by hbs working knowledge | Feb 11, 2010 | Uncategorized
Published: February 11, 2010 Paper Released: January 2010 Authors: Alan MacCormack, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and John Rusnak Executive Summary: All complex systems can be divided into a nested hierarchy of subsystems. However, not all these subsystems are of equal...
by hbs working knowledge | Feb 10, 2010 | Uncategorized
Published: February 10, 2010 Paper Released: January 2010 Author: Stacey Childress Executive Summary: The operating environments of public school districts are largely void of the market forces that reward a company’s success with more capital and exert pressure...
by hbs working knowledge | Feb 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
Ready to do business in a developing economy? Don’t just focus on its market size or growth potential. It’s better to first scope out opportunities to build or improve efficient business operations such as credit-card systems, intellectual-property...
by hbs working knowledge | Feb 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
Q&A with:John A. QuelchPublished:February 8, 2010Author:Sean Silverthorne Google, the “do no evil” company, gained entry into the Chinese search engine market last decade by agreeing to ban search results on topics deemed sensitive by the Chinese...
by hbs working knowledge | Feb 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
Published:February 4, 2010Author:Jim Heskett In his book Blink, discussed in this column in February 2005, Malcolm Gladwell advised us to place faith in intuition based on experience in deciding many things quickly. Now Michael Mauboussin, with his book Think Twice,...
