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- 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010
PublicationsKeiei no Ryugi (The Management Ritual) Authors:Mitsuaki Shimaguchi and Hirotaka Takeuchi Publication:Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publishing, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Joint Evaluation as a Real World Tool for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
a more significant impact on performance. In fact, if one reads the leading scholarly journals, such a judgment seems to have been made; there is remarkably little work within the academy on leadership. However, we believe that drawing this conclusion from these... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
differentiation is difficult in retail as well because development of such advantages takes time and is difficult to execute. All the while, low-price players are constantly looming to pounce. Can low-margin retailers afford customer... View Details
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
Getting to Yes by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton and the hard-bargaining style of Herb Cohen's You Can Negotiate Anything. Now Michael Wheeler provides a dynamic alternative to one-size-fits-all strategies that don't match View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
did you write this book? Jeffrey Fear: This book began as a very different project. One problem in German history is that a good deal of literature understandably focuses on discrete time periods: Imperial Germany 1871-1914; World War I... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
performance. We measure close ties using the education network between fund managers and managers of the investee firms. We find that having close ties to an investee leads to more timely investments only when the funds are closely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008
suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices. Discounted cash flow and net present value, as commonly used, underestimate the real... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 24, 2009
standard-setting authority to an international body. There is also evidence that the likelihood of IFRS adoption at first increases and then decreases in the quality of countries' domestic governance institutions, consistent with IFRS being adopted when governments are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
driven by large aggregator NPEs and is not the behavior of small innovators. We find further suggestive evidence of NPE opportunism, such as forum shopping and targeting of firms that may have reduced ability to defend themselves against litigation. Finally, we find... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
evacuation took place, four people at a time clinging to a "basket," a large donut shaped contraption with nets through which we laced our arms, as a crane lowered us 400 feet to the boat's deck. The lengthy (eight-hour) trip... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
sequencing and a sustained effort, you don't make progress. Our single-issue focus lately works against us. There's also a tremendous mismatch between the time horizons of politics and of competitiveness. Most things that matter for... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
that emerged from experimentation. Interpretation of such observations leads us to new propositions about the interplay of design and identity in times of radical change. Overall, the propositions suggest that after a dramatic shock,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
and civil aviation authorities might undertake over time horizons of months to years as well as tactical measures that may be adopted on a daily basis in response to dynamic, "real time" developments like poor weather or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
and how regulations are formulated. Let me give you two quick examples. The Sarbanes-Oxley law passed last year has a number of very good things in it, and the action taken at the time probably was quite healthy because of the situation... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
helps them hedge real interest risk and inflation risk, or because it helps them reduce the volatility of their portfolio of stocks and bonds because its return is negatively correlated with the returns on those assets. This article... View Details
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
orders (parcels versus documents), time of delivery (8 a.m. versus afternoon), and other variables. There is also an unfair assumption in "fair" pricing policies: You do not determine what is fair, the customer does. An average... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
the various actors in the system are not designed around value, nor is competition reinforcing improvements in value. For example, let's take the prescription drug benefit, the big reform of today that everyone is talking about. This is not a View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31
three owner-directors must decide whether it is time to stop customer acquisition for a while to "get their house in order." At that moment, though, one of Shuberg Philis perhaps most important business opportunities so far... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel