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- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
industry.The challenge that we face—making health care affordable and conveniently accessible to most people—is not unique to health care. Almost every industry began with services and products that were so complicated and expensive to... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
the room in order to force its owner to get out of bed. Beset by media attention and consumer interest but still at least a year away from the ability to debut Clocky, Nanda must navigate a series of challenges and difficult decisions in order to effectively bring her... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
most likely to occur," Toffel says. (In related research, Pierce and Toffel have investigated two other factors associated with leniency of vehicle testing facilities: the other business lines these facilities are engaged in, and... View Details
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
Working Papers Commodity Chains: What Can We Learn from a Business History of the Rubber Chain? (1870-1910) Author: Felipe Tâmega Fernandes Abstract The literature on the rubber boom applied a dependendist view of rubber production in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
assets, including customer relationships; innovative products and services; high-quality and responsive operating processes; skills and knowledge of the workforce; the information technology that supports the workforce and links the firm... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
response to the WWII experience. We show that internment aggravated existing staffing challenges, impacted the perception of racial lines of distinctions, and recast the category “European business.” While internment was perceived and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
versus exploitation innovations impact economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth framework that contains multiple innovation sizes, multi-product firms, and entry/exit. Firms invest in exploration R&D to acquire new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
had described the souk — a marketplace where you can buy products ranging from fresh food and spices to handicrafts and even gold — as a "must-see." Our plan for the afternoon was clear: Greg and I wanted to have an enjoyable... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
In 2007, Sony Pictures became the first multinational studio to enter the India film business known as Bollywood with its $7 million film Saawariya. The movie grossed only $9 million. That same year, Walt Disney Pictures collaborated with Yash Raj Studios, one of... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
the first or worst financial challenge the technology giant has faced. In 1997, the company suffered a near-death experience that caused it to completely reimagine itself. The result was a new line of View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
quality, and delegating authority to frontline production workers to shut down a billion-dollar production line in the interests of quality improvement. More recently, Gary... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
every Congressional district is the health industry. Private insurers should have a freer range of competitive options through legislation that enables them to sell across state lines in the individual and small-group markets. Further,... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Until the nineteenth century, the scope for applying (imperfectly) competitive thinking to business situations appeared to be limited: Intense competition had emerged in many lines of business, but individual firms apparently often lacked... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
corporate profits attributable to foreign operations has escalated from 5 percent in the 1960s to 30 percent today. Second, multinational firms, once characterized as a web of autonomous subsidiaries serving local markets, are more likely to have globally-integrated... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
workplace interactions. Building on West and Zimmerman's (1987) now classic articulation of gender as "the product of social doings," we describe this organizationally induced behavior as "undoing" gender. We use this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
previous one. The question was, "Why did this happen?" What were the causes of the problems, and what could leaders do about them? Jan Rivkin: By many current measures, America looks all right today: we have an enormously View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
provider. Academic centers will make different choices than community or rural hospitals. A provider may make different choices from peers nearby. Part of the strategic choice of service lines is to match the complexity and acuity of the... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
Publications August 2013 Jossey-Bass Teaming to Innovate By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—Innovation requires teaming. (Put another way, teaming is to innovation what assembly lines are to car production.) This book brings together key... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
their desires to help make their organizations more effective and responsive. I met many individuals with great ideas and insights working in large organizations that seemed to be enacting policies or producing products that didn't... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
assume that all the smart people in the world are born within a 20-mile radius of their headquarters." This last factor—of being able to develop and diffuse innovation rapidly around the world—has emerged to become much more important as companies constantly renew... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna