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- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
levels of discretion, while there is less discretion for intermediate market sizes. Finally, a reduction in entry barriers leads unambiguously to an increase in the level of discretion given to the agent, as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
regulation Low consumer power High barriers to entry A dominant business model that is tightly integrated Leadership dominance—usually the impact of founders Conversely, the following characteristics can... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
show that independent retailers were actually harmed by the creation of entry barriers against large stores. Instead of simply reducing the number of new large stores entering a market, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
always have support from the broadest possible portion of the electorate. Most importantly, RCV eliminates the enormous barrier to entry that plurality voting creates. Combined with nonpartisan top-five... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
capitalize on its innovation: strengthening antitrust and intellectual property rights enforcement; improving the legal infrastructure (e.g., producing more corporate lawyers); lowering barriers to entry for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
marketing is not a profession. Second, marketing is not a science. Unlike accounting or the law, marketing is not a profession. Anyone can call himself or herself a marketer. The absence of entry barriers... View Details
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
companies, where decision rights and incentives can be murky, and the effects of any given choice can be tough to pin down. So the authors chose a “lab rat” with fewer barriers to understanding—the venture capital industry. VC firms are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
their weekly Starbucks allowance to fund you. It lowers the barrier for entry for innovators to go from prototype to small-scale production. The second thing it does: It changes the selection process.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
fast second mover can upset the normally strong barriers to entry that a first-mover advantage in a network setting can create. In short, the big lesson learned is that a window of opportunity exists for a... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
by the importance of the issue to the firm's business rather than the scale of the firm's prior lobbying efforts. These results support the existence of significant barriers to entry in the lobbying process.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
This entry into medical instruments was similar to the strategy of Squibb, but took place on a much more modest scale than that of SmithKline or Warner-Lambert. The disposal of the confectionery and household goods followed. In 1984... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
advertising and design, but are also predominant in human-resource-intensive industries such as law, publishing, and consulting. Two other aspects of the industry made advertising an interesting context for research on new venture growth. First, it is an industry with... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
quality. We develop a structural model of product entry that illustrates how the regulator's standard setting rule affects a firm's product quality decision. Counterfactual simulations illustrate that ratcheting down was prevalent in this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
“linguistic expats” who live in their home country yet have to give up their native language in the workplace; “cultural expats” or native speakers of the lingua franca who struggle with organizational values that are more easily transmitted after language View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
come first. The authors have identified six common barriers to change: (1) unclear direction on strategy and values, which often leads to conflicting priorities; (2) senior executives who don't work as a team and haven't committed to a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
a district-industry predicts a greater share of subsequent entrepreneurs will be female. Moreover, higher female ownership of local businesses in related industries (e.g., those sharing similar labor needs, industries related via input-output markets) predict greater... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence
capability of winner-take-all," says Yoffie. Many dot-com companies assumed strong network effects around their businesses, then lost more than a trillion dollars chasing something that didn't exist. Network effects can speed the adoption of a new product as well... View Details
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53561 Innovation, Reallocation and Growth By: Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Harun Alp, Nicholas Bloom, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth, and reallocation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
in the last 150 years of U.S. business history. Barriers to Acting in Time on Energy, and Strategies for Overcoming Them Author:Max Bazerman Publication:Environment (in press). (Adaptation of a paper that originally appeared in K.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace