Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
Done right, companies competing as a multi-sided platform often win with higher percentage profit margins than those enjoyed by traditional resellers. The problem is that a winning strategy is far from self-evident. Professor Andrei Hagiu explains the potential and the pitfalls for life as an MSP.
Content: Article | Author: Julia Hanna | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Strategy
The Future of Boards
In The Future of Boards: Meeting the Governance Challenges of the Twenty-First Century, Professor Jay Lorsch brings together experts to examine the state of boards today, what lies ahead, and what needs to change.
Content: Article | Authors: Jay W. Lorsch, Julia Hanna | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Corporate Governance
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
How do you create a company that unleashes and capitalizes on innovation? HBS faculty experts in culture, customers, creativity, marketing, and the DNA of innovators offer up ideas.
Content: Article | Authors: Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna, Roger Thompson | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Innovation
Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It
Nervous about an upcoming presentation or job interview? Holding one’s body in “high-power” poses for short time periods can summon an extra surge of power and sense of well-being when it’s needed.
Content: Article | Authors: Amy J.C. Cuddy, Julia Hanna | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Organizational Behavior, Personal Development
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
Advertisers pay millions of dollars to air TV ads that are subsequently ignored by a third of viewers. New research by HBS professor Thales S. Teixeira offers a simple, inexpensive solution for marketers to retain brand recognition.
Content: Article | Authors: Julia Hanna, Thales S. Teixeira | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Marketing / Sales
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
Donors are placing nonprofits on the hot seat to measure social performance. Problem is, there is little agreement on what those metrics should be. Professor Alnoor Ebrahim on how nonprofit managers should respond.
Content: Article | Authors: Alnoor Ebrahim, Julia Hanna | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subjects: Industry Specific, Nonprofit | Industry: Non-Profit
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
Professor Jerry Green and coauthor Laurence J. Kotlikoff agree with the long-made argument that the deficit and related fiscal measures are basically labeling conventions with no intrinsic meaning. So why, they wonder, aren’t economists getting the message?
Content: Article | Author: Julia Hanna | Source: Harvard Business School (HBS) Working Knowledge | Subject: Economics