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- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
customers about their needs and collect relevant market data. But when markets do not yet exist, neither do customers. The process must be an interactive one wherein innovators... View Details
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
anymore. Tell a marketer that she ought to have a MySpace strategy and she'll look at you like you have a third eye. But Piskorski points out that MySpace has 70 million U.S. users who log on every month, only somewhat fewer than... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
who are focused on their existing and most profitable markets and don't see the threat coming from below. Exhibit A: The death of Digital Equipment Corp., which, along with a string of other minicomputer firms, was taken down by the PC... View Details
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
efficiency, and being close to the technology is efficient." Further, William Halveson pointed out that "CRADA agreements can limit how fast the high level discoveries escape." Abbey Mutumba, on the other hand, said that "Most View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
soar. While all this is happening, Facebook's marketing influence will accelerate dramatically, providing a growing revenue stream for the company. When Facebook first started it was no more than a mechanism to attract eyeballs for... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
The widespread use of pricing algorithms is reshaping the nature of competition in online markets and potentially driving up the prices of retail goods, according to recent research. These automated, price-adjusting software programs may... View Details
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
paperbacks, Penguin was able to lower the cost of good books—both reprints of classics and later new works by contemporary authors—and make them available to a wide audience. "Penguin's innovation was a delivery innovation" that... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
and disks, and then to producers of chip-manufacturing technology, as each area in turn became the focus for innovation to improve performance. Old-school wisdom suggested that market leaders should "stick... View Details
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
the content industry. Advertisers, for their part, continue to feel comfortable placing ads on TV, gauging that their dollars will not be wasted. Emerging markets further propel the growth potential for View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
famous." After graduation, Huber didn't expect their career paths to cross again. But several years later, Christensen would realize that the OnStar story was a great example of navigating innovation within a large company. A... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ready, Set, Launch
critical feedback about the features they do want—and reduces the possibility that the startup will waste time developing features no one wants. Based on this feedback, a startup can then decide to adjust or abandon a concept or, if it’s striking a chord with... View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
moment that launches a powerful idea or brilliant product. Managers can use these insights to form teams that create better ideas. “Much of innovation is premised on the idea that you should talk to other people to generate ideas,” says... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
explored how great companies often lose their ability to innovate and eventually fail at the hands of much smaller, "disruptive" competitors. "Basically any stock you wish you have owned started out as a disruptive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
corporations as the main sources of innovation in our economy. Innovation proceeds differently in business ecosystems than in pre-industrial markets or ring-fenced... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Microsoft’s Ballmer Makes His Pitch
BALLMER: Microsoft plans to remain on the cutting edge of digital media technology. If you think that the last decade produced a torrent of consumer high-tech innovation — notably personal computers, broadband Internet access, cell... View Details
- Student-Profile
Mengjie "Magie" Cheng
behaviors in greater detail, she started to investigate the possibility of a Ph.D. “My interests were quite broad when I applied, but centered around technological innovation and new product diffusion,” Magie explained. She was interested... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Tapping into more effective water technologies
Laura Shenkar (MBA 1992) is helping companies and governments apply the most important innovations in water. "Providing solutions to tackle water scarcity is one of the greatest business opportunities of our time," says Shenkar, founder... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
corporations face when rewarding innovators within their labs. For instance, when Lilly Ventures was hit by its initial wave of defections, it benchmarked its compensation levels against those of independent firms. The conclusion was that... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control
products sold and marketed by LEGO. In addition to reducing innovation costs, this often leads to an increase in authentic, word-of-mouth advertising as users promote designs that they created or designs... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World
always outpace static compliance requirements, so trying to meet them amounts to a misallocation of resources, often costly and with little promise of better security. The ever-increasing data gathered by Internet giants such as Google and Facebook spur View Details