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- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
executives had entered negotiations with broadcast networks to broaden the selection of free network content distributed via its video-on-demand (VOD) service. The major... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
from different points of cultural reference, they learn to anticipate and deal with the kinds of value conflicts they are likely to face as global managers. Paine points out that students taking her course... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
that shadowy area between the clear light of right-doing and the clear light of wrong-doing. What the jurors in Houston in effect told us is to forget about pushing the limits... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
climate change is a problem, as a Climate Action Network Europe report did last year, based on data publicly available from the Center for Responsive Politics. Similarly, Ethical Consumer's ratings penalise companies that donate more than... View Details
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
companies that have tried to improve their go-to-market strategies, we have learned that almost everyone agrees it is difficult to effect significant change in distribution... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
including emerging economies like China, India, and Brazil. This list will continue to grow. A by-product of the intertwining of globalization and technology enabled networks is that events are no longer... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
is the blurring of agriculture and pharmaceuticals limited to seeds and plants. Animals are being turned into drug-manufacturing facilities" as well. Thus, Goldberg says, bioengineering may some day... View Details
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
“which is a fancy way of referring to all of the things you don’t have as a new company—products, knowledge, connections, resources.” The most common and effective way to make... View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
downloading? And how effective has that strategy been? For example, is it a good thing to sue potential customers? A: Suing potential customers is not exactly a standard entry in the book of good CRM. More... View Details
- 01 Feb 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?
of any organization." Carol Holding associated brand value with sustainability: "As brand value will soon be included in a company's valuation ... we can more than ever monetize sustainable behavior." Others see the market working its View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
interrelated. People who have studied this industry for a long time have come up with a number of feasible ideas to get at the cost problem, including high-deductible insurance and health savings accounts. But until we make sure that the... View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
exploring the conditions under which investable tax credits may be the most effective mechanism to deliver a production subsidy and discusses the desirability of employing investable tax credits in other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
medicine, and health-care providers to resolve current dilemmas around post-market drug safety and consumer product safety. Historically, the United States oriented its regulation to pre-market testing, but... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
of companies have participants role-play to gain a better sense of others' points of view or to sense how consumers would actually use new products. When Interval Research Corp. wanted its young designers... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
address the issues that kept them from being employed well in the past." The bakery's challenges include limited financial resources—its budget is $200,000 a year—and learning to be profitable while... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
similar ways for a limited array of traditional services, and last for only one year. In essence, managed care comes in just two flavors: plans that place constraints on access to physicians and hospitals... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
the downsides of the cluster phenomenon. After the French tire maker Michelin introduced radial tire technology—which in effect doubled a tire's useful life—Akron tire companies quickly began to lose their... View Details
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
faced the challenge of convincing buyers to pay a premium price. Their products originated from a wild resource under government regulations which limited the size of the catch by both the industry and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
what important groups of customers say they need in the way of products and services of increasing capability (as well as prices and margins) expose themselves to competition from innovators who create alternatives with View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett