Fragmentation - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Nov 2021
News

Strength in Numbers

is that thing,” Verdi says. “It’s one of the top three causes of our age,” adds Swartz. Both the Verdi and Swartz families have witnessed, firsthand, the negative effects of our nation’s disjointed treatment of mental illness. “It’s View Details

Keywords: April White

02 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

US has the will and capability to coordinate and support major cross-industrial efforts to foster and, if necessary, regulate AI.” Today, this is being done in a highly fragmented way in the US by competing commercial organizations, many... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

fragmented network of units that are hard to integrate. Q:You mentioned earlier the application of your ideas to social problems. How has your understanding of domestic and international competition given you insights into these matters?... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

26 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

nature and value of the skill sets brought by each would-be young worker. Each of these is a viable organization that needs time to develop. Another requirement for economic development is trust. But that's a rare thing among the View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

20 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management

energy and transport, which attract significantly higher private investment, water management is often overlooked due to its limited profitability. Key barriers include political resistance to raising tariffs on a public good, pervasive water theft, and View Details

03 Dec 2001
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?

fragmented market ..." Citing the popularity of Linux at the server level, Eckel points out that "what that 800 lb. Gorilla (MS) is fighting against is a guerrilla army that is free." These comments reflect general beliefs... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Feb 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Development while Decarbonizing - Understanding India’s Agriculture Landscape

agricultural sector, which is respectful of the structural and cultural norms that still persist today. At the core of WayCool's strategy lies a deep understanding of the challenges plaguing Indian farmers – from fragmented supply chains... View Details

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

consistent messages, not ad hoc responses. Don’t leave this aspect of crisis management to emails about your “commitment” to customers, or telling salespeople to “stay focused and take care of customers.” That’s an invitation for View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

(UPS has already made significant strategic moves in this direction.) Other early moves are likely to involve the reconfiguration of fragmented and mutually adversarial businesses that dramatically suboptimize wealth creation. The classic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

important that firms have clear criteria for choosing customers. But most firms don't. When you look at their business plans and sales incentives, they are essentially saying to their salespeople, "Go forth and multiply!" And that's indeed what their sales force does,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

Technologies' Systems Generation and Delivery Unit (SGDU), was charged with creating a single global company from a set of fragmented businesses in Asia, Europe, and the United States. To gain control over product decisions being made by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

01 Mar 2018
News

Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

fragmented and on their own. “I cannot think of another industry as large or as fundamental as agriculture that is structured that way,” says Baron. “It’s as if every oil well was owned by a different family, while the industry is... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

01 Dec 2020
News

Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

with chronic diseases or disabilities who are frequently lost among the cracks of our present fragmented system. How has the pandemic changed the health care sector? We have seen a much broader acceptance of telemedicine and changes in... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Oct 2000
News

Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney

fragmented sector of over a million highly dissimilar organizations. How do you begin to encourage for-profit business leaders to become more involved with the nonprofit sector? To bring these elements together, we need to build a conduit... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

cover 90 percent of patients, jointly negotiate drug prices with manufacturers. In America's more fragmented and secretive system, pharmacy benefit managers act as mediators during many price negotiations. German consumers and physicians... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

26 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

example, the fragmentation of production around the world, distribution outlets worldwide, and research and development facilities that capitalize on local talent pools. But we still basically think that firms belong to some home country... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 12

Michael Schwarz Abstract We consider market rules for the transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Excessive fragmentation of IP address blocks causes growth in the Internet's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks

the music that originally accompanied the shark footage in the documentary, a track called “Sharks,” which was deemed ominous by an independent music expert, who described it as “modal with only fragments of melody,” and who noted “a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Media & Broadcasting

27 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 27

development is fragmented and lacks a coherent and integrated theory and method for developing an effective organization. A 20-year action research program led to the development and evaluation of the Strategic Fitness Process (SFP)-a... View Details