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- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
Content Commercialization: Evidence from Blogs, published last year in Management Science, Zhu and coauthor Sun, of Boston University, bring an empirical approach to a question that has had many anecdotal responses but no firm results: How does the monetary promise of... View Details
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
Prominent among them were Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins, Cornell, and MIT. Together, they have evolved to share common institutional traits, a sort of university DNA. Much as the identity of a living organism is reflected in its every... View Details
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
Past attempts to woo PC users have been unsuccessful, and Apple's share of the PC market has steadily eroded. Saddled with this baggage, the company stealth positioned the Mini as anything but what it fundamentally is: a competitively... View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
responses and shared gain and pain on the other? Is the British model best for the U.S.? Does Mexico offer a better response? Or is there some other preferred alternative? And why is it that a concept—life-long security—that should bring... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
What do a health food manufacturer, an infectious-diseases specialist and a content-management expert have in common? Answer: All are women, all are entrepreneurs. And by virtue of being women and entrepreneurs they share one... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
of old firms, and the creation of new and appealing jobs. "The larger and more liquid an equity market is," Seifert emphasized, "measured in terms of its turnover ratio [that is, the average number of times a share changes... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 09 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal
much larger piece of the company that he appears to be leading toward ruin. It's true that the value of John's existing holding of options and shares will vary considerably with changes in stock price. But the annual grants themselves are... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Hall
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
as nemawashi or ringi, which institutionalized information sharing and joint decision making. These influences bound managers and corporations together into a very culturally dependent system, which many companies found an impediment as... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
by establishing cultural bonds and demonstrating shared values. It also serves to stimulate interaction among clients with a shared interest in arts, and creates opportunities for communication in informal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
culturally heterogeneous network increases the likelihood of receiving culture-related novel ideas from others in the network whether or not they share one's culture of origin. This finding sheds light on the mechanisms that underlie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
are meaningful consequences associated with it. The head of strategy for one consulting firm suggested: "Rather than thinking about it as a 'deliverable' we think about joint problem solving." In other words, sharing accountability for... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
characteristic. A reluctance to discriminate emerges if workers share the gender or birth month of the worker from the worse-performing group, but even then, a small "excuse" counters this reluctance. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
IT systems that handle a good chunk of the work, Quelch says. Yet consumer trust when it comes to data privacy is not always a given, and consumers want to have a say. Some people fear that information about a serious disease diagnosis or a visit with a mental health... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
habits as well, such as a growing preference for sharing items rather than owning them, and encouraging "showrooming" where shoppers visit stores only to test products—then buy them more cheaply online. The user benefits from lower cost,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
country's lead in innovation. “R&D is a critical part of the innovation process, but it is not the whole thing” In this excerpt, Pisano and Shih discuss the concept of the "industrial commons." In the past a commons—a shared farming... View Details
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
they're so much in the background and taken for granted within each society. Q: How will nationalisms play out in the future vis-à-vis globalization? A: If we were to think about how societies think about themselves in terms of national identities, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
The Case for Consumer-Driven Medicaid
to pay for a consumer-driven option of a traditional Medicaid hospital insurance, along with a doctor of their choice; a managed care policy, with its deductibles and copayment; or a network group of local physicians. If employed, they can use the funds to pay their... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 04 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should You Outsource Your Marketing?
best outsourcing arrangements are partnerships. Suppliers should not be regarded as mere contractors, since contractors do not always perceive a long-term stake in the project's success. The value created should be seen as shared value.... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?
to recruit the best distributors, and to capture market share from weaker, local competitors. Selling the American dream has paid off handsomely. Eight of the ten most valuable brands in the world, according to the Interbrand consultancy,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
suggest that in many commonly regulated markets in which firms share similar cost structures, firms are likely to experience incentives to ratchet down and delay the introduction of innovative products. The study highlights the importance... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman