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- 22 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage
governments to fight the downturn. "It seems likely that economic historians will look back at the years since 2007 as a grand natural experiment for assessing the effectiveness of alternative macroeconomic responses to a financial... View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Moss
- 06 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales
items didn’t seem to act as competing alternatives to the buyer. Instead, a cohesive display provided a general frame for the decision, keeping the buyer fixated on the question of whether to buy something in that product category. More... View Details
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
for years to come. Unpredictability inflicts a heavy cost on scientific progress, whether in domains like stem-cell research or in searching for safe alternative fuels. It damages the United States' competitive position because great... View Details
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
"One of the marks of a truly dominant intellectual paradigm is the difficulty people have in even imagining an alternative view." Do you think business scholarship has lost sight of social welfare issues? A: Our data suggest... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
travel and expense policies for a large consumer products company. Apps aren’t the only alternative Even if not ready to develop or deploy such technologically advanced solutions, companies can still make their ethics codes more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
spending four years aggressively moving the fifth largest pension fund in the United States into alternative asset classes, Harris felt that TRS shouldn't just participate in private equity funds as a typical limited partner. Rather,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
flat-footed on the issue of fuel efficiency? Granted, Detroit was busy catering to consumer demands for more profitable, lower-mileage vehicles. But at the same time, could stretch have given greater urgency to responses to alternative... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
remain in place, and give them both an equitable financial payoff. She had a number of alternatives and wanted input from the group, which she received. Not all participants' issues are this monumental. Sometimes executives just need to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
luck. Together, these results raise the possibility that the American public views the allocations of taxes and pre-tax outcomes as morally relevant, a judgment that is inconsistent with conventional objectives depending solely on after-tax outcomes but consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
habits. We believe that there are several key issues that will effect a dramatic change in the supermarket industry over the next five years. First, eCommerce will shift significant dollars out of the industry. Although home delivery does not seem to be a viable View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Leads chose to pursue transformative impact, abandoning its original core model to focus on new system-wide collaborations, a process which we call “zagging.” Combining these strategies, YU and KaBoom! have zig-zagged by alternately... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
profoundly." Scientific innovation is moving into companies such as BofA that you wouldn't expect, she adds. "We think of automakers focusing primarily on design, but the growing emphasis on alternative fuels is causing some of... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
alternatives, be expensed. Are companies that choose those alternatives any less deserving of an accounting subsidy than Microsoft, which, having granted 300 million options in 2001 alone, is by far the largest issuer of stock options? It... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
alternative approaches. Tentative solutions on single or multiple issues are framed as building blocks. The parties confirm their understandings and recap periodically. Opening-up improvisations rely on full, complete honesty. Parties in... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
generate cash very quickly. So Jobs' first great attribute was extreme focus. There is a window right now for a desktop alternative to Microsoft in many markets around the world.— David Yoffie Number two; he went back to creating sizzle... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
Steiner, who in 1913 founded Anthroposophy—a “science of the spirit,” provides further evidence on alternative capitalisms to the American capitalism of today. Steiner and his followers created a new way of doing business based on... View Details
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
conclude that business leadership would be wise to push past pride and the false sense of self importance, and include within the decision making process those in the enterprise who know the actual nuts and bolts of the business." Several respondents described... View Details
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
beleaguered legislatures have begun to resist costs that consistently rise faster than those of other goods and services. With the advent of high-quality online learning, there are new, less expensive institutional alternatives to... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
nation's debt? they are the ones who chose the representatives." As an alternative to insolvency, forgiveness of debt combined with other measures had appeal for several respondents. Yadeed Lobo, while entertaining the idea of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett