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- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
most sophisticated big-chip printers. They have a huge campus, like a university. They told me that it’s becoming more and more important to be physically close because they’re afraid of knowledge leakage. If you know everyone, and that’s...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
custom voice system, which means there’s a whole range of small- and mid-sized businesses that are underserved,” Sambvani says. With Slang.ai, he’s offering mid-market companies access to these more sophisticated tools that can...
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- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
restrict one's future opportunity set as evidence for sophisticated time-inconsistency. We propose an additional mechanism that may contribute to the demand for commitment technology: the desire to signal to others. We present a field...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg - Blog - Business & Environment
beneath these towering structures, one cannot help but be awestruck by their scale and the complexity of their design and construction. The sheer size of the blades, the engineering required to balance and rotate them, and the View Details
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John Speer
As only the 245th pilot combat-qualified to fly the B-2 Stealth Bomber, John Speer was part of an elite group that flew the most sophisticated strategic bomber ever built. But in 2011, he had reached “the decision point” of his Air Force...
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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978)
art. “Even though you can’t apply sophisticated financial models to it or the complex structures that I learned in Production and Operations Management,” he says, “art is a business.” And Deitch, in his three-plus-decade career as an art...
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April White
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
"In a complex, sophisticated environment where so many products and services are connected, strategy has become, in large part, the art of influencing assets that you don't own," Iansiti observes. It's the old saw of the...
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- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
customers whose capabilities and needs have been outstripped by the development of newer and more complex product features. In the face of a "disruptive technology," dominant competitors flee to the upper end of the market where their increasingly View Details
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by James Heskett
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making the Most of Government Upheaval
related businesses in the local market or even in other countries. Stage III: Acquisition of New Capabilities. Becoming increasingly sophisticated as they competed with larger foreign rivals, the firms developed new capabilities in areas...
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by Nancy O. Perry
- 07 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?
manufacturing, after all, is consumed domestically. The more sophisticated and organized the domestic consumer base becomes, the easier it will be for China to move into high-quality areas of production. In a real sense, consumer...
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- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
performance measures over time to transform Cross Country Group from an opportunistic family business into a sophisticated industry leader. Cross Country (renamed Agero in 2011) operated call centers that coordinated with thousands of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India
have made goods more attainable and enticing to a larger portion of the population. At the same time, trade liberalization and more sophisticated manufacturing techniques create goods that are less expensive and higher quality. A panel...
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- 04 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My Passion in the Startup Space
ex-consultants to seasoned real estate professionals. As far as my day to day goes, I have been fortunate to work with very smart people and take on new learnings. I have worked on projects ranging from building KPIs to the development of View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Finding my Passion in the Startup Space
to day goes, I have been fortunate to work with very smart people and take on new learnings. I have worked on projects ranging from building KPIs to the development of sophisticated models around pricing and asset selection. What I enjoy...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
different skill sets, since the technology and business models need to be developed hand in hand. We have to create systems that combine science, medicine, strategy, and IT in a sophisticated way, and managers will play a large role in...
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- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
heterogeneity in consumer sophistication could explain the prevalence and persistence of misconduct at such firms. Misconduct is concentrated at firms with retail customers and in counties with low education, elderly populations, and high...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2019
- Blog Post
Makeup: How Kenya Hunt Transformed Her Career Through Cosmetics
distinctive makeup kit, and created a YouTube channel dedicated to application techniques. “I considered it something I just like to do, not a job,” says Kenya. Years earlier, in a middle school dance class, she had discovered the power of View Details
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Consumer Products / Retail
- 11 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center
reacting to the company's own organizational difficulties. Frei, Evenson and Harker point out that institutions generally suffer from a lack of overall customer focus when the design of their front-line tool—the voice response unit - is too View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
valuable source of differentiated value creation by PE funds,” says Srinivasan. “Smaller and mid-sized businesses have limited expertise to pursue a digital transformation strategy. On the other hand, their size and sophistication give PE...
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- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
economy began to improve and the livelihood of many Chinese rose with it, their tastes began to change. Exposed to more luxurious foreign brands, many Chinese strived to purchase a Swiss or Japanese watch. How could Fiyta build up its brand image to a more View Details
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Martha Lagace