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- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
destroying or even harming the competitor. The focus must be on your own success. Smart competitors don't try to beat their adversaries; they avoid direct competitors and instead maximize profits. The astute manager wants to establish a View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
sense it was all around us. It took a set of entrepreneurs to begin to make it happen. By the late 1990s, when I was teaching courses in global strategy, some of my Thai, Malaysian, and Singaporean students were perfectly aware of the... View Details
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
years ago, he found the last serious analysis on firm growth was conducted in 1959, in Edith Penrose’s book The Theory of the Growth of the Firm. “I’d like to think we’ve learned a lot since then,” Pisano says. Getting a better... View Details
- 10 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?
Summing Up Summing up the unusually large number of responses to the piece on street smarts, the consensus is that they represent skills taught by experience, role models, and experiential learning techniques such as case analysis and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
change an industry that starts as extractive to producing externalities that foster development.” In the case of Costa Rica’s ecotourism industry, Giacomin reviews earlier analysis by HBS history Professor Geoffrey Jones and research... View Details
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
successful strategy of commercializing new technologies by using the learning and income from the previous set of successful innovations. Matsushita's story is different and unique. In 1952, Matsushita arranged to acquire the technical... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
Like many business leaders, Donovan Neale-May routinely seeks out information on business innovation and management trends. He reads reports from market analysis firms, white papers from companies in his field, and articles in online... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
international operations over long periods of time. But that either/or characterization of globalization strategies is very broad. Finer-grained analysis of case studies—particularly of companies that have in various ways been global... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
A: Historically careful analysis of corporate information on a large number of companies has required an investor (or at least the investor's organization) to master a difficult and arcane set of... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Great American Leaders Teach Us
their perspectives on the meaning of greatness and their votes on business leaders. While we did gather these findings, we were more intrigued by our analysis of the full set of business leaders. When we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
(with Sumantra Ghoshal), Michael Porter, and Pankaj Ghemawat. “I enjoy the variety and intellectual challenge of the problems that managers confront” More seasoned managers seeking pragmatic guidance on day-to-day decision making can turn to the book's extensive View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
asymmetric information concerning the value of a new technology affect the strategies of the platforms and the market outcome. We find that the incumbent dominates the market by setting the welfare-maximizing quantity when the difference... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
make clear, business education is at a major crossroads. For decades, MBA graduates from top-tier schools set the standard for cutting-edge business knowledge and skills. Now the business world has changed, say the authors of Rethinking... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
it confined to a special set of conditions? Will access to Big Data further enable fact-based decision making or analysis paralysis? What do you think? Original Article Ideas and trends converge from time to... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
with oversupply and declining demand and to New World winemakers faced with rising costs and a deteriorating image. But changing Chinese market conditions and consumer preferences required both sets of players to devise new strategies to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
Analysis from a panel data set of research analysts in investment banks over 1988-1996 reveals that star analysts are more likely than non-star analysts to become entrepreneurs. Furthermore, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
algorithms developed for the same setting. More broadly, our paper contributes to the literature on the multi-armed bandit problem with resource constraints, since our algorithm applies directly to this setting when the inventory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
Goals for influencing government should flow directly from the analytic frameworks that companies use to develop business strategies. As Michael Porter noted in Competitive Strategy, "No structural analysis is complete without a... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the Process of Innovation
Collins is setting his sights on the home and garden business. Clayton Christensen, professor at Harvard Business School, uses this case to frame the central questions for anyone trying to understand the sources of innovation, and what... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gray
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
America Innovation Network By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, and William R. Kerr Abstract— Technological progress builds upon itself, with the expansion of invention in one domain propelling future work in linked fields. Our analysis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne