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- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
development of entrepreneurial regions and industries. But these efforts are challenging. Governments cannot dictate how a venture market will evolve, and "top-down" efforts are likely to be unsuccessful. The same common flaws... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
Treating environmental issues as business problems sounds straightforward, but it's not easy. The following assumptions, all of which are common in business thinking, make it difficult to reframe the issues. Environmental problems are,... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
analyzed our data, we were struck by the resourcefulness and creativity of the managers, doctors, police officers, and addiction counselors whom we interviewed. Necessary evils are often done under difficult conditions, with lots of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
Mills (@KarenGMills) is a senior fellow and served as administrator of the US Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013. Antonio Moreno: Engage creatively and prepare for returns With COVID-19 cases rising, retailers should expect a... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
governmental direct intervention and the role of the state as entrepreneur. Why, for example, was public ownership of infrastructure businesses common to so many European countries by the late 1940s when they had recently come out of such... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
sales. If the economy remains shut for more than a couple of months, the enterprise will not survive. A creative donor rushing in with debt at low rates and a grace period may decide the future access of the majority of Mexicans to good... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
leadership change that does not rely on Schumpeterian creative destruction: platform envelopment. By leveraging common components and shared user relationships, one platform provider can move into another's... View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
Original Thinkers Can Be More Dishonest Authors:F. Gino and D. Ariely Publication:Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract Creativity is a common aspiration for individuals,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2006
decide whether to compete on the ability to use customer information for pricing or whether even larger rewards could be found in leveraging the connection to the GM family. However, although jointly selling auto insurance and cars is View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
who wrote, "... legislative and regulatory response treats the symptoms (means) rather than the disease (motivation). Transparency is only as successful as the least creative obscurantist." He recommends, among other things,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
doubled effort within the competitive regime and increased effort by roughly half in the cooperative regime, while accounting for incentives. Our experimental approach and results indicate the importance of accounting for worker preferences in View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
inception of a promising venture lay the foundations for its eventual ruin. The Founder's Dilemmas is the first book to examine the early decisions by entrepreneurs that can make or break a startup and its team. Drawing on a decade of research, Noam Wasserman reveals... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
forthcoming The Creativity Reader The Art of (Creative) Thought: Graham Wallas on the Creative Process By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—The Creativity Reader is a necessary... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
hopped in lateral cycles and the upward flow of creative offensive schemes stopped at the college level, with most teams running similar, risk-averse offenses, and innovation taking root slowly.” This conservative approach to hiring seems... View Details
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
for all age groups to bridge social divides and unite citizens in a sense of common purpose. The book offers examples of solutions to address each opportunity and concludes with a call to action. Purchase the book:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Sandino Abstract—Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
their jobs. Common sense suggests why this will lead to an inefficient public sector. Nationalization or reversal of planned privatizations of economic assets. I have not seen not even one credible academic study that suggests that... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
actually hinder the most important part of problem-solving: actually solving the problem. Research by Ethan Bernstein and colleagues. The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs (34,436) David Yoffie and Michael Cusumano find View Details