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- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
middle of the night), are you thinking about the right issues as you ponder how the future will change your business? The answers to these questions can be tough, and their full implications are not always immediately clear. I provide a real-world guide to the various... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
good weather. When the weather is bad, individuals appear to focus more on their work than on alternate outdoor activities. We investigate the proposed relationship between worse weather and higher productivity through four studies: (1)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
Peter Roberts outlines the alternatives JLL's top management analyzed as they considered how to move the organization forward. This case is the second in a case series that also comprises cases A, C, and D, and collectively covers JLL's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
profoundly." Scientific innovation is moving into companies such as BofA that you wouldn't expect, she adds. "We think of automakers focusing primarily on design, but the growing emphasis on alternative fuels is causing some of... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
alternatives, be expensed. Are companies that choose those alternatives any less deserving of an accounting subsidy than Microsoft, which, having granted 300 million options in 2001 alone, is by far the largest issuer of stock options? It... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
team, novel biotechnology that extends cassava’s shelf life from three days to 18 months. The process transforms the cassava tuber into nutritious food products that provide alternatives to wheat flour. The first product CassVita... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible
“I believed a social enterprise company could provide free education to everybody profitably, so that it would be sustainable and scalable.” For Feerick, the pandemic has highlighted the urgency of building an alternative to the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
alternative approaches. Tentative solutions on single or multiple issues are framed as building blocks. The parties confirm their understandings and recap periodically. Opening-up improvisations rely on full, complete honesty. Parties in... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
Napster got shut down, consumers were very upset. For one, they said we needed Napster to get innovation like immediate music downloads and access to more music than any record store could stock. But in fact, in short order the legal View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
better, the system would work well with alternative energy sources such as wind and solar power, unlike the existing energy system, which has a tough time with renewables. Potentially, customers would be able to sell unneeded renewable... View Details
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
many ways Facebook is taking over big chunks of what we used to do using more open technologies: web search, content consumption, even e-mail. Increasingly, Facebook is valuable to many people because it represents a more orderly View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
product alternatives that come from the technology, and of customer needs that come from pressures in the marketplace, to see where opportunity will emerge. What that means is that most MBA students should go to work in an area they think... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
alternative could be joint partnerships in which banks fund the small businesses they wish to, and direct those that they are unable to fund to a vetted third-party fintech partner. While this is practice has become the law in the United... View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
respond in very different ways. You have to be prepared." Innovators who are working on solving a problem can benefit from alternating between the roles of creator and critic. At times when we are presented with a new idea, we immediately... View Details
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
Chapman Wood, George Westerman, and Charles A. O'Reilly III Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change (forthcoming) Abstract This article empirically explores the relations between alternative organizational designs and a firm's ability... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
agglomeration economies, including capital-good market externality and technology diffusion, play a particularly important role in multinationals' economic geography. These findings remain robust when we use alternative measures of trade... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
generator, which is facing significant uncertainty regarding the cost and availability of alternative energy sources. Problems with the contracted supply of natural gas and the volatility of oil prices, coupled with pressure from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
good alternative or a supplement.” Whillans says an online program may also encourage higher participation rates than certain special events that companies organize to encourage people to relax. For example, a bag lunch get-together or an... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
generation of executives who are demanding to go back in-person—Wall Street falls into this category. They’re trying to go back to what they know well; but I am not certain that they’ve really considered the alternatives and what... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint