Dominance - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

24 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

multiple official languages, at least one of which is strong or weak FTR. Painstakingly going through and coding each company according to the dominant language in its headquarters city, they were able to show CSR scores differed by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 May 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

Microsoft became dominant in software for PC operating systems; and the belief by entrepreneurs and investors alike that online grocery orders to the long-gone Webvan, the largest single start-up during the Internet bubble, would become a... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

19 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Radical Design, Radical Results

they're world leaders in the field." Is Verganti a consumer of design himself? "If you come to my house you will find a lot of semiotic pollution," he laughs. "Having many different styles in one home is actually a trend, though; people today want... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

13 May 2002
Book

Bringing the Master Passions to Work

domineering moments. But we've become increasingly better at disguising this lust: "Do you want your eggs fried or boiled?" we ask, instead of first making it clear that the poor creature must have eggs, no matter what his or... View Details

Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria

29 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 29

competitive advantage-Red Bull had established itself as the U.S. market leader in energy drinks. By 2008, however, Red Bull's dominance was challenged as Monster drinks surpassed it in volume. The case considers judo strategy both from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jun 2014
What Do You Think?

Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?

has to be a mistake to carry over uncritically to the management of information those concepts that have proven so useful during the centuries when things were the dominant resources.... These concepts include the notion of hiding and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products; Technology

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

adoption. The evidence is less consistent with a dominant role for population as predicted by the semi-endogenous growth models or for country-level factors like culture, genes, or institutions. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Aug 2015
First Look

First Look Tuesday

foreign officials, and the packaging and sale of toxic securities to naïve investors-require ethically problematic judgments and behaviors. However, dominant models of workplace unethical behavior fail to account for what we have learned... View Details

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

between companies and their communities, but also put pressure on the middle class, which were suddenly in competition for jobs with skilled workers around the globe. "And how did our society respond to pressures on the middle class?" Rivkin asked. "The... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

"name your own price" devices, permission marketing, group buying, price comparison engines, car purchase Web sites, mass customization, etc. It is still largely a new way of thinking whose domain and modalities remain to be defined. For a while the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?

supply of VC money and told you to start a viable social network, what would it look like? What would it do differently? SG: I wouldn't build a social network for the masses because I think that space is difficult to capture given Facebook's View Details

Keywords: Re: John A. Deighton & Sunil Gupta; Publishing; Financial Services

24 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

magazine covers, which were dominated by the smiling faces of people who had "made it." Boy, they sure seemed happy! As a student, I was regularly assessed, tested, graded, and otherwise measured against "objective"... View Details

05 May 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless

reported crimes against another disadvantaged social class in India: the Scheduled Castes. The SCs encompass members of the lowest tiers of the Hindu caste system that dominated India's social structure for many years. And like women, SCs... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

04 May 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands

uncontaminated by the scandal and previously on a slow glide path to oblivion. The RBS brand, like the Merrill Lynch brand, is dead. We may well see RBS branches rebranded NatWest and NatWest become the dominant surviving retail brand... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Banking; Financial Services

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

allowing brand names to be so dominant in department stores is still an idea that should be reconsidered. Chadwick said that Bloomingdale's had reconsidered the concept—and was moving away from it. New Bloomingdale's stores do not have... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

elsewhere." Going forward, he predicted, as the television screen and computer monitor converge into one "box," the banner ads that dominate the Web—but do little to engage the attention of consumers—will disappear. Another... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

11 Aug 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

universities in the world of higher education in the 21st century. Is it going to be Europe, whose great institutions really defined what a modern university would be in the 19th century? The United States, which is without question still at the moment the View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

19 Jan 2016
First Look

January 19, 2016

emphasize users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation approaches to solve important technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation, pioneered by the economist Eric von... View Details