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- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
the expanding practice of leveraging crowds for innovation and how crowdsourcing models have played out in different business environments. Lakhani notes, for example, that digital innovation has changed the models and mechanisms around...
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- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
nature of the wearables market. Q: Any closing thoughts? A: If you think about the traditional watch industry, Apple's competition is not the Swiss. Since the 1990s, Swiss watch manufacturers have repositioned mechanical watches as status...
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- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
amounts of internal energy go to 'making the quarter return' rather than serving the customer and building the future. Why did quarter returns develop in the first place?" Bill Hubbell added, "The market has many mechanisms to...
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- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
commercialization of technologies. This evidence also points to an important mechanism relating financial market development to technology diffusion and economic growth. Download working paper:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
decision making often involved more than simply and mechanically combining ideas. For example, at a point midway through making a Pixar movie, an animator gave a character a sideward glance and a slightly arched eyebrow. Only a...
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- 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010
Organizations struggle to balance simultaneous imperatives to exploit and explore, yet theorists differ as to whether exploitation undermines or enhances exploration. The debate reflects a gap: the missing mechanism by which organizations...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
large at certain points in time. Commitment mechanisms are needed, and investors can be one of those commitment mechanisms. Professor Michael Toffel has done important work on self-regulation and its effectiveness. Silverthorne: If...
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- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
http://hbr.org/2014/11/how-not-to-cut-health-care-costs/ar/1 November 2014 Harvard Business Review How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition By: Porter, Michael E., and James E. Heppelmann Abstract—Information technology is revolutionizing products....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
democracy (and the lives of the 1%)? Is this something that market mechanisms can resolve? Or will responses like those Rifkin proposes be the answer? Or are these just 2013's issues of the day? What do you think? To Read More: Jaron...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
decision. Good leaders know when to think slow. All of us need mechanisms for helping us to know. Some elements of bureaucracy can be included among the devices. But, as Ganesh Ramakrishnan said, " we probably (need) to enrich the...
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by James Heskett
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
made on the right side or the left side of the brain. But this will never lead to deciding by a mechanical means, nor in predicting a decision outcome." There was even concern expressed about the efficacy of MRI-based research on...
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by Jim Heskett
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
values that include community, curation, and convening. (Video by Amelia Kunhardt) About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: georgeclerk] Related Reading Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations Faber-Castell Doubles...
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- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
(b) the organization's traditional approach, which focused primarily on skills training. To confirm causation and explore the mechanisms underlying the effects, we replicated the results in a laboratory experiment. We found that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
their parents owned a business when they were growing up. So we can see that there's an influencing mechanism at play here, and that there's a substitute for it as well." Follow The Money The distinctions are a bit more subtle when...
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by Julia Hanna
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
We have seen interesting examples of activism in the United Kingdom and Japan recently. We suspect that activism will become relatively more important in these countries. In Japan especially, there are relatively few mechanisms in place...
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- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
Coca-Cola Company, The Salud Mesoamerica 2015 Initiative, and PepsiCo. The case concludes by positing questions the ORP would face moving forward such as incentives, metrics, restructuring to serve the private sector, and mechanisms for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
by increased bank capital requirements can reduce overall bank funding costs and increase bank lending. I quantify this mechanism in a two-sector business cycle model featuring a banking sector that provides liquidity and has excessive...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
the mechanism of industry migration proposed in models like Duranton (2007). Shaping Online Consumer Choice by Partitioning the Web Authors:Jolie M. Martin and Michael I. Norton Publication:Psychology and Marketing 26, no. 10 (October...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
goals, they are less likely to engage in such frenetic trading. Instead, the Internet's real impact, according to Jay Light, will not be as an electronic trading mechanism but as a powerful new distribution channel-a way for mutual fund...
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- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
Others pointed to classical Kantian ideas such as the pacifying effects of trade and that economic ties were a mechanism of security for China, the US, and other major economies. So, it is a great irony that now, in the context of China’s...
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