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“Shocked, Shocked” says my dear friend Tom Stewart of a recent report in the New York Times that Telecommunications operators felt “out of touch” with their customers. What do you mean? That call to a robot in which you are asked to enter your customer number, only to reach a real person and be told to enter your [...]
This neat article offers a snapshot of who is winning and losing the talent wars in Silicon Valley among the big players (Microsoft, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.). It offers a great graphic to spark interest and debate. One of the interesting points it makes is that Facebook is a net winner among people moving around [...]
A new article coming out in the June-July edition of the European Economic Review shows how business model innovation can lead to growth and profits. In the article, I demonstrate some of the most common fallacies that people have about business model innovation, for instance, that because something is expensive or difficult that it matters [...]
A colleague of mine drew to my attention an NPR story about the Federal government’s plans to develop green technologies. In many ways, the approach echoes options reasoning: Many small bets Substantial upside if the opportunity is successful Less concern about the rate of failure than the cost of failure Genuine uncertainty A pretty interesting [...]
PayPal founder Peter Thiel thinks he has found a new way to change the world. A recent article describes how his foundation has created $100,000 grants for young superstars to put their college plans on hold, and under the direction of a mentor, work on really difficult problems that require scientific and technical innovation. It’s [...]
Experts and observers have long argued that there is a benefit to firms of having more women in senior decision-making roles. The reasons are many, including the importance of diversity, the fact that senior women more readily represent female customers (the majority of buyers in many industries), and a general openness to talent. Some new [...]
In a recent piece in Columbia Ideas at Work, my colleague Ray Fisman summarizes some research he has done on whether promising to donate a portion of one’s proceeds to charity means more profits for eBay sellers. Among their findings: Turns out — based on our eBay evidence — the champions of corporate philanthropy have [...]
My colleague Gray Hammond sent along this interesting coverage of innovative companies, and I thought it might be of interest to my readers as well. Booz & Company’s latest annual study of global innovation, The 2010 Innovation 1000: How the Top Innovators Keep Winning, surveyed more than 400 executives at companies worldwide to find out [...]
We in business school just love to use examples. It's examples, stories and personal insights that make what we teach accessible, inspiring and sometimes game-changing. Along the way, many of these great stories get written up as cases, either formal ones like those created by the Harvard Business School, or less formal ones, such as [...]
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