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- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
these processes are unfolding not just in the mainstream business sector but in society writ large and even in politics and civil society," says Khanna. Khanna's book Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
users and also spreads its content by algorithm. YouTube mainstreamed user-generated content, which had a vibe so different from television that the measurement services did not count YouTube as TV. Although much of its content is longer,... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 18 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers
everyone into the mainstream banking system, the authors suggest. “A blanket push for people to become banked is maybe not the policy response that is going to be the most effective for helping these consumers,” Williams says. Related... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
refinements or radical breakthroughs, improve the performance of established products and services along the dimensions that mainstream customers in major markets historically have valued. Examples: a microprocessor that enables personal... View Details
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
What do Porsche fanatics, a video game hater, and a person who cooked two weeks' worth of meals in a rice cooker have in common? They are all "extreme consumers"—those whose tastes are so out there that mainstream market researchers tend... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
neglected. This trend was exacerbated as research inside the academy moved more toward large computerized databases. Leadership largely dropped off the agenda in mainstream academic institutions. It is ironic, though. If we go back to the... View Details
- 03 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Confronting Racism in AI 'Creates a Better Future for All of Us'
business leaders of mainstream companies? Turner: Over the years, I’ve heard plenty. They fall in three categories: expense, denial, and blame. First, the expense myth comes up most often with people claiming that “diversity is expensive”... View Details
Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
five years, or 18.5 percent of the total by then. “All brands, big and small, are firmly in social media today,” says Jill J. Avery, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. “Social media has become a mainstream tactic.” Marketing... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
results. Cramming explains why so many disruptive innovations originate from within incumbents but are ultimately commercialized by separate organizations. When a firm develops the germ of a disruptive idea, it often falls prey to the temptation to cram that... View Details
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
requirement that’s expected to go into effect next year. How is this wave of regulation going to affect the market? Kominers: Some regulation is probably good for the industry because in order for crypto to reach mainstream adoption and... View Details
- 24 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
such highly used software can lead to security issues existing in the code base for more than 20 years, as was the case with PuTTY SSH. From hobby to mainstream Over the past 20 years, FOSS has moved from the domain of hobbyists and... View Details
- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
movement built a reputation for Costa Rica as a natural paradise and conservation hub,” Giacomin observes. “At the same time, local actors took advantage of this brand identity to build mainstream tourist facilities that weren’t in line... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
business practitioners in writing, the best bet may be to write articles for industry trade magazines, mainstream business journals, or op-eds for newspapers, all of which are hurting for good content these days. Researchers who don’t... View Details
- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
it into their mainstream management practices. Adaptation. This can be an important issue for businesses. Corporations need to decide whether their social enterprise efforts are driven out of the existing corporate structure or if they... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
managerial practices. Chandlerian analysis suddenly went from a "fashion" to becoming the mainstream approach to business and economic history. Young scholars back then studied railway entrepreneurs just as today we follow Steve... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Turning High Potential into Real Reward
ultimate product that they can actually build. They move from that initial starting point to their ultimate objective with remarkable efficiency. These entrepreneurs understand both the ultimate mainstream customer and the immediate... View Details
- 10 Dec 2007
- HBS Case
One Laptop per Child
evolution of "action pricing"—setting an audacious price goal and endeavoring to meet it. The laptop typifies technological breakthroughs that influence the mainstream in ways that could have large potential impact. The... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
environmental damage and climate change over the last two centuries. The time has come for mainstream business history to incorporate the environmental impact of business in its agenda." Other research agenda topics identified by... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 03 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility
the need for change, innovate by developing new standards and certification systems, and orchestrate the diffusion of these changes to have an impact. What is different now is that the movement that they launched is gaining increased momentum, as influential View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
really done much in the mainstream academic literature in my field.” The team developed a system to identify and categorize moments when an interviewee tried to avoid a distressing feeling by hesitating, stumbling, or changing the topic,... View Details