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- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
managers make the right decisions to successfully build new-growth businesses. 1. Disruptive innovations spur growth. Companies have two basic options when they seek to build new-growth businesses. They can try to take an existing market from an View Details
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Doubling Down on Women’s Health Innovation and Leveraging the Private Sector in a Post-Roe v. Wade Era - Blog: Health Supplement
companies in states with restrictive abortion laws having a harder time attracting female employees, communities with more families entrenched in poverty. From a clinical standpoint, physicians in restrictive states have become limited in...
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- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
IT-savvy business executive—either a CEO or a top manager who has overseen the use of IT to gain strategic advantage in another organization. The expert's job is to challenge entrenched in-house thinking. In any case, at least one person...
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by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity
Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the American credo that "you can make it if you try". The consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fueled populist protest and extreme polarization, and led...
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Emily Schlichting
Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. Understanding how the systems work together "Three to five years ago," Emily says, "I would've told you there's no way I was going to business school. But while I was working in government, I realized we...
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- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
1980s, several coffee companies reduced the size of their containers by an ounce or two. At first, there was substantial backlash—the one-pound container was so well entrenched in people's minds, it was easy to notice the change in...
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by Manda Salls
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
some point early on, the startup that becomes Apple or Google first consisted of a few people in a garage or dorm. And in the case of political innovation, there is an entrenched political-industrial complex engineered to quash any new...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
for a period as medical residents turn over in teaching hospitals. Who Drives Digital Innovation? Evidence from the US Medical Device IndustryDoes large-scale technological change characteristic of an industrywide digital transformation View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
a deeply entrenched and ubiquitous activity today that I thought it would be interesting to see how it got started. How did a world of astrology and "sign-reading" turn to one of econometrics and leading indicators? Q: Why did the group...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
"performance-oriented culture" to the 117-year-old firm. "No one," she says, "wants to take on people who've worked [at the company] for 25 years." Why Nisa could challenge entrenched employees and the historical norms at Godrej...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
It’s a drab gray morning in April, and real estate developer Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo (MBA 2008) is standing at the corner of West Baltimore and South Calhoun Streets in Baltimore’s historic Union Square district. Behind her, a chain-link fence decorated with a small...
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- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
host of factors. Intermediary relationships, institutional commitments, legal restrictions, entrenched customer behavior, and competitive practices often limit the type and extent of changes that a firm can realistically make. 2. Within...
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- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Essentials for Enlightened Experimentation
R&D systems for performing experiments that will generate the information needed to develop and refine products quickly. The challenges are managerial as well as technical: Organize For Rapid Experimentation Examine and, if necessary, revamp View Details
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by Stefan Thomke
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan
best way to catalyze lasting change is to support people who are entrenched in local communities and will be there for the long term,” says Wasim, a managing director at the private equity firm of Hellman and Friedman. He currently serves...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets
funding but also entrench best corporate governance practices while accelerating wealth creation and distribution, leading to better social cohesion," says Oteh. Previously, her distinguished international career included serving as group...
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- Portrait Project
Lourdes Long
rechargeable battery. My human energy will drive this necessary change, navigating and combating entrenched interests. My passion will be a spark of electricity that inspires others to join me in developing cleaner, safer, more affordable...
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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Betting big on star power can be a winning strategy in business—not just show business
creating marketing efficiencies. Although the digital revolution promised to democratize content production and distribution, the reality is that blockbuster strategies are more applicable and entrenched than ever before. Citing companies...
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- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Homeland Security: A Ready-made Market
weren't connected before 9-11; there was no mechanism to do so." Creating change in the government sector, however, requires grappling with a deeply entrenched culture. "Democracy is the worst form of government, apart from all...
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- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
Credit: Nicolas McComber Uber’s roller coaster ride from ride-sharing pioneer to shunned bad boy should be a lesson to other disruptive startups: Fighting hard is good, while fighting unfairly loses you respect, customers, and perhaps your company. “A company can fight...
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- 05 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 5
(giving competitors a lead in a market) and the entrenchment benefits (the cost advantage firms develop through learning-by-doing when they enter early). Both the opportunity costs of absence and the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne