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- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
organizations live-blog or live-tweet their corporate meetings or events to give employees a sense of the back-and-forth in the moment. The virtual platforms that companies are relying on these days offer a...
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- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
market need.” There were differences in how companies handled their founding stories, though. Virtually any startup goes through one or several iterations before hitting on the right product and the right target customer. The more...
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- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
Spontaneous Deregulation: How to Compete with Platforms That Ignore the Rules By: Edelman, Benjamin G., and Damien Geradin Abstract—Many successful platform businesses—think Airbnb, Uber, and YouTube—ignore...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
Internet, Applegate explained, is the fundamental merging between platform providers and the businesses being built on these platforms. "More and more, we're seeing that businesses doing business on top of the 'Net are also providing the...
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- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
any, difference will the “New Silk Road” make in the global educational landscape? Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55549 Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 13 Platform...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
frenemies limited to the Apple-Amazon example. The same pattern may emerge when competing platforms with asymmetric profit strategies. For example, Amazon recently listed its Chinese e-commerce site as a View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
John A., and Leora Kornfeld Abstract—The new marketing order, as played out on media platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Instagram, is so unlike the order it is displacing that it might seem like bedlam, an asylum of sorts for ideas...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
Virtual fitting-room technologies provide information about how a product fits a particular customer and promise to mitigate some of the frictions the information gap generates in the retailers’ supply chains. By implementing a series of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
tests in virtually every part of the business. Booking.com Chairwoman Gillian Tans has said that the nimbleness that comes with a testing culture helps companies engage employees and develop better products. Setting too narrow an...
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by Danielle Kost
- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
It’s hard to say who’s right, however. Outside of a few high-profile examples like Brin, there have been virtually no data to gauge the level at which immigrants create companies and jobs. Kerr has sought to remedy that problem with a new...
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by Michael Blanding
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
better. Be it mutual funds or hedge funds, these so-called owners have virtually no emotional investment in the companies (they own)." B. D. Majuqwana comments that "the biggest drawback for PE is that it does not aim to create...
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by Jim Heskett
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
free, bundled version of Hyper-V, an advanced virtualization platform product. Looming over the impending competition between these two companies was the story of the "browser wars," in which...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
virtual currency including electronic payments. Since its inception in 2009 by an anonymous group of developers, Bitcoin has served tens of millions of transactions with total dollar value in the billions. Users have been drawn to Bitcoin...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
an average of 20 to 30 minutes just to learn how to shop in most text-based Internet grocery-shopping systems. By contrast, it takes them only two to three minutes to learn how to shop in a 3-D virtual store modeled after a familiar...
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- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy
some social media platforms soar while others fizzle, and how business can use them to generate profit. "I have always been fascinated that humans interact online when we can interact offline as we have for thousands of years," says...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
Digital Initiative and the HBX Live virtual classroom, the o-Lab aims to help businesses solve their problems by changing the way their company is organized, and to make that change by introducing a more theoretical and experimental...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
enterprise for virtually all of its 114-year history. Philips's saga not only points to alignment challenges but also reminds us that regionalization is rarely a triumphal march from the home base to interregional View Details
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Science Foundation. The developed platform offers an unprecedented view of the R&D-to-patenting innovation process and a close analysis of the strengths and limitations of the Industry R&D Survey. The files are linked through a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
hard decisions about returning to the market. Here’s a common prediction: Social distancing forces people to do more buying online and communicating through social media, thus accelerating a permanent, big shift after the crisis to more ecommerce and View Details
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by Frank V. Cespedes
- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
self-managed microenterprises. Platforms were Haier’s business platforms operating in five major sectors: white goods transformation, investment and incubation, financial holdings, real estate, and cultural...
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Dina Gerdeman