Total Factor Productivity - Publications - Faculty & Research

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... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

13 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

2014 report from Boston Consulting Group, some two-thirds of total growth in the grocery sector has come from "responsible consumption" products. For example, organic grocer Whole Foods' annual revenues have increased steadily in the past... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

01 Mar 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

and fire” companies don’t. So what factors in the family and work environments foster the creation of leaders who share the founders’ entrepreneurial fire? How do some firms manage to bypass or work through family conflicts, disparate... View Details

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

When Protestors Knock at Your Door

a productive way for a company to respond? Spar: To be targeted is to be chosen by an NGO (or group of NGOs) for specific attack. When this occurs, NGOs use a range of tactics, from pickets to boycotts to "cut up your credit... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

01 Sep 2013
News

Who Are We?

annual sales total $436 million—a number Birnbaum projects will climb to $1 billion by 2016. So how did the company get its fizz back? First, Birnbaum invested in product innovation, something the previous... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

people’s lives for the better.” Photos Courtesy Toby Johnson A standout high-school student-athlete who turned down Ivy League schools to attend West Point (its education of the total person beyond academics appealed to her), Toby Johnson... View Details

01 Dec 2022
News

Flying High

didn’t ground demand,” she notes. “The demand was still there, especially for products like ours that limited your exposure.” When passenger air travel neared pre-pandemic levels in 2022, Aero discovered another advantage. With commercial... View Details

Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation

30 Apr 2021
News

Revealing the Rules

Consulting Group, Ng wrote The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career off Right as a guide for early career professionals—and particularly to help level the playing field for the outsiders. But it’s equally important, he says, for leaders to better understand... View Details

31 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

addresses interventions that firms, governments, and other parties deploy to shape household financial outcomes: education and information, peer effects and social influence, product design, advice and disclosure, choice architecture, and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

28 May 2012
Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

Associates. A social responsibility strategy should fulfill two goals: create a positive social impact, and enhance the company's brand, reputation, employee morale, and/or its bottom line, Rangan says. "But it does not have to be totally... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

that they'll design businesses that we want to acquire and will fit the niches in our portfolio of product or in the innovation trajectory that we've designed.' "Frankly, I think a smart corporation would be wise to be tapping that... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

23 Jan 2019
News

The Promise of Personalized Medicine

has risen significantly. The productivity out of the pipelines has decreased significantly over time and so that begs the question of where do we go next for treating mankind’s diseases. One of those answers is personalized therapeutics.... View Details

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Remote Work Extends to Factories and Farmlands | Working Knowledge

and improved patient wait times and other key metrics. Finally, BMW is developing smart factories, starting with a facility in Hungary slated to open in 2025. BMW engineering teams will be able to control every aspect of the production... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

The Way You See It

innovations of the last 75 years, as well as some thoughts about the coming decades.* * Total responses from MBAs and Executive Education participants who graduated in or before 1975 and those who graduated between 1976 and 1999 were... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

understanding of what factors likely influence success and failure. Many startups in developed ecosystems eventually enter other markets and understanding constraints can aid this expansion. Additionally, venture capital investing has... View Details

20 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

(Siko) Sikochi Abstract—We examine the influence of peer firms on trade credit policies of listed firms in the United States. We posit and find evidence that firms mimic their peers in formulating trade credit policies. The findings are more pronounced for firms in... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2024
News

The Exchange: Chance Encounters

Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

customer and product markets, and geopolitical environments. Professor William Fruhan leads the corporate finance piece of the curriculum, providing perspective on the globalization of financial markets. "Increasingly, there is more... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

20 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

began making hiking boots. The cluster later expanded into ski boots and sneakers, and drew investments from major brands like Nordica and Nike. Lead firms started offshoring production to cheaper economies like Romania and China,... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

Why are so many businesses—though seemingly intent on fostering innovation—unable to get new products through their organizations and into the marketplace? Ed Ludwig faced such circumstances as the new president of New Jersey-based Becton... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

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