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- August 1992
- Case
Otis Pacific Asia Operations (A): National Challenges
Describes the elevator market and Otis's competitive position in four markets: Hong Kong, Malaysia, India, and Japan. The student is asked to evaluate the strategic and competitive challenges in each market, especially in light of strong Japanese competition across the...
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Marketing Strategy;
Network Effects;
Problems and Challenges;
Global Strategy;
Goals and Objectives;
Service Delivery;
Competitive Advantage;
Competition;
Technology Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
India;
Japan;
Malaysia;
Hong Kong
Yoshino, Michael Y. "Otis Pacific Asia Operations (A): National Challenges." Harvard Business School Case 393-009, August 1992.
- 21 May 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
If the Key to Business Success Is Focus, Why Does Amazon Work?
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
two-sided platforms and indirect network effects to develop an explanation why markets with two-sided platforms are often characterized by incompatibility with one dominant...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
''How long can this be sustained without effective push-back?" Others noted the benefits of scale in fostering success for the foreseeable future. Robert Duque suggested that the organization will learn from its subsidiaries, such as...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
@Soldiers Field
welcomed 2,800 alumni and guests to campus for a full program of events and presentations, including “How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life” by Associate Professor Alison Wood Brooks, one of six 10-minute flash talks offered in Klarman Hall. View Details
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
technology side, they also have to think about the organizational side," she says. "Traditionally, technology is thought of as a tool that enables empowerment, but that's not always the case." Sadun discusses the issue in "The Distinct View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
But in most scenarios, distribution channels, taken as a whole, seem more like a repository of lost opportunities than an effective delivery system that appropriately serves and rewards all participants. Powerful channel members routinely...
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- 27 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
and companies better. Someone with a background and orientation towards building things can incorporate that knowledge into their work and get tremendously more effective as a founder or leader. In particular design thinking and...
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- 19 Jan 2024
- News
Blockchain for Good
After immigrating to the United Kingdom in the late 1960s to escape the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) and her family lived in public housing and had very little money. “But we still had more than our friends and relatives back home,” she recalls. “My...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
battle-tested process for effective decision-making that generally starts with a six-page document. “You write your hypothesis, provide context and data to back it up, and you articulate a few different options with the pros and cons,”...
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- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
rely on indirect governance through regulated competition among political as well as economic actors in structures that in many ways parallel the competition found in organized sports. Inevitably these two systems develop as well as...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project characteristics which are often hard to measure. Hence, we differentiate "quality...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
http://hbr.org/2013/04/using-the-crowd-as-an-innovation-partner/ar/1 2006 The Small Worlds of Corporate Governance The Small Worlds of Business Groups: Liberalization and Network Dynamics By: Brookfield, Jon, Sea-Jin Chang, Israel Drori,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
value created for users by the offering based on the technology; define the structure of the value chain, that is, the network of activities within the firm required to create and distribute the products or services offered to customers;...
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- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
emphasize the value of being prudent with money. Additional analysis supports our predicted indirect effect of religiosity on spending through frugality. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
short-term increase in otherwise steady charitable-giving patterns among firms that are headquartered in the event's host city. Natural disasters also have a strong effect on firms' giving patterns, according to the study Punctuated...
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by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Career Timeline - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
University Professor, the highest recognition awarded to a Harvard faculty member 2000 – Co-founds Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) 2000 – Co-founds FSG 2002 – Launches the Microeconomics of Competitiveness (MOC) Affiliate View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
HBS Press Books in Brief Total Access: Giving Customers What They Want in an Anytime, Anywhere World. Regis McKenna, the renowned "father of high-tech marketing," sets forth a new marketing paradigm in which machines and networks do most...
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Public Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
ways to leverage their network effects for growth. We tackle these topics mostly through case discussion, and we spend time with many guests. Three-quarters of the cases include some private company angle....
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- 30 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
4 Takeaways from HBS
challenged my conventional views of HBS. Here are a few of the things I learned during my time at HBS. 1. Don’t network It is common shared wisdom that a primary benefit of business school is the networking...
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