Fragmentation - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Dec 2001
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?

fragmented market ..." Citing the popularity of Linux at the server level, Eckel points out that "what that 800 lb. Gorilla (MS) is fighting against is a guerrilla army that is free." These comments reflect general beliefs... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

“Setting up this ecosystem is better than a company trying to set up a point solution and directly train and hire people,” Kaplan says. “Without the intervention of a catalyst, the existing set of fragmented connections would have stayed... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

and successful systems will make sure that customers benefit from marketing relationships as much as firms do. Competition and brand reputations have traditionally been the market's way of providing consumers with a valuable marketing environment. However, the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks

the music that originally accompanied the shark footage in the documentary, a track called “Sharks,” which was deemed ominous by an independent music expert, who described it as “modal with only fragments of melody,” and who noted “a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Media & Broadcasting

28 May 2012
Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

not force the disparate CSR programs into their business strategies. Instead, the goal should be to "bring discipline and structure to the many fragmented components. [The] components will in some cases support the core strategy and in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?

expensive process of selling and marketing to schools, said Kim, whereby every sale is done in person. Kalliarekos commented on the massive confusion about the industry in general. "Is there an education industry?" he asked, noting the huge scale and View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Education

24 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 24

and challenging economic conditions, CarMax flourished and expanded through the economic crisis. Fiscal 2012 revenue reached $10.5 billion and net income, a record $413 million. However, CarMax still only accounted for less than 3% of the View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

Citizens also did not like the nationalists' anti-Russian, pro-European content. "Put most simply," Abdelal writes, "Belarus's fragmented national identity allowed economics to influence the foreign policy orientation of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Aug 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

liability encourage the practice of "overly-safe" and expensive medicine, (9) providers have fragmented and often incomplete information, and (10) consumers either have too little information with which to make rational... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

25 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 25

transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Excessive fragmentation of IP address blocks causes growth in the Internet's routing table, which is socially costly, so an IP address... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

cleaner. The business, in other words, was highly fragmented and, because of repeat sales, "an annuity." In combination, those traits held the promise of building what Krasnow called "a very big company in an industry that... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

14 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 14

Disney or Pixar. Instead, anime producers are locked into a highly fragmented domestic market, dominated by content distributors (TV stations and DVD companies) and advertising agencies. We argue that Japan has to adopt legislation in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The VC Quandary: Too Much Money

narrow sub-sectors, companies designing very specific types of software, for example. "You'll get market fragmentation and specialization," he said. "Software-only (funds) turned out to be a great bet," Sahlman said.... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Financial Services

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications

companies. For years, he said, the media industry has operated in a very fragmented economic structure that gave an individual company "a perverse incentive to defend its territory instead of attacking globally." That is coming... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting

04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

design, competing interests, global health, personalized medicine, residential care, and concierge medicine, among others—and structures what has been a highly fragmented research area into a coherent scientific discipline. The Handbook... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

seemed right—so what did hold women back? One of the things I was good at was taking fragments of what I found and creating a framework. Well, I had an opportunity to work on a program for women in medicine. I also worked on a program for... View Details

Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

the Domini Index (investments in socially responsible mutual funds) realized a 13 percent return, and the S&P 500 returned 11 percent. The average returns of traditional angel investing are hard to determine given the fragmented... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

17 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

shopping trips, both online and in-store, become more targeted and baskets shrink, retail continues to fragment between brick-and-mortar stores and ecommerce. As consumers, too, fragment along income lines,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

to succeed, he said: fragmented buyers and sellers ("If people have other ways to meet, it won't work."); an inefficient existing supply chain; and, most important, knowledge of the industry domain. Functional hubs, on the other... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses Authors:Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz Abstract We consider market rules for the transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Excessive View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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