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- 04 May 2021
- Book
Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer
“But, do you think that was standard operating procedure? No! What happened that day is that the two blue shirts found it in their hearts to do this, and felt they had the latitude to do it.” Stopping Best Buy’s freefall Creating such a... View Details
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?
anticipate that it will continue indefinitely unless derailed by possible but unlikely international conflicts. At the core of Asian economic development is its business leadership—managers and entrepreneurs who sustain and create Asian... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
Campbell. “It’s a story about what the limits are to scaling this high-empowerment model, and what are the limits to a model where it’s all about standardization and data.” A model of empowerment For decades after its founding in 1980,... View Details
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web Author:Marco Iansiti Abstract Economic analysis often reviews the role of principles—such as respect for intellectual property rights—in driving innovation.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
across industries and the concomitant demands for value creation engender variations in firms’ collaborative behaviors. On average, firms in technologically dynamic industries pursue more-open ego networks, which fosters access to new and diverse resources that help... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
Aviram-billionaires, the company looked set to become the de facto standard for vision-based autonomous and ultimately self-driving cars. This case explores the company's competitive position, the challenges of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Activity-Based Costing
$0.80) for processing customer orders, $35.20 (44 by $0.80) for handling inquiries, and $40 (50 by $0.80) for performing credit checks. Once you have calculated these standard rates, you can apply them in real time to assign costs to... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
- 24 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 24
Canadian regulators' decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The Canadian decision in 2005 to adopt IFRS is particularly interesting because Canada had well-developed domestic accounting View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
trillion hedge fund industry to police itself with voluntary standards and codes. Codes of conduct and self-regulation programs are growing in popularity, but are these initiatives just window dressing to appease critics and deter... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
highlight the traits of cities (e.g., size, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these features (e.g., the localization of entrepreneurial finance).... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
If average profitability is under pressure in many industries influenced by the Internet, it becomes all the more important for individual companies to set themselves apart from the pack—to be more profitable than the average performer. The only way to do so is by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
2019 New York: PublicAffairs Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract— Creative Construction tackles the myth that larger enterprises are inherently incapable of transformative innovation and are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem
Assistant, which helps new sellers prepare professional-looking online listings, and its Turbo Lister service, which tracks and manages thousands of bulk listings on home computers. The company has also established and maintained performance View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 14 Dec 2007
- Op-Ed
When Your Product Becomes a Commodity
profits? If you've heard it, you've probably wondered if it was just a convenient excuse or if the manager had a valid point. The truth is, even when a raw material has no value added and quality standards are set by law or the industry,... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 05 Jun 2009
- What Do You Think?
What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
United States from 2 to 3 percent per year to 1 to 2 percent. Those responsible for the projections tell us that as a result, we can expect substantial reductions in sustainable employment, incomes, and profits, not to mention the View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
It’s never been easy to make money in the restaurant industry. A highly fragmented sector dominated by 70 percent independent owners and operators, the average restaurant’s annual revenue hovers around $1 million and generates an operating profit of just 4-5 percent. A... View Details
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
almost exclusively in those same large vehicles likely to be made obsolete by a new 35.5 MPG standard the Administration has promised to implement by 2016. Daniel Heller, Visiting Scholar: All stakeholders must work together to make GM's... View Details
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
the political process of determining institutions of capitalism is "thin," in that managers find themselves with specialized technical knowledge unavailable to outsiders and with little political opposition-such as in the case of determining certain corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
sustained growth while pursuing a strong export orientation provided the empirical backdrop for this approach. Government policy to achieve export-led growth is then essentially about findings ways to increase the ability to sell... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels