|
Apr 24, 2018
Starbucks and Facebook present a contrast in crisis leadership, says Bill George. While Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson stepped up to take responsibility and met with victims, Mark Zuckerberg delayed action and side-stepped responsibility.
|
|
Apr 23, 2018
Corporations increasingly provide sponsors to help women get ahead. The problem, says Katherine Coffman, is that poor design of some programs can hinder rather than help women in the workplace.
|
|
Apr 22, 2018
How do businesses created by immigrants differ from those of natives? This study using the 2007 and 2012 Survey of Business Owners records finds that while immigrant-owned businesses have a modestly different industry composition than native-owned businesses, there are ten-fold differences across states in terms of the share of businesses owned by immigrants.
|
|
Apr 20, 2018
The competitive landscape of executive education is feeling a tectonic shift even as demand grows for managerial skills. This study maps and analyzes the major providers of executive education programs, including business schools, consultancies, and corporate universities, to better understand and explain the industry's present and future dynamics.
|
|
Apr 18, 2018
In America, immigrants do get the job done ... Conservative financiers more likely to leave their jobs over political ideology ... Warning! Why these label warnings don't work.
|
|
Apr 17, 2018
Although technology shifts often allow new entrants to edge into a market, established firms seem to be maintaining leadership in the medical devices industry, where software integration is increasingly important. Research by Cirrus Foroughi and Ariel Dora Stern.
|
|
Apr 16, 2018
Even with a world of information at our fingertips, consumers routinely make bad decisions on everything from investments to health coverage. Can science help? Research by Joshua Schwartzstein and Benjamin Handel.
|
|
Apr 12, 2018
The world's economies are interconnected by globalization, which makes threats of tariff wars doubly dangerous, says Willy Shih.
|
|
Apr 11, 2018
Organizations are realizing they are not doing enough to stop the inappropriate behavior that can lead to an awkward office environment, lawsuits, and reputation damage.
|
|
Apr 10, 2018
Religious shoppers spend less ... Innovating with corn flakes ... What online and offline stores can learn from each other.
|
|
Feb 26, 2018
This study by Prithwiraj Choudhury, Evan Starr, and Rajshree Agarwal contributes to scholarship on how adoption of machine learning tools will shape knowledge worker productivity. Among its implications for managers, it suggests that complementarities between prior skills and technology will determine the productivity of workers using AI tools.
|
|
Feb 26, 2018
Hotels enjoy their highest profits when rooms are most in demand, like during holidays and big events. Unfortunately for them, Airbnb is taking away some of that pricing power, according to new research by Chiara Farronato and Andrey Fradkin.
|
|
Feb 23, 2018
Trade credit represents about a quarter of the liabilities of U.S. firms. There are several theories explaining this fact. This study by Victoria Ivashina and Benjamin Iverson reexamines whether suppliers hold private information about their trade partners, by analyzing their behavior in bankruptcy.
|
|
Feb 22, 2018
Historians are taking a new look at capitalism in light of its adoption in most of the developed world. From the edited volume "American Capitalism: New Histories," by Sven Beckert and Christine Desan.
|
|
Feb 22, 2018
Small-scale entrepreneurs throughout the developing world often rely on moneylenders for working capital but at exorbitant interest rates. Results of three experiments involving market vendors in India and the Philippines show the difficulty that small-scale entrepreneurs face in escaping usage of moneylender debt. Research by Benjamin N. Roth and colleagues.
|
|
Feb 21, 2018
Companies pay close attention when a competitor drops out of the market, according to new research by Joshua Lev Krieger. Too often, though, they come to the wrong conclusion.
|
|
Feb 20, 2018
Out of debt--then right back in ... Why Chinese students flood American universities ... Studying how people make decisions.
|
|
Feb 20, 2018
Using a unique dataset for the entire Swedish population, this study of household consumption in response to changes in capital gains and dividends shows that the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) out of capital gains for households in the top 50 percent of financial wealth distribution is relatively uniform and around 5 percent but is more than 10 percent for the bottom 50 percent. These results explain why the recent stock market rally ignited a spending splurge that is cutting into how much households save for rainy days. Research by Marco Di Maggio and colleagues.
|
|
Feb 19, 2018
This study shows that a large and dynamic supply chain economy plays a crucial role in innovation and in the creation of well-paid jobs. Traded service suppliers are particularly important. Policies that help suppliers access skilled labor, buyers, and capital could be beneficial for fostering innovation and economic growth.
|
|
Feb 19, 2018
Like the Amazon River itself, Jeff Bezos's company cuts a powerful, meandering channel through the business landscape, changing every industry it touches.
|
|
