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- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
simply the calm before the storm? Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/vodafone-in-japan-a/an/711464-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 711-469 Vodafone in Japan (B) By 2005, Vodafone Group was losing its footing in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
and conditions. Sophisticated consumers might try to game the system by posing as customers who failed to read the "small print." What exactly is a merchant to do when a consumer violates one of various small-print rules?... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
The Mitchell Family and Mitchells/Richards Harvard Business School Case 605-047 Describes a small, luxury retail chain's operational sophistication achieved through the use of technology and "high-touch" customer-service. A... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
entrepreneurs from the others, to see if we can find overall best practices that might help guide entrepreneurs. This effort includes two parallel projects. The first entails more sophisticated and detailed quantitative analyses of my... View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
southern Africa, among the highest in the world. In addition, though South Africa is often classified as an emerging economy, it might be more correctly seen as having two economies—the normal economy of sophisticated consumers and firms... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
widespread phenomenon that threatens firms across a variety of industries with dramatic financial consequences. To tackle this problem, companies are developing sophisticated churn management strategies. These strategies typically involve... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
severity while innovations vary in their sophistication and novelty. We use recurrent-event accelerated failure time models to examine how product failures experienced by firms and their competitors impact subsequent major and minor... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
called Uppercase; and the LiveBoard, a sophisticated workgroup interaction tool that was the basis for LiveWorks. The LiveBoard was a large electronic whiteboard with a sixty-seven-inch diagonal display that users could access or write on... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
situations that many companies faced, and intensified their need for more sophisticated measures that could be used to evaluate and compare many different types of businesses. Since business policy groups at Harvard and elsewhere remained... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
support the R&D and scale necessary to enter such sophisticated capital-intensive industries. There were no firms with the deep technological roots or the skill base to even begin. Yet government planners recognized the challenges of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009
it articulated a set of foundational concepts. As early as 1900, some firms chose to differentiate their products in order to do a better job of satisfying customers' diverse needs. In subsequent years, the marketing discipline developed increasingly View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
orient new staff more quickly and thoroughly, and how to optimize caseworker compliance with data-gathering goals and objectives. The fact that Roca is even aware of sophisticated issues like the impact of consistency and service delivery... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
the same rate as non-Indigenous students. The case concludes as JMB contemplates taking his successful, sophisticated model to the United States. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/919411-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
most interesting and original work. By contrast, some of their most successful labels—"distributive" and "integrative" bargaining—have generated at least three ongoing areas of analytic and practical confusion despite the exemplary View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
Lowell, Massachusetts. Together Slater and Lowell brought the sophistication of British industrial revolution technology and introduced innovative methods of factory production to the United States. Purchase this case: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
are managed by sophisticated real-time information systems; colleagues working 12 time zones apart can see and hear each other as they work at their desks—or in airport lounges on opposite sides of the planet. Publications, like this one,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
thousand large retailers, primarily in the U.S. and Europe. It basically does the supply-chain job faster and more accurately with the aid of a sophisticated information system than anyone else. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29
sophisticated KGB counterpart. To recruit Allyn to secretly work for the KGB, the agent tries many approaches: barely veiled threats, offers of money, and the promise of high-level access and Soviet documents that would enable Allyn over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
in metal cutting. These were sophisticated customers, and the role of the intermediary (called a formulator) was to provide outstanding maintenance services. The new product, however, was intended for operations that were supported by... View Details
- 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
EPOC, and highly sophisticated software that can translate a person's emotions, cognitive thoughts, and facial expressions into digital outcomes. Emotiv wants the technology to be adopted by mainstream consumers and is leaning towards the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace