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- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
viewing everyone as a customer, you fundamentally change the nature of the value proposition that exists between you and the entities with whom you interact."2 This theme is echoed in another recent book, Everyone Is a Customer:... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
took root, DIS regained leadership in its market. "The process got things on the table quickly," Ludwig says. 3. Be Open And Inclusive Fundamental business innovations almost always require changing the worldview and the... View Details
- Profile
Casey Gerald
information and extreme time and resource constraints. You’ve got to develop a way to think through an approach to solve this challenge. You’ve got to figure out very succinctly a way to articulate that approach and defend your approach against 90 other people who... View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
fundamentally changed SecondBite’s operating model. Declared an essential service in early March, it immediately appointed a pandemic coordinator and developed a four-phase pandemic response plan that included health screening and... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
reminded potential founders that in the most challenging moments “they should never forget their North Star—the deep reason why you founded your company and what you want to achieve with it. Remember to always go back to that fundamental... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
bottom line: "Climate does affect in a fundamental way the basic picture of global development," said Sachs. Thus, the "harsh physical environment" of most of the countries in Africa "provides a tremendously difficult backdrop for... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
relative lack of success in fundamentally altering the political institutions of the countries in question...this is the real problem—not the 'hegemonic pretensions' of the United States, but its chronic lack of imperial stamina."... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
as the congressional proposal to augment the Social Security system with a program of private savings, a plan that presumably would include the mutual fund industry. Ultimately, it is the fundamentals upon which the mutual fund industry... View Details
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
proposed; the latest one by Prime Minister May triggered the resignation of a number of key ministers. All of them struggle to deal with a fundamental tension: how to square barrier-free trade between the UK and the EU, especially across... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
composition as a key but largely endogenous part of development, while structural economies conceptualizes it as a fundamental driver. Competitiveness policy is about leveraging existing clusters as a platform for upgrading microeconomic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
as so fundamental to leading people that it went without saying. Maybe more formal inquiries would reveal a recognition of the progress principle. To find out, we created a survey in which 669 managers ranked the importance of five... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
who are known to be open in key roles, illustrating in visible ways that voice is celebrated rather than punished, and making fundamental changes to how people get evaluated and rewarded. Ultimately, every manager needs to work at being... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
it?" But cultivate it in the appropriate arena, or you will trip it up. There is truly a need for self-challenge. There is a sense that we must improve the fundamental actions of business in a global setting at the moment. Capitalism... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
here is that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to economic reform in countries. It depends really on where you are in your competitiveness development process. The major theme in this year's report is that there are some fundamental... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
incorporates the lessons and insights that the authors have gained in the past five years. Two new chapters critically examine the role of organizational culture in promoting or hindering ambidexterity and its underlying fundamental... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
fundamental deterioration in their ability to pay for goods and services from their wages.” Simultaneously, lending standards continued to deteriorate “until we got to the point where we had very lax standards, and we started to see... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
step back and asked, What’s the fundamental relationship between money and happiness? We were interested in answering that question in order to design interventions: What can we change for people? Professor Whillans, your research looks... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
ensure that buyers and sellers who don’t know each other trust that the transactions will be safe and of high quality? This is the fundamental role of online platforms: aggregating information that is useful for buyers and sellers who... View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
developed. This paper introduces a fundamental tension between incentives and improvement in the provision of feedback. Using a sample of 4,000 commercial logo-design tournaments, I show that feedback reduces participation but improves... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne