Immigration reform: A competitive imperative
Other countries have realized that they are in a worldwide competition for talent and have adjusted their immigration policies to improve their competitiveness—the United…
Essays
You should be so lucky
The overriding role of luck means that we must be humble in making claims of our own merit, and circumspect when taking advice based…
SKU proliferation: Too much or not enough?
Xiang Wan and his team were trying to find out whether managerial intuition about the pros and cons of SKU proliferation is correct, and…
First things first
Managers in corporations face familiar trade-offs all the time. How do they strike a balance between cutting costs to sustain profitability and hanging on…
Health care: Just another industry or something different?
Health care in the United States is a big business: spending will exceed $2.7 trillion in 2012—that’s 18 percent of the GDP and $9,000…
How Google reshaped telecom
When Google entered the telecom market with their Android OS in 2007, the firm sought to reshape the industry in a fundamental way. At…