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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
software), these strategies have endured for many years and enabled the growth of large and successful firms (such as Intuit and Siebel Systems). A well-executed niche strategy, because of its focus, will exhibit strong defenses against a keystone and View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
in 13 consecutive seasons, and is the second, after Chuck Noll, to win four Super Bowls. He has coached the Patriots to 13 division titles in 16 years. Arguably, Belichick and the Patriots have dominated the NFL longer than any other team... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
technological shifts to closed-body designs and metal stamping technology, as well as the marketing-led idea of the annual model change. The case offers a setting to examine several frameworks: exploration versus exploitation, the emergence of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
cluster size and degree of specialization is measured along 3D: absolute number of employees (>10,000 jobs is used as cut-off for a regional cluster), degree of specialization (regional sector employment is at least two times expected levels) and degree of regional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
one of Microsoft's biggest revenue generators. Moreover, to a large extent Microsoft's sustained success over time in such a dreadfully rugged landscape has been due to its dominant position in operating systems. It is well known that... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
adoption. The evidence is less consistent with a dominant role for population as predicted by the semi-endogenous growth models or for country-level factors like culture, genes, or institutions. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10
widely, and research shows that it's often tough to increase profits by investing abroad. A new study of the grocery retail industry reveals that with a few exceptions globalization's benefits have not accrued to retailers. Local retailers View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
look at how the music industry functions. After years of consolidation, the business is now dominated by a handful of major distribution companies (often referred to simply as "the majors") that are responsible for some 80 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
Although China has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it still suffers from a weak financial system dominated by state-controlled banks and severely limited access to capital for private entrepreneurs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
production. Most of that market, says Shen—who oversaw the acquisition of Swedish carmaker Volvo by the Chinese auto giant Geely—is dominated by low-speed vehicles that possess even more limited utility than American compliance cars.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
It's a case of competition and strategy on a global scale, and the stakes could hardly be higher. The prize? Leadership in the realm of life sciences, a field that experts say will shape and dominate 21st-century enterprise. What city or... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
On the Outside at HBS
pressures exist for other students who are in a minority: They feel a subconscious pressure to exceed and excel every time and to prove themselves on behalf of their race, gender, or religion. Consider also the experience of a student in a section where participation... View Details
- 14 May 2018
- Blog Post
Women Making a Comeback: Diane Flynn Reboots Promising Careers
these women current, connected, and confident to return to work or pursue new dreams." In business now for a little over three years, ReBoot Accel has shifted its dominant business model from individually-paid tuitions to corporate... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
foreign officials, and the packaging and sale of toxic securities to naïve investors-require ethically problematic judgments and behaviors. However, dominant models of workplace unethical behavior fail to account for what we have learned... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
between companies and their communities, but also put pressure on the middle class, which were suddenly in competition for jobs with skilled workers around the globe. "And how did our society respond to pressures on the middle class?" Rivkin asked. "The... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
"name your own price" devices, permission marketing, group buying, price comparison engines, car purchase Web sites, mass customization, etc. It is still largely a new way of thinking whose domain and modalities remain to be defined. For a while the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
effect dominates the negative within-firm effect post IPO. We build a firm industry model with endogenous entry to quantify the importance of two competing selection mechanisms: an increasing share of R&D-intensive firms in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’
continued to be tested and to evolve based on frequent reviews of work in progress. Leaders Support And Encourage Integrative Decision Making Leaders and their groups can resolve problems, disagreements, and conflicting solutions in one of three ways. The leader or... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
by both HBS and Adolfo Ibáñez faculty. A similar joint program will be offered in Hong Kong by 2000. "Family enterprises are the dominant business form outside the most developed countries, as well as in many highly developed countries,... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
society) than any other development in the past decade. The western dominated economy and society of the past century has yielded way to a new global century, in which no one country or region enjoys an undisputed advantage. Instead, we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne