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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
innovator Stephen Chao (MBA ’81), hopes to eventually do production and distribution simultaneously. For now, however, Roadside is finding success by venturing where others fear to tread. “We’re surrounded by studios that can outspend us, so we have to find movies that...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
Innovations. His research focuses on consumer decision-making, especially in the areas of pricing and the adoption of innovations. How can a company balance creativity and innovation with the need for process and structure? Stefan Thomke...
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- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
U.S. targets fell 70 percent from $1,789 billion in 2000 to $539 billion in 2003. The difference with project finance is that it is used to finance long-lived projects, many of which are in the infrastructure sector (power, water,...
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- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
illustrating my points with examples from companies including Home Depot, McDonald's, Merck, and Pfizer. There is no magic bullet that can target the pitfalls of your business strategy, but you must engage in ongoing, face-to-face...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
athenahealth "Patients' health information is either on paper and isolated or electronic and isolated," Bush tells the assembled crowd, his voice rising. That this little thing remains so difficult in the Internet age, often because many providers are loath to share...
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- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Strategic Leadership Development. The mission of the CDC is to improve the capabilities of clients' in-house legal departments, such as by making them better partners with the business units and improving their leadership skills. The CDC has adopted an innovative View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
long-term relationships, not transactional relationships where immediate price (for employees, salary) and cost are the only factors in decisions. Q: You and your coauthors spoke with 36 CEOs based on three continents. Why did you choose...
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by Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
1839 and 1939. We find large effects of the prizes on competitive entry and the quality of contemporaneous patents, especially when prize categories were set by a strict rotation scheme, thereby mitigating the potentially confounding effect that they View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
underfunded schools to pay for specific projects and supplies needed by the teachers. “That program was based on a great idea, but it was struggling when we heard about it,” says Ellis. “We gave them advice on pricing and how to build...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
leaders in St. Louis, Missouri, developed, along with the Department of Transportation, a community benefits agreement for a $500 million highway project. They decided to dedicate half a percent of the actual budget for the project and use it for View Details
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
place. The other good news is that all of our problems were self-inflicted. Our prices were too high. The online shopping experience was miserable. The speed of shipping was terrible. The experience in the stores had gone down. The cost...
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- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
on industry-level targeting to analyze quality FDI based on the subjective preferences expressed by the receiving countries themselves. Finally, we use a two-stage least squares methodology to control for measurement error and...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
little prospect of upward mobility. Moreover, the damage is on both sides: employers pay a price in lost productivity and expensive churn. What accounts for these inefficiencies, and what would it take to make low-wage frontline work less...
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