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- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
securities to retail investors. We focus on a large market of investment products targeted exclusively at households: retail-structured products in Europe. We hypothesize that banks strategically use product complexity to cater to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
professionals can make and investments that only the firm can make, while at the same time minimizing distortions in decisions that either party could make (e.g., promotion and marketing of professionals'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
new. There are simply many more users than companies. They are more likely to come up with innovations, and there are more of them to come up with something people will pay for. If you did a comparison of time spent in formal R&D and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
Founded in 1997 to revolutionize the mundane printing business with new display technology, the company had its eye on multibillion-dollar markets like electronic newspapers. But to realize that vision, its scientists had to get into... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
student to chief executive officer also makes it difficult for device makers to segment the market as cleanly as, say, PC companies are able to do, DelBene said. "Companies are spending a lot of time... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
Product Market Competition Lead Firms to Decentralize? Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 100, no. 2 (May 2010) Abstract There is a widespread sense... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business
Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit. One lesson is clear: Businesses that provide higher-quality service and maintain a solid reputation can become more insulated from market shocks, such as increases in fixed costs. The... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
can be used to evaluate the implications of marketing actions, consumer heterogeneity, competition, successive technology generations, and globalization. The exposition is filled with vivid examples from a wide array of domains (video... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
large private firms in the services sector. Rates of return also have remained stable over time and show low dispersion across sectors and across ownership groups within sectors. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
focusing on disruptive technologies, offers his analysis of the Twitter IPO phenomenon. In our second-year MBA elective Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (a course developed by my colleague Clay Christensen), one of the concepts we study is new View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has channeled money to innovative ideas... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything
Cyberspace is indeed a brave new world, but it's not the only new world. There have been other moments in time that undoubtedly felt very much like the present era, other moments when technology raced faster than governments and called... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 01 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?'
and 1994, within the Australian Football League and its precursor, the Victorian Football League. (See Matching and Mobility in the Market for Australian Rules Football Coaches by Jeff Borland and Jenny Lye, Industrial and Labor Relations... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
owe their life's blood to PARC—Adobe, SynOptics, VLSI, and 3Com, for example—together recorded a market value last year five or six times greater than that of mother Xerox. "By focusing too narrowly on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
undergird democracy There are several things businesses can do to strengthen democracy. Here are four of them. Encourage voter participation by providing employees with paid time off to vote, thereby addressing the barrier created by... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
back to the time of Confucius," says Paine, "the primacy of personal relationships and interpersonal reciprocity has been paramount in China. This poses a problem for those who want to use strictly View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
Debora points out, it is certainly important for firms to take the time to understand all of the issues involved. In doing so, it may be useful for firms to develop an ongoing dialogue with the NGO (or NGOs) and take a proactive approach... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
"dilution" resulting from the introduction of an online MBA by a highly regarded onsite program, Joshua Doherty questioned the futures of top-tier schools that may lose their ability "to exploit the market power of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
foreign market share therefore increased five-fold between 1997 and 2007. We construct and analyze a panel of Mexican bank financial data covering this period and find no evidence that foreign entry increases the availability of credit.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
differences between drivers,” explains Oberholzer-Gee. “For the top 10 percent of DoorDash drivers Laura and I studied, losing flexibility is equivalent to a 17 percent pay cut. For the average driver, it is about a third of that value.” If assigned to deliver meals... View Details