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- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
your computer screen and take a break from accomplishing task after task. Another suggestion involves simply slowing down physically in order to slow down mentally. One busy executive who managed 1,500 people said when she had meetings... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
Lane and her colleagues sorted responses evaluating robot arm designs into three categories of evaluator: unscreened, screened through a human resources-like questionnaire examining their credentials, and those that took a robotics skills... View Details
- 17 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price
at an imaging center on the Stanford University campus, each participant was given $40 of shopping money before viewing a series of 80 products and their prices on a screen inside the fMRI machine. "This made the shopping experience... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
were often the instruments used by governments to screen or monitor FDI flows. The world-wide controls over capital movements were related to balance of payments concerns and the system of fixed exchange rates established at Bretton... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
such products had been available beyond the theatrical make-up line. Advertisements prominently featured screen stars, whose studios required them to endorse Max Factor products.26 A distribution company was contracted to penetrate the... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
may not be practical for restaurant dining, utilizing transparent screens or other physical barriers to demarcate table separation, limiting the number of individuals at each table, expanding outdoor seating, health and safety training... View Details
- Research Summary
Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs ( Princeton University Press, October 2002)
By: Rakesh Khurana
In this book, I argue that the external CEO labor market was born in a burst of rhetoric about wresting control of corporations away from a group of self-interested insiders, as senior managers in the era of managerial capitalism had come to be portrayed. The rationale... View Details
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
comparable to YouTube’s. TV distribution. The difference between an experience optimized for viewing on a small screen and one designed for sit-down watching is likely to be lost. The future of TikTok Early in YouTube’s life, it was known... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
principally relies on employers to select skilled immigrants through programs like the H-1B visa. “There are many pros and cons for each route, with the employer-based approach allowing firms to find candidates they really want and also View Details
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.
organizations tended to be created for the purpose of marketing countries as investment sites and not with the primary objectives of screening investment or negotiating with investors. Governments can adopt two polar positions in their... View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
is by assessing companies in terms of their social performance and corporate social responsibility efforts. The funds try to screen out the bad companies and invest in the good ones. If CSR efforts are supposed to enhance financial... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
screens and lenses a company uses to identify and shape sustaining innovations. Companies frustrated by an inability to create new growth shouldn't conclude that they aren't generating enough good ideas. The problem doesn't lie in their... View Details
- 22 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture
places to work. -- They become well known among prospective employees. -- The level of ownership—referral rates and ideas for improving the business of existing employees—is often high. -- The screening process is simplified, because... View Details
- 24 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?
Because of this, Airbnb offers not only a review system but also insurance to pay for incidents resulting from unreliable guests, authentication to make sure that guests and hosts are who they say they are, and a screening process to give... View Details
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
test. They will also affect employment, wages, and union negotiations. Widespread use of temperature screening and tracing of people’s physical movement and health status will generate debates on privacy and data protection. These... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
outfit walked across the screen carrying a sign that pitched a product. These almost literal translations of billboard and magazine ads did little more than set the previous forms in motion. Silk: Issues of privacy will come under... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
infections you may be carrying. Many of us have experienced health screening in Asian airports for years as technicians viewed our facial temperatures, checked our passports and vaccination histories, and asked questions. This will become... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jan 2011
- HBS Case
Terror at the Taj
world's collective conscience. “Not even the senior managers could explain the behavior of these employees.” A new multimedia case by HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé offers a flip side to the nightmarish scenes that unfolded in real time on television View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
customer defection would have led to the conclusion that the bank's interest rates were not competitive. A deeper analysis led to an alternate conclusion: The bank's marketing department needed to do a better job of screening in advance... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 04 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?
passed a ball back and forth in a video. Between tasks, however, half of the subjects were allowed to watch a video of the British comedy TV show Mr. Bean. The other half were confronted with a flashing red button at the bottom of their View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding