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- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
The price tag is evolving. It wasn't long ago that potential buyers had only to contemplate a single figure on a price tag—Mattress $799. But increasingly consumers are being presented with "partitioned" prices. Look at your monthly cable... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
Then, we saw the addition of a new dimension, interactivity—that is, the ability to take account of millions of individual consumer responses with the aid of electronic databases," he continues.... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 26 Oct 2015
- News
Ron Johnson’s Post-Penney’s Rebirth
The November issue of Fast Company has a profile of Ron Johnson (MBA 1984)—former Apple retail guru and JC Penney CEO. Johnson’s now at the helm of a consumer electronics startup, Enjoy, that focuses on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Forecasting ’15
Then we networked that digital information together. And now we can analyze that information in new and powerful ways. That’s really going to be the big payoff from the feeding of the electronic health records process. Because right now,... View Details
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
health care landscape through a lens of disruptive innovation. How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity Instead of making health care delivery more efficient, electronic health records may... View Details
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
monitor? The answer may determine whether you'll play the wimp or the hero in your next office meeting. The body posture inherent in operating everyday gadgets affects not only your back, but your demeanor, reports a new experimental study entitled iPosture: The Size... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
Made in China REASON U.S. supplier base eroded as the manufacture of consumer electronics and computers migrated to Asia. Electrophoretic display MADE IN TAIWAN REASON Its manufacture requires expertise... View Details
- March 2011
- Supplement
Cree, Inc.: An Update
By: David J. Collis and Mary Furey
An update to "Cree Inc.: Which Bright Future?" View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Consumer Behavior; Strategy; Technology Adoption; Electronics Industry
Collis, David J., and Mary Furey. "Cree, Inc.: An Update." Harvard Business School Supplement 711-491, March 2011.
- Profile
Patrick Akl
Growing up in Lebanon, Patrick Akl lived with a fascination for consumer electronics – and with the ever-present fear of war. “We often had to sleep in an underground bunker,” Patrick says. “And the conflict... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Betting big on star power can be a winning strategy in business—not just show business
to subsidize less popular offerings. And now these strategies are pervading other industries from consumer electronics to fashion. “Although risky, betting heavily on the most likely blockbusters and... View Details
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
Arab Emirates Rohit Dev Thakwani, OPM 37 2008 SpendWisor.com consumer electronics marketplace Midwest/Central U.S. HBS Club of Chicago Marc Hoecker, MBA '08 vinsnap mobile automotive marketing New England... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- 02 Jul 2014
- Blog Post
Connecting Fashion & Technology at Kate Spade
development, design and marketing teams. I also participated in consumer electronic trade shows for the first time to discover new products on the markets and look out for potential licensing partners for... View Details
- 28 Sep 2018
- News
Pushing Progress at Panasonic
Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) (photo by Akio Kon/Bloomberg) Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) (photo by Akio Kon/Bloomberg) When he was fresh out of engineering school in 1980, Yasuyuki Higuchi (MBA 1991) got a job at Panasonic. He left just as the View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
industry to the production of mechanical (“dumb”) and electronic (“smart”) beds. Eventually, he expects to develop an entire suite of compact hospital room furnishings. The Alumni New Venture Contest was created with two goals in mind: to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
“Some decent-looking pixels and a really excellent vision.” That’s all it took for Russ Wilcox to fall for the technology that would become E Ink, a company supplying the electronic ink for a new world of digital reading devices. Now, as... View Details
- 09 Feb 2016
- News
Powering into the Future
professor, where they have invented a new way to move power without wires. The company’s called WiTricity—wireless electricity—and it couldn’t be more exciting. “We have so many new electronic devices in our lives that we are all... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
Leverage Existing Competitive Advantages. For many years, people have said that a store's location was a key for its success. Now the buzz is that, in the world of electronic retailing, location doesn't matter. A View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
Illustration by Istvan Banyai Since 2006, Gazelle has offered consumers an answer to the question of what to do with their old electronic devices when they upgrade: Sell them to us. Customers can go to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Squeeze Play
electronic components assembly line and recast as an expensive, high-end beauty product. That Tweezerman success has allowed LaMagna to bankroll other passions. He’s run for office (unsuccessfully) and dabbled in politics over the years... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Rohit Dev Thakwani, OPM 37 2008 SpendWisor.com consumer electronics marketplace Watch their pitch. Midwest/Central U.S. Marc Hoecker, MBA '08 vinsnap mobile automotive marketing Watch their pitch. New... View Details