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- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
at maximum efficiency because they didn't have much competition from abroad, but given the environment within South Africa, the strongest ones had come to survive and existed in the form of large conglomerates. When the economy opened up... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
of Management at MIT Sloan School of Management. We asked Hagiu to discuss the book. To learn more about Hagiu's early-stage research into the concept of multi-sided markets, of which many software platforms are a manifestation, see this... View Details
- 15 Aug 2023
- HBS Case
(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?
But it must first overcome key technological and developmental challenges. One of the most critical questions yet to be answered: Will it be an open and interoperable virtual world, similar to today’s internet, or will it be a closed 3D... View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
open to do field experiments," Larkin says. "I think it's a big, untapped way for companies to optimize not just their marketing but also how they design incentives, their employee feedback design, and also the different elements of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
characteristics have to contend with the fact that we already make taxes and transfers depend on some characteristics, such as the number of children and physical disabilities. Why would height open the door to abuses if these have not?... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane: The nature of competition is changing rapidly. Drivers such as globalization, deregulation, and technological change are opening opportunities for the development of new, original business... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
What Makes a Good Leader?
things in a few words. General Electric's Jack Welch is a good example. He is astonishingly articulate and able to convey complicated concepts in just a few phrases." Of course, knowing your audience is also essential. "Great... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg & Susan Young
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
recursion, interaction, and subjective construal between the self concept and the social system. In two lab experiments and a field experiment in a global consulting firm, we tested the hypotheses by offering people reflections on times... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
Abstract Are the doors of access open equally for all in business? Are talent and hard work really enough to make it to the top? As much as we would like to believe in the American meritocracy, an elusive class system exists where a small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
Episcopalian or Presbyterian) men from the industrialized centers of the Northeast had the greatest advantages and opportunities for reaching the pinnacle of success in business in the early decades of the twentieth century. Being the "right" type of person... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
start-up seem too risky? There is a radical third path open to you: you can buy a small business and run it as CEO. Purchasing a small company offers significant financial rewards—as well as personal and professional fulfillment. Leading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
financial advisors to make saving and investment decisions. Low literacy and lack of information affect the ability to save and to secure a comfortable retirement; ignorance about basic financial concepts can be linked to lack of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
can provide a valuable source of product differentiation. And finally, advances in development tools (e.g., computer-aided design) coupled with a move to more open architectures and technical standards have driven down the cost of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
Third, we provide some new evidence of the recent shift of large U.K. retailers toward smaller retail formats, which followed the introduction of new and more restrictive planning constraints for the opening of large retail stores. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
injunction based on the Nuance engineers' noncompetes. The flip side of the coin is that employers can exploit these differences by locating in areas such as Silicon Valley where noncompetes do not block one's ability to recruit talent. For example, one legal scholar... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2020
- In Practice
6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy
as a critical driver of competitive advantage. However, increasingly cutting-edge technology is developed as a shared resource where the core technology is freely available to anyone who wants to use it and it is frequently released as View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
political upheavals. Yet who among us would have predicted the comparative stability, accompanied by rapid economic growth, of the last two decades? The lessons drawn by China's post-Tiananmen leaders was to pursue vigorous, often audacious paths to economic growth,... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
businesses, each of which was not performing up to its full potential, it was uncompetitive. The chairman of the group, Ratan Tata, creatively reorganized the business to make it survive in the new open global economy, and then challenged... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace