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  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

the organizations they studied responded to their post-reform competitive environments in roughly four stages: Stage I: Turnaround and Catch-up. Recognizing that their efficiency and quality levels were far... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
    • 05 Feb 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    In Praise of Marketing

    most countries, there are strong local brands reflecting local tastes that coexist alongside global brands.” Marketing by producers to consumers is as old as the bazaar. But modern marketing is more than just selling. It involves the design of products and View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising
    • March 2004 (Revised September 2005)
    • Case

    RealNetworks Rhapsody

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Steven Carpenter
    Examines RealNetwork's (Real's) strategy for the rapidly emerging online music market. In contrast to rivals who sell individual copies of songs, Real offers online music on a subscription basis. For a $10 monthly fee, subscribers to Real's Rhapsody service have... View Details
    Keywords: Internet and the Web; Competitive Advantage; Distribution Channels; Music Entertainment; Ownership; Service Industry; Service Industry; Service Industry
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    • 15 Feb 2000
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

    As the information economy emerges and technology transforms "business-as-usual," senior-level executives need to understand the "big picture" of how IT impacts their entire organization—from top to bottom. The HBS Executive Education course... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 19 Apr 2017
    • Blog Post

    7 Ways MBA Students Use Baker Library

    As members of the Curriculum & Learning Services (CLS) team at Baker Library, we have the opportunity to work closely with MBA students: in the library, online, and in the classroom. In a typical year we answer over 2,000 research... View Details
    • September 1998
    • Case

    Vanguard Group, Inc. (1998), The

    By: Andre F. Perold
    Since the beginning of 1997, Vanguard's assets under management have increased more than 60% from $240 billion to almost $400 billion, making it second in market share only to Fidelity. Vanguard views this success as another vindication of its low-cost strategy of... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Management; Cost Management; Investment Funds; Product; Service Operations; Performance Expectations; Competition; Consolidation; Expansion; Internet; Financial Services Industry
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    • 18 Dec 2006
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

    as foundational skills, critical business functions, strategy formulation and implementation, and personal leadership. For the organization, according to Sasser and Narayandas, talent is key to competitive advantage. And for the talented... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 18 Sep 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

    distinct competitive disadvantage for nonprofits." A small number of attempts are under way to begin to alleviate some of these problems, Grossman notes, including some eight "venture-capital-type philanthropic funds" that provide the... View Details
    Keywords: by James E. Aisner
    • Program

    Leading in the Digital Era

    technology has become critical to the success in keeping a company competitive and driving growth. How can you get your organization to embrace technologies and data that hold extraordinary potential for delivering a differentiated... View Details
    • 22 Nov 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: November 22

      PublicationsCompeting through Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart Publication:In Handbook of Research on Competitive Strategy, edited by Giovanni Battista Dagnino. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming An... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Building Sustainable Cities

      By 2050 the number of people living in cities will have nearly doubled, to 6 billion, and the problems created by this rampant urbanization are among the most important challenges of our time. Of all resource-management issues, the author argues, water, electricity,... View Details

      • March 5, 2022
      • Article

      Hospital Capacity Shortages: An SEC-Backed Transparency “PULL” Will Open Beds Faster Than a “PUSH” by HHS

      By: Regina E. Herzlinger
      In the new normal of ongoing pandemics, hospital bed shortages will continue. Healthcare innovation expert and author of the upcoming book Innovating in Healthcare: Creating Breakthrough Services, Products, and Business Models (Wiley, 2023, 978-1119543008), HBS... View Details
      Keywords: Hospital Capacity; Access To Care; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Capacity; Planning
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        Kris Johnson Ferreira

        Kris Ferreira is the Edgerley Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit. She teaches the Supply Chain Management course in the MBA elective curriculum and analytics in numerous Executive Education... View Details

        Keywords: retailing
        • Research Summary

        Competing on a Common Platform

        Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details
        • 02 Jan 2001
        • Research & Ideas

        Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

        the authors came to believe, government had inflicted detrimental effects not only on industry but also on the Japanese economy as a whole. Their new book Can Japan Compete? is the result of years of research by Porter, the author of widely influential studies of View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
        • June 2023
        • Supplement

        Clash of Two Giants Simulation Exercise

        By: Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti
        Many markets are organized around platforms that connect consumers with complementary applications and services. These platforms are two-sided because both sides - consumers and those providing applications or services - need access to the same platform to interact. A... View Details
        Keywords: Customer Acquisition; Platform Strategy; Technology Platform; Digital Platforms; Competitive Strategy; Network Effects
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        • 12 Apr 2018
        • Blog Post

        Reading Between the Lines: How to Spot the Skills You Need Among the Resumes You Get

        There can be a protean quality to great talent, a capacity for shape-shifting that enables them to succeed in a wide variety of functions within a broad range of industries. But the virtues you need – in both hard skills and “soft”... View Details
        Keywords: All Industries
        • Research Summary

        Consumer's Relationships with Technologies

         

        Susan M. Fournier is involved with two lines of research investigating consumers' relationships with technological products. The first project (with Professor David Mick of the University of Wisconsin) concerns 'everyday technologies' such as... View Details

        • September 1999 (Revised July 2001)
        • Case

        Charles Schwab Corporation (B)

        By: F. Warren McFarlan and Nicole Tempest
        Catches the situation facing Charles Schwab Corp. in late August 1999 in the dramatically changing brokerage industry. Their bold moves in January 1998 have created a new industry competitive pattern and provoked aggressive response by companies like Merrill Lynch. View Details
        Keywords: Information Technology; Business Strategy; Situation or Environment; Competition; Financial Services Industry
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