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- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
marketing, operations, and pricing. This led to greater profitability as well as to a tighter competitive focus and greater differentiation. Thus, order cycle management contributed to cost optimization, revenue improvement, and better... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
broader field of study. Microprocess research in organizational studies reveals implicit phenomenological assumptions that vary in the extent to which microprocesses are treated as parts of larger systems. We suggest that phenomenological assumptions of recursive View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
Detroit to Los Angeles in 1972, adds that the current stagnation can also be attributed to "a lack of hits" on the part of the major labels and increased competition for the consumer entertainment dollar. In 1996, efforts by big stars... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
develop an active customer base, focusing on two questions. First, how does the way that customers use the service postadoption to meet their own needs (personal usage) and to interact with one another (social usage) vary across customer... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
that new levels of interconnectivity via the Internet could help foster IT entrepreneurship in other regions, Prabhakar also observed that global competition is infusing the "cowboy culture" of Silicon Valley with a greater awareness of... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
Catalysts And Nourishers In addition to studying the effect of progress, the researchers analyzed the workday diaries to determine the factors that facilitated progress: catalysts (events that helped a project move forward) and "nourishers" (interpersonal... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
Journal of Interactive Marketing, heads the required MBA course in marketing and teaches an interactive marketing elective. He explains that traditional marketing tactics might include running a series of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52291 Platforms, Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective By: Altman, Elizabeth J., and Michael L. Tushman Abstract—Platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
manufacturing process. This in turn implies that once committed to a given partner, the cost of switching is very high. Loosely coupled interactions instead imply minimal asset specificity and enable a niche player to easily switch from... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
Lately, competition in the biotech industry has become more heated than ever, as a steadily increasing number of companies enter a market that, despite its risky nature, has the potential for enormous rewards in the future. "It may... View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders
I started college, I didn't even know anyone who worked in an office so (at JPMorgan) I learned how to work in a very competitive and demanding environment from people who taught me a lot,” Westphal said. Two years into his career in... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
guardians as holding opposing views of institutional change, we reveal how the complementarity and ongoing interactions between each set of actors served as a valuable resource for industry resilience and adaptation. Our primary data... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14177 Competing Complements Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Barry Nalebuff, and David B. Yoffie Abstract In Cournot's model of complements, the producers of A and B are both monopolists. This paper extends Cournot's model to allow for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Teachable Moments
of employees, entire organizations vanish. The vanishing act cannot be blamed solely on competitive forces. Most organizations that self-destruct experience failure because employees were not committed to the mission and direction of the... View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
PublicationsPricing to Create Shared Value Authors:Marco Bertini and John T. Gourville Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 6 (June 2012) Abstract Many companies are in competition with their customers to extract as much value as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
important example. In 2003, the company's Indian subsidiary refocused its efforts on the country's rural poor in the face of growing competition from new market entrants. By training and hiring low-income, community-based saleswomen, the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
total Internet e-commerce activity will range from $5 billion to $8 billion by 2003. The purpose of Leonel Azuela's Quaxar e-consulting service is to bring comprehensive Internet and interactive solutions to Latin American and U.S.... View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
to transfer technology was constrained by the institutional, educational, and cultural conditions of host economies. Multinationals do not do things to countries and societies; they interact with them. For better or worse, they have not... View Details