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- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
banking and would result in the 10th-largest bank in the world. Discusses the main sources of value creation from international expansion and acquisitions in the commercial banking industry. Also, highlights the barriers View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
to cognitive and emotional internal dynamics that inhibited organizational learning. We call this dynamic the advocacy trap. By suggesting a downside to legitimacy building and identifying a novel View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
research had taken root. Over the past 35 years, examination of social and environmental influences on creativity has become increasingly vigorous, with broad implications for the psychology of human performance, and with applications to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
undergird democracy There are several things businesses can do to strengthen democracy. Here are four of them. Encourage voter participation by providing employees with paid time off to vote, thereby... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 1, 2006
students to debate the company's concept, its strategic decision on how quickly it would like to grow, and some key decisions on its supply chain. At the time of the case (2006), small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2014
- Op-Ed
The Alibaba Effect
export-driven economy to one that is driven by consumers. Like no other company, Alibaba has succeeded in making China—a country with countless internal barriers to trade—seem... View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
is that’s preventing some businesses from pursuing this federal help.” These results show that more must be done to inform business owners about their options and remove barriers View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
in an integrated fashion; and barriers to learning, including tacit knowledge and murky intellectual property rights, which can slow the pace of scientific advance. A more suitable anatomy would include... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wired and Black: Focus on Careers
much an alternative as investment banks has led to students asking more fundamental questions." Thomas said students are finding new ways to use their expertise as the workplace changes and the... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
state colleges and universities for families with incomes below $125,000. "A bachelor’s degree may once have been a ticket to the middle class, but that is no longer a sure thing" Such a plan has obvious appeal. It would reduce... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
It is therefore unusually difficult to detect any Google abuse of market power; Google can use its market power without leaving a trail of publicly available documents. Api Terms & Conditions As A Further View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
entrepreneurial skills on a broader canvas” We classified what we heard as ten potential disruptors of the global market system: the functioning of the global financial system, barriers to world trade,... View Details
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
As makers of everything engage in an all-out features war to cram the most services, accessories, and functions into a single product, the real question for many is this: Does the consumer really want an all-in-one digital device? A panel... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
something might be done to foster the creation of wealth (and jobs) in Mexico through the removal of structural barriers that inhibit entrepreneurial behavior. However, before action might be taken View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
as well as internal and external customers, the top team listens intently, saying nothing except for questions of clarification. What kind of meeting is this? Actually, it's not a meeting at all. Rather, it's part of a regimen to improve... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
companies' market prices. More seriously, however, the claim simply ignores the fact that a lack of cash need not be a barrier to compensating executives. Rather than issuing options directly View Details
- 05 Sep 2000
- What Do You Think?
Whither the Information Economy?
be justified as the monetization of valuable information assets that accountants have never seen fit to include as legitimate entries on balance sheets (other than as grossly misnamed "goodwill").... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
AvigatorPhotographer Are Free Trade Notions Repeatedly Victim to Short-Term Thinking? Free trade and free markets are concepts to which many of us, given our training in economics, aspire. But they... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities
Entrepreneurs must overcome many barriers to get discoveries to market, but academic researchers face an additional one they might not realize: themselves. Academics tend View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Privatization and the New European Economy
From France to Italy, Germany to Denmark, chances are good that if you pick a country in Europe, you can match it with its state-owned airline. But as Europe unites, barriers... View Details