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Competitive Dynamics of the Textile-Apparel-Retail Channel

By: Janice H. Hammond
Janice H. Hammond established in 1991 (with Frederick H. Abernathy and John Dunlop of Harvard University and David Weil of Boston University) the Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research. Funding provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has supported the... View Details
  • July 2003 (Revised April 2011)
  • Case

Singapore Airlines: Customer Service Innovation

By: Rohit Deshpande and Hal Hogan
The members of Singapore Airlines' (SIA) management committee needs to decide whether to cancel the implementation of the new lie-flat seats in business class after the effects of the global recession on the travel industry in September 2001. SIA was considered the... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Air Transportation Industry; Travel Industry; Singapore
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  • 16 Feb 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Platform Competition Under Partial Belief Advantage

Keywords: by Hanna Halaburda & Yaron Yehezkel; Consumer Products
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Where Innovation Rules

Kiva Systems Intuit Angie’s List Rakuten athenahealth Pandora Bloomingdale's and Gilt Groupe Social Finance Innovation is the real business of Harvard Business School. It begins with the School’s bias toward action, as embodied in its... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg;Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Educational Services; Management

    Innovation Without Borders; Innovations, Summer 2007

    The willingness to connect with an external network is key in an environment where products and services are themselves increasingly inter-connected. We see trends in this direction for a variety of reasons, either because uses of multiple products are complementary... View Details

    • 21 Dec 2016
    • News

    U.S. manufacturing job openings at 2007 levels

    • Web

    U.S. Competitiveness Project - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network... View Details
    • August 2014
    • Case

    Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (A)

    By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats
    Valve, one of the world's top video game software companies, has also become an iconic example of an organization with virtually no hierarchy. A 400-person organization, Valve's unique organizational form (described in detail in the case and accompanying employee... View Details
    Keywords: Valve; Self-Managed Organizations; Organization Design; Strategy; Flat Organization; Video Games; Organization Alignment; Family Business; Steam; Steam Machine; Design; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Human Resources; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Leadership Style; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Groups and Teams; Alignment; Software; Hardware; Video Game Industry; Seattle
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    • 01 Jun 2023
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    An Engine of Innovation

    community. In terms of funding, we provide Spark Grants and Social Impact Fellowships. Another source is the Allston Venture Fund, which is a syndicate of venture capital firms that invest in some of the companies. Additionally, there is the President’s View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    Trading Volume Manipulation and Competition Among Centralized Crypto Exchanges

    By: Dan Amiran, Evgeny Lyandres and Daniel Rabetti
    How competition affects manipulation by firms of information about important attributes of their products and how such information manipulation impacts firms’ short-term and long-term performance are open empirical questions. We use a setting that is especially... View Details
    Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Financial Markets; Performance; Competition
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    • January 2007
    • Case

    AMD: A Customer-Centric Approach to Innovation

    By: Elie Ofek and Lauren Barley
    AMD's launch of the Opteron microprocessor in 2003 has allowed the company to make inroads into the lucrative server segment. A long-time follower to Intel, AMD management felt it was in a position to lead the microprocessor industry in new directions. However, in 2006... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Price; Leadership; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Product Development; Competitive Strategy; Customization and Personalization; Semiconductor Industry
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    • December 2022
    • Article

    I Don't 'Recall': The Decision to Delay Innovation Launch to Avoid Costly Product Failure

    By: Byungyeon Kim, Oded Koenigsberg and Elie Ofek
    Innovations embody novel features or cutting-edge components aimed at delivering desired customer benefits. Oftentimes, however, we observe the need to recall new products shortly after their introduction. Indeed, a firm may rush an innovation to market in an attempt... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation Management; Innovation And Strategy; Product Development Strategy; Product Introduction; Quality Control; Product Recalls; Game Theory; Market Timing; Innovation Strategy; Product Launch; Product Development
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    • 07 Oct 2013
    • News

    Open brainstorming is the way to go

    • 12 Aug 2015
    • News

    Google Building New Innovation Model with Alphabet Inc.

    • 30 Oct 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 14 Introducing Open Platforms and Business Ecosystems

    Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin
    • 01 Sep 2011
    • News

    Innovation has a New Home: The Harvard Innovation Lab

    Set to open this fall in a newly renovated building on Western Avenue in Allston, the Harvard Innovation Lab is stirring up excitement at HBS and across the University. The “i-lab” will foster collaborative,... View Details
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 25 Mar 2020
    • Blog Post

    Black New Venture Competition and Black Tech Master Series Recap

    New Venture Competition was an event designed to offer support to promising early-stage Black entrepreneurs with resources to develop their ventures into dynamic powerhouses. The event served as a launchpad for View Details
    • 14 Nov 2006
    • Other Presentation

    Competitiveness and Economic Development: Where Does Texas Stand?

    By: Michael E. Porter
    This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in articular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Clusters and the New Competitive Agenda for Companies and Governments" in On Competition (Harvard Business School... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Growth and Development; United States
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      Trading Volume Manipulation and Competition Among Centralized Crypto Exchanges

      How competition affects manipulation by firms of information about important attributes of their products and how such information manipulation impacts firms’ short-term and long-term performance are open empirical questions. We use a setting that is especially... View Details
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      Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

      developing and implementing competitive strategy for a company or business unit, such as: Chief executive officer, chief operating officer, divisional president, and vice president Chief financial officer, chief View Details