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- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
steadily solves unique problems, it builds the ability to do whatever is required to succeed in its context. When the incumbent has retreated into the highest tiers of its market and has to fight because there is no room for further...
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- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
export-led growth strategies can work, policy makers face the question as to whether it is a feasible approach for all countries at all times. One body of literature, emerging already when Asian economies focused on exports to regain...
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by Christian Ketels
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
hundred years, all of us sitting in this room today will be gone. Just at different times, some sooner than the others. So then if death is the ultimate truth, what should really matter most in life? I feel the only thing that truly...
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- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,...
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by Rachel Layne
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
emerged and competed with one another in the early decades of university business education. The first was a simple aggregation of courses taught elsewhere in the university and covering such obviously useful (if intellectually...
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- 09 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns
of Cote and his leadership team and asks them to consider the choices they would have made in the face of the extreme uncertainty surrounding future business conditions in the fall of 2008. Cote joined Honeywell as CEO in 2002. The company was View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
have encouraged our clients to take substantial portions of their U.S. equity portfolios and buy international stocks.” Views on investing in emerging markets: “Those markets are enticing but can be unbelievably volatile. We think the...
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- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
communicating the strategy, aligning the resources (financial and human) to achieve the strategy, and managing the execution of the strategy. · Board performance of core functions has not been stellar. The performance of many boards has been problematic, leaving much...
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Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
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John H. McArthur | About
information, he also saw a need for the School to experiment with new technologies and forms of packaging intellectual content, which had emerged as part of the changing competitive landscape for business schools. In typical fashion,...
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- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
about disruption vis-à-vis public education? Where do you see the most room for innovation? A: The lesson from all industries is that the most promising areas for innovation are pockets of what we call "nonconsumption"—areas...
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- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
in only limited quantities. So it is certainly conceivable that if too many new cases arrive at the same time, companies could be much less well-served by the bankruptcy reorganization process, and emerge in much less sound financial...
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- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
risk only after you're stricken with a heart attack. He describes various approaches for reviewing your organization with a clean sheet of paper. For example, one approach involves creating a task force of younger emerging company...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been near the top of the technology-hype lists for years. In 2018, Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies ranked IoT platforms as cresting the “peak of inflated expectations” stage and ready to...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to a 2018 UN report, up from 55 percent today. That means making room for and creating the infrastructure for another 2.5 billion people to live, work,...
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Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by;
energy;
environment;
sustainability;
entrepreneurship;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transportation;
Water, Sewage and Supply Systems;
Utilities;
Construction of Buildings;
Construction;
Waste Management and Remediation Services;
Corporate Services
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
When working professionals were shifting to home offices a year ago as COVID-19 was spreading, comedians and pundits predicted that people would no longer need bras and pants that aren’t stretchy. Instead customers would make room for...
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- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
there was still a lot of room for growth. India has had a unique competitive advantage as a result of this deeper pool of technical knowledge and the fact that it is simply a large country and has more people. I would expect to see...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on...
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- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
offered free hotel rooms located near medical facilities to healthcare workers, while Serta Simmons donated 100,000 mattresses to hospitals as they frantically worked to increase the number of ICU beds during a surge in cases. Shift...
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by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
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Polaroid | Harvard Business School: Invention of the Polarizer
Most of these are produced by the Polaroid Corp."27 In 1943, Newsweek magazine featured on its cover a photograph of U. S. Army General George Patton wearing Polaroid goggles.28 The Polaroid facility included a machine gun training room...
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- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
it seems to be about simpler values. Like the upper-middle-class living room featured in sitcoms, many depictions of a simple life today cost more than you might think. Our collective fixation on "the best" and what the best...
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by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson