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- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
strained Linden Lab's technical infrastructure. Also, although Second Life had attracted a large, loyal base of early adopters, it was unclear whether their preferences were similar to those of mainstream consumers. In this context,...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
product expectations and win over the mainstream personal care category. Can Burt's Bees become the "Starbucks of personal care" without distancing itself too much from the people, values, and narratives that have made the brand...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
display were successfully resolved, and the Sony eBook launched in the United States to extensive media coverage as the first mainstream offering in the e-reader market (the Kindle would not appear until November 2007). Over time, E Ink...
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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
demonstrate the catalytic role of committed state elites, who introduced incremental reforms over three decades. These officials operated beneath the political radar, layering small-scale initiatives on top of the mainstream school...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
consider unusual theories and evaluate overlooked phenomenon. In doing so, they created a body of research that provides new insights on two topics of mainstream interest—the sources of competitive advantage and the origin and function of...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
corporation that came with the emergence of investor capitalism in the 1970s. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the debate about the sources of America’s economic malaise, and what could be done about it, began to penetrate View Details
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Jeremy Andrus
headphones are a prominent way to say, “This is who I am.” How do you provide the style and image your consumers want to convey? You have to stay close to your core consumer. Even though Skullcandy has grown over the years, and we now sell in View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
a supply-demand function that’s out of whack and we’re still going to be predominantly getting skills by hiring it, retaining it, evaluating it, and promoting it?Bersin: The way I put it is, the alternative workforce is not so alternative anymore. I mean, it really...
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- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
the Terrie F. and Bradley M. Bloom Associate Professor of Business Administration. Public health will become a mainstream concern Leslie K. John: Healthy hygience habits will finally stick One consistent finding from our research on...
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by Danielle Kost
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
theoretical conclusion based on the historical experiences of business groups built up by the British-based trading companies with their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century origins comes close to mainstream assessments reached by the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
both partners write personal finance columns for Reuters’ India Web site and for the Wall Street Journal’s Indian partner, livemint.com. They appear on two TV shows every weekend: Bloomberg UTV’s Smart Money and ET Now’s Investor’s Guide. They also contribute to other...
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- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
A year of COVID-19 limbo has turned the notion of self-care into a mainstream pursuit. After all, with the pandemic’s end on the distant horizon, we all just need to hang in there a little longer—even CEOs. Earlier this month, we looked...
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- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
compensate him. The song was called "United Breaks Guitars." Within one week it received 3 million views and mainstream news coverage followed, with CNN, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, the CBS Morning Show, and many other print...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
inside-outsiders—internal candidates who have outside perspective. Often such executives have spent much of their time away from the mainstream of the organization, and away from headquarters, living with new opportunities and threats....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
themselves to open source, however, mainstream companies are learning to incorporate users in a way that benefits everyone. Apple, for example, tightly controls the software that runs its iPhone, as well as the technology through which...
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by Michael Blanding
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
trade-offs. The case was designed to help students understand job-shop style production and the impact of disruptions and reactive scheduling. Students use two of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's mainstream processes as a...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
think the ability to see down a generation is very helpful for people at my age. DM: Jeff, given those characteristics that you've just described that you're seeing in students, how would you see a company like GE that is very established, and might be seen as, as more...
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- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
workers and managers in what to expect, 4) set up a support system, 5) tailor methods for managing careers, 6) scale the program, 7) mainstream the program. The work for managers will be harder, but the payoff to companies will be...
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- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
positioning Immediate Annuities as "guaranteed lifetime income," New York Life has built itself a $1.4 billion per year business by 2009. However, to make Immediate Annuities a mainstream financial product for retirees, New York...
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
alternative financial services are maligned in mainstream financial circles. This case asks students to evaluate both organizations, their respective industries, and the proposed $45 million deal and determine whether or not it makes...
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Martha Lagace