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  • 23 Aug 2006
  • Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

at all stores.) But questioning whether Wal-Mart's overall economic impact has been positive or negative reflects a failure to engage properly with the data. More For Everyone First, there is hard evidence that Wal-Mart has grown the... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail
  • 24 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 24

nationwide backlash against it. Talbot needs to consider whether to continue with the brand name or change it in light of the public outcry. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/512020-PDF-ENG Social Failures and Social Solutions:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

technology and develop a framework for understanding how software-driven medical devices differ from traditional medical devices. We identify opportunities and challenges for regulators and innovators in three main areas: (1) software development processes, (2) View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker

two primary competitors, Checkpoint and Sensormatic, went at each other mercilessly, unbridled competition can be destructive. Sensible business managers focus primarily on their own success, not on creating failure for their competitors.... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
  • 17 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 17

and Lehman's failure would require skills, knowledge of financial services, and connections within the industry. ProPublica had been created only a year earlier as an independent, non-profit newsroom focused on investigative journalism.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 16

Michael Norton Publication:Journal of Consumer Research (forthcoming) Abstract We show that people non-normatively infer event causes from event consequences. For example, people inferred that a product View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 31

election years. These results describe how failures in electoral accountability can lead to suboptimal policy outcomes. Read the paper: http://www.cgdev.org/doc/events/MADS/Shawn_Cole.pdf Earnings and Ratings at Google Answers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2010
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

our emotional reactions to risk (playing the lottery even when we know better, for example), and we succumb to pressures to follow the group. As decision-makers, we are products of our environment to a greater degree than we realize. We... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 13 Apr 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis

product development terms, you might call this something like "jumping to the next S-curve." By the "S-curve" we mean the pattern that new innovations typically follow when they are introduced. At first a few people,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
  • 10 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

efforts fail for two main reasons, says Garvin: Poor design. These include the failure to address the underlying processes used to get the work done (for example, the performance management system, or the way resources are allocated),... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
  • 27 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

together at every level—from the core central concepts of the strategy to the minute details of execution. New World, New Roles When companies generally made their money in a large number of mid-sized accounts, marketing was typically seen as the strategic function... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
  • 22 Jul 2019
  • Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

research, you identified 209 platform failures between 1995 and 2015 and about 45 successful firms for the same period. What are drivers of success? Yoffie: The most important driver of success is network effects. Network effects create... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

people start believing they will always go down. Success breeds success, and failure or loss breeds loss. The article argues for a broader explanation of behavior beyond economic instrumentality. It is time to turn again to psychology,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

time. Publisher's link: http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book235126 Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis Authors:Alan MacCormack, John Rusnak, and Carliss Y. Baldwin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

competition results in a lower quantity and lower welfare than a monopoly. We consider two applications of the model. First, we consider multi-homing. We find that multi-homing solves the market failure resulting from asymmetric... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

Summer 2018 RAND Journal of Economics Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research, February 28

preferences are homogeneous, newspapers are more likely to engage in cost-cutting. Both responses are more pronounced for newspaper firms whose sister firms have already experienced Craigslist’s entry. We also find that failure to design... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

and new data sources. The case then delves extensively into the analysis of the "Toronto" failure and why the answer that Watson produced was a rational product of a sound strategy. This leaves... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

  PublicationsiPhones for Friends, Refrigerators for Family: How Products Prime Social Networks Authors:Lalin Anik and Michael I. Norton Publication:Social Influence (forthcoming). Abstract We show that priming consumers with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

chance to thrive. Drawing on more than a decade of researching smashing successes and painful failures alike, Wasserman walks readers through the dilemmas that plague and challenge most new entrepreneurs, starting with pre-founding career... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman

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