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- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
2011 Abstract The contribution of culture to organizational performance is both substantial and quantifiable. This book presents the results of field research that demonstrates how an effective culture can account for up to half of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
of two software product platforms through the modeling lens of design structure matrices (DSMs) and design rule theory. Our analysis shows that DSM models and options theory can explain how real-world modularization activities in one case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W18242 When Does a Platform Create Value by Limiting Choice? Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract We present a theory for why it might be rational for a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
suggested that the benefit of separating the new venture had to do with securing resources for it. However, our research found that parent organizations invested roughly the same amount in integrated ventures as they did in independent ones. What View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Robin S. Lee Publication:Journal of Economics and Management Strategy (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze platform competition for content in the presence of strategic interactions between content distributors and... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
major technologies, looking across 55 countries, from 1870 to 2000. We find that greater depth in financial markets leads to faster technology diffusion for more capital-intensive technologies, but only in periods closer to the invention of the technology. In fact, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
and switching costs in platform markets, entrants generally must offer revolutionary functionality. We explore a second entry path that does not rely upon Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
relationship between FDI and growth. We use 'quality' to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project characteristics which are often hard to measure. Hence,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
"Carolinas Healthcare employs 120 staff working on data analytics, a big strategic investment but a major potential point of differentiation in the quest to both cut costs and improve patient outcomes" Quelch says. Other... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
money to invest. Associate Professor Ramana Nanda further differentiates between crowdfunding through donations or lending and equity crowdfunding. In the case of donations, which is currently much more common, funders expect little if... View Details
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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
Explore how strategy is generated by an organization’s purpose and competitive context. Differentiate each component of a business’s architecture and diagnose misalignments in the system. Highlights Strategy, Organizational Objectives and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Business of Love
Their how-we-met story is the model—and the marketing—for the company, which launched as a website in late 2014. “We know this works,” says Jess Deckinger. Their love story is one of the differentiators that the Deckingers hope will set... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
was in the midst of a brand revitalization program. Landor Associates, a leading brand consultancy, had identified three areas of concern: the shrinking differentiation opportunity provided by the boutique hotel positioning, consumers'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
such a way that talent is developed along with the business. Publisher's link: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0085 August 2013 International Journal of Industrial Organization Information and Two-Sided View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
management of the pace of technological substitution by providing insights on complementarities between technologies and horizontally differentiated human capital Download working paper:... View Details
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
benefits of digital transformation and platform plays, or deliver a differentiated end-to-end customer experience. Another challenge we’ve seen for managers is that if they want to attract and retain top... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
differentiate itself from the ‘stuffy, hierarchical’ East Coast. I see this today when I talk to entrepreneurs trying to raise money on both coasts. I hear again and again how fast things happen on the West Coast and how long it takes for... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
to the fact that anyone can access it from any computer as long as they have a browser, she said. Her company, Desktop.com, is building an integrated Internet desktop services platform and product in much the same spirit, to allow people... View Details
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
also call it an audaciously big bet on an unproven format in an ever-crowded market of streaming content. With an April 6, 2020, launch, Whitman and Katzenberg have 20 months and $1 billion to build the whole thing from scratch—from a full catalog of original content... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
Implementing a 'Social Way' for Global Mining The mining giant Anglo American attempts to differentiate itself through its social performance, yet public expectations are still growing. Maintaining a "social license" to operate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne