Functions - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

through most commercial disputes. Present-day Russia has practically no functioning judiciary. Many countries' legal systems are corrupt or controlled by local political powers. The fact is, there can be a great gulf between the laws on... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How Relationships are Building Biotech

function that made it clear the CEO could carry the new firm forward. An affiliation with a previous employer, which suggested skills and connections that could benefit the young firm. Other people on the core management team—the chief... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark

07 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

that the current system is highly distortionary and, yet, raises very little revenue. As such, the rationale for the current rules is increasingly outdated, and the current rules don't appear to function very well. Q: You mentioned that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

As makers of everything engage in an all-out features war to cram the most services, accessories, and functions into a single product, the real question for many is this: Does the consumer really want an all-in-one digital device? A panel... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

"Three-Party Exchanges: The Case of Executive Search Firms and the CEO Search," he describes how the function of search firms in CEO recruiting differs from the role they perform when recruiting executives at other levels. Given... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment

27 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

year filled with fast-moving developments in generative AI, the incorporation of the tools into search and shopping functions sheds light on just how powerful AI-enhanced search engines like Microsoft Bing could become. For instance,... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology

30 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

neither too quickly nor too slowly. The Structure, Size, and Performance of Corporate Headquarters Authors:David J. Collis, David Young, and Michael Goold Periodical:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the unique View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?

what the consequences of such an expansion might be. Ripple effects “Whether or not it really stands in the way of technological progress is likely a function of how expansively secrecy orders are issued as well as whether they are... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

and on the probability distribution over the sets of feasible alternatives that the society will face. Our methods generalize the well-known Kemeny Rule. In the Kemeny Rule, it is known a priori that the subset of feasible alternatives will be a pair. We define a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

While the knowledge sharing benefits of clusters takes off, the liability of institutionalization rise steadily as a function of time. These costs consist primarily of foregone flexibility resulting from persistence of established... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

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

05 Mar 2014
What Do You Think?

When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?

bring any innovation on the table. Disrupting through economic bubbles all the time would never establish the stable foundation that is necessary for the functioning economy." The question is, "how can they (be) made stable and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Publishing; Retail

25 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

its intake of meat. Nor can universities be made by legislative fiat to perform functions for which they are not expressly designed. For example, requiring universities to admit underprepared students is unlikely to produce a proportional... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education

03 Dec 2008
What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

intelligent choice so important to effectively functioning markets. Worse yet, the financial products were created by financial engineers motivated to make them complex and therefore harder to understand. What is to be done? According to... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

for truly independent regulators is of considerable importance. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) fulfills that function in the United States, but regulatory bodies abroad lack the clout of subpoena power and can be swayed by... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

managers put into practice in the late 1980s and 1990s. Most recently, we have tried to develop a holistic view of how performance measurement and control systems function in the new economy. A considerable amount of new theory has come... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

01 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

communications intensive and relationship dependent that they did not function well when operating units were separated by substantial time and distance barriers. In addition, language and cultural barriers made it difficult to integrate... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

system function when it's implemented in the real world? For the exercise, the class is divided into groups of five students. Several days before the exercise, each student receives private information regarding his or her role in the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

21 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 21

duration function as large-scale shocks to the quantity of interest rate risk that must be borne by professional bond investors. I develop a simple model in which the risk tolerance of bond investors is limited in the short run, so these... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

and prices as a function of the consumer population's valuation for the service and show that competition has three main effects on the marketplace. First, competition drives the provision of services with a low level of disclosure.... View Details