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  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

offerings and consumer needs has been challenging the effectiveness of both mechanisms. Q: What kinds of consumer habits does consumer empowerment work against? A: Consumers typically tend to adopt ritual lifestyles, and to develop... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

prior industries: photography, consumer electronics, and computers. By 2004, several features had emerged as a dominant design; however, the timing and rate of adoption varied by prior industry. This study extends previous research on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

wrote in your book, more and more boards have been adopting at least some best practices. But even boards that have adopted all of them find it difficult to integrate theory and practice. Tell us about some... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

still hard for Japanese companies to adopt real strategies. There are huge pressures for imitation because of consensus decision making. But I think Japanese companies are definitely moving in the direction suggested in this book; it is a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • 19 Feb 2021
  • News

A Playbook for Progress

and 2018, and those numbers are continuing to grow. And our findings confirmed Nielsen's findings that our youngest black and brown female desk workers are extraordinarily innovative. They are the first to adopt new technologies. Bonita:... View Details
  • October 2003 (Revised February 2004)
  • Case

Strategic Inflection: TiVo in 2003 (A)

By: David B. Yoffie, Pai-Ling Yin and Christina L. Darwall
Mike Ramsey, TiVo's CEO, must decide on which direction to build the company. Facing an onslaught of new competitors, a huge opportunity in the cable industry, and the possibility of becoming the new "user interface" for TV entertainment, Ramsey must balance the... View Details
Keywords: Television Entertainment; Profit; Product Positioning; Standards; Opportunities; Commercialization; Competition; Technology Adoption; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 29 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

major improvements in economic performance nearly everywhere they were adopted or imposed. Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Insurers and Reinsurers Author:K. A. Froot Periodical:Journal of Risk and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

ideas as a result. One much-anticipated event in the fall, for example, is the "36-hour DASH" exercise, in which students practice the skills they will need for their international project, but in a domestic context. A student team charged with increasing the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of wrongful-discharge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2023
  • Case

Grupo Sancor Seguros: Facing the Digital Transformation of Insurance in Argentina (A)

By: Jorge Tamayo and Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago
In 2020, Alejandro Simón, CEO of Sancor Seguros Group, a nearly 75-year-old cooperative that had become Argentina’s insurance leader, had to decide about the Group’s digital transformation strategy. The Group’s values and history needed to be considered during the... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Transformation; Organizational Culture; Cooperative Ownership; Strategy; Business Strategy; Adaptation; Technology Adoption; Insurance Industry; Latin America; South America; Argentina
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  • March 2017 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

Flashion: Art vs. Science in Fashion Retailing

By: Kris Ferreira and Karim R. Lakhani
Kate Wilson, retail analytics manager at Flashion, a fashion flash-sale site, is tasked with developing analytics to optimize pricing for first-exposure products on the site. Many in the industry have relied on years of experience and intuition to determine pricing—can... View Details
Keywords: Analytics; Pricing; Data; Service Operations; Forecasting and Prediction; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Mathematical Methods; Decision Making; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; United States
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  • December 2000
  • Case

CellFor, Inc.

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Frantz Edward Alphonse and Laure Mougeot Stroock
A new private company has developed a process to clone and multiply seeds for the forestry industry. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Transition; Technological Innovation; Private Ownership; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Technology Adoption; Forestry Industry
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  • August 1998
  • Case

Electronic Commerce at Air Products

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
In 1998,chief information officers (CIOs) in the highly competitive international gases and chemicals business faced the reality that electronic commerce capability was a strategic necessity. The results of annual surveys of technology officers in the chemical industry... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Information Technology; Globalized Markets and Industries; Infrastructure; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Business Strategy; Chemical Industry; United States
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  • 05 Jan 2023
  • News

6 Business Skills Every Engineer Needs

  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

contract types; ii) greater partner integration is associated with higher product quality only in projects that adopt more flexible time and materials or performance-based contracts; and iii) in projects where the choice of contract is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

lead their facilities to prioritize different external pressures and thus adopt different management practices. Specifically, we argue that external constituents who interact with particularly influential corporate departments are more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

the paper: http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0042673 Mandatory IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability Authors: Francois Brochet, Alan Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Publication: Contemporary Accounting Research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Collis and Akiko Kanno “Tokio Marine, Japan's leading insurance company, has spent nearly two decades building a global footprint in different insurance businesses. As the company becomes majority non-domestic it has to make a choice of what organisation structure to... View Details
  • 08 Apr 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

that could be manipulated in non-threatening ways on a computer screen. Scott likes to say that Intuit had 47th mover advantage, in part because it adopted a strategy that identified the pencil as the company's most important competitor.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology
  • 21 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

They began their research by searching through every patent filed by the US Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office between 1977 and 2010. (They detail their findings in the working paper Codifying Prior Art and Patenting: Natural Experiment of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology