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August 2012
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Consumer Response to Versioning: How Brands' Production Methods Affect Perceptions of Unfairness

By: Andrew Gershoff, Ran Kivetz and Anat Keinan

Marketers often extend product lines by offering limited-capability models that are created by removing or degrading features in existing models. This production method, called versioning, has been lauded because of its ability to increase both consumer and firm... View Details

Keywords: Brands and Branding; Production; Competency and Skills; Welfare or Wellbeing; Cost vs Benefits; Perception; Customers; Performance Evaluation; Fairness; Business Ventures

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April 2012
Case

Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation

By: Willy Shih and Margaret Pierson

Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation (DNATF), a government agency, invests in public-private partnerships to stimulate commercialization of Danish scientific research within the country's industry. DNATF established a process for evaluating proposals, making... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Commercialization; Management Practices and Processes; Experience and Expertise; Innovation and Invention; Public Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Technology Industry; Denmark

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01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground

Video Embed Eight months after the levees broke, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra returned to New Orleans to play a concert. They weren’t home yet, though. Their usual venue, the 87-year-old Orpheum Theater downtown, was in ruins, still covered in mud and sludge.... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Health, Social Assistance

11 Oct 2011
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Management Consultant to Minority Businesses

Keywords: Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

24 Oct 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

to compete they need to innovate. But finding sources of innovation while still paying attention to the current business can be a struggle. The good news, says HBS professor Lynda Applegate, is that one of the forces that threatens... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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New Releases

professor Sumantra Ghoshal. In The Differentiated Network: Organizing Multinational Corporations for Value Creation, Nohria and Ghoshal assert that the traditional, hierarchical "spoke-and-hub" forms of organization do not provide the flexibility required to View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Jun 1998
News

Short Takes

companies with such plans do not perform better financially. Further analysis prompted Beer and Katz to conclude that the real role of bonuses is simply to attract highly qualified executives to a corporation. "Companies are forced into incentive systems to View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey

01 Oct 2000
News

After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective

industrial model to the new information economy, said CEOs of incumbent (pre-Internet) companies are trying to compete with dot-coms, "but they get dot-com vertigo. They trust their senses, even after realizing they're wrong, and they get... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2014
News

Case Study: Declawing the Competition

excellent customer service. However, we know this is a race that others can compete in, too, and that—with enough investment—our differentiators are replicable. What fundamental changes can we make to this market dynamic and/or our... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

Porter Appointed to University Professorship

is particularly important to me since the scope of my work has broadened considerably over the years." Porter's first area of interest examines how firms compete in industries and gain competitive advantage. The next focuses on locations... View Details

Keywords: Doug Gavel; University Professorship; C. Roland Christensen; Sumner H. Slichter

01 Oct 2002
News

Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.

Harvard Square retail community, the Coop's number was almost up when Murphy arrived on the scene. As an old-style department store that carried everything from refrigerators to intimate apparel, the store was struggling to compete in the... View Details

23 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 23

progress. The case traces the evolution of the AmazonFresh business model and describes the operating capabilities necessary to compete in grocery. Would there come a day when most grocery shopping was done online? If so, how would Amazon... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 14

value on average quality and less value on total quantity. With competing platforms, the effect of user preferences for quantity is reversed. Furthermore, exclusion incentives depend in a non-trivial way on the proportion of high-quality... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action

a Balanced Scorecard program. The purpose of an OSM is to unlock value by making strategy execution a distinct and recognized competency in an organization. Does The Bsc Work In Testing Strategy? Working Paper: Testing Strategy with... View Details

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”

hell of a good thing," Corzine said. Now that Congress has doubled the SEC's budget under Sarbanes-Oxley, "the SEC can now compete more effectively in the marketplace." Confidence that was lost on all levels during the... View Details

Keywords: by Catherine Walsh

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Viktor Puzakov

slips of paper with identifying information. “During the war, there was a superstition that if you filled out the slip, you would be killed.” Of all the containers they found, Viktor says, “only one held a slip. And it was blank.” Elevator to a new level of View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities

rates or the minimum wage, reflect the public’s efforts to find the right balance between these competing arguments. That may not be pretty, but it makes me hopeful. How do people make decisions about these big economic questions?... View Details

Keywords: April White; faculty research; writing

20 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks

they don't. Speed. During the last decade, it's all been about competing through speed—being able to satisfy changing customer needs quickly, accurately, and efficiently. EE: Going back to your discussion of information technology as a... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

Ashish Nanda Nanda: "How do firms compete with one another, not only in service offerings but also in the war for talent? "Most of my work has been focused on the USA, and I am keen to look at Latin American investment banking... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 May 2012
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First Look: May 1

competing in the new, despite some dramatic early success. We suggest that these difficulties do not arise from cannibalization concerns or from inherited cognitive frames. Instead they reflect diseconomies of scope rooted in assets that... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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