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- 23 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf
now for whom music has always been a free commodity. The more that we talk to college students and teenagers about why they buy vinyl, the common thread is that having vinyl in your dorm room or your house says something about you and who you are. I View Details
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
Halfpoint In the worlds of economic theory and conservative political orthodoxy, corporate tax cuts, such as the 2017 tax reform in the United States, should create benefits beyond businesses. As the thinking goes, middle class workers... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
sequencing, and coalition building certainly find application in multi-deal situations. Yet beyond such concepts, negotiation analysts can find special value in thinking in terms of campaigns, with multiple interdependent fronts, that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
School of Management at Northwestern University.) "From an academic perspective, we thought we could advance the theory of networks by looking at the psychological consequences of networking." Previous psychology research has shown that people View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
Good ethical practices don’t just happen; everyone within a corporation has to continuously work on them. “People are not always comfortable talking about ethics,” Nelson says. “Some have been dismissing ethics as, ‘I don’t have to think... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
methods and to make decisions on quantitative analysis. This book offers a variety of practical tools and examples to improve a manager's understanding of business analytics, and to enhance their thinking and decision processes.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
pessimistic viewpoint, saying there is no antidote to Surveillance Capitalism. “If your competitors use Surveillance Capitalism, you are forced into using it as well,” he wrote, continuing that there is no going back. “If you think you... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
disruption, attackers take root in a new "plane" of competition or a new context of use outside of an existing market. Consumers historically locked out of a market because they lacked the skills or wealth welcome a relatively... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
had performed well at an easier job (managing a relatively calm airport), while others had performed less well at a harder job (managing an unruly airport). As with the admissions officers, the executives consistently favored employees... View Details
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
Expenditure Panel Survey and joint probabilities of workplace exposures from the General Social Survey, and we conducted a meta-analysis of the epidemiological literature to estimate the relative risks of poor health outcomes associated... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
transformation. Over the preceding two years, Davis and Gorowitz had grown Swagbucks from a relatively small venture staffed by people from Gorowitz’s personal and professional networks into a professionally managed and rapidly scaling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
received from abroad exceeded 160% of net investments, implying that foreign investment over these periods was dynamically efficient. Read the article: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1875750 How Great Companies Think... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
culture, setting off a K-Drama (Korean television drama) and K-Pop (Korean pop music) craze, with music exports, for example, expanding ninefold to $277 million in 2013. Think virally and socially. When New York City sought to bring back... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
designers must think about how to distribute property rights, people, and activities across numerous self-governing enterprises in ways that are advantageous for the group (ecosystem) as well as for the designer's own firm or community.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
Working Papers Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Collaborative Innovation Authors: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Eric von Hippel Abstract In this paper we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
all business units to explore the budget implications of several strategic alternatives. The following discussion will help stimulate your thinking about how your own company's budgeting process can be transformed from an exasperating... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
New Business magazine, and talked about the legal issues commonly faced by entrepreneurs, as well as her thoughts on how to successfully deal with them. In Bagley's view, there is a tendency on the part of many entrepreneurs to think that... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
their work, so they’re searching for something to replace that work identity.” Over four years, the researchers conducted interviews and surveys of 120 professionals at three quite different companies located in different parts of the United States. To get a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
particular individual or branch of the family. Figure 1: Governance structures of the family business system Most experts agree that a family company board should be a relatively small group of about five to eight members. It should... View Details