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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
is higher than the exercise price of the option) within the agreed upon time frame, the likelihood can be so slight that they no longer provide much incentive. Hall has found that when options fall out View Details
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by Judith A. Ross
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
Choosing the right software platform is a critical task for developers. It can be a business life-or-death decision picking between Android or iPhone, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform, Xbox or PlayStation. At the same time, the hunt for talented software...
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- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
of projects, to try things out, to see what works. Delivery of value is ongoing. The default in this model is action. The idea is you do custom assembly, but you put a premium...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
negative event. Meanwhile, he says, "those that make less extreme claims either are disregarded by the press or have a far less likelihood of seeing their failings exposed." While that conclusion may seem...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
restructuring as the process through which a company radically changes the contractual relationships that exist among its creditors, shareholders, employees, and other stakeholders. The goal of restructuring is to increase the overall...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
our account suggests, people default to the belief that others have relatively narrow and homogeneous preferences, and thus predict that dissimilar items are disliked,” the researchers write in “The Role of...
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- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
Would-be innovators know that one of their biggest challenges is systematically identifying the innovations with the greatest likelihood of creating disruptive growth. Pick the...
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- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
a timber farm. Many of my family members also worked in industries tied to food and agriculture. This background led me to study food and resource economics as an undergraduate, a field of study with a very...
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Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Job (MDD) - Course Catalog
skills include how to craft and interpret dialogue, how to diagnose one's own propensities to reduce the likelihood of error, and how to diagnose group dynamics. The role of...
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- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
it's understanding the path to the mainstream market and being smart enough to, A) pick a good mainstream market and, B) assemble the people and partners who give you a disproportionate likelihood of getting...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
mistake to miss a false negative, and there are indeed steps that companies can take to mitigate the likelihood of their development. Spotting Them, Managing Them By their very nature, false negatives are...
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- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
result of circumstance and situation. Minor disagrees. “That’s the distinction I was trying to make here--that it is some type of individual characteristic that will predict not only productivity and some...
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by Roberta Holland
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
barriers to terminating relationships), the nature of performance change (a gradual decay in performance can increase the likelihood that firms will persevere in underperforming relationships),...
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
low for financial defaults. So when someone asks whether we are going to have problems with increasing levels of defaults, I think it’s almost self-evident. Of course there will be higher levels View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
host's profile picture is the second-most prominent element on any listing page, displayed next to the default picture of the property.) "Research has shown that when something is more salient, you respond...
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- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
her belt, the likelihood of the sale being a spec drops to about 40 percent. Advice for the novice seller Apart from investing in the idea to further resolve uncertainty, other ways for unknown writers to...
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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Life Is a Startup
to talk to Wasserman and started the conversation by saying that he was never going to be a founder. He wasn’t there to talk about how to get his great idea off the ground. The Founder’s Dilemmas course, he said, had changed his marriage. He was essentially taking all...
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- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
us to believe that we are at an inflection point is demographics. You have this new generation of digital natives who are used to operating online. Their default option for shopping is through a digital...
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- 14 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog
reasoning; thinking through social and interpersonal situations and problems; remembering the past and envisioning the future. Many of us experience putting a problem on a mental “back burner” when suddenly the solution comes to us in the...
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by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
organizational rank would indicate—recognized experience in a particular style of negotiation, for example. Can such "perceived relative power" make a difference at the table? The short answer is yes. In "Perceived Relative...
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by Mallory Stark