In the February, 2007, Harvard Business Review, there is a wonderful short piece on Entrepreneurial Japan. It notes how many trends — the end of guaranteed lifetime employment, changing governance structures, the changing social attitude… Read more »
Archives for February 2007
Entrepreneurial Japan - that’s news!
In the February, 2007, Harvard Business Review, there is a wonderful short piece on Entrepreneurial Japan. It notes how many trends — the end of guaranteed lifetime employment, changing governance structures, the changing social attitude… Read more »
From good ideas to actual businesses
Our colleague, Walter Derzko gives some interesting insights into why good ideas don’t get results – see his blog at – http://smarteconomy.typepad.com/smart_economy/2007/02/why_good_ideas_.html With respect to innovation, one study suggests that you need 3,000 ideas to… Read more »
Creating a more innovative culture
I was recently asked how one creates a more innovative culture within a company, with specific reference to Kodak. The difficulty is that as companies become successful, their performance increases to the extent that they… Read more »
Desperate shortage of the college educated
I heard a fascinating statistic the other day that really should give all of us pause. It seems that 2/3 of all jobs in America require a college education, yet only 1/3 of the potentially… Read more »
XM and Sirius to merge – Why are we not surprised?
So XM and Sirius satellite radio have announced that they are finally going to merge. We called that one years ago! What the two have been doing is engaging in a competitive war of attrition… Read more »
XM and Sirius to merge - Why are we not surprised?
So XM and Sirius satellite radio have announced that they are finally going to merge. We called that one years ago! What the two have been doing is engaging in a competitive war of attrition… Read more »
Book recommendation – The Halo Effect
Our good friend Phil Rosenzweig has just published a terrific book, called The Halo Effect. It’s main thesis is that we come to a lot of erroneous conclusions because knowing the outcomes biases our reasoning…. Read more »
Book recommendation - The Halo Effect
Our good friend Phil Rosenzweig has just published a terrific book, called The Halo Effect. It’s main thesis is that we come to a lot of erroneous conclusions because knowing the outcomes biases our reasoning…. Read more »
What Americans spend on pets
I ran across the following mind-blowing numbers – and came to the conclusion that there are vast sums of money out there if one is creative enough to capitalize on what people are willing to… Read more »
Failing to invest in innovation when times are good
Yet another great company (in this case, Dell) has fallen victim to a failure to engage in business model innovation when times are good. We see this all the time – hugely successful corporations get… Read more »
Astonishing errors
As I do every year, I’m in the midst of reviewing papers for the upcoming Academy of Management in August. The quality of the writing has always bugged me, but I particularly notice it when… Read more »