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- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
are two mechanisms by which this can happen: engaging the periphery may either change the information set of the core or help align incentives of multiple core actors. Engaging the periphery might be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
from the core business who has demonstrated a record of success? An outsider who has started and grown a successful company? The school-of-experience view suggests that both of these managers might be risky hires. The internal candidate... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
consists of (1) two firms competing in a vertically differentiated market in which product quality is a mix of public and private components and (2) a market for developers that firms hire after observing signals of their contributions to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
A: In two of the companies, there were no expats among top management and a great deal of sophistication about the best and latest in everything. In one of those, its development lab competes effectively on a world basis with similar... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
In their new book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business, coauthors Frances Frei and Anne Morriss maintain that it is possible for organizations to reduce costs while dramatically enhancing... View Details
- 07 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark
management; in global research and scholarship; and in its commitment to values and leadership as core elements of its curriculum and mission. Clark also oversaw a significant expansion of the faculty, an extensive refurbishing of the... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
and later New York. The result was a homogenization of beauty ideals throughout the world. Today globalization is changing the beauty industry again; its impact can be seen in a range of competing strategies. Global brands have swept into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
definition, competency-based strategies are dependent on people: Scarce knowledge and expertise drive new-product development, and personal relationships with key clients are at the core of flexible market responsiveness. In short, people... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of economic fortune tellers, men such as Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C. J. Bullock, and Warren Persons.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate goods sector, entrepreneurs must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
states, thereby helping increase the incomes of 80–100 million farmer families across the country. However, despite its success, Amul is beginning to come under increasing pressure. Multinationals like Nestlé and Unilever are increasing their presence in India and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
Summing Up When Does Friction Trump Scale in the Corporate Life Cycle? This month's column raised the issue of size limits on an organization's ability to compete In today's global economy. The specific case in point was Walmart and... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
choices to optimally guide the other choices." This definition captures the idea of strategy as the core of an intended course of action that is potentially flexible and adaptive. It coincides with the equilibrium outcome of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
high levels of employee compensation can deter employee theft, an increasingly common type of fraudulent behavior. Specifically, we examine the extent to which relative wages (i.e., employee wages relative to the wages paid to comparable employees in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
for organizational theory. The Value of Openness in Scientific Problem Solving Authors:Karim R. Lakhani, Lars Bo Jeppesen, Peter A. Lohse, and Jill A. Panetta Abstract Openness and free information sharing amongst scientists are supposed to be View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
late architect Cedric Price, who bottom-lined thousands of years of urban history into a breakfast order. The ancient city was a hard-boiled egg, surrounded and protected by a wall. Next came the fried egg, representing the city of the 18th and 19th centuries; with no... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
Publications October 2014 Management Science Looking Across and Looking Beyond the Knowledge Frontier: Intellectual Distance and Resource Allocation in Science By: Boudreau, Kevin J., Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani, and Christoph Riedl Abstract—Selecting among alternative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
disruptive innovation has gained considerable currency among practitioners despite widespread misunderstanding of its core principles. Similarly, foundational research on disruption has elicited frequent citation and vibrant debate in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
for Walmart or migrates to higher-end retailers like Whole Foods. Supermarkets have already reduced costs dramatically in order to compete with much more efficient competitors, and they can no longer generate price savings by cutting... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
from a small Nigerian export company into a $5 billion global leader in agricultural commodities with a core competence in Africa. Olam's growth had come by pursuing product and geographic adjacencies, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace