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- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
of others. Modes of organizing and conveying knowledge themselves have become worthy subjects for query. The history of “disciplines, genres, paradigms, and other forms of representation” joins the study of social, cultural, political, and economic phenomena. Drawing... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 2012
- Chapter
Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM
By: Timothy F. Bresnahan, Shane Greenstein and Rebecca M. Henderson
We address a longstanding question about the causes of creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Opportunities; Competition; Information Technology; Innovation and Management; Organizations; Relationships; Information Technology Industry
Bresnahan, Timothy F., Shane Greenstein, and Rebecca M. Henderson. "Schumpeterian Competition and Diseconomies of Scope: Illustrations from the Histories of Microsoft and IBM." In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
$100 million to $300 million revenue stream within five years. This means that the market potential has to be at least $500 million—or more, eventually—and that the company needs to achieve at least a 25 percent market share. The second... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
- 10 Feb 2020
- In Practice
6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy
testing, and agile strategies. 6. Cloud computing is lowering barriers to entry “Competition will intensify in many digitally enabled industries as the cloud makes it ever easier for competitors to enter a market, which we’ve seen with Disney and HBO View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
amounts of change around the time of major technological change, such as the rise of the Internet. The second stream of research seeks to extend our work into non-software industries, to understand how the dynamics might differ. For... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
much as $2,900 during the average four-day case—can be an alluring way for an adviser to supplement their income. On an hourly basis, arbitrators make at least $75 an hour, almost twice as much as advisers’ $40 median hourly pay, according to Egan’s research. The... View Details
- 2016
- Book
Strategy Beyond Markets
By: John de Figueiredo, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Rick Vanden Bergh
Strategy beyond markets has been an active area of research inquiry since the early 1990s. Since its inception, the scholarship emanating from this research stream has grown substantially in quantity, quality, and breadth. Likewise, firms across the world have... View Details
Keywords: Strategy
Figueiredo, John de, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Rick Vanden Bergh, eds. Strategy Beyond Markets. Vol. 34, Advances in Strategic Management. Emerald Group Publishing, 2016.
- 08 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?
potential effects on their interdependent revenue streams before putting up a paywall. “If you’re a media firm thinking about pursuing a digital paywall sales strategy,” cautions Chung, “you have to make sure you have the reputation and... View Details
- 09 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?
researching the Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany. In an interconnected corporate world, he says, the pipeline project illustrates how inseparable politics and business are, especially at the edges of old Cold... View Details
- 22 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries
the more familiar lean technique of value stream mapping (VSM) to identify and decrease wasted time and effort throughout the software development process. Improving From The Bottom Up While most organizations struggle with implementing a... View Details
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
and pursued my own stream of research in this field, starting with my PhD thesis. Q: What are multi-sided platforms and how do they differ from other types of markets? A: Two- and multi-sided markets are markets in which firms need to get... View Details
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
Sooner or later, every company runs into challenges that force them to make tough trade-offs during the innovation process. Harvard Business School associate professor Rory McDonald calls these moments “tensions.” The streaming service... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 2022
- Article
Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO
By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson
Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with
leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a
knowledge work context for the purpose... View Details
Kristensen, Thomas Borup, Henrik Saabye, and Amy Edmondson. "Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO." International Journal of Operations & Production Management 42, no. 13 (2022): 438–481.
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
streams that track performance feedback and organizational culture; and analyses of digital trace data to map and shape organizational networks. “As managers and employees work through these challenges and tradeoffs, the potential gains... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising
environment provides a very cost-effective way to send a piece of direct mail, to post a billboard to a targeted audience, to provide magazine-style ads with editorial content for specific readers, and—more and more—to stream video and... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 04 Jun 2001
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of the Subscription Model?
Original Article The subscription model has served as a wonderful revenue generator through the years for many companies in the media and communications industries. Organizations have built hard-to-beat revenue streams around it, enabling... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
opportunity to explore, and examine, and observe the range of storytelling devices and storytelling features that brands use in this one moment and in this one platform.” Kenny: How has streaming affected the advertising industry? We've... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do Leaders Manage the Tension Between Pride and Arrogance?
standing behind them (to) look behind you and remember that you are also just a human being.” Dolembo said it another way: “If managers listen and they are rewarded for it, then arrogance is hard to develop. CEO arrogance is too common. It’s easy to close off the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?
million, which Chung points out rivals some professional teams. In fact, the National Basketball Association’s Portland Trail Blazers had $153 million in revenue in 2015 according to a Forbes ranking of NBA teams. One limitation in the available data was how those... View Details