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- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
will require a new institution that can harness the capabilities of global corporations and, helped by loans from development agencies, directly attack the root causes of poverty. The need for corporate involvement in the fight against... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Explicating the 'Dynamics' in the Dynamic Capabilities Framework By: Jones, Geoffrey, and R. Daniel Wadhwani Abstract—This working paper aims to deepen the scholarly dialogue between strategy and history. It does so by examining how... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
schools and peak the interest of what may become a "Moneyball Generation" of managers and analysts who want to divine and track new measures that explain bottom line performance and provide a competitive edge. They ask whether we are on the verge of an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
represents a capability which is difficult to replicate." Several did suggest potential problems, however, in using speed to preempt the fruits of intellectual property. John Rudd comments, "The practice mentioned by Fox... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
toughest in the world, both because of its size and because of the highly aggressive behavior of competitors. An inward investor must have the strong capability to survive in such an environment. This View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
competition. They do so by initially differentiating themselves to develop distinctive capabilities, but subsequently integrate these capabilities with those of the core units. At the corporate level, the new units demonstrate their value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
process innovation. Prior research has focused on the alignment between new technologies and the internal capabilities of firms to pursue them. I extend the investigation to include external capabilities as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
long ago that live streaming was thought to be a luxury possible only when the capacity of the internet could be expanded to accommodate storage and uploading capabilities demanded by the new services. Now it’s commonplace; we take it for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Reality of Web Services
process for midrange computers. All the parties I talked to felt that productivity had increased, but they talked about the work more as capability development than benefits realization. They were learning how to "speak Web... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet
an explanation of his firm's capabilities in providing manufacturers with an integrated approach to IT outsourcing, a development in a field where specialization has long been the rule of thumb. With this new model, he explained, clients... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
facility in St. Louis, Missouri. Survey responses show that immigrants value networking capabilities in CIC more than natives, and the networks developed by immigrants at CIC tend to be larger. Immigrants report substantially greater... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
in great part on the ability to innovate. The perennial challenge, then, is to build an organization capable of innovating again and again. Traditional, direction-setting leadership can work well when the solution to a problem is known... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
the resource-based view of the firm, we examine how teams can develop a knowledge-integration capability to dynamically integrate members' resources into higher performance. We distinguish among three sets of resources: relational,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
challenges facing managers. The experience of Sweden-based industrial group Cardo, which built its executive management program from scratch, shows how organizations can unleash the leadership capabilities required to drive transformation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
became clear that the limitations of our conceptualizations of the familiarity-attraction link, as well as the limitations of prior research, were masking a set of higher order principles capable of integrating these diverse... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
Finally we look at the role of reverse engineering in the development of capabilities and how it enhances a firm's absorptive capabilities. It is intended to be used as a background reading for the case "From Imitation to Innovation:... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
rather than problems with women's capabilities and commitment. The following sections explore these widely held beliefs about women's investment in, commitment to, and capability to run substantial... View Details
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
tariffs—equivalent to taxes—we are currently witnessing.) It reflects the fact that “global” market freedom for capital and goods may work, but market freedom for labor does not. As a result, labor suffers at the expense of the owners of capital and productive View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
Microsystems, is a futurist who had it right: ‘Privacy? Get over it!” Did Scott McNeely have a point? Has the issue been rendered moot by the very nature of information technology itself and the possibility that developers of security devices are losing the race to... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
the risks are no longer connected to individuals who possess the incentive, power and capability to take action and manage the risks." Stephen Basikoti agreed, noting that "creditors have already shown themselves incapable of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett