Invisible - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Sep 2005
What Do You Think?

What are the Lessons of New Orleans?

magnitude of the responsibility is incomparable. For example, the repair and maintenance of levees is a task requiring long-term vision and effort difficult to muster in a political environment in which deferred maintenance is an easy and View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

deliver recommendations on what we should do socially. This will help us get off the mobile phone and actually meet up in the offline world. This way, Facebook will become less of a website to visit than an invisible conduit to the most... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

very moment, say Leonard and Swap, to wait, step back, and mull things over — or as they put it, "incubate." "A group that is hotly pursuing a tempting solution may need to be interrupted mid-gallop in order to pause for incubation," they write.... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

01 Jun 2011
News

Where Conservation Means Business

four-inch-thick volumes of Moody’s financial directories from the early 1900s. And Anderson demonstrated the delicate work of making an almost invisible repair to a torn page in a Dutch commodities price ledger dating from 1719. “If you... View Details

Keywords: Roger thompson

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

is the only way to identify the whereabouts of the otherwise invisible virus, similar to collecting enemy intelligence in time of war. From its experience with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) outbreak in 2015, South Korea from... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

01 Oct 1997
News

Doing Something Real

Ever Need (over one million copies sold); Fire and Ice (a biography of Charles Revson and Revlon); Getting By on $100,000 a Year (and Other Sad Tales); and The Invisible Bankers, an irreverent look at the insurance industry. He has won... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)

01 Mar 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

China, and others will grow rapidly. The authors predict probable new principles for commercial success, among them that an obsession with return on equity will give way to more broad-based measurements of success, and that Adam Smith’s View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

Badaracco says. Furthermore, the "new invisible hand" of the markets is even more intense than the old one due to rapid global dissemination of information. Badaracco's vision suggests it's more difficult to be a responsible leader today... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

guided by the invisible hand of the stock market. In Germany alone, some 2,500 companies that would qualify to go public are not listed on any exchange." In rectifying that problem, Europe must deal with another one of considerable... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

19 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways

– the plume was cleaner than most you would see the United States – the invisible emissions were substantial (according to our hosts, about 12 tons of CO2 were emitted every day by the plant). The unfortunate reality of an aging coal... View Details

01 Jun 2022
News

Making It Count

and diffused over time about the invisible hand of the market and that—somehow—things just happen. That is a very uninspiring view of the world. The reality that I’m witnessing and experiencing, through my interactions with students and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Jun 2003
News

Up Against The Firewall

criminals? What, if anything, has been stolen or destroyed? Do your systems now harbor invisible “sleeper” worms or viruses that will cause more damage later and perhaps move on to attack other, outside systems? What are the company’s... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Robert Austin; Corporate Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

22 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

and 60 million electronic calendar entries over a three-month period. The results provide an unmatched look inside the "black box" that hides what Stuart calls the "soft wiring" of previously invisible social networks. In this Q&A,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

unique ways that multinational corporations (MNCs) and local businesses are serving the previously invisible BOP market: Nestlé, with its "milk-district model" that encourages supporting businesses to spring up around its... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

20 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 20

invisible hand of markets increasingly governs them. An assessment of this form of governance against the requirements of science-based businesses suggests a gap and a need for organizational innovation. Download the paper: View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2007
News

The Plight of the Global Poor

multinational corporations (MNCs) and local businesses are serving the previously invisible BOP market: Nestlé, with its “milk-district model” that encourages supporting businesses to spring up around its dairies in rural India; CEMEX’s... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; bottom of the pyramid (BOP); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

05 Feb 2019
News

Protecting the Power Grid

inadequate protection from disasters that occur infrequently and have consequences beyond the routine responsibilities of commercial enterprises. “Resilient societies need deliberate actions for the long-range common good,” Popik says. “The View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; terrorism; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

technologies allow information to flow seamlessly and invisibly across national borders, they make it very difficult for governments to do many of the things to which they have grown accustomed. Governments can't patrol their physical... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

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Lara Hodgson

get paid immediately for a flat 2.5% merchant fee, which is akin to accepting a credit card for payment but at atypically lower fee. NOWaccount is not a loan or debt, it is simply a revenue accelerator like a merchant service, and it’s largely View Details

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

of a project. Technological Invisibility Gaps in access and utility that emerge for particular demographic groups due to limited scope or understanding and appreciation of differences in need/experience. Universal Design A set of... View Details

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