Is ‘free’ becoming a four-letter word?
Three professors — including Anja Lambrecht and Naufel Vilcassim from London Business School — have recently completed a study that showed that...
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As much as I can
Frank McCosker leads one of the most creative and influential teams in Microsoft — the team that serves the UN, the EU, the World Bank and other global public institutions with whom he has pioneered a new class of private-public partnership.
The Davos Agenda
What should be on the agenda at the World Economic Forum’s Annual General Meeting at Davos? Experts from London Business School provide a challenging array of suggestions.
Reaching online consumers: The right ad at the right moment
Anja Lambrecht discusses her collaborative research exploring consumers’ online behaviour. What are the best ways to ensure the effectiveness of online marketing efforts? Professor Lambrecht talks with Georgina Peters.
Digital post and beyond the future post office?
With declining mail volumes and the digital revolution, can post offices be saved from oblivion? Liam Church, CEO of Escher, thinks so.
Learning from Davos
The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos at the end of January attracted the usual headlines as world leaders laid down their agendas for the coming year and beyond.
Honesty is the best policy
True or false? After completing the interviews of candidates to fill an open position on your staff, you should first rule out applicants who disclosed any shortcomings. The answer: probably false.
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The reality of costs
Managers often default to cost cutting as the best way to begin to regain competitiveness. Jules Goddard believes that will only make things worse.
More important than results
Managing only for results leads to crises, say Bert De Reyck and Zeger Degraeve.
The problem with problems
Yiorgos Mylonadis’ research looks at how people define and solve problems.
Undue diligence?
Making big decisions is a daily task for business executives. Dan Goldstein asks if you have given much thought to how those decisions are made.
Default lines
Most consumers don’t think about the potential range of choices in a sales transaction; thus, they often accept the pre-selected “default” choice. Companies can benefit immensely from well-designed defaults, though, and Daniel Goldstein tells us how.
Think again: why good leaders make bad decisions
Sydney Finkelstein, Jo Whitehead, and Andrew Campbell studied decisions made around the world and researched those that were flawed at their inception. Their caveats for making decisions will help you to avoid some common errors.
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