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- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
assess the impact of this work. Dick Meza said that "it will have to run the gauntlet of peer reviews and further research ." Lorenzo Ferlazzo observed that "the current lack of standardized insights into behavioral stimuli... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
20 percent of the American population," observes Tufano. "What we're talking about is a little replumbing of the IRS code and the Bureau of Public Debt to help the remaining 80 percent of American families to save. That strikes... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
you don't model the importance of sweating the details. Downturns expose the weaknesses in your internal systems, observes Chuang. Technical expertise—the ability to solve cash flow problems, interpret what customers are really saying, or... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
what shoppers do. This observational work is the bread and butter of Paco Underhill, a consultant whose market research firm, Envirosell (New York City), has been studying retail shopper behavior for 20 years. Teach a kid to hammer, and... View Details
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
audience. "But it's also a hell of a lot of fun. If you have something that truly is new and different and better, if you can focus it on a market ... you can do amazing things against some awfully big competitors." "Disruption often comes in service... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought
And, it might seem appropriate to ask, how do such philosophical questions relate to marketing? Zaltman's eponymous research tool, the Zaltman Metaphor Elicitation Technique, called ZMET for short, was designed to illuminate exactly these kinds of human conundrums, in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Prita Kumar
person who makes the same mistake twice.” Being an entrepreneur requires a strong emotional and psychological makeup. How are you handling the ups and downs of the relatively new experience? I feel most happy when I’m making progress and just View Details
- 02 May 2018
- Blog Post
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
On the other hand, Kamal Gupta cited problems regarding pay transparency in observing that, "Indian law had mandated public sharing of employee compensation for all those drawing above a certain limit employees resented this (the old... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
need. On a personal note, Evans observed that "my job is not who I am, but it is what I do," adding that her duties as a mother and a grandmother take precedence over her professional interests. View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
Growth," followed four tracks of inquiry: managing innovation, information technology and competitive strategy, transforming the enterprise, and entrepreneurship. "Ours is an era of organizational experimentation," observed Professor Gary... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
number of missions that could be funded within a given budget, while reducing the negative impact of a failure. In the case of the Mars program, this meant no more funding for big, complex, billion-plus dollar missions like Viking (which succeeded in the 1970s) or Mars... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
carry out our mission.” Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has sponsored a Leadership Fellow almost every year of the program’s existence. “Any established institution runs a major risk of becoming staid, stodgy, complacent, and self-satisfied,” View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
start tapering, it may get out of the quantitative easing business—give new life to the observation that if the Fed catches a cold, the world gets pneumonia. The formal announcement of Janet Yellen's appointment as the Fed's next chair... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
by companies trying to make better CEO choices—and even in evaluating presidential candidates. The trick for a company or country picking an extreme leader is to realize that it is a high-stakes gamble, and that the candidates are difficult to evaluate—it happens over... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
is well and alive, and P2P offers great opportunities to promote new content. Clearly, there is a profit-enhancing role for some type of bundling even with digital distribution. However, it is also possible that the observed behavior is... View Details
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The Arts of Communication - Course Catalog
of? The living? The miraculous task of it? Love is for the ones who love the work. Attendance and Expectations Increasing our skills in public speaking requires practice, receiving and applying feedback, and observing other speakers. As a... View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
unemployment situation in India remains dire, with 17.8 million of the nation’s 1.34 billion people unemployed, according to the United Nations International Labor Organization. “Much work needs to be done,” observes Bhargava. “Otherwise,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
surprising that a firm’s country of origin can shed so much light on global expansion,” commented Lal. Exactly how globally standardized should a corporation strive to be? HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, who said that Levitt’s 1983 essay is the first assignment he gives... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY
observer of “where human capital is invested and where it isn’t.” He grew up in New Bedford, one of a number of Massachusetts “gateway cities” left behind in the shift from manufacturing to knowledge-based economic growth. He notes that... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
types of NPEs. Survey evidence illustrates a number of ways in which NPEs can potentially act opportunistically and indicates at least some instances and consequences of observed NPE opportunism. Large-sample empirical work has recently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne