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Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920
Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details
Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
when a better price can be found online. The change in shopping habits will only speed up as the younger generation becomes a dominant force in retail shopping. These consumers are increasingly comfortable buying online in categories that... View Details
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
the speed of the gang is the speed of the boss. No faster. Q: Most of the titans of industry you have studied in the past are deceased. Andy Grove is very much alive. As an historian, what were some of the... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
will deliver risk management; a lean, effective supply chain; cost and value improvement; speed to market; and innovation," says ADR's Michels. "It is the lack of a strategic source plan that can result in a conflict of cost... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 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 the opportunities to scale at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
Speed Trap, was poised for publication as I came up for promotion that year at Harvard Business School. However, in a reversal of the familiar prescription for scholars, my mentors told me, “If you publish, you might perish.” They were... View Details
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
The same DVD would take approximately twenty-five hours to download via a standard DSL/cable line (and 170 hours—or more than seven days—via a 56K modem). Genomics and pharmaceuticals are other research arenas that should benefit from the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Trust
"The Speed of New Ideas: Trust, Institutions and the Diffusion of New Products." [PDF] The basic question at hand: Would TrapGuard encounter significant barriers to entry from plumbers who enjoyed trusting relationships with... View Details
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
developing on,” Wu says. Benefitting from complex contagion Hackathons permit what social scientists call complex contagion, in which exposure to a phenomenon from multiple sources helps speed adoption. Past research that looked at this... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
feeds the average sports junkie's need for speed and excitement. "I don't know if you know it, but a Tesla is almost as quick from 0 to 60 as a Ferrari," Higgins says. "The way electricity transfers power is quite... View Details
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
Summing Up What's the Future of the Authority Figure In Leadership? Leadership involves the effective management of tensions characteristic of all organizations. Are such tensions exacerbated by today's need for increasing speed and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
with the “seventh sense” that Ramo talks about understand how networks change and speed up everything they connect. Seventh sensers don’t just see unused autos and drivers with some extra time on their hands. They envision what happens... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Homeland Security: A Ready-made Market
have," said Mark Cleverley, a senior solutions executive at IBM. "The CIA can talk to the INS," agreed Mark Hogan, vice president and general manager at BEA Government Systems, "but there are policy issues that affect the View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
the European Financial Stability Fund, have been remarkable. Nevertheless, the markets have discounted every announcement and have continued to operate in a state of quasi-panic, as they move at a different speed than the political... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 09 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands
in three ways. First, the early adopters who valued the club-like atmosphere of relaxing over a quality cup of coffee found themselves in a minority. To grow, Starbucks increasingly appealed to grab and go customers for whom service meant View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
officials took steps to speed vaccine development last year, the United States and other countries could have paid to build manufacturing infrastructure and shore up the supply chain needed to produce vaccines at higher capacity. That... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
gets you through such times. 4. Design your culture primarily around the needs of Gen X and Gen Y employees. "E-leadership demands heroic behavior," writes Nextera consultant Susan Annunzio in eLeadership: Proven Techniques for Creating an Environment of... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
Blockbusters break sales records and exceed expectations. Around 100 pharmaceutical brands exceed $1 billion in annual sales. Procter & Gamble has 23 such brands. Speed. It's not just the sales volume; it's the speed of the sales... View Details
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
boards have improved in recent years, the speed at which they were improving lagged behind the speed at which solutions should have been implemented." -Rakesh Khurana That culture, critics maintain,... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
development? A: There are over 3 billion Internet users today (up from 300 million just 15 years ago). Less than ten percent of them are from the United States. That is to say yes, internationalization is very, very important. Q: The View Details