Why Inferior Innovations Often Beat the Best

Idea posted: May 2014

Institutions: INSEAD    University of British Columbia   

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New products and technologies often fail to depose inferior ‘incumbents’. (The classic example is the Dvorak keyboard, which, despite being more efficient, lost out to the original QWERTY model in…

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Corporate Scandals: Causes and Cures

Idea posted: June 2013

Institutions: University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business    INSEAD    University of California Davis Graduate School of Management   

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What are the causes of organizational misconduct? How does it spread and what consequences does it have? These questions are the focus of research by faculty from the University of…

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