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- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
says. For a global company, that might mean convening employees from different teams, locations, and backgrounds for product and strategy discussions. Koning’s research doesn’t completely dismiss the merits of hackathons, incubators, and... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
know-how are applied. The iPod, for example, was an example of purchased (largely non-U.S.) technological innovations combined with Apple design capability and knowledge of the U.S. market, where the vast majority have been sold. If one agrees with these hypotheses,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
stimulated by advocates of agency theory over the past two decades. And it brings to mind the old Milton Friedman axiom that the business of business is to make money (presumably more than the average for the market and for long periods of time), thereby providing the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
market's record-setting rampage, the industry's asset growth has been driven by baby-boomers using mutual funds as a means to build their retirement nest eggs. A snapshot of some industry numbers reveals that in 1964, mutual fund assets... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
for download. Fair (and Not So Fair) Division Author:John W. Pratt Abstract Drawbacks of existing procedures are illustrated and a method of efficient fair division is proposed that avoids them. Given additive participants' utilities, each item is priced at the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage
mean that Portugal produced 70,000 gallons of wine and 50,000 yards of cloth, whereas England produced 46,667 gallons of wine and 45,000 yards of cloth. However, if each country devoted all 1,200 workers to its comparative advantage,... View Details
Keywords: Re: David A. Moss
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
question actually 'Why'?" What is the public's role in a meltdown? What do you think? Original Article Over the past several years, we have witnessed a variety of "meltdowns," ranging from financial to nuclear. Although we can debate the View Details
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
we wanted to give consumers and citizens a deeper understanding of the marketing system, what it means for democratic society, and their power to influence it." Sean Silverthorne: In general, how does good marketing reinforce... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
agendas. Further, they add that it is more appropriate that the U.S. government take whatever action is appropriate, including passing legislation requiring compliance. Questions posed by this dilemma go far beyond the basic arguments stated above. For example, what... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
large unions on a national basis? By what means will this be achieved? Or are these proposed efforts typical of those of a movement in its death throes? If it is the latter, how will labor extract its share of the gains of an expanding... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
When Reputation Trumps Regulation
cooperation of foreign regulators to meet the evidentiary standards of U.S. federal courts. Oftentimes, relying on foreign regulators for evidence gathering means that enforcement is very difficult. Q: You report that 15 percent of all... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
an onion: you peel layer after layer after layer, and in the end, there's nothing left and you cry," he joked. These days, he said, entrepreneurship means "you're either a winner or a loser. Sometimes, you're a winner and a... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
increased about 20 percent to above the pre-transition level. Meetings also grew bigger and longer, and many were centrally orchestrated, involving employees from multiple departments and different hierarchical levels. “We interpret that to View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
two-fold, Lakhani added. It means fulfilling the public mission of an informed citizenry as well as also the private mission of enabling innovation. In terms of building government IT infrastructure, Data.gov demonstrates a way to be... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
SUVs and rising gas prices. Although in the luxury SUV market, drivers are not likely to fret about paying ten cents more per gallon. But we really ask if by moving into the SUV market did Porsche remain 'true to brand,' and what does that View Details
- 05 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?
effects of a proposed merger. “After a certain point, as we increase dynamic market power, horizontal market power decreases. What that means is that the effect of competition on price falls,” MacKay explains. “An implication is that, for... View Details
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
and digest information, test ideas, define the purpose, and align it to a strategy (Akram Boutros, Jack Slagle, Nikos Mourkogiannis, among others). This all will require more leadership (Paul Karras, Phil Clark). There was general agreement that change is needed. The... View Details
- 02 May 2005
- What Do You Think?
Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?
Summing Up Consumer generated marketing is a fact of life to which all of us will have to adapt. Adaptation means learning how to use CGM to provide one form of input in fashioning product and marketing decisions. Those are the messages... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Peeling Back the Global Brand
higher quality products Global status—the idea that transnational brands confer an elite status on the buyer Country-of-origin quality—the idea that "a food chain" of production means that higher-quality goods are created in the... View Details