Dominance - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

society) than any other development in the past decade. The western dominated economy and society of the past century has yielded way to a new global century, in which no one country or region enjoys an undisputed advantage. Instead, we... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

with social media information. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53102 forthcoming Journal of Finance Brokers vs. Retail Investors: Conflicting Interests and Dominated Products By: Egan, Mark Abstract—I... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Mercadal “We use a detailed dataset on electricity transactions to investigate the impact of market-based deregulation in the context of the United States electricity sector. We find that the increase in markups dominates despite modest... View Details

02 Dec 2019
What Do You Think?

How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?

dominant cultural traits and prevailing operating climate.” Anna Johnson recommended: “We need to flip the switch on dissent, delay, and accountability by enabling leadership to take a long view. Want to do better? Try asking your people... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

racial, sexual, or otherwise.” She noted that in Silicon Valley, which is dominated by wealthy, white males, major technology firms are creating positions like “chief diversity officer” and are commissioning reports on the state of the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Apr 2015
What Do You Think?

Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

that could be manipulated in non-threatening ways on a computer screen. Scott likes to say that Intuit had 47th mover advantage, in part because it adopted a strategy that identified the pencil as the company's most important competitor. As a result, Intuit has View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

should, intervene to control economic fluctuations when economies got stuck in a suboptimal rut. In decades after World War II, econometric and policy-oriented forecasting came to dominate the field. Q: What are you working on next? A: I... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 7

Gardner Abstract Hierarchies are pervasive in groups, generally providing clear guidelines for the dominance and deference behaviors that members are expected to show based on their relative ranks. But what happens when team members... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

sell when somebody was doing well and clean up on the profit." 46 DEC reigned as the second largest computer company in the world after IBM and the dominant player in the minicomputer industry. 47 "[I]t was a sea change in the attitudes... View Details

02 Nov 2020
What Do You Think?

Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

billion in sales and a dominant share of the office supply superstore industry—but only a 6 to 8 percent share of the overall office products market. I remember it well. I was the member of Office Depot’s board acting as the liaison to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service

08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

activity between strategic (operating firms) and financial (private equity) acquirers. What are the economic factors that drive either financial or strategic buyers to dominant positions in M&A activity? We introduce debt market... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Dec 2015
Research Event

When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms

run on Microsoft’s Windows platform, was the dominant web browser in the 1990s until squashed by Microsoft’s own Internet Explorer. In February 2015 there was the launch of Meerkat, an app that lets users broadcast live streaming video... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Technology; Web Services

05 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction

time tweaking corporate America with this campaign, the scenario they describe is, in reality, impossible. First, let's understand why the plurality standard dominates director voting. Corporations' internal affairs, including the... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey

20 May 2019
Blog Post

Makeup: How Kenya Hunt Transformed Her Career Through Cosmetics

degree, Kenya dove into career research, confident that there was a cosmetics firm out there that would appreciate her ability to conduct R&D – a foot in the door that could lead to more advanced executive positions. She learned that two major firms View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

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Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity

Courtney McCluney Courtney L. McCluney is an assistant professor in organizational behavior at the ILR School at Cornell. Dr. McCluney’s research investigates marginalization, or practices within organizations, institutions, and society that maintain inequality between... View Details

03 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Carol Fishman Cohen (MBA 1985) On Getting Back into the Workforce

mom, work dominates my life now. I'm an empty-nester, so I have a lot of freedom to calibrate my schedule according to work priorities. I look at work/life balance over the course of a lifetime and not in the day-to-day or even the... 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 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Developing the Global Leader

world." Being able to overcome the dominant thinking at headquarters. "Leadership has to lean in favor of nondominant thinking," says George. "That requires a tremendous amount of intercultural empathy and a passion... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 1, 2006

students to debate the company's concept, its strategic decision on how quickly it would like to grow, and some key decisions on its supply chain. At the time of the case (2006), small "mom-and-pop" stores still dominated Indian... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jul 2006
Op-Ed

Enron Jury Sent the Right Message

of corporate fraud, considerations of intent dominate the details of compliance or noncompliance with arcane legal rules. This is the right message to send to the American business community. The behavior that became so widespread and... View Details

Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter

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