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- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
largest producer of pet foods, to join forces to create the Pets for People program, which aims to increase pet adoptions and thereby save thousands of animals that would otherwise have been euthanized for lack of homes. A common objective, in this case the View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
Investment Promote Growth? By: Alfaro, Laura Abstract—Among the prominent economic trends in recent decades is the exponential increase in flows of goods and capital driven by technological progress and a falling number of restrictions. A... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
compensation, how can managers motivate and promote freelancers? "Managers can motivate part-timers or gig workers in several ways. The first is to make them feel fully included in the group. The second is to structure the work carefully... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
promotional spending (including that directed toward physicians) as a percentage of pharmaceutical sales remains relatively constant over time and thus the growth of DTCA represents a shift in the mix of View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
actions. Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency and adversely change the mix of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that projects that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
conduct-that diffuse global standards. But little is known about the conditions under which companies adhere to these standards. We conduct one of the first large-scale comparative studies to determine which international, domestic, civil society, and market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
and complementary effects across channels to provide sales forecasting, promotion planning, and customer relationship management guidance to multichannel managers. We investigate three contingencies in a sales analysis of a leading U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency and change the mix of marketing promotions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
capital shortages, distributed urban territory to assuage losers of reform and promote economic growth. The findings suggest that 1) growth strategies, and the territorial politics they produce, are products of the post-Mao urban... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
largest organized chai retailer. It has missed its target for retail store openings by approximately 25%, goals that are very important to its investors who are also board members. However, it has developed an exciting new internet-based... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
and incentives—whether organizations promoted and rewarded employees based on performance and tried to keep the best performers from quitting. To collect the data, the researchers hired teams of MBA students who could interview managers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Promoting Political Mobilization By: Short, Jodi L., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Codes of conduct indicate that working conditions are improving overall at the factories being monitored by multinational corporations, and that these the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
tenure from 2011 to 2013 at JCPenney, where messages from top executives were so murky, the retail company was described as a place where “communication goes to die,” the researchers write, leading to rumors and distrust within the firm.... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
sectors. We focus on the presence of incumbent female-owned businesses and their role in promoting higher subsequent female entrepreneurship relative to male entrepreneurship. We find evidence of agglomeration economies in both sectors,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
David E. Bell and Mary ShelmanHarvard Business School Case 510-013 CEO Michael Mendes has transformed a grower-owned cooperative into a publicly traded top marketer of snack foods. Diamond's organization, culture, product development process, advertising and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
three markets." Globalization and the Poor Half of the world's population lives in poverty, but their needs and desires are no less real. Efforts by governmental and non-governmental agencies to promote economic globalization and... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 08 Jul 2002
- What Do You Think?
Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?
relatively small number of high profile leaders. Even my publisher informed me this week that at least one major retail book chain will not promote a book on management unless it is an exposé. Can a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
long-tail view suggests that consumers will purchase an increasing number and a wider variety of videos, everything from Hollywood classics to obscure foreign films. Long-tail proponents believe that consumers have very different tastes, and online View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
faced challenges such as data redundancy, missing data, and the presence of irrelevant information. We then apply the model to data from a retail context and illustrate how the focal firm could form customers' first impressions by merely... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman