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- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
Interfaces). The implication for IT management consulting is a rather complex demand to provide both strategic perspective along with implementation savvy on managing the considerable risks of not being able to realize the strategic competitive advantages of computing...
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- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Hedge Funds
entrust their money to one of the big investment banks or brokerages—Citibank, Chase, Merrill Lynch, or Bear Sterns—which then invests it for them in hedge funds. Funds of funds, the word is on Wall Street, are the next bubble—the next place for financial View Details
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by D. Quinn Mills
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
failure resulting from asymmetric information. However, if platforms can impose exclusive dealing, then they will do so, which results in market inefficiency. Download the paper:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
altered focus has been the key to success of current discount voucher services. Q: Do you have any plans to continue researching this subject? A: Absolutely. We're currently talking to merchants that have used discount voucher services, and we hope to conduct empirical...
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- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
years. Our aim was to come up with an objective measure of performance—one that was unrelated to arguments about market power, monopoly position, or predatory tactics. This meant we excluded any consideration of measures like View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
and change the energy markets and made some progress in doing so. But they wanted to achieve that goal so much, so aggressively, that they weren’t willing to accept failure along the way. That’s...
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- 04 Dec 2019
- Book
Creating the Experimentation Organization
scale to have a giant impact.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: ndresr] Related Reading At Booking.com, Innovation Means Constant Failure Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage...
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by Michael Blanding
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
current operations that could materially impact their contribution margin, such as the failure to record any reserves for their furniture, fixtures, and equipment that are very real current costs. They fail to allocate any of their...
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- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
borrowers in the London market, we challenge the traditional view that gold-standard adherence worked as a credible commitment mechanism that was rewarded by financial markets with lower borrowing costs. We demonstrate that in the poor...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
prevailed through the difficulties of finding capital, and through the difficulties of her own very limited social position. In a market in which there weren't many realms where women could play, she found a way. "She lived on a...
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- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
Failure to get that pricing right inevitably leads to decline. You can see examples in businesses like ridesharing. The first player in the space was a company called Sidecar that never was able to figure out the right pricing to drive...
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by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
waste into by-product. In some cases, when the markets for the primary and by-products are "separable," it is optimal to convert only a portion of the waste into by-product and disposing of the rest. In other cases, when the...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2010
- HBS Case
Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China
Google, the "do no evil" company, gained entry into the Chinese search engine market last decade by agreeing to ban search results on topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese government. To Google's way of thinking, it could do...
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- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
experiments. Booking.com conducts thousands of tests every month. Evidence from a test always trumps executive opinion. Even the failures that tests often produce are regarded as opportunities for learning rather than costly mistakes. The...
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- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
innovation and entrepreneurship. When dealing with something truly innovative, it’s difficult to compare it to anything that came before. That uncertainty makes the line between a tremendous success and a phenomenal flop a thin one. Predicting startup success or View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
Meet Cheryl Andrus: Manager. Survivor. A vice president responsible for corporate and product marketing at FranklinCovey in Salt Lake City, Andrus was asked in August 2002 to also take charge of one of the company's business lines. Along...
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by Paul Michelman
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
not had lower costs of equity (lower stock returns), consistent with a stock market anomaly previously documented in other samples. A calibration suggests that a binding 10 percentage point increase in Tier 1 capital to risk-weighted...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
gain experience, they get worse at predicting timelines." Record venture capital investment and a surge of new businesses launched during the COVID-19 pandemic are raising the stakes for entrepreneurs. In a domain that prizes speed, View Details
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by Rachel Layne
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
chooses to spend his or her time has much more of an effect on a company's success or failure than if a middle manager spends a half hour more at lunch. With that in mind, Sadun and three colleagues-Oriana Bandiera and Andrea Prat of the...
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by Michael Blanding
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
at all stores.) But questioning whether Wal-Mart's overall economic impact has been positive or negative reflects a failure to engage properly with the data. More For Everyone First, there is hard evidence that Wal-Mart has grown the...
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