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02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

deal that brings some rationality to the valuation of Internet stocks. These are just some generic strategies, of course. Your viability as a nonconsolidator will depend... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar

February 2006
Case

Millions of Customers and the Search for a Business: the Challenge of IRC-Hispano

Like many online services, IRC-Hispano, the world's largest Spanish-language chat organization, has many customers but sees few revenues. As an association, its structure presents many limitations and hurdles to overcome involving investing in technology platform... View Details

Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Platforms; Technology Adoption; Internet and the Web; Organizational Structure; Technological Innovation; Revenue; Web Services Industry; Technology Industry; Spain

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12 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Managing the Advantages and Tradeoffs of Collaborative Structures

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

To solve complex problems, organizations must both collect facts and use them to solve problems. In one study, my coauthors and I show that increased connectivity—measured as network... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Human Behavior; Performance; Virtual Work; Hybrid Work; Office Space; Workplace Design; Communication; Social and Collaborative Networks; Behavior; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Leadership; Management

19 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

emphasis on personal relationships. "It's taken to a different level in China," says Chua. "Because of the lack of a strong legal infrastructure, people have to rely on those they know very... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

but achievements are equally driven by envy, greed, and fear, so emotions surrounding achievement can pull you in very different ways. How your values play in is another component to achievement. What are the kinds of View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants

approval," Trichakis says. "The Office of Civil Rights is involved too. Everyone is still in the loop of thinking about how the system should look: how many points for dialysis time, waiting time,... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Health

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

of checked that. The second way is that coaches and entrepreneurs found each other, and while coaches were willing to take on raw recruits, they wanted them to be coachable. SS: So what are the implications then for a business that wants... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2017
News

The Business of Lego Batman

Connecticut. So it's how do you manage this process. And you're like a CEO. You can't micromanage every part of the process, because there are a lot of things that are out... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

20 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

didn’t see the moment when finally things changed. But they played key roles in agitation, orchestration, or innovation.” Related Reading: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping UpBeyond Heroic EntrepreneursWhat... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Feb 2016
News

The Wheel of the World

close and personal with unique, world-class historical clocks such as Eberhard Baldewein’s 16th-century astronomical clock, located in Dresden, which depicts the movement of the planets. “One of the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

"read" are examples of design rules. Disk drive designers must obey these rules if their drives are to function in a given computer system. CB: As long as the rules are obeyed, disk drive designers can vary many View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

2016
Working Paper

The Empirical Economics of Online Attention

By: Andre Boik, Shane Greenstein and Jeffrey Prince

In several markets, firms compete not for consumer expenditure but instead for consumer attention. We model and characterize how households allocate their scarce attention in arguably the largest market for attention: the Internet. Our characterization of household... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Competition; Behavior; Resource Allocation; Household; Cognition and Thinking

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The Design of Online Advertising Markets

By: Benjamin Edelman

Because the market for online advertising is both new and fast-changing, participants experiment with all manner of variations. Should an advertiser's payment reflect the number of times an ad was shown, the number of times it was clicked, the number of sales that... View Details

Keywords: Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Online Advertising; Price; Market Design; Measurement and Metrics; Sales; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web

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23 Jan 2019
News

The Promise of Personalized Medicine

end of the day, it’s the people that give me hope, that they’re there for the right reasons. Pharma nowadays gets a lot of negative press at pricing and things like that. It’s... View Details

16 Feb 2023
Blog Post

The Rituals of Case Method Teaching

things to memorize or practice pronouncing, and the students she’s planning to cold-call that day. She also brings her plan for the blackboard and a Post-it note with the end-time of class. Once class... View Details

16 Nov 2017
News

The Business of Social Justice

and short-term approach to solving problems in the developing world began to frustrate Brooks. “I wanted to understand the corporate side of how things work,” she explains. “Business is the lifeblood View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

July 2001 (Revised October 2004)
Case

PSA: The World's Port of Call

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Nancy Bartlett, Dolly Chang-Leow and Neo Boon Siong

Details the evolution of an e-business strategy and capabilities over a 16-year period. What began in 1984 as an effort to automate the port of Singapore to achieve productivity savings, by 2000 had evolved into a global e-business called Portnet.com. Closes as senior... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Technological Innovation; Internet and the Web; Business or Company Management; Shipping Industry; Information Technology Industry

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11 Aug 2014
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The Business of Behavioral Economics

You've done everything—endured diets, purged your freezer of Ben & Jerry's, and educated yourself on fat, sugar, and calories. Yet, you can't manage to lose weight. What's wrong with you? According to standard economic theory, which... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health

Spring 2024
Article

The Evolution of Banking in the 21st Century: Evidence and Regulatory Implications

By: Samuel Gregory Hanson, Victoria Ivashina, Laura Nicolae, Jeremy C. Stein, Adi Sunderam and Daniel K. Tarullo

As revealed by the failures of three regional banks in the spring of 2023, bank runs are not a thing of the past. To inform the ongoing discussion of the appropriate regulatory response, we examine trends in the banking industry over the last twenty-five years. On the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Instruments; Financial Crisis; Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Condition; Banking Industry