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- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
Michael W. Toffel Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Warner. However, it has also begun to explore new ways to expand its online advertising model, experimenting with more elaborate forms of advertising (involving graphics, animation, and video). Google has also begun exploring the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
productivity are hellishly difficult to sort out. This is due to the difficulty of measuring such amorphous factors as intellectual property creation and the long time lag before any expected return on investment. The sector's tendency to View Details
- July 2011
- Teaching Note
Weber Shandwick: The Client Relationship Leader Program (TN)
By: Robert G. Eccles and Penelope Rossano
Teaching Note for 408077. View Details
- Web
A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About
Anti-Racism Task Force: [It] has resulted in the racial equity plan. And we have formed the Racial Equity Advisory Board under the leadership of Professor Jim Cash in whose honor we named Cash House on the campus. And Jim has helped us... View Details
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
Although I will describe research on networks at both the organizational and the individual levels, I shall focus on the organization level. In addition, in the interest of brevity, I will emphasize horizontal relationships among... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?
Summing Up What Will it Take to Save the Managed Mutual Fund? In this month's column, I purposely took what I assumed was an extreme position in asking if this was the twilight era for the managed mutual fund. The responses the column generated from individual... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
Student Conference: Climate Symposium 2021
about the 2021 conference. In previous years, the three clubs (Energy & Environment; Food, Agriculture, and Water; and Sustainability) hosted separate conferences. What was the impetus behind having a combined student club conference on climate change? Though our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
The company has raised about $500,000 in funding so far and is readying a Series A round. The Question: Unger and her team at Nix built the biosenser as an analog system, differentiated from the growing wearables market by its thin, flexible View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
capabilities, connections, confidence, and cognition that might be associated with having worked at GE during a particular point in time—this would be a "GE career imprint." And, we can compare the career imprints of different View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
brands like Toyota, Nike, Sony, and Nestlé, Blackshaw shows managers and marketers how to establish and maintain credibility for their brand by being authentic, listening and responding to customers, and forming relationships built on... View Details
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
Lagace: Your work highlights the pros and cons of hiring high-performing or "star" employees. How and why did studying the career trajectories of star football players give you a window on better management of organizations and careers?... View Details
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
delivery had almost entirely been overlooked. Before being able to generate revenue through the call center, institutions have to fully understand and be able to implement superior customer service." "Each service interaction View Details
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Space, Public And Commercial Economics (SPACE) - Course Catalog
interest in space and justifies devoting time, effort, and resources to it. The course consists of fourteen 80-minute sessions organized around Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier, a book authored by Prof. Weinzierl and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
From Das’s Desk
It’s a daunting undertaking to convene so many alumni for meaningful learning and socializing, and we will share details as soon as we can. Lifelong Learning In addition to virtual programs and reunions, the pandemic gave us the impetus to accelerate our efforts to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
musician, Hayes plays the pipe organ and cello, “but only with family” — a select group that consists of his wife, Barbara, and their three daughters and two grandchildren. What's behind the current crisis in U.S. financial markets? Wall... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Profile
Hann Yew
organizing events, like Darwin's 200th birthday celebration, which intended to connect aspiring scientists. In response to Larry Summers' controversial comments about women in science, Hann wrote skits and participated in improv workshops... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
that Creative Destruction is a guidebook to future corporate management success. What does it suggest? Among other things, as managers we are admonished to: recognize that the larger organizations get, the more they lose their ability to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Profile
Margo Cramer
sexual violence is a priority for the administration," she says. Margo is active in a task force of students, staff, faculty and administrators who are collectively forming recommendations for concrete solutions. She presented a talk... View Details