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- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
customers own their banking data and can designate it to be available to a third party. Open data and open banking are important so that data streams are available to multiple financial institutions and entrepreneurs who could provide new... View Details
- 15 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer
accelerate treatments.” (An early mover in the field of precision medicine, Giusti founded the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation in 1998, where she now serves on the board of directors.) After joining the initiative in February 2016, Hamermesh and Giusti identified... View Details
- 26 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 26
taken by Kenny starting in 2014 as he sought to reorient the company amidst changes in media, digital, and mobile technologies. Kenny balances promoting new stream digital business growth with managing difficult legacy television industry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
spoken with and advised a steady stream of young, middle-, and later-stage professionals who excelled for a period but then began to struggle professionally and to experience doubt about what they wanted. In the early stages of their... View Details
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
shortcuts and heuristics, and therefore they're susceptible to biases and mistakes. The implication is that if maybe they thought more, they'd do better. "And then there's this whole stream of research about ways in which you should... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
disruption, the authors offer three scenarios for the future of consulting. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2013/10/consulting-on-the-cusp-of-disruption/ar/1 August 2013 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Sustainable Operations Management: An Enduring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
allocated. Clickstream data was provided by ComScore, an audience measurement firm. In the development of the internet, 2008 and 2013 were landmark years. Netflix and Hulu began offering streaming services in 2008, and YouTube videos were... View Details
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
reporting structure inside the firm, and job performance measures. These projects will allow us to address questions surrounding how individual managers' (and scientists') positions in the communication stream influence their job... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
the song. The difficulty with this approach is that the economics of producing music are characterized by significant fixed costs. It is not much more expensive to promote an entire album than to promote an individual song. With complete unbundling, the revenue View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
acquisitions and the price paid per employee are once again fueling headlines. (A better yardstick might be price per user, which in the case of WhatsApp was about $40 for a service with no advertising and a revenue stream of $1 per year... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
The question of whether advertising 'informs' or 'persuades' consumers is the subject of a long and ongoing stream of debate and research.— Alvin Silk Initially there was relatively little use for DTCA but it grew rapidly in the 1990s. In... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
Some may shrug at the inevitable passing of the local newspaper, writing it off as a dinosaur that doesn’t have much to offer in our modern world of blogs, social media sites, and streamed soundbites. But no news is not necessarily good... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
can actually use." Paul Hamilton-Smith opined that software companies "mostly subsist from their renewal revenue stream. That stream is generated by 'new and improved' software versions." And Julian Lowe commented that... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
practitioners and academicians alike. As I started doing further studies with countries and states, the cluster component became a significant stream in my research. In this new chapter, I try to draw together almost a decade of further... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
let's just not allow our customers to do it," he says. That might mean lobbying for legislation, suing in court, or making customers sign contracts that prevent decoupling. After Aereo allowed viewers to stream TV programs over the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
non-profit, the MMRF had historically relied on donations to fund its research operations. Giusti wanted to find a way to ensure a reliable revenue stream for the organization and give it greater financial stability. The MMRF had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
increasingly more sophisticated. Already, these assignments have yielded impressive revenue streams with several of these companies. The task force effort has also affected IBM's approach to supplier diversity. While the company has for... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
diversity is seen to expand the range of views and ideas that teams can draw upon to innovate. Yet, case studies reveal that teaming across knowledge boundaries can be difficult in practice, and innovation is not always realized. Two View Details
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
research. Dorothy Leonard: There are two streams of research that are coming together here. One stream is the research that Brian and I started a couple of years ago: the use of technology in aiding learning... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne