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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
In the saber-rattling and highly influential 2007 report Rising Above the Gathering Storm, the National Academies warned that America’s technology and scientific leadership was being surpassed by a number of Asian countries, threatening both our View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Moving Mountains
the business just after their father's death and following a foray into entrepreneurship. "A drawback to family business," Barco observes, "is that the founder is often a dominant personality, like my father was, so the children-you might... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Home from the Sea
France and is dominated by French sailors — is like no other event on this earth. In an age of celebrity “heroes” and “reality” TV shows, Wilson and his fellow Vendée participants (this year including two women) engage in a competition as... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- News
How Joe Shoen Got U-Haul Back on Track
The most recent issue of Forbes magazine has a long piece on Amerco, U-Haul’s parent company, and its return to dominance following decades-long internal turmoil. Leading the charge is Amerco CEO Joe Shoen (MBA 1973), who has a... View Details
- 25 May 2011
- News
Race to the Finish?
and Environment Initiative noted that the climate’s future requires that cities, the dominant settlement model of the 21st century, be much cleaner and more energy efficient. Cutting urban vehicle emissions is a big part of that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
sight of it, you'll fail. In contrast to Sony's approach, RCA, having achieved world dominance in its industry in the 1960s, fell off the "virtuous" path by diversifying into areas in which its managers had no learning base - businesses... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
venture funds, he has eloquently and vigorously made the case for this source of economic development in a continent long dominated by big business and risk-averse managers and investors. Born and raised in The Hague, the son of a... View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
that insights into these questions can also help entrepreneurial firms understand where opportunity lies and how they can exploit it. Q: Is it fair to say that companies are cognizant of their own technology strengths and push the View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
governance system from U.S. companies; banks acted as monitors for Japanese companies, and the boards of Japanese companies had been dominated by insiders. In April this year, however, the commercial code was revised, and now Japanese... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
brick-and-mortar retail, specifically in the form of large-scale shopping malls, is still the dominant venue for consumer purchases in the developed world. Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data This study proposes a practical and... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
My Misperceptions about HBS
sometimes controversial topics, and I appreciated the opportunity to learn so much about my friends and classmates. HBS has also been much more collaborative than I expected. I had heard rumors that classroom discussions would be View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
two books, they present evidence that successful, dominant firms are particularly vulnerable to competitors introducing disruptive technologies, those that offer customers less product capability for much less money. Among the reasons... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
quantitative, large-sample study of digital cameras introduced from 1991 to 2006 by firms from three prior industries: photography, consumer electronics, and computers. By 2004, several features had emerged as a dominant design; however,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Marco Crespo
teachers to know more than students. Now it's more about how to process information and how to make decisions based on that information." The classroom is no longer the dominant setting for education. "You can learn math from... View Details
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2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
thoughtful practitioners committed to addressing how gender, race, class, and other axes of dominance and oppression reproduce structural inequalities in organizations. To this end, we are excited to bring in the expertise of our esteemed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Books: Judo Strategy
Netscape’s head of engineering how he could ever hope to compete successfully with Microsoft, given the dominant position of Windows, he gave a very judo-like answer. ‘You can look at Microsoft’s operating system as an asset, or you can... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
teams to win, but also to lay odds for other punters to back. This business model allows punters to cut out the middleman of the bookmaker and leads to a much more efficient two-sided market. Betfair.com's domination of the betting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
extraordinaire and an active philanthropist as well, assesses the market’s current turmoil and looks ahead to better days. Business at the Summit The global financial crisis dominated many discussions during the Centennial Global Business... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
committing to an approach that may need to fundamentally change—something that is harder to accomplish at scale. That said, the pursuit of coveted "network effects," with winner-take-all rewards to the dominant platform and a high number... View Details
- Profile
Alex Slusky
has paid off. “By differentiating ourselves from the ordinary VC,” says Alex, “we have grown from a nascent start-up in 1997 to a partnership that now manages $2 billion in assets today. If you look at the West Coast PE industry, you’ll see that it is... View Details