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- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
Lazonick's theoretical approach to global competition. Lazonick stresses that an innovative enterprise (as differentiated from an optimizing one) becomes successful not just by trying its productive... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
are significantly different to the inter-industry vertical FDI visible at the two-digit level. These subsidiaries are not readily explained by the comparative advantage considerations in traditional models, where firms locate their low skill View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
Competition Between Differentiated Products with Demand for More Than One Variety Author: Andrei Hagiu Abstract We analyze the existence of pure strategy symmetric price equilibria in a generalized version... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
options. They can invest in new as well as shelved technologies and product designs that are particularly effective in mitigating risk and improving safety—even when they are initially inferior in terms of costs, user-friendliness, or... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 05 Jun 2009
- What Do You Think?
What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
differential between past and projected growth rates. One can argue that each transaction may have produced top line growth for individual companies and tax revenues for the government, but did it create as much value for the individual... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
have an edge in their markets. These firms are “more innovative—stronger at anticipating shifts in consumer needs and consumption patterns that make new products and services possible, potentially generating a competitive edge.” Of equal... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
uncertainty, and the development of specialized expertise, while the benefits of greater breadth are linked to the economies of scope achieved by sharing common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
that 80 percent of executives around the world rated employee experience (including trust) important or very important. Employee experience drives engagement. And yet in the Deloitte study, only 22 percent of executives felt that their companies were excellent at... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Web
Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
pricing strategies Benchmark costs compared to competitors through relative cost analysis Apply conjoint analysis to understand what features customers value most Understand the power of network effects to drive demand Identify sources of competitive advantage through... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
the ad and be taken to a Web site where she can learn more about the product and purchase it. The entire process—from ad to purchase—might take less than five minutes. In addition to streamlining the flow of information and transactions,... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
groups: (1) a treatment group that receives all DrumNet services, (2) a treatment group that receives all DrumNet services except credit, or (3) a control group. After one year, DrumNet services led to an increase in production of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
purely symbolic effects can materialize when former employers are highly prominent because these hires increase the hiring organization's market visibility. Leveraging an idiosyncratic feature of wine markets (i.e., the variable time lag between a wine's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
has the potential to transform knowledge workers' roles, processes, and practices. To understand AI's potential, we must differentiate between its applications as externally facing—enhancing product... View Details
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
performance, in whatever way one chooses to define performance (for example, quality of life, or value creation for all entities), and provides access to that causal link. Integrity is thus a factor of production as important as knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
differentiate products in the marketplace," says Peter Rawlinson, director of product management for contract-management software company I-many in Edison, N.J. Increased... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
people when a part or system is about to fail. Often, only the senior management team's imagination limits new IT-based opportunities. Our research suggests the following: New technologies will continue to give companies the chance to View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
Zeal as they consider their product development strategy. In February 2013, serial entrepreneurs John Danner and Sanjay Noronha cofounded Zeal, an education technology start-up providing a web-based, mobile learning platform that helps... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008
product design, production, distribution, and system integration may be split up among hundreds or even thousands of firms. Different firms will design and produce the different components of a complex artifact (like the processor,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
National Markets - The Art of American Advertising
there was little need to advertise or to differentiate one product from another. Face-to-face selling remained one of the predominant forms of marketing as it had been for centuries. A dramatic shift in the... View Details
- 05 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Is JC Penney’s Makeover the Future of Retailing?
"00," instead of 99 cents, and exclude the suggested retail price of a product on the tag in favor of just one marked-down price. "I think that on the consumer side this has simplified pricing, which makes a lot of sense," Lal says. “All... View Details