Selected reading from Knowledge@Wharton
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Wipro- Knowledge@Wharton Survey : Managing Innovation
Can companies source innovation from other firms?
Yes, they can, according to the preliminary findings of a survey on managing innovation conducted by Wipro Technologies and Knowledge@Wharton in March 2006. Some 59% of the participants say their company could partner with other organizations that could provide strategic innovative capability.
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Our Annual Challenge: Pick the Winner Out of 'Eight Great' Business Plans
The 2006 Venture Finals of Wharton's Business Plan Competition offered participants, judges and the audience an opportunity to peer into the future by surveying potential startups. It was a chance to see what aspiring, ambitious entrepreneurs believe will be the next hot discovery. At this year's competition, healthcare companies -- ranging from medical-device makers to a creator of artificial muscles -- grabbed five of the eight finalist slots. The other three finalists included a virtual call center, an online mortgage broker and a company that would replace credit cards with fingerprints. Read on, and see if you have a nose for the next "new new thing."
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Leadership and Change
The Succession Question at Tech Firms: When's the Right Time to Go?
The recent resignation of Scott McNealy as CEO of Sun Microsystems, the company he founded 22 years ago, is another milestone in the succession process of a large technology company. But tech companies often pose unique succession issues, in part because of their unusually fast growth and young founders, according to Wharton faculty and technology experts. The challenges are especially critical when the entrepreneurs are celebrities, and when the company has grown large enough that broad-based management skills become as crucial as entrepreneurial passion.
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Health Economics
The Business of Healthcare Innovation: How New Products Come to Market
When Lawton Robert Burns, Wharton professor of health care systems, began teaching healthcare management, he found a hole in the academic literature. There was plenty of material on physicians, hospitals, government regulations and insurance. But there was no single source of good information on a key component of the industry -- the producers of healthcare products. Burns aims to fill that gap with his new book, The Business of Healthcare Innovation. The book focuses on four sectors -- pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices and information technology -- and looks at the internal and external factors at work in determining whether a new pill or new pacemaker ends up in the hands of patients and doctors.
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Leadership and Change
After a Few Unprofitable Binges, NutriSystem Is Refocused and Ready to Expand
NutriSystem -- the Horsham, Pa.-based online weight-loss company -- has bulked up. Its first-quarter 2006 revenues grew 292%, to $146.8 million, and net income rose 592%, with analysts predicting continued sharp increases in 2006. Memories of its bankruptcy filing and litigation woes under previous owners have all but been erased, even as the company plans to target new customer segments and expand internationally. And yet, according to CEO Michael Hagan and president George Jankovic, both of whom spoke at Wharton last month, there has been as much luck and grit as glamour and glitz in the company's rise from the ashes. "Sometimes you learn more from your mistakes than from your successes," says Jankovic.
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Finance and Investment
How New Accounting Rules Are Changing the Way CEOs Get Paid
When a well-known compensation consulting firm predicted in early April that new accounting rules wouldn't have any impact on the use of options as compensation for corporate executives, Wharton accounting professor Mary Ellen Carter was ready to disagree. "That's just not true," she says. "Options will be cut and directors will be switching to restricted stock for executive compensation." Carter's response is the result of her research into the role of accounting in the design of CEO equity compensation, which is also the title of a new paper written by her, Luann J. Lynch from Darden, and Wharton accounting professor Irem Tuna. Their study coincides with a ruling, implemented this year by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), that requires all firms to expense the value of employee stock options.
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Managing Technology
MySpace, Facebook and Other Social Networking Sites: Hot Today, Gone Tomorrow?
Popular social network sites, including MySpace and Facebook, are changing the human fabric of the Internet and have the potential to pay off big for investors, but -- given their youthful user base -- they are unusually vulnerable to the next new fad. As quickly as users flock to one trendy Internet site, they can just as quickly move on to another with no advance warning, according to Wharton faculty and Internet analysts, who offer some ideas on how these new sites can both increase user loyalty and generate revenues.
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What's Hot
Why Oil Prices Are Up, and What We Can, and Can't,
Do about It
Rising prices for crude oil and gasoline have alarmed many consumers and put President Bush and other U.S. politicians in a position where they feel they have to do something -- anything -- in response, especially in an election year. But members of Wharton's finance department and private-sector economists say it's a good time to look at the reasons for the price hikes and their likely effect on the economy and on energy policy. They also say that as long as the United States continues to rely on oil producers in other parts of the world, high prices and price volatility will be the norm. Bolivian President Evo Morales's decision, announced this week, to nationalize the country's natural gas sector, only underscores that point.
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Finance and Investment
Jeremy Siegel on the Fed, Commodities and Global Markets
As CBS News put it, "When the Fed Chairman Speaks, Everyone Freaks." What that hyperbolic headline refers to is the sell-off in stocks and rise in bond yields this week after Ben Bernanke, the Federal Reserve chairman, reportedly told a CNBC reporter that markets had misread his testimony before Congress last week during which he had seemed to hint that the Fed might pause in raising interest rates. Stocks and bonds rallied in response. But, after suggesting at a Washington correspondents' dinner over the weekend that the markets had "misunderstood" him, the sell-off began. What, exactly, is the Fed likely to do on May 10? And what will that mean for investors? Jeremy Siegel, a professor of finance at Wharton and author of the book, The Future for Investors, spoke with Knowledge@Wharton's Mukul Pandya and Robbie Shell about interest rates, oil prices, the commodities markets, Bernanke's learning curve and President George W. Bush's approval ratings, among other topics.
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Thought Leadership Event
Wipro Technologies and Knowledge@Wharton jointly hosted the second in a series of Thought Leadership Events at San Francisco on Dec 5th, 2006. Professor Ravi Aron presented his thoughts on ‘Emerging Offshore Innovation Networks’.
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Managing Product and Process Innovation: Insights from a Wipro-Knowledge@Wharton
-Wipro Thought Leadership Survey
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Wipro – Knowledge@Wharton Survey on Managing Innovation: Collaborative Networks Require Team-Based Incentives.
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Archived Articles
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