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- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
through with the surgery anyway. The behavioral implications are significant, the researchers say, in that people might not act in their own best interest at times. For those who find themselves wrestling with making difficult decisions,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
“worried well,” he said, who are involved in their own health care, are staying healthy, and are taking preventative action. The Invincibles: These are the folks the Affordable Care Act had trouble pulling into the health insurance... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
out that an everyday item has the power to act as both angel and devil every time we go to the grocery store. It lurks in car trunks and pantries all over the world, waiting to guide us simultaneously down paths of virtue and vice. What... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
brands, forever on the lookout for new opportunities; home life has become an act of managing supply chains, outsourcing housecleaning, childcare, and even grocery shopping to others; and churches market themselves like fast food... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 22
Management. Taylor and Francis, 2011 Abstract Routine and persistent acts of dishonesty prevail in everyday life, yet most people resist shining a critical moral light on their own behavior, thereby maintaining and oftentimes inflating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
obtaining both good and bad news from their school-tied firms, but perhaps as a tacit agreement, acting only on the positive news." Importantly, the research takes into account stock returns in the years before and after the October 2000... View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
partners, entitling them to provide their own ideas, often on company channels. They can create content and act as brand ambassadors, thought leaders, and storytellers. Intentionality enables leaders and employees to derive strategically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
to the information necessary to make important choices, both the ERP and CAD systems would increase the likelihood that plant managers and production workers would make decisions and act on them without having to consult an executive at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
phenomena differ in that each proposes a different underlying mechanism: The winner's curse is an information story. When bidders lack perfect information regarding the true value of an item, they must act on whatever "noisy... View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness
and monitor the CEO, scrutinize the performance of the company's leadership team, oversee financial reporting and disclosure, and ensure compliance with laws and regulations. The recent failures triggered regulatory and legislative responses, including the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
more balanced and comprehensive if management believes that directors might seek an independent opinion. It should be noted that there is a precedent for providing directors with independent funding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires that... View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
and differences in entrepreneurship as practiced in the U.S. and abroad? What are the reasons for these differences? A: I'll start with a key similarity. The basic notion that people act in their perceived self-interest is a given. In... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
permitted by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is realigning media ownership. Among other changes, the Federal Communications Commission recently relaxed restrictions on ownership of multiple television stations in larger markets, paving... View Details
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What an Army Commander Learned About Using AI to Combat Cyberattacks | Working Knowledge
decision-makers to challenge presumptions, analyze data, and work in sync with IT and software engineers to understand the benefits and challenges of AI. Use AI to run crisis simulations Test your systems during easy, peaceful periods, rather than waiting for an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
but Mark Kramer and Michael Porter had a whole course focused on the issue, and the students said, “Would it really make a difference?” The problems we face are so big that even if every corporation in the world cleaned up its own act and... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Fellowships Have Impact
More than 500 fellowship donors and recipients gathered on April 21 in Shad Hall for the annual MBA Fellowship Dinner. (photo by Susan Young) “The generosity of donors has acted as a quiet reminder to me to be the best person I can — I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
are 1.57 billion Muslims in the world; a very small number have extreme views, and even fewer act on them. In my own life, through speaking engagements, op-ed articles, and financial support, I focus on three areas that I think... View Details
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
good for our side must be bad for them," and vice versa. This mindset calls off the search for wise tradeoffs that would benefit both sides. Although it has saved many at-risk species, the 1973 Endangered Species Act (ESA) has... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
companies simply fail to manually update software with fixes to sometimes major security vulnerabilities, Greenstein says. He hopes that the results could prompt policymakers to take tougher stands against businesses that don’t quickly disclose and View Details