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- January 2004 (Revised August 2005)
- Case
Kikkoman Corporation: Consumer Focused Innovation
By: Rohit Deshpande and Hal Hogan
In May 2003, the president and CEO of Kikkoman Corp. sat in his Tokyo office weighing various options for strengthening the company's long-term growth. Kikkoman was the world's largest producer of soy sauce, largely due to its pioneering role since the 1950s as the...
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Keywords:
Customer Relationship Management;
Innovation Strategy;
Marketing Strategy;
Product Positioning;
Adaptation;
Competitive Strategy;
Japan
Deshpande, Rohit, and Hal Hogan. "Kikkoman Corporation: Consumer Focused Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 504-067, January 2004. (Revised August 2005.)
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
businesses. ” — DEIRDRE LEOPOLD, managing director of MBA admissions and financial aid, commenting on the increasing numbers of women heading to business schools. (Forbes.com, April 16, 2010) “CEOs who actually take the trouble to delve...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (Princeton University Press), HBS associate professor Rakesh Khurana builds a case for the systemic argument. He also...
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- June 1993
- Case
Laura Ashley (A): Creating a World Class Service Organization in Support of a Global Brand & Federal Express
By: Shoshana Zuboff
Keywords:
Service Operations;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Performance Effectiveness;
Apparel and Accessories Industry
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Laura Ashley (A): Creating a World Class Service Organization in Support of a Global Brand & Federal Express." Harvard Business School Case 493-018, June 1993.
- 04 Aug 2021
- News
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
- Article
Adding Value by Talking More
By: Robert S. Kaplan, Derek A. Haas and Jonathan Warsh
The prevailing fee-for-service payment model has led health care administrators and physician practices to impose severe constraints on the time physicians spend talking, for which they are reimbursed poorly or not at all. New value-based reimbursement models, however,...
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Keywords:
Value Creation;
Cost Management;
Health Care and Treatment;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Health Industry
Kaplan, Robert S., Derek A. Haas, and Jonathan Warsh. "Adding Value by Talking More." New England Journal of Medicine 375, no. 20 (November 17, 2016): 1918–1920.
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
structure for meetings where managers can quickly see which aspects of their strategy are succeeding and where they are falling short. The causal relationships enable managers...
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by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
deep statistical analysis, just good data and reporting approaches. It is often encountered in online businesses, where customer clickstreams provide plenty of data-often too much-for analysis. One expert practitioner of the CSI story...
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- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
brand and strategy. Managers must manage. In an extended disruption, it may even be in your long-term interest to find supply alternatives for a customer. Few quota-carrying salespeople will or can do that. Use data, don’t hoard it...
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by Frank V. Cespedes
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
although we set the standard in South Africa and everywhere else we operate, we’ve got to do better. The second area that needed improvement was government relations. Starting first in South Africa, we’ve worked to upgrade that View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
a quantifiable set of relationships that directly links profit and growth not only to customer loyalty and satisfaction but to employee loyalty, satisfaction, and productivity. The authors emphasize that...
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- 19 Jan 2023
- News
40 Ideas to Shake Up Your Hiring Process
- January 2000
- Case
Talbots - A Classic
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
This case traces why the $1 billion women's clothing retailer decided to attract younger customers, what went wrong, and the actions taken to recover. By the end of 1999, the company has reestablished itself and faces several growth opportunities and must decide on the...
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Keywords:
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Decisions;
Crisis Management;
Product Positioning;
Problems and Challenges;
Segmentation;
Fashion Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Marie Bell. "Talbots - A Classic." Harvard Business School Case 500-082, January 2000.
- November 2010 (Revised April 2011)
- Supplement
Aman Resorts (B)
By: Eugene Soltes and Aldo Sesia
The (B) case describes how employees are rewarded and compensated and is used to supplement the (A) case.
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Keywords:
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Customer Satisfaction;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Compensation and Benefits;
Employees;
Performance Evaluation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Accommodations Industry
Soltes, Eugene, and Aldo Sesia. "Aman Resorts (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-015, November 2010. (Revised April 2011.)
- January 2008 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Microfinance International Corporation: No, Not Another Microfinance Case
CEO and founder Atsumasa Tochisako (52) sat in his Washington D.C. headquarters, looking with pride at the copy of a press release that would announce the latest in a broadening line of financial services that Washington D.C.-based Microfinance International...
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Keywords:
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Microfinance;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Financial Services Industry
Isenberg, Daniel J. "Microfinance International Corporation: No, Not Another Microfinance Case." Harvard Business School Case 808-104, January 2008. (Revised July 2009.)
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- August 1995 (Revised July 1997)
- Case
H.E. Butt Grocery Company: A Leader in ECR Implementation (A) (Abridged)
Describes the industry context that has resulted in the development of efficient consumer response (ECR) within the grocery industry and its adoption by H.E. Butt Grocery Co.
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Keywords:
Demand and Consumers;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Adoption;
Retail Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren. "H.E. Butt Grocery Company: A Leader in ECR Implementation (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 196-061, August 1995. (Revised July 1997.)
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Donella Rapier to Head External Relations
an audit senior manager in Boston. In that position, Rapier developed materials and conducted courses on a variety of accounting and auditing topics. This interest led in 1995 to a part-time faculty appointment, teaching accounting at...
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- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
efforts to refine search capabilities. With that in mind, panel moderator Thomas R. Eisenmann, associate professor of Entrepreneurial Management at HBS, noted that the next wave in search tools is going beyond material on the World Wide...
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by Julie Jette