September 27, 2016

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Is Company Failure Inevitable?

Companies don't generally fail because of competition; it's out-of-touch leadership that kills them. "Lead and Disrupt" coauthor Michael L. Tushman discusses how companies must continue to invest in their core products while innovating in new areas.

Technological Leadership (de)Concentration: Causes in ICTE

This paper by Yasin Ozcan and Shane Greenstein characterizes long-term trends in the Information and Communications Technology equipment industryby analyzing the concentration in patents from 1976 to 2010, and comparing measured changes against popular assumptions about the size and scale of changes in innovation.

How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?

This study by Paul A. Gompersand colleagues surveys 885 institutional VCs at 681 firms asking how they make decisions across eight areas: deal sourcing; investment selection; valuation; deal structure; post-investment value-added; exits; internal VC firm issues; and external VC firm issues.

Innovation Under Constraint: Constructing a Turnaround at Lego

Innovation Under Constraint: Constructing a Turnaround at Lego

Android and Competition Law: Exploring and Assessing Google's Practices in Mobile

Benjamin Edelman and Damien Geradin argue that Google's restrictions on device manufacturers wishing to develop commercially-viable Android devices harm competition.

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

There's a pervasive paradox in academia: Research conducted at business schools often offers no obvious value to people who work in the world of business.

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

The American economy is “failing the test of competitiveness," according to a new Harvard Business School study written by Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin, and Mihir A. Desai.

Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It

Note to Web owners: Consumers won't carve out more time to visit your site. So how do you attract them? Start by understanding their online habits, reports new research by Shane Greenstein and colleagues.

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

For better or for worse, it's fallen to multinational corporations to police the overseas factories of suppliers in their supply chains-and perhaps make them better. Michael W. Toffel examines how.

How Netflix Built its House of Cards (and Changed TV Forever)

How Netflix Built its House of Cards (and Changed TV Forever)

Decision-Making by Precedent and the Founding of American Honda (1948–1974)

While the production and distribution of goods in a firm is commonly overseen by a hierarchy of management, decision-making within these organizations is often frenetic. Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and John Heilbron demonstrate empirically that the president of American Honda made important strategic decisions by following the precedent set by his boss and former mentor, Honda's chief strategist, Takeo Fujisawa-by making careful, educated guesses about how Fujisawa would have addressed similar issues.

Resolve Your Toughest Work Problems with 5 Questions

In Managing in the Gray, Joseph Badaracco offers managers a five-question framework for facing murky situations and solving tough problems at work.

The Twitter Election

Twitter is emerging as one of the most important players in the 2016 presidential election, write John Quelch and Thales Teixeira. But does it have the power to determine which candidate will win?

Behind the Apple Tax Situation, an Unprecedented Financial Policy

Behind the Apple Tax Situation, an Unprecedented Financial Policy