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- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
officers (CEOs), we use linguistic features extracted from conferences calls and statistical learning techniques to develop a measure of CEO personality in terms of the Big Five traits: agreeableness,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
this interview he discusses the development of the German corporation and what modern managers can learn from that history. The book was edited by Thomas K. McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
All of the most valuable firms in the world today are platforms, starting with Apple, Microsoft, Google and Amazon. But platforms do not evolve in predictable ways, and there is a lot that managers View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
researchers might be able to address such issues as "how corporate practices contribute to or detract from stable societal institutions or democratic processes, or how might companies advance individual learning View Details
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by Manda Salls
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. Vice President AI Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
Twittersphere that they would investigate. Technology is undeniably transforming the financial services industry. Fintechs, Big Tech, and banks are using increasing volumes of data, artificial intelligence, View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?
"as part of a small team building a new company ... the time we spend together (as opposed to the day per week that she and her colleagues telecommute) ... is the most valuable." Jack Downey makes the case for the doubters:...
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by James Heskett
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
capitalization), one that defied the old rules for productivity, income increases, and economic growth. We are told by widely-quoted scholars such as Erik Brynholfsson and Andrew McAfee that innovation View Details
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
huge deficits stretching back and forward for a decade,” according to Kautz. “I believe that an emerging disinflationary era, driven by more intelligent machines and continuing...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
laid the blame at the foot of "an engineer who had difficulty forecasting simple activities and (the) time to accomplish them." Joseph Mello commented that " part of the problem comes from the view of an organization as a...
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by James Heskett
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
Schultz. Wall Street demanded increasing growth, internationalization, better productivity, and new products. And Schultz's successors responded by opening up to five new stores per day; extending business...
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- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits...
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- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
"We were selling seven to eight million cubic feet per day and I was responsible for it. I thought we should take a better interest in it," says Thomas. The problem was that although he was in charge of the View Details
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by Theodore Kinni