recent evidence suggests that further insights can be gained from viewing payout decisions as an integral part of a firm's larger financial ecosystem,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
of the same trial. Drugs that aren’t working may be more quickly eliminated; patients can be moved over to the arms of the trial that are seeing a response. Challenges are also addressed more immediately and published in real View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
characterized those urging patience. As he put it, “The computer was created by Babbage in the 18th century We only started seeing the pervasive benefits from computing in the last 10-15 years. Today’s innovations will bring real... View Details
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
in the Midwest, and my mother was a real estate agent who took on other work as money needs arose. They both hoped that I wouldn't have to deal with the financial stresses they had faced. They wanted me to have a nest egg. They hoped I... View Details
- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
reporting, and rewarding end and effect—economic growth—than the means and causes of economic growth? Is there too long a lag time between the two to interest managers (and in some cases even policymakers)? Is there too great a physical... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
great resources available to help with financial planning and asset management. Make the family strategic plan before you search for investment advisors. And before you do that, take the time to reexamine individual family members' life... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
said, it's time for a new kind of standards to emerge: standards not just for how computers communicate, but for how business processes work. Even an advanced technical protocol like XML, said Upton, "with all its cleverness, doesn't... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
Publications April 2015 HarperBusiness Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs By: Yoffie, David B., and Michael A. Cusumano Abstract—The authors of the bestselling Competing on Internet Time (a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
says McAfee. Another reason the governance structure works, adds Lakhani, is that it is transparent—everyone's edits can be read and commented upon by anyone else. But the real basis of Wikipedia governance is a collection of policies and... View Details
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
needs of potential fund recipients "means talking to everyone from thought leaders to gang leaders," he said. "You have to have the same discipline and rigor, but you also have to take the time to understand the ecology and... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management?
. . Before revealing grades, academics should reveal the utility of grades!" Deepak Alse commented: "Accountability and transparency have no areas for exceptions. Real learning cannot happen in the absence of these two factors.... View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
At General Motors' Car Assembly Plant in Wilmington, DE, there is a film that managers like to show when times get tough. Dating to 1991, the film opens with a GM executive saying that the plant will be closed in three years. There is no... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
Field—approached the tricky subject of branding. The concept of branding as we understand it today was just barely entering business parlance at the time of Heinz and Field, who came to prominence in the late nineteenth century, Koehn... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
elements differently, I observed that the organizations able to pursue both social and financial goals over time seem to share a commonality—they maintain a hybrid organizational culture that holds and balances tensions between creating... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
understand all the communications protocols and the way everything fit together. There was a time when that became less important in the whole server era, but now it's happening with the Web. In order to get performance out of the Web,... View Details