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14 Nov 2019
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Health Minute: Measure Costs Correctly for Better Patient Outcomes

16 Mar 2009
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Running Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What To Do About It

Keywords: by Benjamin Edelman; Computer; Communications; Telecommunications

27 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?

resemblance to your initial goal. Such results can be discouraging, demoralizing, and baffling. We have a rose-colored view of who we are and what we do, and we aim to behave in ways that are consistent with... View Details

Keywords: Re: Francesca Gino

02 Dec 2009
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Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

warehousing industry in the Southwestern U.S. as "by and large dependable and hard working, and their children will probably have better jobs than they have." As Irv Williamson put it: "Why would anybody consider limiting View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

06 Dec 2017
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Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

Can a Platform-Based Tech Giant Be Broken Up? The answer to this month’s question of whether platform-based tech giants Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google should be broken up was a resounding “no.” “TD in FL” put it succinctly with one of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

30 Oct 2015
News

Can Providers and Insurers Team Up to Fix Health Insurance?

17 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage

In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller

23 May 2011
Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

at the number of times investors accessed environmental and social data on Bloomberg terminals and ranked countries based on the number of "hits," accounting for the size of each country's capital market. We also developed a call View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim

06 Sep 2024
News

Neuroscience Says to Be Happier, Stop Thinking About Happiness

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What It Takes to Lead a Disease Research Foundation

Summer 2008
Editorial

Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations

By: James Feyrer, Bruce Sacerdote and Ariel Dora Stern

Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in household production and... View Details

Keywords: Income; Household; Gender; Japan; Italy; United States; Sweden; Spain

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20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

led us to decide to write this book. We sought to write a volume that would be readily accessible for business and government practitioners, and... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

team. They will be responsible for designing and maintaining the business continuity and disaster recovery management plan, ensuring a robust and effective response to potential disasters. Process: Maintaining the plan iteratively and... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

17 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance

overwhelmingly reported they would pay wages first, but health care premiums were the second-most critical bill overall, and clearly ahead of rent,” the researchers write. “As one respondent put it, ‘[h]ealth insurance is so important... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

12 Nov 2014
Op-Ed

A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform

fumbled near the goal line. In May, the Senate Banking Committee approved the legislation on a 13-9 vote, but could not garner sufficient support from either side of the aisle to warrant consideration from the full Senate. For many... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas Retsinas & Rob Couch; Construction; Real Estate

September 2002
Case

Align Technology, Inc.: Matching Manufacturing Capacity to Sales Demand

By: H. Kent Bowen and Jonathan P Groberg

Align Technology is a four-year-old medical products company that has invented a new product requiring new manufacturing processes. Demand for the new product has grown more slowly than initial forecasts predicted, and the cost structure is preventing the company from... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Problems and Challenges; Product; Forecasting and Prediction; Marketing Strategy; Sales; Demand and Consumers; Production; Health Industry

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11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

opening up the shareholding of the parent trading company, but by floating separate 'free-standing' firms on the British capital markets, which the merchant houses continued to control through management contracts and other means in the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

11 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

though, Confucianism teaches that women should have access to education, which, in addition to democratization, likely has helped to increase the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 May 2001
Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

(Financial Times/Prentice Hall 2000). Edited by Subir Chowdhury, a consultant and author specializing in quality management, the book pulls together practical and accessible essays by twenty-six leading-edge academics and business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Apr 2017
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