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Boston University School of Management
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What Is Timberland's Business Model?
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A student from the audience challenges Jeffrey Swartz, Timberland President & CEO, to address the issue on American materialism and the justification for marketing shoes based on sustainability,...
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How Does Timberland Differentiate Itself In The Sustainability Space?
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A student from the audience brings up the issue of "Commoditization" of sustainability and how companies can set themselves apart. Jeffrey Swartz, Timberland President & CEO, responds by pointing...
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What Is The Government's Role In Promoting Sustainability?
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast Jeffrey Swartz, Timberland President & CEO, addresses the issue of government's role in promoting sustainability and good business practices. He talks about the importance of real...
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What Is Timberland's Product Nutrition Label?
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, Jeffrey Swartz, Timberland President & CEO, addresses Timberland's product "Nutrition label," its efforts to increase the percent of energy coming from locally sources renewable...
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Genzyme's Perspective: Valuing Innovation That Benefits Innovators & The Health System
April 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, Dane Bedward, Senior Vice President, Genzyme International, participates in the panel discussion Innovation and Health Sector Transformation. Bedward discusses the importance of...
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Blue Cross Blue Shield's Innovations In Insurance Payments: Quality Vs. Complexity
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, Andrew Dreyfus, Executive Vice President, Health Care Services, Blue Cross Blue Shield Of Massachusetts, participates in the panel discussion at the event Innovation and Health...
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Innovation And Health Sector Transformation: Panel Discussion
April 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Urgency grows to provide greater value at lower cost throughout the health sector. Current trends, such as quality and price transparency, provide newly fertile ground for innovation regarding...
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Introductory Remarks: "Smart Grid As A Business Platform"
November 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
Introductory remarks from the event "Smart Grid as a Business Platform: Innovation, Adaptation, and Systems Challenges in the Clean Energy Market," held at the Time-Life Center in New York and...
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What Is The Smart Grid?
November 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, the panelists define the "Smart grid," a better alternative to clean energy.
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Smart Energy: A Marriage Of Two Industries
November 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, Professor Nalin Kulatilaka discusses how smart energy creates a marriage between two very different kinds of industries - and the opportunities this marriage affords.
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The Smart Grid: The Key To Less Usage & Cleaner Technologies
November 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, Brian Dumaine explains how - and why - the smart grid is the glue holding together the two fundamental aspects that the world's rich nations will depend on to cut their carbon...
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The Smart Grid As Rich Playground For Small Businesses
November 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, the panelists explain the opportunities for entrepreneurship and technical innovations that the smart grid presents.
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Clean Energy, The US, And China: Are We Falling Behind In Global Competition?
November 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, the panelists discuss the possibility of the US lagging behind other countries such as China in creating and supporting clean energy initiatives.
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Clean Energy: Incentivizing The "Nega-Watt"
November 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, the panelists discuss strategies for making smart energy more tangible to the consumer.
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What Is Green-Washing?
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, Kristen McCormack addresses the issue of green-washing, consumer skepticism around CSR claims, and how we can differentiate between what a company says and what it does....
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Podcasts
Transparency In Business
May 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this podcast, join Professor of Finance and Economics David Weil as he discusses transparency issues in business. He provides an overview of the transparency movement, looks at significant...
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Podcasts
How Fairness Enhances Innovation
August 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
In this podcast, Marshall Van Alstyne discusses the benefits of procedural fairness and information sharing in technology innovation. According to Van Alstyne, Associate Professor in the...
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White Papers
Lessons Learned About Consumers' Relationships With Brands
September 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A core insight from the author's thesis research emphasized the purposeful nature of consumer-brand relationships: Brand relationships were meaning-laden resources engaged to help people live...
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The Effects Of Exposure-Order And Market Entry-Information On Brand Preference: A Dual Process Model
November 28, 2007, 12:00am PST
A dual process model is proposed that identifies the conditions under which two separate and additive effects on brand preference may obtain. The first is an exposure-order effect that can...
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Efficient Monitoring of End-to-End Network Properties
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
It is often desirable to monitor end-to-end properties, such as loss rates or packet delays, across an entire network. However, active end-to-end measurement in such settings does not scale well,...
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White Papers
A Two-Tiered On-Line Server-Side Bandwidth Reservation Framework for the Real-Time Delivery of Multiple Video Streams
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The advent of virtualization and cloud computing technologies necessitates the development of effective mechanisms for the estimation and reservation of resources needed by content providers to...
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Webcasts
Sucharita Chandran Counts Zero As A Special Price
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Sucharita Chandran, in her presentation at the "Creating and Capturing Value through Marketing" conference at Boston University on April 3, 2009, discusses different strategies for marketing...
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Shuba Srinivasan Combines Hard And Soft Marketing Metrics
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Shuba Srinivasan, in her talk at the "Creating and Capturing Value through Marketing" conference at Boston University on April 3, 2009, explains her latest research, which integrates the...
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CB Bhattacharya On Stakeholder Reactions And ROI From CSR Activities
April 3, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast from the "Creating and Capturing Value through Marketing" conference at Boston University on April 3, 2009, CB Bhattacharya discusses his latest research, which shows that...
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Prof. N. Venkatraman On How "Competing In The Global Economy" Helps Firms Re-Think Operations
August 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, N. Venkat Venkatraman, the David J. McGrath, Jr. Professor in Management, and the 22nd most-cited management scholar across the globe, discusses the executive program "Competing...
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First Mover Advantage, Services' Impact On Firm Performance, And Dynamic Capabilities
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Fernando Suarez, Chair, Strategy and Innovation Department, discusses his research background and some of his recent projects: his work on "First mover advantage" in rapidly changing markets; the...
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Smart Grid As A Business Platform: Innovation, Adaptation, And Systems Challenges In The Clean Energy Market
November 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
Webcast from the event "Smart Grid as a Business Platform: Innovation, Adaptation, and Systems Challenges in the Clean Energy Market," hosted by Boston University School of Management at the Time...
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WBZ TV Asks Bobbie Clarke, Is Abercrombie's Ad Campaign Sexy, Sleazy, Or Even Legal?
June 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Amid controversy over the store Abercrombie and Kent's latest ad campaign, WBZ TV interviews Boston University School of Management's Roberta (Bobbie) Clarke, Associate Professor of Marketing,...
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Ron Curhan On DeMoulas, Demand, And The Risk Of Breaking The Scale Barrier
June 11, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Upon the opening of New England's largest supermarket, the 135,000 sq.ft. DeMoulas Market Basket located in the working-class community of Chelsea, Boston University School of Management's Ron...
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Nano-Technology: Jumping The Valley Of Death
February 25, 2009, 12:00am PST
Here, Stine Grodal, Boston University School of Management Assistant Professor of Strategy & Innovation, discusses new innovations in the nano-tech field, the role that government and science...
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Nation, Culture, Geography: Impact On Innovation
November 19, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this interview, Associate Professor of Strategy and Innovation Jeffrey Furman disscusses his work on how innovation is impacted (or not) by nation, culture and geography.
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How To Collaborate With Competitors On Social Change
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Jeffery Swartz, Timberland President & CEO, discusses how he engages with the competition as a business leader working towards climate change. He reviews the challenges, the high level of...
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Have Consumers Made A Change?
October 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, Kristen McCormack asks "Have consumers made a change?" Jeffery Swartz, Timberland President & CEO, discusses consumers' impact on sustainability, as well as the company's...
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White Papers
Providing a Cloud Network Infrastructure on a Supercomputer
April 26, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Supercomputers and clouds both strive to make a large number of computing cores available for computation. More recently, similar objectives such as low-power, manageability at scale, and low cost...
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Destruction Of Value: An Analysis Of Manager Selection Decisions By Institutional Plan Sponsors
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Prior research has examined the institutional asset management industry and documented the factors which influence plan sponsors' decisions to place assets with investment products or managers....
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White Papers
Markup Pricing Revisited
April 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The paper examines whether pre-bid target stock price runups lower bidder takeover gains and deter short-term toehold purchases in the runup period. A dollar increase in the runup raises the...
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White Papers
Improving Workplace Conditions Through Strategic Enforcement
May 14, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The challenges facing the major agencies in the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) that regulate conditions in the workplace are daunting. Public policies on health and safety, discrimination, and...
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White Papers
A Linear Type System for Multicore Programming
June 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
ATS is a recently developed functional programming language that supports both linear and dependent types. They formalize a type system capable of guaranteeing safe manipulation of resources on...
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White Papers
Spatial Outsourcing for Location-Based Services
November 22, 2007, 12:00am PST
The embedding of positioning capabilities in mobile devices and the emergence of location-based applications have created novel opportunities for utilizing several types of multidimensional data...
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White Papers
A Framework for Computing the Privacy Scores of Users in Online Social Networks
September 25, 2009, 12:00am PDT
A large body of work has been devoted to address corporate-scale privacy concerns related to social networks. The main focus was on how to share social networks owned by organizations without...
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White Papers
A Two-Tiered On-Line Server-Side Bandwidth Reservation Framework for the Real-Time Delivery of Multiple Video Streams
July 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The advent of virtualization and cloud computing technologies necessitates the development of effective mechanisms for the estimation and reservation of resources needed by content providers to...
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White Papers
Efficient Monitoring of End-to-End Network Properties
December 1, 2007, 12:00am PST
It is often desirable to monitor end-to-end properties, such as loss rates or packet delays, across an entire network. However, active end-to-end measurement in such settings does not scale well,...
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