Severe Weather: Moderating Its Impact on Productivity

Idea posted: June 2013

Institutions: Columbia Business School    The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania   

Does bad weather reduce productivity within factories and other workplaces? This is the question that the latest research from Marcelo Olivares of the Columbia Business School and Gérard Cachon and…

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Scenarios Planning + Early Warning Scanning = Strategic Advantage

Idea posted: May 2013

Institutions: Saïd Business School, University of Oxford   

Scenario planning (SP) and early warning scanning (EWS) are considered important to ‘managerial cognition’. They help leaders understand how the future might unfold and they alert top management to new…

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Why Scaling Up Is No Longer the Only Strategy

Idea posted: March 2013

Institutions: Columbia Business School   

Sooner or later, any engineer working on new technology or infrastructure will hear a familiar question from investors: Does it scale up? There are few axioms in business as simple…

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