Decentralized - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer

decentralized nature. The content industry must find ways to embrace the new technology and profit from it. Q: What are the practical "takeaways" for managers in related areas? A: At a broad level, in designing new business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

28 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 28

access pushes decisions down, as it allows for superior decentralized decision making without an undue cognitive burden on those lower in the hierarchy. Better communication pushes decisions up, as it allows employees to rely on those... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

conducted business in 120 countries—had shared about 640 now-documented good practices. In 2007, the strategic importance of saving time in a decentralized organization through adoption of colleagues' good practices was put to a test.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

level thanks to the extreme form of fiscal decentralization that the Brazilian government adopted in the Constitution of 1891, which gave states the sole right to tax exports. We also use indices of export prices for each state as... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Dec 2018
News

Source Code

famously standing up to Steve Jobs’s plan to eliminate Apple’s US warehouses and decentralize distribution. (The details were captured in the 1986 HBS case, “Donna Dubinsky and Apple Computer, Inc.”) She and Hawkins then teamed up to... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

to public transit. A business park may be two miles from the nearest train station, but it is effectively adjacent to that station if PRT provides an on-demand, non-stop, four-minute connection from transit platform to building lobby. Early small projects invite View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

16 Sep 2015
News

Built for Speed

for something completely new. They returned to campus that fall ready to devote serious time to their nascent idea: a decentralized car company that produced region-specific, small-batch vehicles in microfactories. They enrolled in an... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

14 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

and situates land policy in the larger context of China’s reforms and pursuit of economic growth. It argues that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has strengthened the institutions that permit land expropriation—namely, urban/rural dualism, View Details