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- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
Michael Schwarz Abstract We consider market rules for the transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Excessive fragmentation of IP address blocks causes growth in the Internet's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 May 2016
- HBS Case
Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer
handle on food safety there may be challenging because China has a highly fragmented agriculture system, Quelch says. For instance, one Chinese milk brand may be taking its supply from hundreds of individual farmers—a potentially risky... View Details
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
development decisions to a new level of sophistication.— Michael E. Porter A final hidden cost of outsourcing is slower innovation. Changing products and processes is more complex and time consuming across separated sites. Knowledge and technology are View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
IT Links for Boundaryless Companies
to succeed, he said: fragmented buyers and sellers ("If people have other ways to meet, it won't work."); an inefficient existing supply chain; and, most important, knowledge of the industry domain. Functional hubs, on the other... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
denominator. My own industry is no small part of the problem. We, too, are seeking niches. The fragmentation of the news media means Americans no longer have to listen to the serious discussion of ideas with which they might disagree. If... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
on consumers, platform managers, and policymakers. Martha Lagace: What piqued your interest in this research? Chiara Farronato: I study market design choices of online platforms from eBay to Airbnb. Online platforms help match many View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses Authors:Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz Abstract We consider market rules for the transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Excessive View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
important that firms have clear criteria for choosing customers. But most firms don't. When you look at their business plans and sales incentives, they are essentially saying to their salespeople, "Go forth and multiply!" And that's indeed what their sales force does,... View Details
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over product decisions being made by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
consequences. The project I am currently working on examines the globalization of the world personal care or beauty industry over the last fifty years. It is concerned with explaining how an industry fragmented on national lines has come... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
highly attractive host economy over the following decade. There are major acquisition opportunities in, for example, the fragmented U.S. banking sector, and the probable further weakening of the dollar over the medium term will make U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
development is fragmented and lacks a coherent and integrated theory and method for developing an effective organization. A 20-year action research program led to the development and evaluation of the Strategic Fitness Process (SFP)-a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
makes sense to many people because they are so influenced by the most spectacular fragments of men's consumption that appear on the popular culture radar: Harley rallies in Sturgis, the Million Man March, men howling in the woods à la... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
evaluate business development opportunities. Driven by cash needs, they may call this "experimentation," but in effect they tell salespeople to "go forth and multiply!" By selling to anyone, though, ventures fragment... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
the more than thirty units that had previously delivered acute stroke care. This case profiles the rollout of the new care delivery model in North Central London, where acute stroke care had previously been fragmented among five acute... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
or adding new products? Industry Dynamics: Are there fragmented industries where significant value can be delivered through consolidation? Are there shifts in power (e.g., entry or exit of a key player or consolidation of several players)... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
not force the disparate CSR programs into their business strategies. Instead, the goal should be to "bring discipline and structure to the many fragmented components. [The] components will in some cases support the core strategy and in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
new suppliers and suppliers to find new business using only a personal computer, Internet connection, and Web browser. The SupplierMarket.com site can provide mutual benefits to both buyers and suppliers, eliminating the current problems of a View Details
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
environmental protection was decoupled from regulation. These mechanisms include (a) the intense emphasis on economic growth leading to misaligned incentives and regulatory competition across regions, (b) fragmented bureaucratic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne