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- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
England Journal of Medicine 356, no. 8 (February 22, 2007): 765-768 No abstract available. Product Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges Are the Benefits Authors:A. C. Edmondson and I. Nembhard Periodical:Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
art was redefined as a new product category—modern Indian art—by a variety of participants including artists, academics, commercial auction houses, and critics. And as Western museums and collectors began to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
challenges that the food system of the future presents: a changing climate, booming global population, the need for increased production of nutritious foods, and scarce land and water resources among many other challenges. Both Dr. and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Article
The Information Technology Ecosystem: Structure, Health, and Performance
By: Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards
A number of modern industries are organized as complex networks of firms whose integrated efforts are necessary to deliver value to end customers. The complexity of these networks, or business ecosystems, and the associated interdependencies among firms, make... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Networks; Value; Customers; Performance Productivity; Product; Applications and Software; Innovation and Invention; Competition; Business Model; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology Industry
Iansiti, Marco, and Gregory L. Richards. "The Information Technology Ecosystem: Structure, Health, and Performance." Antitrust Bulletin 51, no. 1 (Spring 2006).
- 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008
inward FDI. After 1945 many developing governments pursued policies which restricted foreign-owned firms. India and Turkey were among the countries with particularly difficult policy environments. This paper explores why Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch consumer View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
discovery work to validate the problem or their target customers. While gut feel or personal experience with a problem can be a strong signal there is a problem to solve, without proper product discovery work you won’t truly know if you... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 2011
- Working Paper
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
By: Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura and Marion Fourcade
The question of institutional change has become central to organizational research (Powell, 2008). Recent scholarship has demonstrated, often through carefully researched cases, that institutions can and sometimes do change. According to this research, there are two... View Details
Keywords: Change; Business Education; Business History; Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Behavior
Khurana, Rakesh, Kenneth Kimura, and Marion Fourcade. "How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-070, January 2011.
- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
was offering a perfect information service (i.e. one that enabled consumers to find what they want most quickly and efficiently), it would be losing valuable potential revenues. Hence the incentive to attract users with products that they... View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
- Research Summary
Energy, IT, real estate, and sustainability
Professor Henderson’s current research focuses on the energy, information technology, and real estate sectors and the challenges firms encounter as they attempt to act in more sustainable ways. This work is an outgrowth of her decade-long examination of the... View Details
- 22 Apr 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Where is the Pharmacy to the World? International Regulatory Variation and Pharmaceutical Industry Location
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
2018 Northamption, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time By: Jones, G. Abstract—Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change and other environmental... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
2005 on business solutions for alleviating poverty. The work combines chapters from a variety of perspectives—business, academic, government, nonprofit—to examine the nature of poverty, how the poor can become producers as well as... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
definition that extends the concept beyond the traditional binary retain/not retain view of retention. We discuss a variety of metrics to measure and monitor retention. We present an integrated framework for managing retention that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
conversely, the flaunting of a busy life and a dearth of leisure time. In addition, people’s relative interest in buying luxury experiences versus luxury products is increasing. Technology has introduced new business models, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of Teaming
completely for every case or client? What if you're a member of a temporary project team formed to solve a unique production problem? Or you're part of a group of managers with a mix of individual and shared responsibilities? How do you... View Details
Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
Publications 2006 pub Leviathan Evolving: New Varieties of State Capitalism in Brazil and Beyond By: Musacchio, Aldo, and Sergio G. Lazzarini Abstract—In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
PublicationsOne-Switch Conditions for Multiattribute Utility Functions Authors:Abbas, Ali E., and David E. Bell Publication:Operations Research Abstract We introduce a variety of new independence conditions for multiattribute utility... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7
the value of their information intermediation function. The Effect of Product Variety and Inventory Levels on Retail Sales: A Longitudinal Study Author:Zeynep Ton and Ananth Raman Publication:Production and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Rapid Response: Inside the Retailing Revolution
trucks unload their just-in-time goods from automated distribution centers on a weekly basis, and the variety of products available is seemingly infinite. A typical department store now stocks some 800,000... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
causes greater happiness. In this chapter, we have two primary aims. First, we review the evidence linking charitable behavior and happiness. We present research from a variety of samples (adults, children, and primates) and methods... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne