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- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
present an instructive contrast. Xerox established a home-base-augmenting laboratory in Grenoble, France. Its objective: to tap new knowledge from the local scientific community and to transfer it back to its home base. Having already... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
Back in the early 1990s, managers of U.S. companies were justifiably proud of the well-oiled machines they'd made of their supply chains. Over the previous fifteen to twenty years, they'd wrung costs from the mechanisms and processes by... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
International is increasingly cognizant of the need to adapt to local contexts—as evinced not only by the India entry strategy but by changes in merchandising policies, clearer definition of decision rights, and even the astonishing job-swap between some of the top... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
biggest customer in the world; on the other hand, 90 out of 100 VCs would say they don't back business models that sell to government," says Weiss. "Though that's starting to change as startups and government are starting to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
conditions and the paramount importance of doing the right thing—some leadership teams have committed themselves to two guiding principles: act now to protect and run the business today, and plan now to retool the business for the... View Details
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
held against him the fact that he is an immigrant. Nor was he held back because he is of Jewish origin. When he graduated first in his engineering class at the City College of New York in 1960, he was quoted in The New York Times to the... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
going back thousands of years to bazaars, but technology has enabled platforms to be globally scalable, which had never previously been possible. While many people lump innovation and transaction platforms together, we argue that they are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
take in our first business model was that of a destination site, FairMarket.com. We would run a site and drive buyers and sellers to it. Our concept was to start on one vertical market segment and then expand to additional verticals.... View Details
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
for it? Probably not, as long as there is a giant global community (Facebook), with a billion monthly active members, including that high school exchange student who they lost touch with when they went back to Bolivia. And that one's... View Details
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
(diamonds) and have managed this resource extremely well. Working with De Beers, the government has consistently and strategically limited its sales of diamonds, striving to keep prices steady over the long run rather than maximizing... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 12 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
There is a theme to Dwayne Johnson’s life, and that theme is never settling. Johnson vividly remembers a moment in the mid-90s when he was being driven back home to Tampa, Florida, by his father after getting cut from a Canadian Football... View Details
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
Protecting Foreign Investments After a string of forced nationalizations of private enterprises in the 1960s and 1970s, the pendulum swung back and companies were again encouraged by host countries to build and View Details
- 29 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Get Off the Dime!
of the people you put on the transformation team." I tried to explain the business case. But I could have spent entire days on the telephone listening to all this. Basically, each division had many people who wanted to continue to View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
When banks failed across the globe in 2008, the resulting financial crisis sent businesses into a tailspin. As lenders cut back dramatically, companies trying to recover had to scramble for financing required to generate new business and... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
Jack." German entrepreneurs were autocratic and paternalist, but it is by no means clear that they had a particular lock on this sort of behavior. How many American CEOs would like to have labor representatives on their boards? We also tend to forget that many... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
stock does not go up as quickly. . . . But it doesn't go back down as quickly later, either." Damon Leavell takes a different tack, recommending that, "Rather than speculate on earnings, . . . create unique indices based on... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
status quo—but his cure is a government-run system, I gather from hearsay. I agree with the diagnosis, but my cure is, yes, everybody should have health insurance, but they should control it for themselves. It should be run by the people,... View Details
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
them. Our approach can also help retailers design discounts that better serve their objectives. Q: You recommend that retailers disallow the purchase of multiple discount vouchers from a single customer, or else run the risk that the... View Details
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair
region are starting to pull back from their welfare state philosophies and encourage the privatization of the economies. These are gradual changes. The governments are trying to minimize social disruptions. But the broad implication is... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman