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- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
core (“the dominant organizations, institutions, groups, and processes of the pre-Internet era,” that, for example, produced our printed encyclopedias) to the crowd (“new participants and practices enabled by the net and its attendant... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
ever to come by. Q: What is "hyper-maturity?" A: It takes a period of time before a category reaches the point that we begin to experience it as a blur. When a product category is nascent, it tends to be dominated by a much... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
organizations vary. Culturally tight organizations have stricter social norms and rules of conduct, and people tend to adhere to them more strictly. There is also a greater appreciation of order, a dislike of deviance, and a greater acceptance of punishment and View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
ability to integrate the efforts of non-Chinese leaders are involved. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311074-PDF-ENG Herborist John Deighton, Leora Kornfeld, Yanqun He, and Qingyun JiangHarvard Business School Case 511-051 Global brands such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
be higher and the pay-for-performance sensitivity will be lower relative to a scenario in which the measure is not mandated. In contrast, if the mandated measure's informativeness dominates the measure's sensitivity to effort, then effort... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
traction in these adjacent markets has been to pursue a tying strategy. For example, Microsoft pre-installed Internet Explorer into Windows, and Apple set Apple Maps as the iOS default. Policymakers have raised concerns that dominant... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
policymakers from developed countries have tended to dominate these debates. That may be changing in several interesting ways. Many policymakers in the developing world, as well as officials in the IMF and analysts at the rating agencies,... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
The Role of Employee Proactivity Authors:A. M. Grant, F. Gino, and D. Hofmann Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract Extraversion predicts leadership emergence and effectiveness, but do groups perform more effectively under extraverted... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
in creating the personal computer industry; the department store Dayton-Hudson launched Target; and Hewlett-Packard created and grew to dominate the disruptive ink-jet printer business. When they follow the rules we've described in our... View Details
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
807-126 PRG-Schultz will run out of cash within a couple of months unless the new CEO can reduce costs and restructure the company's debt. PRG was the dominant market leader in the audit recovery industry. The industry consisted of firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
dominate GICS6 industry peers in explaining cross-sectional variations in base firms' out-of-sample (a) stock returns, (b) valuation multiples, (c) growth rates, (d) R&D expenditures, (e) leverage, and (f) profitability ratios. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
paper integrates the role of entrepreneurship and firms into debates on why Asia, Latin America, and Africa were slow to catch up with the West following the Industrial Revolution and the advent of modern economic growth. It argues that the currently View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
and German. Government leaders and policymakers in each of these countries were influenced by the Essay's key idea that government should be a dominant player in helping shape economic development. Of particular interest to Reinert is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
creative destruction. Dominant incumbent firms, long successful in an existing technology, are often much less successful in new technological eras. This is puzzling, since a cursory analysis would suggest that incumbent firms have the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
linguistic groups in emerging markets also affects foreign investors. In Malaysia, for instance, foreign companies should enter into joint ventures only after checking if their potential partners belong to the majority Malay community or the economically View Details
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
Reinvention of Kodak The Eastman Kodak Company (Kodak) was a name familiar to most Americans. The company had dominated the film and photography industry through most of the 20th Century and was known for making affordable cameras (and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
the introduction of a new dominant design. Drawing on the case of mechanical watchmaking, it reveals how technology reemergence is a decidedly cognitive process, unfolding in two phases: a first phase marked by a redefinition of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
demand. Furthermore, downstream and upstream product was coming online from other parts of the world, including Russia. As a result, Alcoa had lost its historical market dominance and stock premium. Belda was convinced that for Alcoa to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the headlines and provokes the most public and... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson