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- 19 Mar 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’
Science article titled "Language Matters: Status Lost and Achieved Status Distinctions in Global Organizations," Neeley interviewed workers at a $25 billion Paris-based high-tech company about its two-year-old English-only... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 08 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Colloquium: The Future of Social Enterprise
changing the way that funders, practitioners, scholars, and organizations measure performance. Our paper traces a growing pool of potential funding sources to solve social problems, much of it stemming from an intergenerational transfer of wealth and new wealth from... View Details
Keywords: Re: V. Kasturi Rangan & Dutch Leonard
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
it is in other markets." We're not talking about demand for potato chips. This is the kind of demand that becomes an obsession.— Debora Spar There are both low- and high-tech supplies of children, Spar continued. With ten million... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?
etc.” Several responses questioned whether there was damage to the consumer, often at issue in antitrust. As Shoshanna Zuboff pointed out, in “free” high-tech services, the consumer benefits and resulting satisfaction are highly visible;... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
do I get there?" For their study, O'Mahony and Bechky surveyed two strikingly different groups: high-tech contractors and film crew members. While roles in the film industry tend to be more fixed—a key grip on one project will most... View Details
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
Microsoft caused by (2) a defense personally led by Bill Gates and (3) by the failure of the company's board to provide counsel. In the case of a high-tech company where significant ownership rests in the hands of management (e.g... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Oct 2001
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the Rubble
necessarily a panacea for the world's ills. In the new economy, all of the world was supposed to follow the trail laid down by the United States. It was a trail dominated by high-tech firms, by financial firms, by the information-based... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 28 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home
The devastating Japanese earthquakes sent aftershocks of another kind to the economy: the potential disruption of the flow of goods from Japanese suppliers to US high-tech manufacturers. But the Obama administration and domestic companies... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 29 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’
high-tech equivalents of the yard sale—electronic auction sites—bring Simplifiers together with those who are yet to catch the habit. This growing segment of Simplifiers presents a challenge to marketers. These are well-off people who... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
(One cure for stock option abuse, say proponents, is to change accounting rules so that option grants are reflected in a company's principal financial statements. High-tech start-ups blister at that idea, saying it would harm their... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
exported—those involving personal services such as face-to-face retailing and repair work. The Wal-Martization of work in the U.S. is emphasized while the fastest-growing types of service jobs in medicine, high-tech maintenance and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
new book, Platform Leadership, Annabelle Gawer and Michael Cusumano offer an interesting exploration of ways in which high-tech firms such as Microsoft, Cisco, and Intel have established commanding positions in software, Internet... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
research fast-growing, high-tech firms. Q: What are some of the challenges in the future for entrepreneurship? A: Technology is enabling firms to project a presence in places that once—in the days of steamship travel—only huge companies... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
perfect natural experiment to explore. With the Y2K bubble in the early 2000s, the quota of H1-B visas first increased and then fell sharply, initially expanding and then limiting immigration by skilled workers into the United States. That shock not only affected View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
different, yet effective diversity efforts, each one closely aligned with the unique character of the particular firm. "Part of the key to an organization's success was adopting a model that worked well in its particular culture," Thomas explains. As a View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
sharper increases in labor productivity. The ethnic transfer mechanism is especially strong in high-tech industries and among Chinese economies. The findings suggest channels for transferring codified and tacit knowledge partly shape the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
process often sparks ideas that lead to creation of innovative new products, Shih explains. So when American companies allow the production of high-tech products like televisions and memory chips to disappear from the local landscape,... View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
Stick to the Strategy or Make the Sale? A Manufacturer of High-tech Streetlights Considers an Exception to Its New Subscription Model By: Weiss, Mitchell Abstract—A manufacturer of high-tech streetlights... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
particular industry—both software engineers and fashion models are considered "specialized"—but 60 percent of the visas go to workers who specialize in science, engineering, and high-tech occupations. Top recipients of H-1B visas include... View Details