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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
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analysis of the differing perspectives. As a result of the conference, Beer and Nohria have mapped out two dominant and conflicting archetypal theories of change. Theory E is based on the creation of economic value, often expressed as... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
When Donna Dubinsky joined Palm Computing in 1992, the eight-person start-up was one of several companies developing a personal digital assistant. Under her leadership, Palm introduced the first successful PDA, creating a multi-billion dollar market it then View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
whaling industry. Morrell: In the early nineteenth century, it was the whaling ships of New England that offered the kinds of high-risk, high-reward stakes that attracted investors. Lazarow: At the time, 70% of the whaling industry was View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
A New Ecosystem for Business and Society
dominant form of organization has been of a hierarchy. Now and in the future, Clark said, many more people in the organization will be responsible for taking action and initiating strategic activities. As the old hierarchy is beginning to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
by Stuart C. Gilson (John Wiley & Sons) News of major job cuts, bankruptcies, mergers, and buyouts seems to dominate the headlines these days, as global economic forces put pressure on companies to adapt in pursuit of higher market value.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
Innovating at Scale - Course Catalog
When to innovate Class 1: The power of strategic imitation Class 2: Dominant design and 2 nd mover advantages Class 3: First mover advantage Class 4: Exercise on crafting your vision for innovation by asking the right questions Module 2:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A Call to Innovation
the United States will never again dominate the world stage as it did in the latter half of the 20th century. But it can yet again be the “indispensable nation” by “using our mastery of innovation as a force for good in the world.” Kao,... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
LendingClub, and Kabbage—entered the marketplace. They revolutionized the customer experience by providing a streamlined application process and faster decision-making. It seemed as if these new entrants would someday dominate the market,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Feedback
collapse.” It’s a very nice feel-good story, but how cell phones are going to bring a tribal culture dominated by religious extremism, corruption, repression of women, and a lack of access to education and commercial infrastructure into... View Details
Keywords: feedback
- Profile
Evelyne White
accumulate reputation-enhancing ratings on one platform. Compared to a small or midsized city, more entrants will vie for dominance in a large city. In a winner-take-all battle between five players, there's essentially a four-out-of-five... View Details
- 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
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India
Surabhi Bhandari (photo by Susan Young) Surabhi Bhandari (photo by Susan Young) Surabhi Bhandari (MBA 2017) wants to launch a medical technology startup in India that will help revolutionize health care in her native country. “Multinational companies View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History
vicissitudes in history, as with mercantilism—the idea that a state would be better off by making its neighbor poorer—which dominated in Europe for centuries and led to many wars. And then globalization increased in the early 1900s until... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
Research. Kerr is the MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Entrepreneurial Management. “If your group is concentrated, you are making an extra premium over what others in the industry are making” “Every city has a taxicab industry dominated by... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
value and maintaining control of the enterprise—what I call the Rich vs. King dilemma. Rich vs. King is central for two reasons. First, data that I analyzed with Dr. Tim Butler of HBS and that I detail in the book show that Rich and King View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
drains," the proportion of foreign students studying in U.S. institutions of higher learning, or the likelihood that the U.S. will continue to lose its dominance in the development of new high-level ideas and know-how are overblown.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Mar 2007
- Op-Ed
Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity
that Judge Medina flagged a half-century ago seem destined to be repeated. Dynamic Industry Far from being a static industry with ossified giants, private equity features brutal competition and enormous dynamism. Groups that were dominant... View Details