Systemic Industries - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

leaders were trained, sophisticated strategic-planning systems were supposed to help senior managers decide which businesses to grow and which to harvest. 1 Unfortunately, all the planning and investment were unable to stop the... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

02 Feb 2004
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Where Does Apple Go From Here?

third strategy is very different from the second, which is to (concede) we lost the operating system war, and instead leverage our brand, our industrial design skills, and our application base. This strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2006
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Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

Chairman, Agency for Science, Technology & Research Former Chairman, Singapore Economic Development Board Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION University of Toronto, 1970 BASc., Industrial Engineering... View Details

04 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

smart, connected product to develop an entire system of products that worked together. How would Honeywell, the mature, industrial company in a basic, mechanical business, compete with the new startup bought... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

July 2006
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Dynamic Mixed Duopoly: A Model Motivated by Linux vs. Windows

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Pankaj Ghemawat

This paper analyzes a dynamic mixed duopoly in which a profit-maximizing competitor interacts with a competitor that prices at zero (or marginal cost), with the cumulation of output affecting their relative positions over time. The modeling effort is motivated by... View Details

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01 Sep 2020
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3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)

our company, I wanted my colleagues to hear from me, and the industry needed to hear from Citi. The response was overwhelming and I hope to inspire people to continue on the path of greater awareness, education, and action to drive View Details

Keywords: April White; Photo by: Michael Bucher; banking; diversity; COVID-19; leadership; African American; career advice; Finance

30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

role of telecommunications firms in providing content. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53774 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

India's economic growth is an exciting new playing field for the retail industry and for entrepreneurs looking to get in on the ground level, a panel of that country's businessmen agreed. Rising incomes, increased advertising, and a jump... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

genome, Goldberg has focused his most recent efforts on explaining the impact of this revolutionary discovery on the agribusiness system. "All industries that deal with living things or organic compounds will have a common language... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

June 2016
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Task Segregation as a Mechanism for Within-Job Inequality: Women and Men of the Transportation Security Administration

By: Curtis K. Chan and Michel Anteby

What could explain inequality within a given job between groups of workers, particularly between women and men? Extant workplace inequality scholarship has largely overlooked as a source for inequality the job’s work content—the actual tasks workers perform. It is... View Details

Keywords: Inequality; Work; Mechanisms And Processes; Stratification; Labor Process; Qualitative Methods (General); Case Method; Field Research; Equality and Inequality; Working Conditions; Gender; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Air Transportation Industry

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Just Digital Future - Race, Gender & Equity

Just Digital Future Technology has the potential to build a better world but its applications and uses are often biased and can reinforce systems of inequality. We teamed up with our friends at The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3)... View Details

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

the authors came to believe, government had inflicted detrimental effects not only on industry but also on the Japanese economy as a whole. Their new book Can Japan Compete? is the result of years of research by Porter, the author of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

01 Oct 1999
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The Entrepreneurial Venture (Second Edition) by William A. Sahlman, Howard H. Stevenson, Michael J. Roberts, and Amar Bhidé (Harvard Business School Press) At least one million new entrepreneurial ventures are begun every year. As Internet-based companies attempt to... View Details

28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union

As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

the industry you compete in, the market segments where you do (and do not) choose to play, and the nature of the customers that you sell and service. These factors help to determine required sales tasks—that is, what your go-to-market... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

28 Aug 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

decades have generated rich empirical data on firms and business systems that can confirm or challenge many of today's fashionable theories and assumptions by other disciplines. Business history has broadened its scope in the last two... View Details

Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo

01 Mar 2011
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Tax and Grow

“excess” cash holdings. The definition of excess cash holdings will be critical. But such levels easily could be defined relative to industry benchmarks from periods that featured more standard corporate savings behavior. Implementing a... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

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High-Tech Greenhouse Innovations in The Netherlands - Blog - Business & Environment

automate insect control using computer vision. Pest infestation is one of the most prevalent issues in greenhouse production and is labor-intensive and challenging to combat. This system uses cameras linked to AI models to analyze insect... View Details

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Community | HBS Online

Explore virtual events, such as panels, webinars, and meetups Connect with fellow business professionals through discussion boards and direct messaging Ask and answer industry questions Post polls and start conversations Earn badges for... View Details

22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016

economies, many business enterprises defy traditional industry boundaries. In this study, we evaluate six "big data" approaches to peer firm identifications and show that some, but not all, "wisdom-of-crowd" techniques perform... View Details