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- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
results illustrate how firms redesign their organizational structure through a set of complementary choices in response to changes in their environment. We discuss several possible interpretations of these changes. Managing Risk in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
interests that later proved complementary when it came to carving up iTrust management responsibilities. Agarwala grew up in Calcutta, the original capital of India during British colonial rule, dreaming of playing cricket. He ultimately... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
double their profits—especially retailers of products with short life cycles, such as clothing, consumer electronics, books, and music. But despite the potentially high payoff—and a commonly accepted belief among retailers that early sales are a View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
days, because consumers' demand for information about goods and services tends to be inelastic. As the model illustrates, additional forces drive industry change as well. Alternatives to advertising, known as substitutes in Porter's... View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
term. AI automations of clinical documentation offer significant benefits for physician productivity and well-being. However, to ensure AI does more good than harm, complementary changes to financial... View Details
- 18 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
SIPs in 2021
mayhem, but it is also a waste of very good ideas that may never see the light of day.” Partnerships, she says, are even more complicated than marriages. The pressures from courting investors, managing employees, speaking to the public,... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
other companies’ reviews), and Google reviews has grown quicker than Yelp and TripAdvisor during the period in which they excluded these (and other) reviews providers. Overall, these results shed light on platform strategy: tying has the potential to facilitate entry... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
partners. They believe it is possible to get it "right the first time" and are surprised and upset when things don't go according to plan. Yet firms are rarely good at collaboration in their initial efforts. Leading firms recognize this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Fast Answer
Global Climate Change
can provide a good sense of what has been done in a topical area including both practically and theoretically. These three databases are useful for that purpose. They covers various topics in areas of business and climage change. View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
diversity-performance relationship in teams, while research on knowledge and practice explores the situated activities and logics of diverse experts in great depth. Both streams thus shed light on team diversity, offering complementary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
203's 85% threshold to 70%. Like the middle-ground approach on staggered boards, this amendment-to a single number-would also represent good policy: facilitating high-premium offers that attract a supermajority of disinterested shares,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
change, "e-selling" was the stand-in. E-buying—electronically procuring goods like pencils, staples, and toilet paper—is a simpler process, and less risky to adopt. E-selling entails a much more complex group of products and requires... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
of the typical business school faculty member today. So we need either to broaden the skill base of current faculty or to bring in complementary skills from adjuncts, alumni, and practicing managers. The third barrier is the question of... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
modular architectures, and good stewardship of legacy systems. It rests on multiple, complementary platforms. It requires intellectual property rights to be present, but not too strong. Finally, it requires... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
review two areas of common interest—altruism and group-based discrimination—which demonstrate this gap yet also reveal ways in which the two approaches might be seen as complementary rather than contradictory. The Effect of Safe... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
currently engages over 1,000 young Nigerians. AACE Foods sources from 10,000 farmers and processes spices, seasonings, and complementary food for local markets and export. We want to ensure that Africans have access to nutritious,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
continue to thank us for the information we provide, which confirms there is a real need out there. What's been most surprising? Even with a good idea, it's hard to figure out how to make money. What's the biggest takeaway? There's never... View Details
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
barriers to entry into the business. Besides enabling many Chinese branded manufacturers to enter the business, the grey market in components unleashed a complementary market of "Shanzhai" makers. Together these firms captured a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
The truism “opposites attract” is something everyone has heard, but it’s forgotten in amateur matchmaking. People base their setups on similarities, not complementary differences. That creates commonality but no spark. You may think you... View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
clear objective. If you don't have a good fix on your destination—be it a product or service, a strategic or competitive outcome, or anything else—you may as well not start the journey. For a lot of your work, though, this so-called... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin