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- 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
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY
don’t think about pay on a day-to-day basis. Time Pressure Fuels Creativity. People are least creative when they’re fighting the clock “on a treadmill,” having a fragmented day that doesn’t allow them to concentrate on a single important... View Details
- 01 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
stability's sake. "They remain fragmented due to Italian tradition," he says. "Most of these families have been producing cheese for centuries and take pride in what they do, resisting becoming part of larger... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
fragmented network of units that are hard to integrate. Q: You mentioned earlier the application of your ideas to social problems. How has your understanding of domestic and international competition given you insights into these matters?... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
He believes the industry’s fragmented nature and massive scale, which combine to create high levels of risk aversion, have been a barrier. “No American general contractor has greater than a one percent share of the trillion-dollar... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
population has private health insurance, mostly as a corporate benefit. While the government introduced universal coverage in 2018, implementation has been slow. Dawi aims to meet primary care needs for Egypt’s highly fragmented middle... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
longer take pride and satisfaction in the one little fragment that is his part of the whole ball of wax.” And if money is at the root of much evil, then business inevitably carries a taint. In MacDonald’s fiction, business is a kind of... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
switching costs, multihoming is hard, which makes it complicated for firms or individual users to switch from one platform to another. The next criterion we identify is relatively homogenous products and a lack of identifiable niches. The more heterogeneous the market,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Sustainability Inside Out) Slides (pdf) Saturday, June 1, 2024 War and Peace: Geopolitics and the Global Economy Professor Rawi Abdelal 10:00–11:15 a.m. EDT + More Info – Less Info The constant changing of the geopolitical landscape is undermining the current era of... View Details
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
more than 3,000 American transnationals suggests that JVs are falling out of favor. Why? Increasing forces of globalization such as increasingly fragmented production processes make the decision not to collaborate pay off. That's one... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 07 Dec 2022
- News
Putting Patients First
DaVita, which is focused on kidney care, differentiates itself, Rodriguez notes that his company's solution is a salve for a fragmented health care market. "Our patient population is unique enough that we can take care of the entire... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
globalization in the transition from socialism to capitalism. Renewing Unilever Transformation and Tradition by Geoffrey Jones (Oxford University Press) Professor Jones, a business historian, looks at Unilever’s decades-old transformation from View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the quality of food in Nigeria
mindsets among the local populace—that ‘Made in Nigeria’ products, especially food, are high quality and suitable for consumption—has proved difficult,” says Nwuneli. In addition, fragmented value chains, which are inefficient,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Common Knowledge
receive free access to their data and control how it is shared. The Why: Patient data is often fragmented across electronic medical record systems, providers, and categories. But recent changes to the laws governing medical records have... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
guided by the invisible hand of the stock market. In Germany alone, some 2,500 companies that would qualify to go public are not listed on any exchange." In rectifying that problem, Europe must deal with another one of considerable importance—its capital markets... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 11 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Care for the Elderly: Process is More Important Than the Destination
service engagement, curation and advisory platform, back in China. We have learned first-hand that this is still a forming and fragmented market where customers have need but not yet demand. There is a lack of a dedicated channel for this... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 02 Sep 2022
- News
Strength in Numbers
Mark Verdi, Jan Swartz, and Rob Swartz Jan and Rob Swartz and Mark Verdi (all MBA 1996) and Mark’s wife, Gina, have witnessed, firsthand, the negative effects of our nation’s disjointed approach toward the treatment of mental illness. “It’s View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
forthcoming book Digital Marketing (John Wiley & Sons), edited by Jerry Wind and Vijay Mahajan, John Deighton and coauthor Patrick Barwise of the London Business School identify three qualities that distinguish the Web from other mass media. First, the Web View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- Web
Melvin Edwards Searching for the Word 1989/2019 | About
Melvin Edwards moved to New York in 1967. In 1970, he became the first African American sculptor to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and in 1978 he had a retrospective at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Best known for his Lynch View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
older or retired to share my good fortune," says Rauner, managing principal of Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner, Inc. (GTCR), a Chicago-based private equity firm that specializes in acquiring and consolidating service businesses in highly View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner