Ideas
Is There an Open Business Model Right for Your Company?
Idea posted: August 2014
Institutions: University of St. Gallen
Traditional closed business models still dominate in today’s business world, but more and more companies are looking at the opportunities created through open collaboration and exchange with business model partners.…
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Why Differentiating Rating Scale Labelling is Important
Idea posted: August 2014
Institutions: University of Southern Denmark University of St. Gallen Bielefeld University
Online consumers have come to expect to be able to read customer ratings and reviews as they consider which product or service to buy. On websites such as IMDB, Amazon…
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Three Product Innovation Strategies for Emerging Markets and How to Choose
Idea posted: August 2014
Institutions: University of St. Gallen
It is hard to resist the pull of emerging markets, such as India and China. Given the immense population in such countries, even the small percentage of the total population…
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Outsourcing Vs Reshoring: The Case for Local Manufacture
Idea posted: August 2014
Institutions: HEC Lausanne MIT Sloan School of Management
For the past 20 years, like a herd of stampeding buffaloes, companies have been moving en masse their manufacturing to low-labour-cost countries. Despite the occasional bad publicity as working conditions…
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Hedge Fund Activism Can Help, Not Hurt, in the Long Run
Idea posted: August 2014
Institutions: Harvard Law School Duke University Fuqua School of Business Columbia Business School
Critics argue that ‘myopic’ activist shareholders, especially activist hedge funds, force corporations to sacrifice long-term profits and competitiveness in order to reap quick short-term benefits. The immediate spike that comes…
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Why Companies from Emerging Markets Are Putting the Heat on Multinationals
Idea posted: August 2014
Institutions: York University Schulich School of Business
What is the basis for a company’s competitive advantage? Traditionally, this question elicits one of two answers: 1) Industry structure. Finding the product-market space within a particular industry that is…
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How to Build Long-Lasting Collaborations
Idea posted: August 2014
Institutions: Stanford Graduate School of Business
The factors that bring people together into a collaborative venture are varied. One is proximity and shared goals: people within a department, for example, have more opportunities to work together…
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Competitive Advantage through Individuals Outside the Norm
Idea posted: August 2014
Institutions: Ivey Business School at Western University
When in May 2013, software giant SAP announced that it would hire hundreds of people who were diagnosed with autism, the assumption among casual observers might have been that SAP…
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Turn Employee Envy into a Tool for Personal Development
Idea posted: July 2014
Institutions: INSEAD
When envy pervades a company — when employees and managers for one reason or another focus more on competing against each other instead of the company’s marketplace competitors — the…
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