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HEC Lausanne décrypte l'actualité - Facebook : bulle boursière ou business model durable ? - Posted to yves pigneur by Yves pigneur

L'Unil décrypte l'actualité (web): "Considéré presque comme le 3e plus grand pays du monde avec 900 millions de fans, 250 millions de photos téléchargées et 2.8 milliards de 'like' par jour, Facebook est le mastodonte des réseaux sociaux. Mais pour combien de temps encore ? Le modèle d'affaires de Facebook peut-il durer au-delà de l'engouement de son énorme cotation boursière ? Que se passe-t'il dans les coulisses de l'entreprise de Palo Alto ? Pourquoi Facebook choisit maintenant de faire son entrée en bourse.. (Read More)

Titre Événement + lieu + date - Posted to Solve'Up 2012 by Franck Canavesi

Flyers à venir ... .. (Read More)

Frugal innovation - Posted to Marc Laperrouza by Mlaperrouza

One can hardly fail to notice the trendiness of innovation in and for emerging markets. Frugal innovation nowadays comes in a variety of forms: reverse innovation (when products/services developed specifically for emerging-markets make it back to developed economies) and jugaad (the gutsy art of overcoming harsh constraints by improvising an effective solution using limited resources) both place emerging markets at the center of the innovation process. While there are already some documented cases of emerging market innovations making it back to emerged markets (e.g. GE Healthcare's portable ECG in India and ultrasound in China), it remains to be seen to what extent.. (Read More)

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Does 'good' corporate governance prevent bad strategy? - Posted to Xavier Castañer by XAVIER CASTANER

In an article with N. Kavadis forthcoming in the Strategic Management Journal, we examine whether what agency theory proposes as good corporate governance and which has diffused as law and appropriate practice across the world prevents firms from engaging in financial diversification - that is defined as being present in different businesses which have less than perfectly correlated cash-flows (also known as revenue smoothing). Financial diversification is generally considered as a value destroying corporate strategy, because investors can more cheaply diversify their own investment portfolio than corporations (e.g. Amihud & Lev, 1981). According to agency theory (e.g. Jensen & Meckling, 1976), good corporate.. (Read More)

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