According to a Business Insider articled titled The end-of-the-year retail bump is a lie, “retail spending during the fourth quarter is only slightly higher than during the prior three quarters.” Continue reading “The end-of-the-year retail bump is a lie”
How is founder experience perceived during the hiring process?
Prof. Tristan L. Botelho and Melody Chang of Yale School of Management wrote an article for the Academy of Management titled The Perception and Evaluation of Founder Experience By Hiring Firms: A Field Experiment. Continue reading “How is founder experience perceived during the hiring process?”
What makes drug prices so high?
Alison Kodjak reported a story for NPR titled Here’s What The Feds Can Do To Cut Drug Prices (2017). Continue reading “What makes drug prices so high?”
Conspicuous Convictions
Rob Henderson wrote an article for Quillette titled Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class—A Status Update. Continue reading “Conspicuous Convictions”
Strategy is inherently complex
Donald Sull, Stefano Turconi, Charles Sull, and James Yoder wrote an article for MIT Sloan Management Review titled Turning Strategy Into Results (September 28, 2017). Continue reading “Strategy is inherently complex”
RAND on Entrepreneurship in America
Lisa Abraham and Benjamin K. Master wrote an article for RAND Corporation titled Entrepreneurship in America. Continue reading “RAND on Entrepreneurship in America”
Corporate values are negatively correlated with reality
Donald Sull, Stefano Turconi, and Charles Sull wrote an article from MIT Sloan Management Review titled When It Comes to Culture, Does Your Company Walk the Talk? (July 21, 2020). Continue reading “Corporate values are negatively correlated with reality”
Some thoughts on brand equity
I strongly believe that brand equity is underappreciated in many C-suites. I have commented numerous times on Twitter when companies announce plans to make gratuitous changes which erode or destroy brand equity. Continue reading “Some thoughts on brand equity”
Distinctive brand assets
WARC published an article titled WARC from Home: Distinctive brand assets – what they are and why they matter. Continue reading “Distinctive brand assets”
