Most companies today have innovation envy. They yearn to come up with a game—changing innovation like Apple's iPod, or create an entirely new category like Facebook. Many make genuine efforts to be innovative—they spend on R&D, bring in creative designers, hire innovation consultants. But they get disappointing results.Why? In The Design of Business, Roger Martin offers a compelling and provocative answer: we rely far ...
For the past two decades, Michael Porter's work has towered over the field of competitive strategy. On Competition, Updated and Expanded Edition brings together more than a dozen of Porter's landmark articles from the Harvard Business Review. Five are new to this edition, including the 2008 update to his classic «The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy,» as well as new work on health care, philanthropy, corporate social respons ...
In Information Rules, authors Shapiro and Varian reveal that many classic economic concepts can provide the insight and understanding necessary to succeed in the information age. They argue that if managers seriously want to develop effective strategies for competing in the new economy, they must understand the fundamental economics of information technology. Whether information takes the form of software code or recorded music, is published in ...
Thanks to its ability to innovate, the developed world will always have a distinct advantage over the developing world, right? Not according to leading management experts Nirmalya Kumar and Phanish Puranam. In India Inside, the authors draw on their research to show how India is already turning this assumption on its head—often in ways invisible to consumers in the developed world.Through their research and extensive interviews with Ind ...
Starting in the decade of 2030, actual demographic milestones of the U.S. population will mark the most transformative period in our country’s history, thanks in large part to: a) Baby Boomers aging into their twilight years; b) advancements in technology; and c) an ever-increasing illegal immigrant population requiring, and in some instances demanding, that social services (including voting rights) be afforded them even though they have never p ...
This publication aims to support impact evaluation in the transport sector by assessing what has been produced against what might be possible. It reviews 91 impact evaluations of transport interventions in developing countries, summarizes findings on outcomes, identifies evidence gaps, and proposes ways forward. Most of the studies reviewed find significant effects on at least one of the outcomes investigated. However, impact evaluation has give ...
This report aims to support impact evaluation in the energy sector by assessing what has been produced against what might be possible. It reviews 85 impact evaluations of energy interventions in developing countries, summarizes findings on outcomes, identifies evidence gaps, and proposes ways forward. A majority of studies has so far focused on rural electrification and improved cookstoves, while most investments are in power generation and tran ...
Aktsiatesse investeerimise strateegiaid on palju ja erinevaid. Teatud osale investoritest meeldib keskenduda stabiilsematele ja juba teada-tuntud suurettevotetele samas kui teised panustavad korgema kasvupotentsiaaliga ent monevorra riskantsematele vaike-ettevotetele. Osa investoritest peab lugu vaartusinvesteerimisest, teisi konetab hoopis kasvuettevotetesse raha paigutamine. Monede jaoks on hoopis vaga oluline, et rahapaigutus teeniks saadavat ...
This report was prepared for a conference hosted by the Asian Development Bank and the World Trade Organization entitled «Mobilizing Aid for Trade: Focus on Asia and the Pacific.» It seeks to bring a better understanding of contemporary trade issues in the Pacific region. ...
