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- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
the early 1990s, but to reposition the company to lead the industry. The powerful lesson from the IBM story is that innovation is not a side business to running the real business. Innovation is the business. Breakthrough innovations that View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- February 2017
- Case
BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead...
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Arun Sundararajan, Emilie Billaud and Caroline Caltagirone
In 2017, the co-founders of BlaBlaCar—the world’s largest long-distance carpooling company—reflected on the evolution of their venture and the way forward. BlaBlaCar had reached critical mass and size; yet staying still was not going to be enough to be relevant and... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Transformation; Decision Making; Values and Beliefs; Growth and Development Strategy; Digital Platforms; Network Effects; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Transportation Networks; Transportation Industry; Web Services Industry; France; Europe
Lakhani, Karim R., Arun Sundararajan, Emilie Billaud, and Caroline Caltagirone. "BlaBlaCar: The Road Ahead..." Harvard Business School Case 617-050, February 2017.
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
School—Gary Pisano, David Upton, and Steven Wheelwright—show how a well-designed operations function can become a strategic competitive weapon. Their book is titled Operations, Strategy, and Technology: Pursuing the Competitive Edge... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
under-provision of innovation. Firms have clear incentives to engage in strategic behavior because policymakers use market outcomes as a benchmark in designing regulation. This study examines a unique energy efficiency standard for... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
we call "design-driven innovation." This strategy aims at radically changing the emotional and symbolic content of products, i.e., their meanings and languages, through a deep understanding of broader View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
while substantially improving overall organizational performance. Social entrepreneurs stay relentlessly focused on their missions and seek to continually innovate. This challenge cannot be overcome through incremental change in existing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
Herb Kelleher, respectively. While neither were the first to come up with the basic notion on which their businesses were founded, it is not too much of an overstatement to say that Bogle taught us a new way to invest while Kelleher taught us a new way to fly. In the... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
firms that historically issued frequent guidance, breaks in guidance following CEO turnovers are relatively permanent and are potentially attributable to firm-initiated changes in guidance policy. Breaks following CFO turnovers, however,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
to become a major product family. His success in that position propelled him to a series of other assignments, including a temporary one in strategic planning, that eventually landed him a promotion to vice president and general manager,... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9781138794313/ January 2015 Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Strategic Disclosure: The Case of Business School Rankings By: Luca, Michael, and Jonathan Smith Abstract—We empirically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
technological disruptions. Scholars such as HBS professors Clayton M. Christensen, well known for his research on disruptive technological change and author of The Innovator's Dilemma, and Dorothy Leonard, whose idea of "core... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
substantial investment of $3 million to $5 million and work extensively with the management team as strategic advisors to help them build that organization. And in fact, some of our investment partners have made significant strides—real... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
Apparently it still exists to some degree for one third of the organizations that have taken precautions to protect themselves. It works, too, for individuals who are careful about changing passwords regularly (so that, if you're like me,... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
not only changed how Yoffie designed the course, called Strategy and Technology, but it's also changing how managers in tech-intensive companies are dealing with this issue on the front lines. Yoffie begins... View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
contracting structure has important strategic implications. Preferring Balanced vs. Advantageous Peace Agreements: A Study of Israeli Attitudes Towards a Two-State Solution Authors:Deepak Malhotra and Jeremy Ginges Publication:Judgment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
the big questions that will enable you to diagnose problems, change course if necessary, and advance your career. He lays out areas of inquiry, including questions such as (1) Do I clearly articulate my vision and top priorities?; (2)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
and the consequences of CEO succession and selection decisions for subsequent firm performance and strategic choices. Industry wisdom, company relationships, and technological expertise all matter in our new knowledge-based enterprises.—... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
targeted firms. These results suggest a need to check the power of NPEs through changes in U.S. IP policy, in particular to screen out trolling early in the litigation process. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
Innovation Profiling process to determine what barriers were preventing the company from achieving its strategic objectives. The result showed that the company needed to make changes in the areas of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
must expect health plans to direct patients to excellent providers, not those provider networks that offer the biggest discounts.” What to do? The most important single change necessary is for employers to think about health care in terms... View Details