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- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
These years saw a major search for the organizational forms that would enable this knowledge to be exploited fully. Among the principal achievements of Klijnstra, Orr, and Van den Hoven was the correction of the Anglo-Dutch imbalance... View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
combination of both. In my framework, there are four types of innovation. Routine innovation builds upon a company’s existing technological competencies and exploits the existing business model. Disruptive innovation, a concept made... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
this challenging time. This is the time to practice customer intimacy, not only customer centricity. Protect and pivot = exploit and explore Exploiting opportunities to make incremental improvements to... View Details
- 06 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Behavioral Finance—Benefiting from Irrational Investors
typical patterns in investor psychology and respond accordingly, Baker says. Institutional money managers, for example, can find an edge in exploiting the stock price patterns created by irrational investor behavior; and companies can... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
that is reshaping high-technology industries. Patent pools, standard-setting organizations, and technology licensing efforts are having a profound effect on how firms seek to exploit new discoveries. Q: You are teaching an Executive... View Details
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Research - Race, Gender & Equity
Faculty & Research Research June 2025 Accounting, Organizations and Society Gender Diversity Performance and Voluntary Disclosure: Mind the (Gender Pay) Gap By: June Huang and Shirley Lu We study whether voluntary gender diversity disclosure is predictive of gender... View Details
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
competitors in geographically fragmented industries; to extend into new products or markets; as a substitute for R&D; and to exploit eroding industry boundaries by inventing an industry. Despite the massive number of books and... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
long-standing feature of economics. The theoretical arguments focused traditionally on the ability to exploit gains from trade, essentially leading to higher productivity by exploiting comparative... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
to commercialize its R&D more effectively in foreign markets. Until then, Eli Lilly had operated one home-base-augmenting laboratory site abroad and some small sites in industrialized countries for clinical testing and drug approval procedures. But in order to... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
risky products without the safeguards of consumer protection laws. Legalizing cannabis nationally would significantly reduce the space available to the illicit cannabis industry. By allowing interstate commerce, it would also remove a market failure that is View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
rather than misdeeds and malfeasance.— Lynn S. Paine Moreover, new issues are constantly coming to the fore as a result of changes in technology, society, and politics. For instance, data privacy was not a major issue until the late 1980s and 1990s when companies began... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
Sant’Anna; and Federico Tamagni, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. They define growth as “a process by which organizations pursue market opportunities and the acquisition and accumulation of the resources required to exploit those... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
wish to make headway should consider 3 broad ways of dealing with distance: adapt, overcome it, and exploit it. "What is different about this book on global strategy is its focus on the differences across countries," he writes.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea
were only logical creatures, this would not be a problem. But we are not. Far from it . We see this problem all the time when people are trying to help an organization deal with a changing environment or to exploit a new and significant... View Details
Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
past two decades. As a result, the proportion of the US population that is foreign-born—to the extent we can count—has nearly tripled over the past 50 years to levels we last saw around 1900. There is one business “community” that has tracked these conditions and View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
capitalism, a manager's moral obligation is put aside his or her own self-interest in order to preserve the interests of the system as a whole. Of course, that's not an easy sell to someone in a highly competitive market trained to View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
2000. As an exploitative plantation industry, the rubber and palm oil industries in Indonesia and Malaysia couldn’t be considered a civilizing force, at least initially, Giacomin says. Yet, after rubber clusters based on foreign-invested... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
treasurer of the Democratic National Committee (actually, I have zero power, but that’s another story), I hereby pronounce you — at least for a while, until you get your party back — a thoughtful, moderate Democrat. Welcome! — The post-MBA View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
these companies to apply differing, i.e., lower, standards in terms of disclosure in an IPO. In my opinion, WeWork should be pilloried for exploiting these standards. There are numerous examples provided in our analysis, entitled Why... View Details