Leading Blog

MARCH 18, 2011

The thing you want to be these days is a “fast follower.” The concept here is that you have a better chance of making a good investment in a trend or idea if you are not the very first—but also not the fifth, sixth, or seventh—into the market.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2012

Transformational developments are swirling around the banking industry — as they are in nearly every industry. Many of these trends seem to fit historical patterns of transformation , which means banks need to up their innovation game. Is the advantage to the "first mover" or should you be a "fast follower"?

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Fast Follower Banking Innovation Follow-up 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands. In retrospect, not very much.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11