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- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
downturn will mean lower overall demand. And increased constrained access to physical stores will lead to fewer, shorter visits. Shopping volumes will continue to shift to e-commerce, to the benefit of...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
determinants of intermedia substitutability and complementarity. The first, audience addressability, is the ability of a selected medium to reach an advertiser's target audience efficiently. The second determinant, audience control,...
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- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
appliances to turn on when rates were at their lowest. Plus smart meters, monitors, and sensors capable of two-way communication would allow for a more efficient reaction time if an outage was detected,...
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- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
innovation, and just by ordinary people in their everyday work lives or their everyday lives in their communities and societies.” Amabile’s paper cites research showing that...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
for just other private organizations, but for public entities all over the world. Clearly, the community of interest (and self-interest) extended far beyond Lehman Brothers and the US Government. Now we have...
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- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One
when he began his own pottery workshop in 1759. Nevertheless, each of the three, she writes, instinctively grasped the fundamentals of earning long-term customer trust and loyalty. Effective brand creation View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The VC Quandary: Too Much Money
necessarily the best strategy. "What you've got (to do is) be sure that you're into the first five or six: the guys that have a real chance of making it. And that means they're early to market, that...
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- 31 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories of 2012
of business research in the forthcoming book How Will You Measure Your Life? Coauthored with James Allworth and Karen Dillon, the book explains how well-tested academic theories can help us find meaning...
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by Staff
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
communication exchanges, are not going to happen unless managers better integrate common standards. McAfee studied IBM's B2B midrange ordering system and interviewed key players to find out what worked View Details
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by Sara Grant
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
state pharmaceutical licensing exam, opened a drugstore with her husband in Stockton in 1915. Following his death, she became the sole proprietor and later opened two additional drugstores in town. Gleason emerged as a stalwart defender...
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- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
noting that a regional or community bank is their main financing partner. Is There A Credit Gap For Small Businesses? There is disagreement over whether there is indeed a credit gap when it comes to small business. Banks say that there is...
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- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
well-grooved process to deal with copyright and trademarked content that could be applied to user-generated content, where you would give notice, require a timely response, and pursue legal View Details
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by George Riedel
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
age: dot-coms, dot-com enablers, and wanna-dots. That's kind of a joke, because many of the pure dot-coms are dead. The dot-com enablers, which are the technology and service firms themselves, are the...
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by Staff
- 13 Jun 2014
- Op-Ed
World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention
buy the right to retransmit the games and sell ad space to their local advertisers. Another key principle of the Economics of Attention is that attention is valued in a "superlinear" manner, which View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
the biggest entertainment hits were green-lighted based on a gut feeling and little "hard" data. Third, being able to make friends in high places is a valuable characteristic; with that I mean...
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- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
programs on preparing teams to function in a VUCA world, with rapidly changing customer, competitor, and stakeholder needs. Ideally, this means moving on from a fear of VUCA to embracing what I call...
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by Euvin Naidoo
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
good for the investment projects it is pursuing, and the solo firm is probably particularly good for its projects." But just because a firm decides to form an alliance in one case and not in another...
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- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
responsibility, would add little to the candidate's development. Instead she was given a general management assignment—and the team got a signal from the CEO about his commitment to diversity. His behavior communicated a sense of...
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by David A. Thomas
- 07 Jun 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Important are Big Ideas?
shareholders) and treat them well; don’t worry about gurus ... ." While big ideas may have originated, according to at least one study, primarily from the U.S. in recent decades, what does this mean for...
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by James Heskett
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
hardware or software that filters communications or facilitates their monitoring to a government that is likely to use it for both purposes. For Yahoo and Google, among others, it gets even more complex. It...
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