What new products or services should you launch next year? How can you improve the productivity of a paint line? What should you name your new venture? How can you decrease patient waiting times? How can you improve the customer experience? Pretty much any creative problem-solving task can be framed as seeking a new match between solution and need, from operational process improvements to creating strategies to foster organic growth. Innovation tournaments aim to find a match that is not just good, but exceptional. Leveraging more than two decades of experience organizing innovation tournaments in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street, from Buenos Aires to Kuwait City, Shanghai to Moscow, and with many Fortune 500 companies, two renowned researchers, entrepreneurs, and the foremost experts on innovation tournaments offer a template that you can use to generate winning ideas that will drive great outcomes—whatever your challenges, whatever your business. In The Innovation Tournament Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Exceptional Solutions to Any Challenge, Wharton professors Christian Terwiesch and Karl T. Ulrich offer an engaging, often humorous, and always actionable guide to help you learn: --How to frame and articulate your specific innovation challenge --How to decide on the right format, structure, and strategic direction for your own innovation tournament --How to maximize the quality of the opportunities that will compete --How to select the very best ideas --How to develop those ideas into real-world opportunities --How to use tournaments to foster a culture of innovation Fast-reading and filled with real-world successes, The Innovation Tournament Handbook is a comprehensive roadmap to finding a new match between a solution and a need that is not merely good, but exceptional.

Designed for use in the interdisciplinary courses on product development as well as by practicing professionals, Product Design and Development 7e strikes a balanced approach between theory and practice through the authors' emphasis on methods.

What new products or services should you launch next year? How can you improve the productivity of a paint line? What should you name your new venture? How can you decrease patient waiting times? How can you improve the customer experience? Pretty much any creative problem-solving task can be framed as seeking a new match between solution and need, from operational process improvements to creating strategies to foster organic growth. Innovation tournaments aim to find a match that is not just good, but exceptional. Leveraging more than two decades of experience organizing innovation tournaments in Silicon Valley and on Wall Street, from Buenos Aires to Kuwait City, Shanghai to Moscow, and with many Fortune 500 companies, two renowned researchers, entrepreneurs, and the foremost experts on innovation tournaments offer a template that you can use to generate winning ideas that will drive great outcomes—whatever your challenges, whatever your business. In The Innovation Tournament Handbook: A Step-by-Step Guide to Finding Exceptional Solutions to Any Challenge, Wharton professors Christian Terwiesch and Karl T. Ulrich offer an engaging, often humorous, and always actionable guide to help you learn: --How to frame and articulate your specific innovation challenge --How to decide on the right format, structure, and strategic direction for your own innovation tournament --How to maximize the quality of the opportunities that will compete --How to select the very best ideas --How to develop those ideas into real-world opportunities --How to use tournaments to foster a culture of innovation Fast-reading and filled with real-world successes, The Innovation Tournament Handbook is a comprehensive roadmap to finding a new match between a solution and a need that is not merely good, but exceptional.

Serving as both a student textbook and a professional reference/handbook, this volume explores the statistical methods of examining time intervals between successive state transitions or events. Examples include: survival rates of patients in medical studies, unemployment periods in economic studies, or the period of time it takes a criminal to break the law after his release in a criminological study. The authors illustrate the entire research path required in the application of event-history analysis, from the initial problems of recording event-oriented data to the specific questions of data organization, to the concrete application of available program packages and the interpretation of the obtained results. Event History Analysis: * makes didactically accessible the inclusion of covariates in semi-parametric and parametric regression models based upon concrete examples * presents the unabbreviated close relationship underlying statistical theory * details parameter-free methods of analysis of event-history data and the possibilities of their graphical presentation * discusses specific problems of multi-state and multi-episode models * introduces time-varying covariates and the question of unobserved population heterogeneity * demonstrates, through examples, how to implement hypotheses tests and how to choose the right model.

Serving as both a student textbook and a professional reference/handbook, this volume explores the statistical methods of examining time intervals between successive state transitions or events. Examples include: survival rates of patients in medical studies, unemployment periods in economic studies, or the period of time it takes a criminal to break the law after his release in a criminological study. The authors illustrate the entire research path required in the application of event-history analysis, from the initial problems of recording event-oriented data to the specific questions of data organization, to the concrete application of available program packages and the interpretation of the obtained results. Event History Analysis: * makes didactically accessible the inclusion of covariates in semi-parametric and parametric regression models based upon concrete examples * presents the unabbreviated close relationship underlying statistical theory * details parameter-free methods of analysis of event-history data and the possibilities of their graphical presentation * discusses specific problems of multi-state and multi-episode models * introduces time-varying covariates and the question of unobserved population heterogeneity * demonstrates, through examples, how to implement hypotheses tests and how to choose the right model.

If Amazon can't win in China, can anyone? When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos visited China in 2007, he expected that one day soon China would be a double-digit percentage of Amazon's sales. Yet, by 2019, Amazon, the most powerful and successful ecommerce company in the world, had quit China. In Winning in China: 8 Stories of Success and Failure in the World's Largest Economy, Wharton experts Lele Sang and Karl Ulrich explore the success and failure of several well-known companies, including Hyundai, LinkedIn, Sequoia Capital, and InMobi, as more and more businesses look to reap profits from the demand of 1.4 billion people. Sang, Global Fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Ulrich, Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Wharton School, answer four critical questions: Which factors explain the success (or failure) of foreign companies entering China?What challenges and pitfalls can a company entering China expect to encounter? How can a prospective entrant realistically assess its chances? Which managerial decisions are critical, and which approaches are most effective? Sang and Ulrich answer these questions by examining the stories of eight well-known and respected companies that have entered China. They study: How Norwegian Cruise Line's entry into China displays how cultural differences can boost or sink different companies; How Intel, one of the oldest, most respected firms in Silicon Valley, thrived in a country that seems to favor agile upstarts; How Zegna, the Italian luxury brand, has emerged as another surprising success story and how it plans to navigate new headwinds from the COVID-19 pandemic.Through these engaging and illuminating stories, Sang and Ulrich offer a framework and path for organizations looking for a way to successfully enter the world's largest economy. History can be a teacher, and China, a country with 3,500 years of written history, has much to teach.

The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was the beginning of one of the most interesting natural experiments in recent history. The East German transition from a Communist state to part of the Federal Republic of Germany abruptly created a new social order as old institutions were abolished and new counterparts imported. This unique situation provides an exceptional opportunity to examine the central tenets of life course sociology. The empirical chapters of this book draw a comprehensive picture of life course transformation, demonstrating how the combination of life course dynamics coupled with an extraordinary pace of system change affect individual lives. How much turbulence was created by the transition and how much stability was preserved? How did the qualifications and resources acquired before 1989 influence the fortunes in the restructured economy? How did the privatization and reorganization of firms impact individuals? Did the transformation experiences differ by age/cohort and gender? How stable were social networks at work and in the family? Were personality characteristics important mediators of post-1989 success or failure or were they rather changed by them? How specific were the East German life trajectories in comparison with Poland and West-Germany?

This book presents the results of an extensive study of old age and aging, ranging from 70 to 100 years, that was carried out by psychologists, sociologists, physicians, and scientists from a variety of other disciplines. A random sample of more than 500 senior residents of the former West Berlin were examined in depth. Topics investigated include intellectual abilities, self and personality, social relationships, physical health, medical treatment and care, mental disorders such as depression and dementia, socioeconomic conditions, everyday competence, subjective well-being, and gender differences.

If Amazon can't win in China, can anyone? When Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos visited China in 2007, he expected that one day soon China would be a double-digit percentage of Amazon's sales. Yet, by 2019, Amazon, the most powerful and successful ecommerce company in the world, had quit China. In Winning in China: 8 Stories of Success and Failure in the World's Largest Economy, Wharton experts Lele Sang and Karl Ulrich explore the success and failure of several well-known companies, including Hyundai, LinkedIn, Sequoia Capital, and InMobi, as more and more businesses look to reap profits from the demand of 1.4 billion people. Sang, Global Fellow at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and Ulrich, Vice Dean of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Wharton School, answer four critical questions: Which factors explain the success (or failure) of foreign companies entering China?What challenges and pitfalls can a company entering China expect to encounter? How can a prospective entrant realistically assess its chances? Which managerial decisions are critical, and which approaches are most effective? Sang and Ulrich answer these questions by examining the stories of eight well-known and respected companies that have entered China. They study: How Norwegian Cruise Line's entry into China displays how cultural differences can boost or sink different companies; How Intel, one of the oldest, most respected firms in Silicon Valley, thrived in a country that seems to favor agile upstarts; How Zegna, the Italian luxury brand, has emerged as another surprising success story and how it plans to navigate new headwinds from the COVID-19 pandemic.Through these engaging and illuminating stories, Sang and Ulrich offer a framework and path for organizations looking for a way to successfully enter the world's largest economy. History can be a teacher, and China, a country with 3,500 years of written history, has much to teach.

Gegenwart und Zukunft unserer Gesellschaft sind durch einen immer hoheren Anteil alter und sehr alter Menschen gepragt. Die Berliner Altersstudie (BASE) ist weltweit einzigartig in der Breite des Spektrums der beteiligten Wissenschaften und der sowohl disziplinar als auch interdisziplinar bestimmten Untersuchungsgebiete, in dem Fokus auf das hohe Alter (70- bis uber 100-Jahrige) und in dem empirischen Bezug auf eine reprasentativ ausgewahlte Stadtbevolkerung. Der Band berichtet unter anderem uber geistige Leistungsfahigkeit, Personlichkeit und soziale Beziehungen im Alter, uber korperliche Gesundheit, medizinische Versorgung und zahnmedizinischen Status, uber psychische Erkrankungen wie Demenz und Depression, uber soziale und kulturelle Aktivitaten und die wirtschaftliche Situation, uber Alltagskompetenz, subjektives Wohlbefinden und Unterschiede zwischen Frauen und Mannern. Da seit den ersten Erhebungen 20 Jahre vergangen sind, in denen die damaligen Studienteilnehmer bis zu sieben weitere Male befragt wurden, werden die damaligen Ergebnisse durch zwei Kapitel zur langsschnittlichen Fortfuhrung der Berliner Altersstudie erganzt. Der longitudinale BASE-Datensatz hat sich als sehr fruchtbares Feld fur vielseitige Analysen des Alternsprozesses, inter- und intraindividuellen Unterschieden des Alterns und der kausalen Beziehungen zwischen Funktionsbereichen erwiesen. Die Studie wurde ursprunglich im Rahmen der Arbeitsgruppe "Altern und gesellschaftliche Entwicklung" der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften durchgefuhrt. Die Autorinnen und Autoren aus verschiedenen Disziplinen haben uberwiegend am Max-Planck-Institut fur Bildungsforschung, an der Freien Universitat Berlin und an der Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin gearbeitet, einige sind inzwischen im Ausland wissenschaftlich auf dem Gebiet der Gerontologie tatig."

Die 'Kolner Zeitschrift fur Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie' ist seit fast 50 Jahren eine der fuhrenden Fachzeitschriften der Sozialwissenschaften. In diesem Band wird eine Auswahl bedeutender Aufsatze der vergangenen Jahre vorgelegt. In den Beitragen zu den Grundlagen der Soziologie, zu den Klassikern des Faches, zu historischen und empirischen Analysen und zur Stellung der Soziologie in der Gesellschaft werden noch einmal die grosse Themenvielfalt und das Reflexionsniveau dieser Zeitschrift vor Augen gefuhrt.

Moderne Gesellschaften mussen wissen, wo sie stehen und wohin sie gehen. Zentrale Schlusselbegriffe dafur sind Sozialstruktur und sozialer Wandel, wahrend sich Sozialberichterstattung und gesellschaftliche Dauerbeobachtung als unverzichtbare methodische Instrumente einer wirksamen sozialwissenschaftlichen Infrastruktur entwickelt haben. Die Beitrage dieses Buches befassen sich mit der Analyse gesellschaftlicher Strukturen, Entwicklungstendenzen und Herausforderungen sowie den dafur erforderlichen methodischen und institutionellen Voraussetzungen."

Der Sammelband analysiert die Ausbildungs- und Berufschancen von zwei Jahrgangen. Es werden aktuelle Forschungsergebnisse aus dem Max-Planck-Institut fur Bildungsforschung vorgestellt.

Die okonomischen, politischen und sozialen Umwalzungen der letzten Jahre stellen fur die Soziologie eine Herausforderung dar. Wie die Transformation sozialistischer Gesellschaften und die Probleme der Globalisierung der Wirtschaft zeigen, scheint die Fahigkeit der Soziologie begrenzt, sozialen Wandel theoretisch zu fassen, empirisch zu beschreiben und kausal zu erklaren. Es wird mithin die generelle Frage gestellt, in welchem Masse es der Soziologie gelingen kann, langerfristige Veranderungsprozesse fur Gesellschaften und gesellschaftliche Teilbereiche zu diagnostizieren, ihre Richtung vorherzusagen oder fur die Vergangenheit zu rekonstruieren.
Folgende Themen und Fragestellungen werden untersucht: Woher stammen die Begriffe und Theorien, mit denen Soziologie langerfristige Entwicklungen wahrgenommen haben? In welchem Sinn haben allgemeine Theorieentwicklungen die Diagnosefahigkeit der Soziologie entfaltet oder behindert? Wie erfolgreich waren Diagnosen langerfristiger Entwicklungen in der Vergangenheit? In welchem Verhaltnis stehen die Entwicklung von empirischen Beschreibungs- und methodischen Analysepotentialen zur Diagnosefahigkeit? Welche methodischen Mittel fordern und welche methodischen Probleme behindern die Diagnosefahigkeit der Soziologie? Wie selektiv ist die Rezeption soziologischer Entwicklungsanalysen und ihrer Deutungen in der Offentlichkeit

Der TransformationsprozeB in Ostdeutschland gehort gewiB nicht zu den Forschungsfeldem, in denen wenig Aktivitat herrscht. Allerdings gibt es einen Mangel an genuinen Langsschnittstudien, die am ehesten dem ProzefJ charakter der Transformation gerecht werden konnen. So1che Studien sind umso notwendiger, als es sich bei der ostdeutschen Transformation ja kei neswegs urn einen bereits abgeschlossenen Vorgang, sondem urn einen noch andauemden VeranderungsprozeB handelt. Die Gemeinsamkeit der in diesem Band versammelten Beitrage liegt darin, daB es sich urn empirische Langsschnittanalysen sozialer Ungleichheiten unter verschiedenen Aspekten handelt oder urn eher theoretische Ausein andersetzungen mit dem Transformationsverlauf Angesprochen werden dabei vor allem Erwerbschancen und Berufsverlaufe (Teil 1), aber auch Veranderungen der Einkommen (Teil 2), Einstellungen und Personlichkeits merkmale (Teil 3) sowie institutionelle Veranderungen als Rahmenbedin gungen der beschriebenen individuellen Verlaufe. 1m letzten Teil dieses Sammelbandes sind Beitrage versammelt, die sich das Ziel gesetzt haben, die verschiedenen Entwicklungsstrange zu resiimieren. Die Beitrage gehen zum groBten Teil auf die Tagung "Mobilitat im Trans formationsprozeB" zurUck, die die Herausgeber am 30. September/I. Oktober 1994 als Tagung der Sektion "Soziale Ungleichheit und Sozialstrukturanaly se" der Deutschen Gesellschaft fUr Soziologie in Berlin veranstaltet haben. Fast aIle der dort vorgetragenen Referate konnten wir fUr diese Publikation gewinnen. Zusatzlich haben wir zwei bisher unverOffentlichte Beitrage von Wolfgang Zapf sowie von Joachim Singelmann und Dieter Urban aufgenom men, die thematisch in unsere Fragestellung passen und in diesem Sinne eine hervorragende Erganzung und Abrundung der Tagungsbeitrage darstellen."

Der Band dokumentiert den aktuellen Forschungsstand in der quantitativen Analyse von Lebensverlaufen: Bildungsprozesse, Erwerbs- und Berufsverlaufe, Familienbildung und Fertilitat, Wanderungen sowie Lebensverlaufe von Frauen und Mannern. Diese Beitrage werden erganzt durch zwei Kapitel zur qualitativen Biographieforschung (Jugend und Ubergang in den Ruhestand) und drei Kapitel zur Psychologie der Lebensspanne (Humanentwicklung, Entwicklungspsychologie der Lebensspanne, Altersnormen). Ferner werden methodische Probleme der Erhebung und Analyse von Ereignis- und Verlaufsdaten behandelt.

" ... the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. " (T. S. Eliot "Little Gidding: Four Quartets") Die vorliegende Arbeit Uber die subjektive Definition der Mobilitatssituation ist im Rahmen des Konstanzer Mobilitatsprojekts entstanden, das 1968 von Ralf Dahren- dorf angeregt und in den Jahren 1968-1972 von Walter MUller und mir durchgefUhrt wurde. Dieses Forschungsprojekt war in zweierlei Weise Produkt der Reformbestre- bungen an der Universitat Konstanz; Es wurde aus Mitteln der Universitat finanziert und konnte dort von nicht promovierten Mitarbeitern in autonomer Weise unternom- men werden. Walter MUller hatte entscheidenden Anteil an der Konzeption, Vorbereitung und DurchfUhrung der empirischen Erhebung, er schrieb die Computerprogramme fUr die Datenanalyse und unterstUtzte meine Arbeit durch standige Kritik und Ermunterung. Wolfgang Zapf danke ich fUr die Chance, auch von Frankfurt aus an dem Projekt teil- nehmen zu konnen und fUr die Toleranz einiger produktiver Umwege. Peter Flora, Karl Ferdinand Schumann und Avraham Zloczower haben durch ihre Diskussionsbereitschaft, Jens Alber und viele Studenten durch ihre technische Hilfe zum Fortgang und Abschlu der Stu die beigetragen. Eine erweiterte Fassung des Textes wurde im Dezember 1973 von der Sozialwissen- schaftlichen Fakultat der Universitat Konstanz als Dissertation angenommen. lm Januar 1975 K.U.M. 7 Meiner Mutter, die die Lasten der Mobilitat ihrer Kinder zu tragen hatte.

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