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- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
will be a hit or a flop.) Tricks of the Trade When tracking brain functions, neuroscientists generally use either electroencephalography (EEG) or functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology. EEG measures fluctuations in the electrical View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
incentives based on valuation ratios, split announcement effects, and future returns, we find empirical support for the predictions in both time-series and firm-level data. Given the strong cross-sectional relationship between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
activities on the job that are not perceived as work while "working" in ways that are non-productive. In short, we're not thinking creatively enough about work. Those are themes that recur in the comments to this month's column.... View Details
- 23 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
men,” Koning says. That phenomenon, known as “sampling bias,” is likely less a result of active discrimination against women, Koning says, than it is a lack of representation in the sample of people giving feedback. Nevertheless, it could... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
limitless opportunities to grow along three dimensions. It had operations in only 10 countries, while its competitors in airline catering were active in up to 50 countries. Thus, geographic expansion was one of the key growth options. DO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
Retail Chain By: Deller, Carolyn, Susanna Gallani, and Tatiana Sandino Abstract—We analyze the effects of a field experiment introducing a values-based 360-degree assessment system at an Indian retailer. The director intended to encourage store managers, rewarded View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
(BRFSS) data on 2.3 million U.S. respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover multiple business cycles over four decades. This research provides a new perspective on the welfare cost of business cycles, with implications for growth... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
job Let the numbers fall where they may. You may find that people achieving their dreams has no link with gender equality.” For others, “having the best people doing the job” may have been seen as having a subjective quality to it, based... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
good judgment—good from whose perspective?" Few questioned that good judgment can be acquired, possibly at some risk and cost of mistakes. This still leaves us with the question of whether it can be taught. (Michael Hogan and Al... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
funds, and money managers are natural active investors, but they have been shut out of boardrooms and strategy by the legal structure, by custom, and by their own practices." There are many reasons why shareholders have remained on... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
practices creating a learning and innovative organization; and tracking results in terms of the "four Rs" of retention, referrals, returns to labor, and relationships with customers. It shows "the culture cycle" at work in practice View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
and redefine outcomes. The challenge was divided in three phases to provide flexibility to adjust based on outcomes in each phase. We altered our strategy as needed to move between competition and collaboration, which assisted in remedies... View Details
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
demarcation between management practice, focused on business processes, and clinical practice, focused on the activities and decisions of diagnosis and treatment. However, health care delivery has been undergoing a gradual but important... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
certain legitimacy, which means broadening the base of political involvement to include the poor. Poverty, after all, is not only a matter of income; it also reflects and takes form in powerlessness, alienation, isolation, illiteracy, and... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
J.C. Cuddy. 10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture Published: December 22, 2008 Organizations with strong, adaptive cultures enjoy labor cost advantages, great employee and customer loyalty, and a smoother on-ramp in leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
CEO for a company seems to run on a scale based on size. The ultimate problem with that is the large failure effect. . . ." Responding to the point that hiring from outside an organization is often a more expensive solution, Balaji... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
helped large Greek companies and startups compete more effectively. But that hasn't happened.” Greek politicians are blaming, first, one another based on the party affiliation, and second, their European creditors for imposing harsh... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
Group had transformed itself in two decades from a small welding material factory in 1989 to a leading global construction equipment manufacturer with 5 industrial parks in China; 5 R&D and manufacturing bases in America, Germany,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
to sell political autonomy for economic gain, as did Belarus." A purely pro-western or pro-eastern foreign policy would have divided the country, since the first requires economic costs that east Ukrainians were not willing to bear.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
usually aware of these activities yet turn a blind eye, says Anteby. Why? Is that because such managers are nice people? Or do supervisors see hidden yet important benefits in a company culture that tacitly encourages—and nourishes—gray... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace