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  • 17 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

understandable, generalizable, and robust. The consulting leaders sustained their thought-leadership positions by creating an ecosystem with senior executives at pioneer corporations and academic/thought leaders. The paper also describes... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

paragraphs to Google, which, by 2001, already was the 15th largest website in the United States. Despite this traffic, Google’s ecosystem impact was still modest at the time. The company was still a year away from adopting the paid search... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology
  • September 2016 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

Collage.com: Scaling a Distributed Organization

By: Christopher Stanton and Shikhar Ghosh
Kevin Borders and Joe Golden, co-founders and co-CEOs of Collage.com, must decide how to grow their custom photo-products startup in the face of fierce competition. From 2011 through 2016, the business evolved from a hobby to a startup with $22 million in revenue and... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Internet and the Web; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Employees; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Service Industry
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  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

the vast majority of organizations provide applications. To assess the health and competitiveness of business ecosystems, three aspects of ecosystem health inspired by their biological metaphor and expressed in terms of their View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

into their products and services, from sources (e.g., labor conditions in paper plants where company stationery is manufactured) to applications and ultimate fate (e.g., how used computers are disposed of). Whether this is called acknowledgment of multiple stakeholders... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 17 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective By: Altman, Elizabeth J., and Michael Tushman Abstract—Platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies embrace and enable interactions with external... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/618024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-115 Predicting Consumer Tastes with Big Data at Gap CEO Art Peck was eliminating his creative directors for The Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic brands and promoting a collective... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

right one. The case offers an overview of virtualization technology, a brief history of VMware, including descriptions of its acquisition by computer storage giant EMC, its August 2007 IPO, and Maritz's arrival as CEO; a summary of its product lines; a discussion of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

presented by the pandemic on three continents: West Africa The region’s already fragile food ecosystems are buckling under the pandemic strain, with lockdowns keeping farm workers from their fields, supply chains disrupted, price hikes,... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 15 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

markets and ecosystems through their ability to transfer a package of financial, organizational, and cultural assets, skills, and ideologies across national borders. It argues such firms have been shapers of, as well as responders to,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

and growing difficulties for environmentalists in gaining control of ecosystems through land purchases led these organizations to reassess their opposing strategies. Their 1994 landmark agreement to jointly manage unique forested wetlands... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
  • 14 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

have to pay attention to the fact that there are real differences in the ecosystems of each sector. Ebrahim: Mario raises a crucial distinction. In the for-profit world, we tend to see individual firms as the central unit of analysis.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 07 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

development model. They are keen to build a model village that integrates components of shelter, education, skill development and livelihood creation and affords residents a basic standard of living. What should the blueprint of this sustainable View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2019 (Revised April 2021)
  • Background Note

Managing Talent Pipelines in the Future of Work

By: William R. Kerr, Joseph B. Fuller, Manjari Raman and Carl Kreitzberg
In the face of a rapidly-changing economy, organizations that wish to compete in the future of work must develop strategies for acquiring, retaining, and developing talent for their organizations. This primer reviews the major trends shaping jobs, workplaces, and... View Details
Keywords: Future Of Work; Talent and Talent Management; Experience and Expertise; Demographics; Labor; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Quality; Supply Chain
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  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

problems that influence the ecosystem for business success: climate change, crumbling infrastructure, digital divides, health disparities, racial equity, public education, and firmer safety nets. There will undoubtedly be tightening of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

ideas lie outside their organizations, in an ecosystem of potential innovators who possess wide-ranging skills and knowledge." Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/spurring-innovation-through-competitions/ August 2013... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

  Publications August 2014 Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Emodiversity and the Emotional Ecosystem By: Quoidbach, Jordi, June Gruber, Moïra Mikolajczak, Alexsandr Kogan, Ilios Kotsou, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Bridging... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 23

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211092-PDF-ENG Purchase this supplement (B):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211102-PDF-ENG The Sandbox: Creating a Bottom-Up Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Shikhar Ghosh, Lynda M. Applegate,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

warming, rapid melting of polar ice, and an increasingly fragile ecosystem where infectious diseases of all kinds are more likely to be successful, we run greater risks of all sorts of perils," says Froot. "In some cases—such as... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services
  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

as new players enter these markets and change the ecosystem of the industry. Although no single model has been successfully imported from one country to another due to significant country-specific differences in the regulatory financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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