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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
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design rules. Thus, the computer industry was transformed from a quasi monopoly (dominated by IBM) into a large modular "cluster" of related subindustries, a development made... View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light
exploiting inefficiencies in the legal system regarding how we define and enforce intellectual property rights." Add to those inefficiencies the fact that patents are not like other kinds of property,... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
controls, employment at target establishments declines 3% over two years post buyout and 6% over five years. The job losses are concentrated among public-to-private buyouts and transactions involving firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
them. So, today we find ourselves at a crossroads. We can either "go back to normal" by relying on existing institutions and on the neoliberal economic model. Or we can dare to rethink and reform our... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
ones. Findings: Our key counterintuitive finding is that Japanese and American founders of entrepreneurial firms are more similar than is often suggested. We first find that in both Japan and the U.S.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
that we were enabling people to scale up, to be the platform for this exchange and to help partnerships where corporates could find not-for-profits, not-for-profits could find donors, so that the whole sector could grow. Public View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen by stakeholders to mediate organizational goals (e.g., profits) View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
mutual funds will adopt our approach. We'd love to work with such a service to help make this information available to investors at large. Q: In your analysis you relied rather heavily on Spectrum and other... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
common resources, such as advertising or production capacity, across activities. Within the literature on corporate strategy, this tension between focus and breadth is reconciled by the concept of related... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Arjun Chopra
production systems on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for 10 of the top 20 Global financial institutions), managed over 200M hours of uptime in the public cloud and was recognized as... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
impact, especially on practitioners. A central reason is that Porter addresses very specific needs of different practitioner constituencies, providing a framework and actionable ideas they could easily View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
Chapman Wood, George Westerman, and Charles A. O'Reilly III Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change (forthcoming) Abstract This article empirically explores the relations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
work—rather than a sporadic trip to the office could prove invaluable in designing flows in and out of a city’s center. Another example: Designers developing new infrastructure... View Details
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
coevolutionary model of technological frames and the technology life cycle to explain sources of variation in the era of ferment, conditions under which a dominant design may be achieved, the underlying... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
from organizational behavior, social psychology, and sociology from 1998 to 2010 that has already documented positive findings in relation to diversity. We discuss this research using two broad categories:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
product and service experiences that exceed customer expectations and the offerings of competitors. What's the secret? Success in business as well as magic has less to do with... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
company whose management engaged in a massive accounting fraud. ChuoAoyama was PwC's Japanese affiliate and one of Japan's largest audit firms. In May 2006, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
respect to designing and maintaining their costing systems, including the need to keep the costing system in line with the business processes of the firm throughout its life... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
that may bias our decisions, and we should proactively change the system so that we naturally make better decisions.” Related Reading: Regulators Ease Up on Companies... View Details
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
examining a unique dataset consisting of over 150,000 pages of documents relating to 102 business disputes. We find that the level of contractual detail affects the type of dispute resolution approach that is adopted when conflict arises,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace