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- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Build Winning Streaks
Widespread access to abundant performance data helps ensure that people get the information they need to guide their own performance and hold others—and the system—to high standards. Leaders use diverse tools to produce accountability,... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
inside the machinery to see what makes it all run: "The transistor made the computer revolution possible, which in turn begat the Internet." Among other innovations noted were mass media, plastics, air-conditioning, mass production, Japanese competition, globalization,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
most people had the best market data. But not anymore, says Dubrowski. Today, his 22-person firm pays upward of $400,000 a year for subscription data services, the same services that are available to large and small industry participants alike. “Now that we all have... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
limited to the Mac and it had to become a PC peripheral as well. Once he made the move to the PC market, he created the potential to access a much broader market than his core customer base. The Apple core customer base today is only... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
for the 21st century; it also has easy access to both coasts of India, with transshipment to India accounting for about two-thirds of its volume. Just over 2 million tourists visited in 2016, a 300 percent increase since the end of the... View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
others—have become “hub firms” because they control access to billions of mobile customers coveted by all kinds of product and service providers. These hubs drive increasing returns to scale and claim a disproportionate share of the value... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
previously learned about development seemed to be conflicting with what I was seeing in the field," she says. "I kept seeing situations in which people might seem to have access to various supplies and technologies, but they weren't able... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
impact stayed. Kash, John, and I worked very hard to capture our findings in a single document. Alan Weber, at the time the Editor of the Harvard Business Review, did a magnificent job of taking our manuscript and making it accessible to... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
bringing market forces to space is so important. It’s going to take decentralized creativity of people who know their businesses well and know what their customers need. I hope every business leader out there asks themselves and their teams: “How can we use vastly... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
opportunities, housing, and access to capital. It found, for example, that low-income whites were twice as likely to be approved for loans as Native or African Americans with higher incomes. The task force's work helped convince one bank... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
In the first wave of globalization, MNEs sought access to resources, and governments frequently gave them exclusive contracts and favorable deals in order to build businesses. The major management challenge was to overcome logistical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
the water privatization were almost 30% more negative (relative to other privatizations) if his/her household did not gain access to water after the privatization. Similarly, a person's view of the water privatization (relative to other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
Although China has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it still suffers from a weak financial system dominated by state-controlled banks and severely limited access to capital for private entrepreneurs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
inexplicable skyrocketing of prices of tulip bulbs that ultimately crashed back to earth after a wild ride of erratic up-and-down price swings,” he says. What is different about the meme-stock era is technology, which has given investors ease of View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
home, and they would sell it to Blacks for up to 30 times what they had paid for the home. And the interest rate that they were charging would be usury, but Blacks they had no other choice. They had to access this market. And what we know... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
performance-management system that was truly effective in making information accessible and actionable. The data was easily understandable and useful for students and parents—everyone was involved, and as result the schools saw real,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
We find that location fundamentals including market access and comparative advantage and agglomeration economies including capital-good market externality and technology diffusion play a particularly important role in multinationals'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 28
deeming it unearned. They also reported a heightened sense of belonging, optimism about career advancement, and access to expanded networks. Yet among those who interacted regularly with Japanese counterparts, narratives also revealed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
access to its proprietary library of human antibodies. Recently, the company decided to deviate from this model, and attempt to develop its own proprietary products. The case allows analysis of "license vs. vertically integrate"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
the fact that a large portion of new businesses is created in the informal sector. The authors identify the main obstacle to this area as the country's insufficient access to credit for small entrepreneurs. The chapter is devoted to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace