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- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
analog film market. So instead of focusing only on digital imaging, the obvious substitute for analog photography, Fuji now has the opportunity to branch out into new markets that exploit its specialty...
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- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
the case. First, CEO Singh took steps to keep Khan prints out of the hands of movie thieves. To prevent hijacking of copies heading to theaters, a Fox Star employee accompanied every analog reel released in theaters in India and abroad....
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- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
excelled at analog photography but hasn't been able to make the leap to digital cameras. Boeing, a longtime leader in commercial aircraft, has experienced difficulties in its defense-contracting businesses and has recently stumbled in the...
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- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
scale in the United States and is being introduced in many other countries as well. While transmitting digitally offers many significant advantages over the current analog method, it also requires specially designed broadcast equipment...
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by Peter K. Jacobs
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
well-established firms such as Walgreen's and Rite Aid. We also look at Amazon.com, another upstart that can claim to be "the biggest book store in the world." By looking closely at these companies' use of the Internet— which I believe is the View Details
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by Staff
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
Association for the Advancement of Science to create analogous Web sites in other disciplines. The resulting coalition creates an educational program that none of the partners could have developed alone. Family-owned businesses also...
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by James Austin
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
risks of changing life expectancy, inflation, and interest rates. Course Corrections Merton uses the analogy of an ocean liner sailing from England to New York. When just out of port, there are many unforeseen things to correct for along...
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- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
trying to build institutions is like building sandcastles. There is no foundation," he said, citing the analogy of a bricklayer and an architect. "The ones appearing to do the job initially are bricklayers," he said....
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by Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
locations and introductions to potential customers. A useful analogy comes from the Welfare-to-Work Partnership, a private initiative of large employers stimulated by the White House after the passage of the welfare reform bill in 1996....
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
explores the changes that have taken place in the consumer television receiver market and the challenges faced by leaders of the analog market, like Sony. It is intended for use with the technical note, "Competency-destroying...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
base. But many ventures simply partition markets based on what is identifiable and accessible via purchased customer lists, SIC codes, LinkedIn, Facebook, or the sheer number of cold calls. Sales may be made, but it's the result of a random-walk process View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
call center they saw in Houston. Having identified contractors' need for just-in-time delivery, the team reasoned by analogy that emergency response teams faced a similar problem of quickly reacting to urgent requests from unpredictable...
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- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
always like it, but I explained to them that they ought to have pride enough in their jobs to learn about this piece of equipment and what it did." He created a simple analogy to drive home the need for accurate measurement: If you...
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by Theodore Kinni
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
they have the highest chance of success. Through training as well as motivations, even average players might become rising superstars. "It pays for firms to invest in hiring and developing great managers" In the corporate world, this is View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
"I'm very strong, I can handle this." And he said, "Well, you can't make an omelet without breaking eggs." And I thought, "Oh, could you have a more disgusting analogy for a woman who's giving birth?" I was...
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- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
tapes when everyone else was selling CDs," says Huber, noting that the antiquated nature of his analogy proves his point. “General Motors spent a billion dollars on my tuition.” GM's leadership team heeded the suggestion, not only...
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- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
findings show that people don't click through on advertising on social networks. "A good analogy is to imagine sitting at a table with friends when a stranger pulls up a chair, sits down, and tries to sell you something while you are...
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- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
coupled search processes can dramatically obscure the true impact of design on performance, confounding empirical research. We identify research strategies for tackling this difficulty; discuss population-level advantages of coupled search processes; and highlight...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
Markets By: Menon, Anoop R., and Dennis Yao Abstract—This paper explores how mental models affect the analysis of dynamic strategic interactions. We develop an explanation-based view of mental models founded on a regression analogy and...
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- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
to Cummins. One way to analogize this is to imagine if a fraction of your mortgage interest deduction was disallowed, and that fraction reflected the number of days you spent abroad. Such a disallowance would increase your taxes and...
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by Sean Silverthorne