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- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
decision for firms that aspire to develop platform-mediated networks is whether to preserve proprietary control or share their platform with rivals. A proprietary platform has a single provider that solely View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
and see how that can be reformed to take advantage of new opportunities. Pacesetters may reorganize frequently, she said, because "turf is the enemy of change." In phase three, leaders are ready to respond and change, but change beyond the merely cosmetic.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2022
During the Venture Capital (VC) and Entrepreneurship session, speakers from Equilibrium, Unreasonable Group, Lowercarbon Capital, and Project Canary touched on the importance of systems change and tackling climate from View Details
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
scale, and you expect it to be sustainable, you've got to think about what the barriers are and build [from there], eliminating the barriers within the design of what you're doing. For example, there was a suggestion by the school system... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
sustainability solutions to a range of client organizations. Megaprojects are finite-duration initiatives involving multiple diverse entities in the design and delivery of a large-scale development, such as a brand new ecologically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
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- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 2B indicates that reflective moral judgment is sensitive to indirect agency, but only to the extent that indirectness signals reduced foreknowledge and/or control. Experiment 3... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
for Improving the Safety and Efficiency of Hospital Work Systems Authors:Anita L. Tucker, Sara J. Singer, Jennifer E. Hayes, and Alyson Falwell Abstract Objective. To link safety-related concerns raised by frontline staff about hospital... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
survey. We find that the end-of-month inventory significantly increased in four of the six retail segments studied and that, after controlling for sales and macroeconomic factors, the positive time trends for the end-of-month inventory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
allocation, and accountability and performance improvement systems to support an overarching strategy. This central idea provides a valuable conceptual framework for current and future school leaders. The case studies presented in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
intermediary to charge consumers fixed fees, to offer them screening contracts, and to subsidize search allowing stores' strategic decisions to be contractible or controlled by the intermediary. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Expansion of the Case Method | Baker Library
Expansion of the Case Method [An] advantage of the case system is its flexibility. . . .The Dean’s program has met the acid test of successful adaptability to radical and unforeseen changes. Melvin T. Copeland ; George F. Baker Professor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
know was the damage — not always damage, but on balance, plenty of it — that some would do over time. In the name of profits, the workings of a free market, pure self-interest, and outright greed, the American financial system stopped... View Details
- 09 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch
three years ago: "Rethinking the nature of executive pay within the context of our larger economic and social system and the challenges we face may enable us to create a new model of compensation rooted in a more realistic... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
very durable and the company offers software updates and support for their older model phones. “That is why iPhones tend to be resold multiple times,” Serafeim says. The second is branding. “It is cool to have an iPhone,” Serafeim... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
organizations adopt these strategies, there may be tensions and multiple conflicting institutional logics. Additionally, we consider four strategic leadership topics and how they relate to platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic failure? This roundtable discussion, moderated by Professor Krishna Palepu, sought answers and suggested some corrective measures. Highlights of the conversation follow. Krishna Palepu:... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
drive experiments and make decisions more centrally, and others by combining both approaches. The note highlights important tradeoffs in designing management systems for control and new-market adaptation and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
for our tax system. For example, we might want to split the costs of government equally among all taxpayers, letting each of us keep whatever income we earn above our fair share. Or, we might want our tax system to reinforce social and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace