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- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
course, one can argue that this is what the highway system of the U.S. (or any country, for that matter) is all about. Or at a more micro level, it is what General Motors, Ford, and others created when they built a system of complementors... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Evelyne White
that our business works very well in a particular kind of medium-sized city. And in those cities, we can invest in the market to bring it to saturation. But many would argue that we should tackle the biggest cities immediately,... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
the firm and MIS research to argue that some types of information technology (IT) will be deployed only within hierarchical governance structures. This argument introduces a contingency into the 'electronic markets hypothesis,' which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
across their internal corporate departments lead their facilities to prioritize different institutional pressures and thus adopt different management practices. Specifically, we argue that external constituents who interact with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
a relationship between the design of a complex system and the manner in which this system evolves over time. In particular, designs which are modular in nature are argued to be more "evolvable," in that these designs facilitate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
social initiatives is to find a way to promote social justice in a world where the shareholder wealth maximization paradigm reigns supreme. Advocates for corporate social initiatives must be prepared to argue with a Nobel laureate in... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 02 Aug 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?
customer centricity, reminded us that, “What’s interesting is many of the most customer centric firms in the world don’t have a CXO (Amazon, Starbucks, Virgin, Southwest Airlines). I would argue that’s because it is already baked into... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business
minimum wage remains intense. Advocates for higher wages for the country’s lowest-paid workers argue that businesses should provide a livable wage for their employees. Activists have pushed to increase the minimum pay to as much as $15 an... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
GoPro, how do you make creativity work for you?" he asked. "How do you solve real business problems? That's one opportunity for agencies." Anand asked another question: Would HBS play a central role in education 10 years from now? Most people in the room believed it... View Details
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
realm of ideology. Some respondents doubted the Government's ability to achieve the Buffett result, if not the "Buffett Effect" of the column's title. Several argued that the Government, by necessity, has different goals and constraints.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
not less. In their new book, Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy, the authors argue that the core benefits of marketing align closely with the requirements of democracy: exchange, consumption, choice, information,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?
to work long hours at a time when people in some other countries increasingly stand by watching them do it. James Surowiecki, in a piece last year in The New Yorker, argued that the more that Americans work, the more they spend. And the... View Details
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
involvement and participation from the inside. Even though the process may be slow and, yes, profitable, they argue that abdication negates an organization's power to foster change. Further, if all U.S. information utilities operating in... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
adaptation and argue that organizations suffer inertia when they fail to change as quickly as the environment. Although the tire firms delayed closing redundant capacity, they responded fairly quickly to the introduction of radial tires... View Details
- 26 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Driving Change in Education-to-Employment
small role in building a new system of supportive pathways to good jobs. I chose Year Up because I wanted to learn from an organization with a demonstrated history of success that is now developing and deploying further innovations to its core model. Given its brand... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Ink: Start Small, Rise Above
days. Then I just wait. It’s funny that we think 30 days is considered on time. Years ago, you might’ve argued that it could take 30 days to move the money around. But today I can pick up my phone and give you money in less than a second.... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
articulation of a secular basis for social organization, rooted in commerce, and their insistence that political economy trumped theology as the underpinning for peace and prosperity within and among nations. I argue that the Italian... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Who Neglects Risk? Investor Experience and the Credit Boom By: Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel Gregory Hanson, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—Many have argued that overoptimistic thinking on the part of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
shareholder value. While it may be argued that in the past, cities and business have contributed to today’s environmental predicaments, it can also be said that, going forward, environmental remediation is not possible without them.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
argue that they have introduced previously unvoiced perspectives into the public dialogue that could, in the long run, result in change. In any case, he is unfazed. “For Tim, failure is irrelevant,” says Paul Maeder. “His personality... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna