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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
PublicationsStrength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak Interests Author:Gunnar Trumbull Publication:Harvard University Press, forthcoming Abstract This book investigates the sources of interest group influence has on public policy. Trumbull argues that View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Distance Still Matters in Business, Despite the Internet
coast; not only in electronics, information, and communication technology, but in many other fields. Let me summarize: Though internet technology ostensibly diffused everywhere, it did not get experienced as...
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- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
UnileverA Case Study
like knowledge and information can often be transferred more efficiently and effectively within a firm than between independent firms. There are several reasons for this, including the fact that much knowledge is tacit. Indeed, it is well established that sharing View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008
results are stronger in environments with less public information flow, suggesting that the shorting market is an important mechanism for private information revelation. Lobbies and Technology Diffusion...
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Martha Lagace
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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Review articles, How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Competition (November 2014), and How Smart, Connected Products Are Transforming Companies (October 2015) address the role of information technology in strategy. Dr. Porter’s...
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- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental...
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by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
Brian Knutson and Uma R. Karmarkar Although linked, researchers have long distinguished appetitive from consummatory phases of reward processing. Recent improvements in the spatial and temporal resolution of neuroimaging techniques have...
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
England Journal of Medicine Catalyst The Agenda for the Next Generation of Health Care Information Technology by Thomas W. Feeley, Zachary Landman and Michael E. Porter As the diffusion of value-based health...
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- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
not take a great deal of capital nor technological expertise to launch an entrepreneurial venture in many beauty products—although for such a venture to have any hope of success, high levels of imagination and creativity have always been...
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Student Research - Doctoral
rise of technologies like Generative AI, factorial experimentation has become even more accessible: it is easier than ever... 2024 Working Paper Investor Influence on Media Coverage: Evidence from Venture Capital-Backed Startups By: Brian...
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Business History - Faculty & Research
safety, morals, and health could be protected. Article Intermediary Functions and the Market for Innovation in Meiji and Taisho Japan By: Tom Nicholas and Hiroshi Shimizu Japan experienced a transformational phase of technological...
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- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
employed marketing and marketing strategies to diffuse products and brands internationally, despite business, economic, and cultural obstacles to globalization. The process was difficult and complex. The globalization of toiletries...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
industries. Europe and Japan had to spend the immediate postwar decade undergoing extensive reconstruction, heavily dependent on official aid from the United States, yet over time Europe and Japan closed the technological and productivity...
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by Geoffrey Jones
- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
electronics company Philips; the Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk; the Brazilian cosmetics company Natura; and the U.S.-based technology and aerospace company United Technologies all come to mind....
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by Martha Lagace
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
consultancy now called Monitor-Deloitte. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School and a director of PVH Corporation, Aera Technology and Helios Consulting, a trustee of Western Governors University and a Senior...
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Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of...
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- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
handling safety will no doubt yield product innovation in packaging, no-touch technology for ordering, paying, restrooms, and even entry and exit from restaurants, and cleaning and sanitizing protocols and products. Air circulation within...
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By: Iavor I. Bojinov
Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of...
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- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
vaccination efforts. In contrast to the product-centric view employed to develop and distribute the vaccines, the shots-in-arms problem of convincing people to be vaccinated requires patient- or customer-centric solutions. [div class=infogram-embed...
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- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
the fourth level, but it does provide a road map of the steps along the way that firms may either traverse or stop at. Level 1: Companies at level 1 are very product focused and have an "if I build it, they will buy it" mindset. The focus is on View Details