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- 26 Sep 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation
Key concepts include: Compared to managers in other businesses, managers running a family business are faced with additional complexity in negotiations because of personal relationships and family history. Negotiators who negotiate... View Details
- 25 Jul 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Evolution of Apple
only 6 million units over the course of 3 years, compared with sales of 300 million PCs during the same period. "Apple's market share has always been lower than its consumer mind share," remarks Yoffie. Birth of The Cool In... View Details
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
of the policy on firms and employees, the researchers compared the outcome between regions with varying generosity in the loan-guarantee program. Firms that received loan guarantees, and their employees, enjoyed far more stability than... View Details
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
management gave service quality (e.g., clean bathrooms and employees greeting customers and making eye contact) a 20 percent weight in importance, as compared with 10 percent for store conditions (e.g., shelf organization, labeling, and... View Details
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
04-054.) Abstract We develop a process model of how users, an understudied source of entrepreneurship, create, evaluate, share, and commercialize their ideas. We compare and contrast our model to the classic model of the entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
palters convey (“I was misled”). We also find that targets perceive palters to be especially unethical when palters are used in response to direct questions as opposed to when they are unprompted. Taken together, we show that paltering is a common, but risky... View Details
- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
find. Interestingly, these salaries were generally higher than those in the United States and the UK. Why was public disclosure not moderating executive pay? A: Yes, the data on salaries that I found for company directors in Brazil in the past were a bit high View Details
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
find that hard to say, even with the benefit of hindsight. Song prices certainly seem low, especially when compared with album prices. But we should not forget that labels were battling the threat of piracy, and before Apple came along it... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
crisis and then interest dropped off. It’s also been true there’s been a change in attitudes. If you compare 2015 to 1995, there’s much greater interest on the part of the students in shaping one’s own destiny. Rather than going to work... View Details
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
had very different perceptions of the effectiveness of K-12 education, however: Business leaders characterized the system as "poor and deteriorating" compared to other advanced nations' while superintendents saw it as... View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
more jobs than the consumer support services layer—365,000 compared to 245,000—but it grew at a slower pace (70 percent) than the support services layer (229 percent). "The consumer support layer is thus the unsung hero of the last... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
compared to other IPOs and the market at large. The analysis found flips underperformed the S&P 500 by 5 percent in the following three years. Lerner believes that problems with quick flips occur because of the short period that... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
contexts (Coase, 1937; Williamson, 1981; Ouchi, 1980). The underrepresentation of democratic models compared to hierarchy would thus seem to reflect, in part, a triumph of this economic logic (e.g., Hansmann, 1996). What does the balance... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
101 cases performed at a new cardiac surgical site (hospital A) were compared with 2 established centers. Results: A steep reduction in the total number of precursor events over time was observed in the early experience of hospital A (9.2... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
saving, and portfolio decisions. It also reduces welfare. Indeed, we show that the excess burden of government indecision can, in this instance, range as large as 0.6 percent of the agent's economic resources. This is a significant distortion in and of itself. It's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
appeared "amateurish" compared to their U.S. counterparts. Recent years have seen a considerable convergence of U.K. management styles with those of the U.S. Many of the largest British multinationals, such as GlaxoSmithKline... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
work seriously. Still, we need more researchers, more doctoral students, doing case and survey research on many topics. In particular, not enough has been done to compare the issues and performance of family versus non-family companies.... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
were really losing their share for software patents compared to non-software inventions,” Kerr says. The ripple effects of invention Tech clusters, it turns out, are also important for non-software related patents, with those areas of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has... View Details
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
abroad, a goal advanced by the territorial regime that has now been adopted by most comparable countries. While the developments described above have crystallized the case for international tax reform with an increasing attention on... View Details