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- 2011
- Working Paper
Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu
We study sponsor-based business model innovations where a firm monetizes its product through sponsors rather than setting prices to its customer base. We analyze strategic interactions between an innovative entrant and an incumbent where the incumbent may imitate the... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Value
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Feng Zhu. "Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-003, July 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- September 1996 (Revised April 1997)
- Case
GO Corporation
By: Josh Lerner, Thomas J. Kosnik, Tarek AbuZayyad and Paul C. Yang
GO faces a crisis in March 1991 when Microsoft announces the introduction of a competing operating system for pen-based computers. GO's managers must work with its venture financers, Kleiner Perkins, to redesign its financing, alliance, and product development... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Digital Platforms; Competition; Private Equity; Adaptation; Crisis Management; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry
Lerner, Josh, Thomas J. Kosnik, Tarek AbuZayyad, and Paul C. Yang. "GO Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 297-021, September 1996. (Revised April 1997.)
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
Many newspapers saw the emergence of the Internet as an attack on their core business, and responded with online products of their own. Unfortunately, says HBS professor Clark Gilbert, the papers failed to take advantage of the Web as a unique medium. He discusses the... View Details
- February 1993
- Background Note
HRM Course Overview Note
By: Michael Beer
Provides an overview of the first-year required course in Human Resource Management. It argues that commitment, coordination, and competence are critical organizational outcomes and that skills in organizational diagnosis, design, and change are central to obtaining... View Details
Keywords: Change; Competency and Skills; Human Resources; Organizations; Organizational Design; Outcome or Result; Behavior
Beer, Michael. "HRM Course Overview Note." Harvard Business School Background Note 493-062, February 1993.
- April 2008
- Case
TerraCog Global Positioning Systems: Conflict and Communication on Project Aerial
By: Michael Beer and Sunru Yong
TerraCog, a successful privately held high-tech firm that develops GPS (global positioning system) and similar products for consumer markets, has recently been caught off-guard by a competitor's new product that makes novel use of satellite imagery. When TerraCog... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Meetings; Decision Making; Group Dynamics; Human Resource Management; Conflict; Information Technology; Leadership; Conflict Management; Competition; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Crisis Management; Technology Industry
Beer, Michael, and Sunru Yong. "TerraCog Global Positioning Systems: Conflict and Communication on Project Aerial." Harvard Business School Brief Case 082-184, April 2008.
- Article
Liquidity Provision and Stock Return Predictability
By: Mark Seasholes and Terrence Hendershott
This paper examines the trading behavior of two groups of liquidity providers (specialists and competing market makers) using a six-year panel of NYSE data. Trades of each group are negatively correlated with contemporaneous price changes. To test for return... View Details
Keywords: Liquidity; Market Makers; Market Efficiency; Inventory; Liquidity Provision; Market Design; Financial Liquidity; Stocks; Investment Return
Seasholes, Mark, and Terrence Hendershott. "Liquidity Provision and Stock Return Predictability." Journal of Banking & Finance 45 (August 2014): 140–151.
- February 2013
- Case
YouTube Channels
By: Sunil Gupta and Dharmishta Rood
In December 2011 YouTube launched a website redesign that made Channels the central focus of the site. This redesign was the company's first foray into a strategy designed to foster long-form user engagement. YouTube invested $100 million in 100 Channels, often created... View Details
- June 2001 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
Innovation at Progressive (B): Homeowners Insurance
By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
Analyzes whether Progressive, strictly an auto insurer, should enter the home owner's insurance market. The critical decision is whether the competencies that made Progressive succeed in the auto insurance industry can translate to the home owner's insurance industry. View Details
Frei, Frances X., and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar. "Innovation at Progressive (B): Homeowners Insurance." Harvard Business School Case 601-138, June 2001. (Revised April 2004.)
- July 2014 (Revised August 2014)
- Case
AmazonFresh: Rekindling the Online Grocery Market
By: Rory McDonald, Clayton Christensen, Robin Yang and Ty Hollingsworth
More than a decade after the high-profile failures of several early online grocers, grocery remains the largest single U.S. retail category and one of the few that has not yet migrated online. Amazon began testing its grocery-delivery service, AmazonFresh, in Seattle,... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; New Markets; Grocery; Operations Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Strategy; Emerging Markets; Learning; Service Operations; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
McDonald, Rory, Clayton Christensen, Robin Yang, and Ty Hollingsworth. "AmazonFresh: Rekindling the Online Grocery Market." Harvard Business School Case 615-013, July 2014. (Revised August 2014.)
- 01 Jun 2015
- Working Paper Summaries
Frenemies in Platform Markets: The Case of Apple’s iPad vs. Amazon’s Kindle
- January 1995 (Revised November 1995)
- Case
Candela Laser vs. Cynosure, Inc.
By: Josh Lerner and Benjamin Conway
Summarizes the lawsuit by Candela Laser against its former CEO and founder, who has begun a competing firm. The extent of patent and trade secret protection are crucial issues. View Details
Lerner, Josh, and Benjamin Conway. "Candela Laser vs. Cynosure, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 295-097, January 1995. (Revised November 1995.)
- 2014
- Book
International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Implications
By: David J. Collis
This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies that compete internationally or face international competitors. Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across... View Details
Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Globalized Firms and Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Alignment; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration
Collis, David J. International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Implications. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2014.
- December 1999 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
BRL Hardy: Globalizing an Australian Wine Company
Two new product launch decisions face Christopher Carson, managing director of BRL Hardy, Europe. Responsible for the European operations of a major Australian wine company, Carson has begun to globalize his strategy beyond selling the parent company's wines. After a... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Joint Ventures; Product Launch; Brands and Branding; Competitive Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Negotiation Style; Food and Beverage Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A. "BRL Hardy: Globalizing an Australian Wine Company." Harvard Business School Case 300-018, December 1999. (Revised October 2003.)
- June 2024
- Module Note
Value Creation Potential of New Business Models
By: David J. Collis
A business model is composed of three elements. These describe a generic way of creating value and identify the maximum potential value of that model for customers. The elements of a business model are the “job to be done” for the customer, the asset configuration, or... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Corporate Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation
Collis, David J. "Value Creation Potential of New Business Models." Harvard Business School Module Note 724-491, June 2024.
- June 2005 (Revised September 2006)
- Case
Oracle vs. salesforce.com
By: David B. Yoffie and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Explores the phenomenon of software becoming a service. Salesforce.com has catapulted into the lead for offering a customer relationship management (CRM) solution as a Web-based service. Siebel, the leader in CRM packaged software sales, has to devise a strategy to... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Competitive Advantage; Software; Web Services Industry; Information Technology Industry
Yoffie, David B., and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld. "Oracle vs. salesforce.com." Harvard Business School Case 705-440, June 2005. (Revised September 2006.)
- March 1998 (Revised February 2001)
- Case
PlanetAll
PlanetAll is a Web-based contact manager that automatically updates users' contact information. In early 1998, the young company must decide whether to compete with large Web sites and become a destination site or to become an enabling technology for other contact... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Business Startups; Web Services Industry; Information Technology Industry
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Michelle Toth, and Carrie Ardito. "PlanetAll." Harvard Business School Case 898-105, March 1998. (Revised February 2001.)
- February 2013 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Monique Leroux: Leading Change at Desjardins
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Monique Leroux led a major transformation, overcoming resistance, at a large Canadian financial cooperative based in Quebec that competed with top Canadian banks. Leroux was elected in 2008 as Chairman, President, and CEO of Desjardins Group. In order to compete... View Details
Keywords: Change Barriers; Leadership; Women And Leadership; Cooperatives; Social Enterprise; Financial Firms; Communication Strategy; Change Management; Transformation; Communication; Financial Services Industry; Canada
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Monique Leroux: Leading Change at Desjardins." Harvard Business School Case 313-107, February 2013. (Revised April 2013.)
- November 2013
- Article
Organizational Ambidexterity: Past, Present and Future
By: Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael Tushman
Organizational ambidexterity refers to the ability of an organization to both explore and exploit—to compete in mature technologies and markets where efficiency, control, and incremental improvement are prized and to also compete in new technologies and markets where... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Ambidexterity; Organization Design; Innovation; Leadership; Organizational Design; Innovation and Invention
O'Reilly, Charles A., III, and Michael Tushman. "Organizational Ambidexterity: Past, Present and Future." Academy of Management Perspectives 27, no. 4 (November 2013): 324–338.
- 2019
- Article
Does Big Data Enhance Firm Innovation Competency? The Mediating Role of Data-driven Insights
By: Maryam Ghasemaghaei and Goran Calic
Grounded in gestalt insight learning theory and organizational learning theory, we collected data from 280 middle and top-level managers to investigate the impact of each big data characteristic (i.e., data volume, data velocity, data variety, and data veracity) on... View Details
Ghasemaghaei, Maryam, and Goran Calic. "Does Big Data Enhance Firm Innovation Competency? The Mediating Role of Data-driven Insights." Journal of Business Research 104 (2019): 69–84.
- 2014
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Strategy Reading: Introduction to Strategy
"Introduction to Strategy" provides a comprehensive overview of the strategy discipline and introduces the building blocks of strategy by providing overviews of fundamental conceptual frameworks. Students will learn how firms decide where to compete by exploring the... View Details
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon. "Strategy Reading: Introduction to Strategy." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing 8097, 2014.