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- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
Insights Team (BIT), which became the world’s first government organization dedicated to incorporating behavioral economics into policy. BIT saw the tax letter as an opportunity to test the value of behavioral interventions in a context... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
Apple's strategic moves under the leadership of CEOs Jobs, Sculley, Spindler, Amelio, and (again) Jobs; places those moves in the context of structural features of the evolving PC industry; and covers the iPod and iPhone businesses at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
has to be done by the politicians. There are some very good, young, bright politicians in their 40s, but you can't expect them to take power and consolidate in a five-year period." Vogel placed the political goals of recovery in a broader View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
a search in the context of a single well-known case: the Federal Radio Commission's (FRC) 1927 decision not to expand the broadcast radio band. The standard account of this decision holds that incumbent broadcasters opposed expansion (to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
of their corporate governance, placing them within the wider context of the economic and social history of Germany. Based on both quantitative data and archivally based case studies, this book explores how the relationship between the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 24, 2009
of social structure and the relations of power that underlie them. The article proposes a more empirical approach to framing accountability—"thick description"—that might enable scholars to better understand how social regimes of accountability actually... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
Students need to be aware of different country conditions, demands on implementation of different strategies, and impact on culture. Also discusses energy performance contracting in the context of making India's energy generation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
despite the fairly large student cohort (521 students in 1926). For instance, each student residence used to have its own dining room. Though the annual entering cohort has almost doubled since the 1920s, a communal atmosphere has been preserved. To place this in the... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
be effective unless government managers are skilled in the implementation and use of these techniques and are rewarded, along with contractors, for effective results. This book identifies important long-term trends, insights, and observations that provide perspective... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
returns. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1734528 Platform Competition under Asymmetric Information Authors:Hanna Hałaburda and Yaron Yehezkel Abstract In the context of platform competition in a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
less helpful if you don't know whether your options will get better or worse. It pays to look for strategic insight from contexts where uncertainty, risk, and change are the only constants. Military science, in particular, offers powerful... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
articulated the "principal-agent theory."— Clayton Christensen AG: I think your question was asked in the context of business strategy. In that context, there is a problem between the scientific approach to strategy and the... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
but for me it was very rewarding, and in the end, I gained what I hoped to and more. “I also think my approach reduced competitive pressure; being with so many remarkable people can be a humbling experience (which can be good, but it also can make people forget the... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
1957-1966, the World Bank and IMF-led structural reforms of the 1980s, and the continuation of reforms after the first democratic elections in 1992. Details Ghana's economic and political context and cluster performance in 2001 and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
out of poverty, and to do it in the context of a very freewheeling and open democracy. It could be a huge example for the world.” The primary catalyst for India’s economic growth can be linked to sweeping reforms instituted in 1991 under... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
knowledge you have, the more connections you can make.” This certainly seems to make sense in a football context when considering the most successful coach of all: 67-year-old Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots. Despite an... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
progressed along their path to power. Discovering common attributes that made these influential business leaders possible to build successful and sustainable companies in a very adverse and unfriendly context is an extremely necessary... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
churches every three to five years. When that occurs, Parsons and his colleagues found, ministers who "poached" were less likely to be assigned to the highest-paying congregations. In a broader context the method of the... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
had faced in twenty years to become the leading U.S. ice cream producer today, with over 1.5 billion dollars in sales in 2004. Q: What would you like our manager-readers to be aware of as they think about your research and try to apply it to the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace