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- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
want to sell you one week of insurance for one product. They have thousands of employees, big budgets, and huge infrastructures, so that they can offer more or all of the activities in the customer value chain. Kost: Incumbents that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Dick Franyo: From Banker to Barkeeper
something that fit my personality and lifestyle,” explains the affable Franyo, who is now the proud proprietor of the Boatyard Bar & Grill, located in the Eastport section of Annapolis, Maryland. Prior to retiring in March 2002, Franyo... View Details
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
tenure as Chairman of North America at the French luxury goods conglomerate, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. According to Brown, it’s important for senior executives to possess a combination of what she calls “aesthetic intelligence” and “aesthetic empathy”—good... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
universities, where it was freely available; they are able to build on knowledge they already possess. And, two, programmers welcome the opportunity, made possible by open source, to customize and de-bug projects, either for personal use... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
environment to drive innovation." Out of that commitment came SK-II, a skin care product that sells for about $120 a bottle and has moved them into a whole new range. Now this prestige line is being rolled out globally. So the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
years. Similarly, Digital Equipment Corporation couldn't match the flexibility of the personal computer assemblers' processes, Sears couldn't match the inventory turns and low prices of the discount retailers, and so on. It is important... View Details
- 01 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People
anything in your research surprise you? A: The findings are not so much surprising as illuminating. We expected a relationship between luxury and self-interests. However, self-interested behaviors are often conflated with those that do harm to others (e.g., View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
personalized selling (cosmetics, for example), online shops have a hard time creating a satisfying experience. Hence stores have much to offer in these product categories. What strategies can retailers... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
founded by billionaire Branson, wants to sell short, suborbital flights, in which passengers get a taste of zero gravity and see the Earth’s curvature. Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo commercial vehicle made its inaugural trip into space... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
white men. When Ballard was a boy growing up in southeastern North Carolina, his father started a pulpwood logging company. “People would pay him to clear commercial and residential property, and he would take the lumber and sell it to... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
top executive. Because of the COVID-19 outbreak, we are all taking in vast amounts of new information every day and adjusting to an entirely new set of behavioral habits. In addition, most of us are dealing with unprecedented tasks and decisions on the job and in our... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
opted for only minimal control in order to create larger personal networks. Further, there was little governmental regulation of social networking companies protecting those users. In the past two weeks, Facebook’s world had changed with... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
a series of significant acquisitions, purchasing a small cable television station. During the next few decades, Landmark's TeleCable division bought dozens of cable stations around the country before selling them to Tele-Communications... View Details
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
risk, Raman explains, has been through inventory. But "for numerous reasons, inventory became very expensive." Shorter product life cycles contribute to higher expenses, for example, in the personal computer market, where the... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 27 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Working to Change the Food System
harder to reconcile how my personal and professional experiences were contributing to this existential crisis. After much reflection, I decided that I wanted to apply cutting-edge technology to solve challenges in food (and seafood),... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
exceeding. But the price for his little white lie was extremely high: The company based its demand planning on his sales forecast and consequently ran out of its core product in one of its largest markets at the height of the holiday View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
that focuses on selling lower-priced models through large sporting-goods retailers. The manager's strategy has yielded disappointing financial results so far, and he and company executives disagree on the cause and next steps. The Yushan... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
cautionary tale of what can happen when companies go too far. Acer entered early into the contract manufacturing of personal computers, operating in low-wage Taiwan, and made good money with that arbitrage play. But in the early 1990s, it... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
David Chang. “Athletic’s play was to say, ‘You should be proud to be drinking this because you’re not compromising your personal or athletic performance.’ That was really different for the category,” Wilson observes. Athletic went from... View Details