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- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
J’s board, became its new CEO and was able to successfully manage competing stakeholder demands, keep the business running, and ultimately paid back every dollar it owed to its creditors by selling the company’s core assets—its travel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
countries improve trade conditions and build sustainable practices. Back then, fair trade essentially referred to a system of price-fixing, using Resale Price Maintenance contracts to help smaller businesses and associations compete... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
the variables that align with different customer types. Given the competing priorities in any venture, we've found that an ICP process must come from the top team to be credible and effective. Conversely, the process itself often helps to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711419-PDF-ENG Television Competes for a Digital Audience Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy BartlettHarvard Business School Note 710-476 In the face of major disruption in the industry, television... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
or the other? Maybe there's a win-win possibility if Jim can quickly forge a deal with the bank and spare it the expense of putting the orchard on the open market. On the other hand, Jim might act differently if he hears of a competing... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
million. Voted company of the year by Exame, Brazil's leading business magazine, Natura has from its inception focused on serving the distinctive needs of Brazil's ethnically diverse population. Recognizing that the company could never View Details
- January 2025
- Case
Davivienda Bank's Upskilling and Reskilling Strategy in Colombia (Abridged)
By: Jorge Tamayo, Raffaella Sadun and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago
Set in 2022, this abridged case examines the digital transformation strategy of Davivienda—a leading player in Colombia’s commercial banking sector and one of the companies belonging to Grupo Bolívar, a major Colombian conglomerate—and the bank’s upskilling and... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Digital Strategy; Digital Transformation; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Talent and Talent Management; Training; Organizational Culture; Banking Industry; Latin America; Central America; South America; Colombia
Tamayo, Jorge, Raffaella Sadun, and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago. "Davivienda Bank's Upskilling and Reskilling Strategy in Colombia (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 725-428, January 2025.
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
break through institutional complacency and unite HKU's oft-divided students, faculty, and administration behind a plan that would allow HKU to thrive in a landscape in which it competed not only with other institutions in Hong Kong, but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
The growth and competiveness of emerging markets is a fundamental reality in global business today. Yet it is often forgotten just how much these countries have changed in a short period of time, how challenging their business... View Details
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
like for HTC? How could HTC, a historically innovative company, compete in the tablet market? And how could it weather-and mitigate-the patent wars? Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/712423-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
an important connection between asymmetric skills and asymmetric motivation. Asymmetric motivation gives a would-be disruptor time to hone asymmetric skills. How? Even though a competitor could develop the requisite skills to compete... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 23, 2015
assuming that these options are mutually exclusive. A review of advertising industry history reveals why internal agencies have long operated in the shadows of their external counterparts and how the former organization form has evolved over time. The core View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
are not always made in a competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
on making them thoughtfully and deliberately, without remorse. Q: Could you talk a little about the four service "truths"? A: Frei: Companies that excel at service typically do a great job in four areas: identifying the attributes of service they're View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
China's burgeoning agriculture market with its unstated obligation to provide guidance and expertise in food safety, technology, and jobs for rural farmers while still competing against the growing cadre of international and domestic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
profitable than domestic operations. There's also a growing awareness that not all countries tax their corporations in the same way, and that American firms have to compete with firms that face very different tax regimes, many of which... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
Harvard Business School Case 307-091 Mark Ernst, the Chairman, CEO and President of H&R Block, has to decide how to respond to a competitive threat posed by a competitor's refund-lending product. Block is the largest U.S. tax preparation firm, which View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
the idea. A lot of people are very worried that someone is going to steal their idea. That's almost impossible. Yes, there are a lot of people competing for the same space in the marketplace, but an idea is not yet a business. The real... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
policyholders, downstream intermediaries, and other actors thus constitutes a balancing act. The context of this case is an underdeveloped market whose reputation has suffered from broker misconduct. In light of the market’s legacy issues and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
for Walmart or migrates to higher-end retailers like Whole Foods. Supermarkets have already reduced costs dramatically in order to compete with much more efficient competitors, and they can no longer generate price savings by cutting... View Details