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- 04 Sep 2013
- What Do You Think?
How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?
confronting large corporations facing innovative upstarts with disruptive ventures, the non-innovator's dilemma. But it also dealt with the challenges of achieving innovation in a world of entrenched ideas about how products are developed... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 May 2022
- HBS Case
College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need
on college credentials rather than on actual job skills, according to the technical note, “Widening the Talent Pipeline: Skills-First Hiring.” This entrenched hiring system has penalized workers of color disproportionately. Research shows... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
past will always trump the future—people prefer not to know about the future because it's so threatening to entrenched interests and to career competencies." Tushman has been focusing his research on companies that can "be both... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
to entrenched dockside unions. The traditional break-bulk process of loading and unloading ships and trucks necessitated huge armies of shore workers. For some ports, the real threat to the industry was not McLean but other modes of... View Details
- 30 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?
algorithms based on datasets such as those from the Boston Medical Center study raises the risk of entrenching inequities in the system, Stern says. “What if there were a way to develop a tool that would scan and repackage information to... View Details
- 03 Jan 2023
- Book
Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action
inequities, Opie says companies need to dig deep, build bridges, and take collective action. Step 1: Digging deep Opie says leaders need to confront the entrenched beliefs that reinforce the pay and promotion gaps playing out around them.... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
right.” Agency theory is so deeply entrenched in corporate governance today that significant change of any kind would be challenging. How would accountability centered on the long-term health of the corporation be implemented? Would it... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
managers make the right decisions to successfully build new-growth businesses. 1. Disruptive innovations spur growth. Companies have two basic options when they seek to build new-growth businesses. They can try to take an existing market from an View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
1980s, several coffee companies reduced the size of their containers by an ounce or two. At first, there was substantial backlash—the one-pound container was so well entrenched in people's minds, it was easy to notice the change in... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
some point early on, the startup that becomes Apple or Google first consisted of a few people in a garage or dorm. And in the case of political innovation, there is an entrenched political-industrial complex engineered to quash any new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
Corporations could do a good job of running corrupt Third World governments. Corruption rules in too many of the world's democratically elected governments. From Achocalla, Bolivia, to Mayuge, Uganda, voters pick their leaders through the ballot box, but an View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
(giving competitors a lead in a market) and the entrenchment benefits (the cost advantage firms develop through learning-by-doing when they enter early). Both the opportunity costs of absence and the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Essentials for Enlightened Experimentation
R&D systems for performing experiments that will generate the information needed to develop and refine products quickly. The challenges are managerial as well as technical: Organize For Rapid Experimentation Examine and, if necessary, revamp View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
Credit: Nicolas McComber Uber’s roller coaster ride from ride-sharing pioneer to shunned bad boy should be a lesson to other disruptive startups: Fighting hard is good, while fighting unfairly loses you respect, customers, and perhaps your company. “A company can fight... View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
IT-savvy business executive—either a CEO or a top manager who has overseen the use of IT to gain strategic advantage in another organization. The expert's job is to challenge entrenched in-house thinking. In any case, at least one person... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Homeland Security: A Ready-made Market
weren't connected before 9-11; there was no mechanism to do so." Creating change in the government sector, however, requires grappling with a deeply entrenched culture. "Democracy is the worst form of government, apart from all... View Details
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
for a period as medical residents turn over in teaching hospitals. Who Drives Digital Innovation? Evidence from the US Medical Device IndustryDoes large-scale technological change characteristic of an industrywide digital transformation View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology
wealthy tourists. Airbnb remains Y Combinator’s biggest success story, but it was aggressive on-the-ground outreach that helped speed its early growth in key markets. Add in an industry with entrenched leaders and a limp economy in the... View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
on this issue for the first time. After all, if the US and China are not part of a solution, there will be no solution." The shift for China won't be an easy one. It will require drastic changes in entrenched governmental,... View Details
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
"disrupting" is of course the goal of their business activities, panelists said, it is also no small trick to cut through the entrenched practices surrounding established incumbents. Nor is it simple to prevent others from... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace