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  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research where people have two distinct modes of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

the model, developing applications for Microsoft's operating systems and using Microsoft's tools in the process, the power of the platform became evident. It was a win-win relationship—the community of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 9, 2015

School Case 515-052 Philips Healthcare: Marketing the HealthSuite Digital Platform In June 2014, leading healthcare and consumer technology company Royal Philips (Philips) announced its HealthSuite Digital View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10

economic harm that system operators could prevent or mitigate. Although the legal system can respond, regulations have mixed results. I examine the applicable legal rules that constrain online fraud and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2023
  • Case

Roblox: Virtual Commerce in the Metaverse

By: Ayelet Israeli and Nicole Tempest Keller
In 2022, Roblox had 58.8 million daily active users, including over half of all children and teens under the age of 16 in the United States. Roblox, a free-to-use “co-experience platform”, allowed users to come together in immersive 3D experiences to socialize, work,... View Details
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  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

to choose a home page provided by a competitor). The second principle focuses on opportunity: specifically, opportunity that is facilitated by giving developers platform access and the ability to innovate and build on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 May 2014
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

Summing Up Is Wealth Distribution a Problem Cause or Symptom? The passion and thought that went into this month's questions about wealth redistribution suggest that the topic is of more than passing interest. Some cautioned against hasty changes. Many used the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 30 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

2019 HarperBusiness The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power By: Cusumano, Michael A., Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie Abstract—The Business of Platforms explores the strategic,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 17

world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic Indian users of oDesk in other countries around the world. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

Fundamentally, they aim to improve the overall health of their ecosystems by providing a stable and predictable set of common assets—think of Wal-Mart's procurement system and Microsoft's Windows operating View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

borne by JCDecaux alone. The two parties opted to renegotiate their contract, which would impact prices, revenue sharing, cost allocation, and the operation of the system as a whole. Could the parties agree on a common strategy that would... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

infrastructure presents an excellent opportunity to avoid the pitfalls of complex, restrictive, digital health systems that have evolved elsewhere. We propose here a federated, patient-centric, application programming interface... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

employees first, and then everything else will fall into place.” Book Excerpt Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies Ranjay Gulati Chapter 6: Be Yourself, Be Candid, Be Kind Generations of scholars have seen culture as a powerful control View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 17 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage

In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
  • 08 Feb 2023
  • Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

underrepresented communities. As the COVID-19 pandemic dragged on, executives worked to continue these efforts, despite supply chain disruptions, labor shortages, and erratic consumer spending. Beyond the moral imperatives of confronting View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
  • 15 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

success, are closely aligned with idealized masculine interests, attributes, and life situations is a hard sell, especially to those who have become successful within this system—whether men or women, rich or poor, white or minority. People, understandably, are... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 08 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

organization off its complacent platform and into a good direction. But it didn't happen. Instead of mobilizing people into action, the crisis led many managers into making fewer decisions because they didn't want to be accused of... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
  • 10 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

since little of the upside tends to flow back onto corporate balance sheets. To that end, Nagle says, “Can we design systems and regulations to allow a company to get some of those benefits?” One model for the future: Free and open source... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 25 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

stifling differentiation, provide a stable platform to build on and offer new ways of differentiating, either by cost, structure, product, or service. Just as literacy stimulated innovation, so do open View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
  • 05 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software

pixelfit Companies that contribute to open source software and use it in their own IT systems and applications can gain a competitive advantage—even though they may be helping their competitors in the short run. Open source software is... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Computer

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