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- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
purchasing health plans start to demand something different, which in turn is going to require insurers to deliver a product that is more focused on what patients need. Hopefully, that also pressures providers to provide high quality care... View Details
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
global marketplace, it is imperative for multinational organizations to have clear language strategies. Neeley has coauthored a September Harvard Business Review article with HBS Professor of Management Practice Robert Steven Kaplan on how companies can View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
need to turn back to the users, like Wikipedia, and say "we need your help." You might be somewhere between an NPR model, where the service you're providing is good for the user and for society so people donate to keep it going,... View Details
- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
turns out, none of these solutions can shield foreign aid from the heavy hand of politics. Developing countries heavily influenced by foreign aid end up with a different, and novel, governing apparatus. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
CSR record make a convenient target for the media, the authors turned to sociological studies. These show that readers like unexpected news—explaining why accidents at the greenest companies were widely covered—but those same readers also... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
they are going to express when their turn comes." During those times, the supporting musician "comps"—or complements—the soloist's tune, a concept Wheeler finds equally applicable to negotiation. "When the other person is speaking, you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
Management for Corporate Leaders in 2010, says she's still following up with both banks and plans to turn the research into teaching case studies. She's also looking at how risk management works in industries such as electrical and... View Details
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
Summing Up Are there too many "hostages" in the work force? Before turning to responses to this month's column, let me note that this marks the tenth anniversary of "What Do You Think?" I want to thank all of you for... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
rate—a stark reminder of the perils of owning intellectual property in China at that time. Turning to the Internet itself, and particularly to content-sharing sites, the matter of ownership is challenged in a different way. Content... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery
It takes more courage, and by the way, everyone can't do it.—Ed Kania Firms do need to focus more than ever on industries they are good at, said Kevin Jacques, senior associate of Sevin Rosen Funds. "It's probably impossible" for a dot-com or information... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
contrast, preferential treatment means being guaranteed results from the meeting, such as a partnership deal. While E-Loan executives in Europe got a chance to pitch a business proposal to Yahoo!'s site in the United Kingdom, they did not get special treatment: Yahoo!... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
that best represents the data. Thus researchers could use such methods to explore novel and robust patterns in data, which could in turn lead to inductive theory building. ML’s strengths include replicable identification of novel patterns... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
on. If there was one thing our reviewers focused on, it was making sure that our results were robust! Camerota:Did you have an idea of how the study would turn out? Bernstein: Somebody once told me that business academics are the janitors... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- 25 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
We May Have Taken Too Much Credit for Easing Workplace Segregation
more. But in 1983, the EEOC loosened that reporting regulation, requiring companies to turn in racial composition figures only when they had at least 100 workers on payroll. Koning believes the threshold for reporting racial data should... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
pictured here was not part of the test.) Courtesy Michael Luca Luca and Dai turned their focus to restaurants throughout the US that had not actively advertised on Yelp in the year prior to the experiment. They also narrowed their sample... View Details
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
for both players. Dillon took a pay cut for a chance to make the playoffs and win a Super Bowl, and Branch took advantage of his performance under Belichick and was paid handsomely elsewhere, though it turned out that his performance was... View Details
- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
immigrant scientists, entrepreneurs, and engineers in the United States helps facilitate faster technology transfer from the United States, which in turn aids economic growth and development. This is certainly a positive benefit diasporas... View Details
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
describes a strategic meeting at which managers sat at a large conference table with scores of assistants behind them, all listening to a PowerPoint presentation and engaging in little or no discussion. He was so frustrated by the lack of real dialogue that he View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
focus on professional identity—the BE component—we turned to the literature on adolescent and adult identity development. Our work was grounded in the constructive-developmental theory of Harvard psychologist Robert Kegan (The Evolving... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
the individual but eventually brought ruin to all. The culture of Silicon Valley turns that system on its head. The bank of expertise in Silicon Valley represents a triumph of the commons: resources are extracted and replenished in a... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap