Market Timing - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

grasping the revolutionary potential of the new digital medium. As a result, corporations have failed to adapt to the true nature of their markets in the twenty-first century. Organizational change programs, visionary leadership, or... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Dec 2015
First Look

December 8, 2015

quality and efficiency. The introduction of this transparency contributed to a 22.2% increase in customer-reported quality and reduced throughput times by 19.2%. Laboratory studies revealed that customers who observed process transparency... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

For the most part, this requires management to look closely at the roles of various parts of the business and alter the way employees interact. Increasing the pace of business innovation almost always requires reallocating decision rights and, more critically, power.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

27 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 27

raises aggregate productivity through two channels: (1) trust facilitates reallocation between firms by allowing more efficient firms to grow as CEOs can decentralize more decisions and (2) trust complements the adoption of new technologies, thereby increasing... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

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

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

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

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

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

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology

30 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Deal

It's best to be nice when negotiating a business deal, but it's also OK to be aggressive in pursuing your interests—as long as you back up your position with facts. "If you're a seller and your price seems high, but it's justified in some way, with View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

said, it's time for a new kind of standards to emerge: standards not just for how computers communicate, but for how business processes work. Even an advanced technical protocol like XML, said Upton, "with all its cleverness, doesn't... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

sequencing and a sustained effort, you don't make progress. Our single-issue focus lately works against us. There's also a tremendous mismatch between the time horizons of politics and of competitiveness. Most things that matter for... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

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

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

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

promotional spending (including that directed toward physicians) as a percentage of pharmaceutical sales remains relatively constant over time and thus the growth of DTCA represents a shift in the mix of promotional spending by... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

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

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

distracted, overburdened workers on track and maintains nimbleness during a time of rapid change. Frequent check-ins are useful for everything from employee mental wellness to market research. "Good managers... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

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