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- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
forward. In practice, if someone figures out a really cool new activity or device, a community of co-innovators will form almost instantly. The emergence of a dominant design will trigger an industry shakeout and consolidation. In these... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
environment not by doing nothing, but by accelerating past organizational routines based on established assumptions.— Donald N. Sull The benefits of this knowledge sharing, however, are likely to decline over time as the industry settles on a View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: The Potential Partnership of India and China
powerful economic development programs that each is pursuing, these countries are poised to become dominant economic powers in short order. But there is a subtle trend occurring that could make these 2 competitors even more formidable on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
for manufacturing in the US on a local level, Tabellini points out. But over time, professions outside manufacturing adjusted in local economies, new industries developed, and more people decided to move to areas once dominated by... View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
(Search-Based Peers or SBPs) are fundamentally similar on multiple dimensions. In direct tests, SBPs dominate GICS6 industry peers in explaining cross-sectional variations in base firms' out-of-sample (a) stock returns, (b) valuation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
two books, they present evidence that successful, dominant firms are particularly vulnerable to competitors introducing disruptive technologies, those that offer customers less product capability for much less money. Among the reasons... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Nov 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?
brick-and-mortar retail, specifically in the form of large-scale shopping malls, is still the dominant venue for consumer purchases in the developed world. Large-Scale Demand Estimation with Search Data This study proposes a practical and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
accurately, your hologram or avatar) can, among other things, go to school, go to work, play games, watch concerts, and browse stores. For Facebook, or now Meta, its dominance in social networking combined with a Meta-based strategy is an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
quantitative, large-sample study of digital cameras introduced from 1991 to 2006 by firms from three prior industries: photography, consumer electronics, and computers. By 2004, several features had emerged as a dominant design; however,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
actually did. We use the want/should theoretical framework to explain the bounded ethicality that arises from these temporal inconsistencies, positing that the "should" self dominates during the prediction and evaluation phases... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Cheers to the American Consumer
electronic gizmos dominate Christmas gift sales, and senior citizens find renewed connectivity with far-flung families by going online. Americans know technology adds value to daily life. These traits apply equally to consumers and... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
HRA-Public Option combination, employers that are now compelled to continually raise out-of-pocket expenses to employees to control health care costs will no longer be caught in the middle between the complaints of employees and the demands of View Details
- 08 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How to Hire a Millennial
General Electric isn’t moving to Boston’s waterfront for the views, however breathtaking they may be. In the increasingly fierce battle for millennial talent, GE’s decision to uproot its long-time headquarters from suburban Connecticut is nothing less than a... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
building a culture based on collaboration, teamwork, and respect—and not tolerating employees who dominate or treat other employees as if they are there to serve them. Leaders sometimes inadvertently send the wrong message by excusing—or... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
PublicationsHeterogeneity and Graceful Technology Retreats: A New Perspective on Responding to Dominant Technological Threats Authors:Ron Adner and Daniel Snow Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change (forthcoming) Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
all three were important across the period studied, their relative prevalence varied. For example, gender bias peaked as a concern in 1991, underrepresentation dominated the picture in the late 1990s, and work-family conflict as a concern... View Details
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
His talk focused on its implications for women in leadership roles, and examined why there aren't more black women leaders, since research has shown that unlike white women, black women aren't penalized for dominant behavior. One reason... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
Civil wars have been the dominant form of conflict around the world since World War II, resulting in approximately 20 million deaths. But it's not just sociologists who are diving into the roots of conflict. Increasingly, economists are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2014
- Op-Ed
World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention
attention is power concentrated. Football's ability to emotionally connect with audiences in huge numbers in real time has made it a lucrative business in the market for attention. Ironically, the very value created by FIFA and a handful of others who View Details
- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
her venture. "When you are in a family background and you are socialized into that environment, you adopt certain ways of thinking and behaving and internalize certain values that are dominant in your environment," says Battilana. The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding