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- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
two primary competitors, Checkpoint and Sensormatic, went at each other mercilessly, unbridled competition can be destructive. Sensible business managers focus primarily on their own success, not on creating failure for their competitors.... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
technology and develop a framework for understanding how software-driven medical devices differ from traditional medical devices. We identify opportunities and challenges for regulators and innovators in three main areas: (1) software development processes, (2) View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.27.4.65 Working Papers Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We decompose capital flows-both debt and equity-into public and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
and Lehman's failure would require skills, knowledge of financial services, and connections within the industry. ProPublica had been created only a year earlier as an independent, non-profit newsroom focused on investigative journalism.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
innovation and entrepreneurship. When dealing with something truly innovative, it’s difficult to compare it to anything that came before. That uncertainty makes the line between a tremendous success and a phenomenal flop a thin one. Predicting startup success or View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
improvements in outcomes such as productivity and longevity, and that good nuts-and-bolts management at individual firms shapes national performance. At 14 textile manufacturers in India, for example, an intervention-involving free,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Airmail service starts Influence: High 30 1930 s 19 The New Deal Commercial and investment banking separated Reconstruction Finance Corp. created to combat bank and business failures Introduction of Federal Deposit Insurance SEC... View Details
- 16 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 16
Michael Norton Publication:Journal of Consumer Research (forthcoming) Abstract We show that people non-normatively infer event causes from event consequences. For example, people inferred that a product View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
election years. These results describe how failures in electoral accountability can lead to suboptimal policy outcomes. Read the paper: http://www.cgdev.org/doc/events/MADS/Shawn_Cole.pdf Earnings and Ratings at Google Answers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
together at every level—from the core central concepts of the strategy to the minute details of execution. New World, New Roles When companies generally made their money in a large number of mid-sized accounts, marketing was typically seen as the strategic function... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
our emotional reactions to risk (playing the lottery even when we know better, for example), and we succumb to pressures to follow the group. As decision-makers, we are products of our environment to a greater degree than we realize. We... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Do You Have Change Fatigue?
efforts fail for two main reasons, says Garvin: Poor design. These include the failure to address the underlying processes used to get the work done (for example, the performance management system, or the way resources are allocated),... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
research, you identified 209 platform failures between 1995 and 2015 and about 45 successful firms for the same period. What are drivers of success? Yoffie: The most important driver of success is network effects. Network effects create... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
people start believing they will always go down. Success breeds success, and failure or loss breeds loss. The article argues for a broader explanation of behavior beyond economic instrumentality. It is time to turn again to psychology,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Summer 2018 RAND Journal of Economics Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Aug 2006
- Op-Ed
The Real Wal-Mart Effect
at all stores.) But questioning whether Wal-Mart's overall economic impact has been positive or negative reflects a failure to engage properly with the data. More For Everyone First, there is hard evidence that Wal-Mart has grown the... View Details
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
preferences are homogeneous, newspapers are more likely to engage in cost-cutting. Both responses are more pronounced for newspaper firms whose sister firms have already experienced Craigslist’s entry. We also find that failure to design... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
Technologies that Will Change the World Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Avoiding Startup Failure DJ DiDonna Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 B2B Sales and Distribution (also listed under Marketing) Lou Shipley Spring 2026 Q3 1.5 Business at the... View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
chance to thrive. Drawing on more than a decade of researching smashing successes and painful failures alike, Wasserman walks readers through the dilemmas that plague and challenge most new entrepreneurs, starting with pre-founding career... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details