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- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
farsighted—and I think you can argue that in both public policy and on the business side, we have moved toward fragmentation and near-term thinking. MP: It's particularly hard to pursue the agenda in the United States. This is a very...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
highly attractive host economy over the following decade. There are major acquisition opportunities in, for example, the fragmented U.S. banking sector, and the probable further weakening of the dollar over the medium term will make U.S....
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by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
to compete, in terms of both devices that can read E-Books, as well as standards for their distribution. Should they create a separate digital business, centered around their "Nook" E-Book reader, or maintain an integrated strategy? And how should they think...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
switching costs, multihoming is hard, which makes it complicated for firms or individual users to switch from one platform to another. The next criterion we identify is relatively homogenous products and a lack of identifiable niches. The more heterogeneous the market,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
cleaner. The business, in other words, was highly fragmented and, because of repeat sales, "an annuity." In combination, those traits held the promise of building what Krasnow called "a very big company in an industry that...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
design, competing interests, global health, personalized medicine, residential care, and concierge medicine, among others—and structures what has been a highly fragmented research area into a coherent scientific discipline. The Handbook...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
seemed right—so what did hold women back? One of the things I was good at was taking fragments of what I found and creating a framework. Well, I had an opportunity to work on a program for women in medicine. I also worked on a program for...
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by Robin J. Ely
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
the Domini Index (investments in socially responsible mutual funds) realized a 13 percent return, and the S&P 500 returned 11 percent. The average returns of traditional angel investing are hard to determine given the fragmented...
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by Manda Salls
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
Abstract The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is...
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- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
or adding new products? Industry Dynamics: Are there fragmented industries where significant value can be delivered through consolidation? Are there shifts in power (e.g., entry or exit of a key player or consolidation of several players)...
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by Lynda M. Applegate
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
of Buenos Aires’s population was foreign born, and it could be regarded as one of the world’s greatest global cities.” Today, the city is a decaying shadow of itself and Argentina as a whole has fallen prey to ineffective institutions, inconsistent government...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Coty. When Beetz was hired as chief executive, it was still a fragmented collection of recently acquired brands. The case describes how Beetz re-ignited the dormant celebrity fragrance business with the successful launch of a new Jennifer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
Schorderet, debating how the company can defend and grow its position in Saudi Arabia while also finding new sources of future growth (e.g., bringing its production model to new markets with fragmented dairy sectors or entering new...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
November 28, 2016 Harvard Business Review One Obstacle to Curing Cancer: Patient Data Isn’t Shared By: Hamermesh, Richard G., and Kathy Giusti Abstract—Precision Medicine requires large datasets to identify the mutations that lead to various cancers. Currently, genomic...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
conversation about. A professional school consists of some agreed-upon body of knowledge that it believes the practitioners of the profession need to know in order to be effective. Current trends suggest that an institutional View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
these dynamics has been constrained by fragmentation within relevant management research. In this paper, we clarify and describe two narratives that have emerged within past and current research on growth and the internal organization....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
Fragmented upstream and downstream channels instead persist, with strong odds against upstream suppliers waging a successful defense of material interests. Such distinctive industrial structures, we show, were a direct result of whether...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
media environment controlled by the Chinese government. At the same time, this case offers insights into the structure of the highly fragmented Chinese consumers market, exploring the socio-economic disparities in income and media access...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
reason carefully from the ask, through metrics and models, and outputs; and (3) evaluate outputs from models to (4) develop a plan for action. The case features the work of LP Maurice (HBS '08) as he decides to launch an online business to unify the scheduling data of...
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Carmen Nobel