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- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
authors wrote. Additionally, the researchers found that under a contingent free shipping policy, a promotional discount in a particular product category becomes more attractive to shoppers. The reason: the product discount might further... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
found that these investors were largely apathetic about the gender politics of Japanese corporations—yet this overestimation of Western progressiveness has led to tangible progress in Japan, as firms begin hiring and promoting more female... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
appraisal of opportunities for new business startups. Furthermore, analytics (not the data) should be a source of continuing competitive advantage. In his new book, Charles Duhigg describes how the retailer Target uses data on consumption patterns to discern and... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
an incident gets reported and that a solution is implemented so that the incident doesn't recur. We can look at whether this happens over time. Knowing this will make a significant contribution to improving patient safety, because a lot of hospitals rely on these... View Details
- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
these marginal differentiators and expend their creative efforts on new products and processes that create value, instead of slapping a new coat of paint on shopworn goods." Sandi Edgar wrote, "Instead of trying to weed out new products, focus on View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
outcomes. The discipline of creating the strategy map of linked objectives in the four perspectives engages the executive team, and often promotes much greater clarity and commitment to the strategy. Once created, the strategy map is a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
choices. Suppose the issue is a decision to promote a successful young person to lead a significant business unit. A corporate CEO will typically solicit input from others, including the vice president of human resources. Essentially,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
Economy, "Recognizing that people who need to cooperate are often separated by a gulf of potential divergent interests and potential mistrust, the best one can do is try to identify and promote a set of values to which most of the... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
into a disruptee. Learning To Chicken-scratch If a technology is to succeed, in theory at least, it should not require people to radically change their behavior. Instead, companies that promote the technology should hope for a gradual... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
attempts at group creativity in companies ranging from startups to Hewlett-Packard and Intel, is their recipe for firing up and stoking the creative process. Promoting differences of opinion, setting aside an incubation period, and... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
Charter School Facilities Fund (CACSFF) and Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, found himself at a loss for words. Turner was in the midst of raising capital for the CACSFF, a vehicle designed to promote the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
and square," was a central component of the new strategy. The scheme initially had three pricing tiers and eliminated typical sales promotions in an attempt to simplify the shopping experience for consumers, thus moving J.C. Penney... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
struggle for custody over divisional control was a micropolitical process of interprofessional competition, played out between accountants and risk controllers who promoted conflicting measures of the key strategic uncertainty,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
outdoors in a Charlotte, North Carolina, city square to celebrate the launch of Envision Charlotte, a first-in-the-nation smart grid plan aimed at reducing energy use in the central business district. The initiative called for a 20% reduction in energy consumption in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
(EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated reporting. Under EV accounting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
jurisdiction, and therefore protection, of the states involved. Intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), whose members are states, represent an important attempt to span this abyss. IGOs are mandated variously to smooth economic transactions, facilitate global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
teach a professional code of ethics similar to those promoted in law, education, science, and medicine, that the staffing of managerial positions be guided by considerations of moral character and ethical performance, and that a corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
promoted young executives—often around thirty years of age—to run whole companies. The chief auditor of one of the premier machine engineering companies in Germany in the early 1920s was barely thirty years of age. Thyssen kept trying to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
national interest. We suggest revised institutional arrangements to promote greater cooperation between the Treasury and the Federal Reserve in setting debt management policy. This is particularly important when conventional monetary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
Rice. Additionally, three senior executives were appointed to Ireland's team: Lazarus Angbazo was promoted from president and CEO, sub-Saharan Africa, to president and CEO, GE West, East & Central Africa and Africa commercial leader;... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne