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- 14 May 2018
- Blog Post
Women Making a Comeback: Diane Flynn Reboots Promising Careers
these women current, connected, and confident to return to work or pursue new dreams." In business now for a little over three years, ReBoot Accel has shifted its dominant business model from individually-paid tuitions to corporate... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
"Listen carefully to what your customers want and then respond with new products that meet or exceed their needs." That mantra has dominated many a business, and it has undoubtedly led to great products and has even shaped... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
proposal involved changing a basic design feature of LinkedIn by allowing members to contact each other without intermediaries for a fee. Fewer members would avail themselves of this feature, but those who did would be willing to pay as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
that insights into these questions can also help entrepreneurial firms understand where opportunity lies and how they can exploit it. Q: Is it fair to say that companies are cognizant of their own technology strengths and push the View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
company's sources of advantage over time. The analysis suggests that the effectiveness of a particular business model depends not only on its design (its levers and how they relate to one another) but also, most importantly, on its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
conditions under which a dominant design may be achieved, the underlying architecture of the era of incremental change and the dynamics associated with discontinuities. Testing a Purportedly More Learnable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
US policymakers and companies competing in a global marketplace is this: the trend toward outsourcing has gone beyond simple assembly-line work. Heading Upstream As low-paying production jobs have disappeared from the United States, so too have more sophisticated,... View Details
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
in a multi-platform bundle. Dominant firms otherwise sheltered from entry by standalone rivals can be vulnerable to an adjacent platform provider's envelopment attack. We develop a taxonomy of envelopment attacks and analyze conditions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
economy. “A platform owner may imitate them and enter their markets by offering similar products,” Zhu explained. “Before you build your business model around platforms, you need to think about how to minimize the risk from these platforms” History has documented many... View Details
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
international competition as well as technological innovation. Now consider these facts: In the US, there are 10 non-governmental jobs in the service sector for every manufacturing job. The ratio is roughly comparable in Western Europe and is even 3 to 1 in a country... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
response, Beijing Hualian developed a new "Family Store" format targeted at the nation's growing middle class, made up of younger consumers with more fashionable tastes. Like hypermarkets, Hualian Family Stores include both food and nonfood lines, but differ... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Gardner Abstract Hierarchies are pervasive in groups, generally providing clear guidelines for the dominance and deference behaviors that members are expected to show based on their relative ranks. But what happens when team members... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
and professional activities of academic biomedical scientists. In qualitative and quantitative analyses, we show that scientists match to their postdoctoral mentors based on two dominant factors, geography and scientific focus. They then... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Faculty Research Symposium
that offer them. Hall's research is focused on the optimal design and incentive effects of compensation plans built around equity-based pay and especially stock options, the instruments most responsible for the huge numbers associated... View Details
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
board's ability to do much about it were summed up in Erich Almasy's comment that what happened "is more a function of Bill Gates' dominant personality than the Board's immaturity. When I look at GE's Board I see ... a kind of Super... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
its effect was quantitatively dominated by inequality-raising effects of population growth. The land distribution program lowered landlessness, but this was partly offset by targeting failures and induced increases in immigration.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
television advertising influences online shopping. We construct a massive dataset spanning $3.4 billion in spending by 20 brands, including measures of brands' website traffic and transactions as well as ad content measures for 1,224 commercials. We use a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tips to Reinvent the Department Store
mergers are likely to put more pressure on vendors. "You'll see, ultimately, a shakeout in consolidation on the vendors' side," he said. "I think it will complicate life on the vendors' side," Barnett said of the mergers. "The vendors are now... View Details
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation projects. We analyze the design costs and architectures and communication costs associated with each model. We conclude that innovation by individual users and also open collaborative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
(or maybe the Big 2, after Chrysler’s merger with Daimler) continue to dominate the U.S. market, they are beset by falling sales, staggering financial obligations, and the relentless pressure of globalization and foreign competition. GM,... View Details