Barrier To Entry - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

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true? As it turned out, good teams, which value communication, report more errors. In a recent research paper Edmondson and doctoral student Sara Singer explore this and other hidden barriers to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

Schering-Plough filed a lawsuit accusing Upsher-Smith of violating Schering-Plough's patent. The companies reached an out-of-court settlement in which Upsher-Smith agreed to delay its entry into the market,... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

29 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

productivity. Ideally, you need to make your technical staff aware of the tradeoffs and the technical/competitive landscape without building barriers to creativity. One thing... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

new industries in Japan are things like highly skilled specialist personnel; a lack of risk capital because of heavily controlled financial markets; barriers to commercializing university research; and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

where most players are losing money but capturing the imagination of the industry. But it's unclear how you make money on Wi-Fi. For example, the service-provider model would be difficult, he said, because it would be hard to create View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

because they aren’t interested. “It’s simply that it was too costly for them to do so,” says Pons. Lowering the barriers even slightly had a dramatic impact on voter turnout and engagement. What’s more, a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

22 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore

one has long been the burning question for clients and their agencies," says Alvin J. Silk, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. "Hence the famous saying attributed in US advertising circles View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

"someone else." All around the world, as trade barriers continue to fall, and capital markets become more integrated, restructuring is becoming a daily event, and every manager can benefit from... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

intones, "How do you prepare to deal with the unexpected that's coming up? Get there early, set the place up. Read every signal you can get. So it's intuitive, but it's also systematic." Those two qualities—systematic... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

capital and labor. Opportunity-seeking entrepreneurs are plentiful: They can gain access to human and financial capital; they can overcome barriers to entry; and they can... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

products performed the same function (extending the life of the metal-working fluid by eliminating bacteria) and both had the same channel entry point (the formulators), Rohm and Haas had used the same channel. But the end-use market for... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

04 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

addition, following China's entry into the WTO and the end of its five-year protection period, foreign competition, such as Best Buy, has entered the market and is bound to change the competitive landscape.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

task force to interview 250 key staff about the company's strengths and barriers to achieving a new direction. This engagement enabled our leaders to: forge demanding goals... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

institutional details necessarily implies that the primary research methodology will be in depth and field based rather than broader and large sample statistical analysis. These barriers to research,... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

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