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- 30 Jan 2006
- HBS Case
The Case of the Mystery Writer’s Brand
success if it sold 200,000 copies. Today, the bar has been raised to 1.5 million copies, thanks in part to the dominance of "big-box" retailers (such as Wal-Mart and Costco) that only stock twenty or so bestsellers yet are... View Details
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
Banning Big Box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers Research shows how regulations designed to protect independent retailers from big box competition may backfire. Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail Retailers can offer great product... View Details
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
dominant logic and power of the most influential culture traits, the more we can design an operating climate which through leadership and managerial system and design... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
dominant cultural traits and prevailing operating climate.” Anna Johnson recommended: “We need to flip the switch on dissent, delay, and accountability by enabling leadership to take a long view. Want to do better? Try asking your people... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
too long a period of time for the disruptive growth engine to function. Can the appropriate culture be created and rewarded and the process—or as Patel terms it, the "pathways" —be designed and managed successfully over... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
Consider two organizations with the same noble purpose: to solve the problem of poor eyesight in developing countries. The first, the Centre for Vision in the Developing World, follows a traditional nonprofit model, soliciting donations that fund the creation and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Cheers to the American Consumer
electronic gizmos dominate Christmas gift sales, and senior citizens find renewed connectivity with far-flung families by going online. Americans know technology adds value to daily life. These traits apply equally to consumers and... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements (ICHRAs), to buy Section 1301 qualified health plans in the individual market. We advocate that the Trump rule be expanded to designate the Public Option as one of the insurance... View Details
- 01 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 1, 2006
students to debate the company's concept, its strategic decision on how quickly it would like to grow, and some key decisions on its supply chain. At the time of the case (2006), small "mom-and-pop" stores still dominated Indian... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
PublicationsPathologies of Online Display Advertising Marketplaces Author:Benjamin Edelman Publication:ACM Sigecom Exchanges, June 2010 Abstract Much has been written about online search advertising, where Google enjoys 90% plus market share in numerous countries and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
Working PapersStrategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match Authors:Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract The design of the New York City (NYC)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
economy. “A platform owner may imitate them and enter their markets by offering similar products,” Zhu explained. “Before you build your business model around platforms, you need to think about how to minimize the risk from these platforms” History has documented many... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
in Large Markets By: Kojima, Fuhito, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract—Accommodating couples has been a long-standing issue in the design of centralized labor market clearinghouses for doctors and psychologists, because couples... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
not only changed how Yoffie designed the course, called Strategy and Technology, but it's also changing how managers in tech-intensive companies are dealing with this issue on the front lines. Yoffie begins the course by exploring the... View Details
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
and professional activities of academic biomedical scientists. In qualitative and quantitative analyses, we show that scientists match to their postdoctoral mentors based on two dominant factors, geography and scientific focus. They then... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation projects. We analyze the design costs and architectures and communication costs associated with each model. We conclude that innovation by individual users and also open collaborative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
conditions under which a dominant design may be achieved, the underlying architecture of the era of incremental change and the dynamics associated with discontinuities. Testing a Purportedly More Learnable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
Experimental Social Psychology Visual Attention to Powerful Postures: People Reflexively Avert Their Gaze from Nonverbal Dominance Displays By: Holland, Elise, Elizabeth Baily Wolf, Christine Looser, and Amy Cuddy Abstract—This paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
mergers are likely to put more pressure on vendors. "You'll see, ultimately, a shakeout in consolidation on the vendors' side," he said. "I think it will complicate life on the vendors' side," Barnett said of the mergers. "The vendors are now... View Details
- 02 Sep 2016
- Op-Ed
The Twitter Election
advertisements in battleground or swing states. These ads are designed to raise doubts about and paint a picture of Trump before he has enough money to hit the airwaves in earnest. Complementing this air war is Clinton's well-organized... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira