Executive Education
Is the Price Right? Ask Jay Walker
- Like every other network before it, the Internet will eventually become as routine as the highway system, electric grids and telephone networks. And when it is taken for granted in a few years, only companies that deliver lower prices using the World Wide Web will survive.
- Saturday, November 18 - 2000 at 14:00
How Store Location and Pricing Structure Affect Shopping Behavior
- Anyone who has ever shopped understands the challenge. Summer is here and you suddenly need to pick up a few items for the house and yard: an air conditioner, bug spray, lawnmower bags, a garden hoe, a new hose and of course a hammock. The neighborhood hardware store is conveniently located a block away.
- Saturday, November 18 - 2000 at 13:00
Hit and Miss: Why High Traffic Streams Need not Lead to More Online Business
- If your web store is getting zillions of hits a month, business must be skyrocketing, right? Not necessarily. Many online retailers monitor visitor traffic as a measure of their stores' success. But two Wharton researchers explain why high traffic streams to a website need not necessarily mean an increase in business, in a study that they assert is one of the first in-depth analyses of online visiting behavior using Internet clickstream data.
- Saturday, November 18 - 2000 at 12:00
High-Powered Ways to Develop High-Potential Executives
- Senior executives on the fast track used to be groomed through an internal development process that gave them a deep understanding of the existing business and culture.
- Sunday, October 22 - 2000 at 11:00
For These eBoys, the Reward is 'a First Peek at the Future'
- Take five bright young men, give them $85 million, place them in a firm designed to have a 'fundamentally better architecture,' cook in a yeasty high-tech environment for three years and, voila! - the $85 million turns into more than $1 billion, and we get a great story.
- Sunday, October 22 - 2000 at 10:00
Dialog or Death?
- Howard Perlmutter, emeritus professor at Wharton, once gave a radical assignment to a group of 600 CEOs: Have a real conversation with one another.
- Sunday, October 22 - 2000 at 09:00
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