Fragmentation - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 May 2023
What Do You Think?

How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?

development—for some form of oversight. How effective can such a fragmented approach be to the regulation of a phenomenon that doesn’t respect borders? The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act represents the most extensive... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Technology

08 Mar 2021
In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Sep 2012
Working Paper Summaries

IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property

Keywords: by Joachim Henkel, Carliss Y. Baldwin & Willy C. Shih

07 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

Ghosh says, if start-ups often manage to secure a good team and good financing, they face dozens of lower-cost competitors and fragmented customer demand.) Funding has the potential to turn a little failure into an enormous one. "The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side

out, the results suggest that, overall, very high levels of time pressure should be avoided if you want to foster creativity on a consistent basis. However, if a time crunch is absolutely unavoidable, managers can try to preserve creativity by protecting people from... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Fine Arts

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Aligning Reimbursement with Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

that rewards good outcomes is far preferable to our current fee-for-service reimbursement that rewards the volume of services instead of value, and has been a major contributor to the relentless rise of health care costs. Fee-for-service also reinforces View Details

13 Dec 2022
HBS Seminar

Christine Beckman, USC Price School of Public Policy

20 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

these three roles also comes with its own set of traps, a point Battilana stresses when talking to action-driven students: Among agitators: fragmented agitation—triggering multiple areas of outrage that can’t work together as a cohesive... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

dramatically improves outcomes and controls health care costs. By expanding strategically and integrating with community providers, those already renowned for innovation and excellence and patient care can widen access, improve treatments, and help reduce View Details

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

It’s never been easy to make money in the restaurant industry. A highly fragmented sector dominated by 70 percent independent owners and operators, the average restaurant’s annual revenue hovers around $1 million and generates an... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

that generate positive spillovers inside firms, while seeking to understand how technology is changing the ability to fragment work beyond traditional organizational boundaries. In addition to his position at HBS, Professor Stanton is a... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

interested me. The timing was right. You've been credited with turning Martha Stewart Living into a multimedia corporation. What was it like when you first arrived in 1993? When I met Martha she had various fragmented businesses and... View Details

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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

benefits for value. To date, health IT has been siloed in its functions, services, and interoperability. Today’s IT systems reflect the fragmented legacy structure of care delivery in general, as well limits of IT capabilities. The... View Details

09 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?

to be affected by the crisis. In a way, the effects are for every firm in the world because we are talking about the future of globalization, and the potential fragmentation of lots of global markets and the potential for global... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Energy

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

Q: The Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice grew out of a conference of top scholars held at Harvard Business School in 2008 as part of the School's Centennial celebration. How did you bring people together? A: Despite the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

28 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

B if you can produce a product, manage a sales force, or produce the capital. On the negative side, politicians have whipped up caste frenzy. A lot of voting in India happens along caste lines in so-called vote banks. And so politics has become View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

competitors in geographically fragmented industries; to extend into new products or markets; as a substitute for R&D; and to exploit eroding industry boundaries by inventing an industry. Despite the massive number of books and... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

Without such a framework, these efforts are likely to be fragmented and difficult to integrate. At Microsoft, this role is performed by its programming model, which describes the interfaces through which its software components can be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

paradigm behind global value chains, generally a production network, suggests that firms should outsource to the countries with the lowest overall costs. (Firms could potentially source particular intermediate inputs from only one country.) Outsourcing, the View Details