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January 2022 (Revised August 2022)
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Hello Heart: The Next Generation of Chronic Disease Management Apps

By: Ariel D. Stern and Danielle Golan

Hello Heart, a hypertension management app debated whether to go deep and cover other heart conditions, or to expand its solution to other chronic conditions. View Details

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20 Mar 2017
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Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

Harhoff, director of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. The book includes 25 original contributions providing an extensive view of user and open innovation by scholars from all over the world in a variety... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

in the 1970s, HCL had grown into an enterprise with $3.7 billion in revenues and a market capitalization of $5.1 billion. The company had 41,000 employees in 11 countries, but it was ill-prepared for the increasingly View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July 2000 (Revised September 2005)
Case

BMG Entertainment

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Gerrit Meier

As dramatic changes in technology and customer tastes roil the music industry, the top executives of BMG Entertainment, one of the world's largest record companies, must decide how to organize for digital distribution of music. This case includes a brief history of the... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Competitive Strategy; Distribution Channels; Organizational Structure; Technological Innovation; Industry Structures; Customer Focus and Relationships; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology; Music Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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26 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

well. Most successful enterprises are adept at refining their current offerings, but they falter when it comes to pioneering radically new products and services. Kodak and Boeing are just two of the more recent examples of once dominant companies that failed to adapt... View Details

Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

Michael W. Toffel Publication:Organization Science (forthcoming) Abstract Governments and other organizations often outsource activities to achieve cost savings from market competition. Yet such benefits are often accompanied by poor... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

Markets sometimes unravel, with offers becoming inefficiently early. Often this is attributed to competition arising from an imbalance of demand and supply, typically excess demand for workers. However this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2016
Case

IC Group A/S

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

IC Group owned several of Scandinavia's leading premium fashion brands. How should it respond to the decline of its primary wholesale distribution channels (independent fashion boutiques and department stores)? Should it open more physical stores or focus on... View Details

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15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

market coming as a major systems house customer came to GUC directly. Did this mean that it was enabling competition with TSMC's most important customers? Was it fostering disintermediation, and what did... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Feb 2007
Op-Ed

Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant

was to supplement the customer-facing front-end in the developed markets, with a lower-cost back-end in an emerging market. That is, TCL was trying to buy a sales and marketing structure and a set of brands. Much like Tata is with Corus.... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

19 Jun 2018
Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

Celsius?" A number of practitioners reported that progress could and was being made in their sectors, despite the challenges. Many are focusing energy on addressing short-term biases in capital markets and in the ability of investors... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy

03 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 3

Klinik: Eating Disorder Care Michael E. Porter, Emma Stanton, Jessica A. Hohman, and Caleb StowellHarvard Business School Case 712-475 The Schön Klinik is a private, for-profit German hospital group trying to establish itself as a premium health care provider in a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

average demand increases with both pricing transparency and agent expertise, and that agent expertise interacts positively with competitive intensity. We also find that competition is associated with higher... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

findings suggest that restricting the entry of large stores does not necessarily lead to a world with fewer stores, but one with different stores, with uncertain competitive effects on independent retailers. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jan 2012
What Do You Think?

Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

among a country's citizens. Some view inequality as the natural result of freedom, a free market economy, and capitalism. It appears to work best when those with the wealth create jobs for others. This seems to have been the thinking... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

November 2008
Teaching Note

Crossing Borders: MTC's Journey through Africa (TN)

By: Tarun Khanna

Teaching Note for [708477]. View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development; Monopoly; Strategic Planning; Mergers and Acquisitions; Leadership; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Competition; Developing Countries and Economies; Brands and Branding; Culture; Telecommunications Industry; Kuwait; Africa

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03 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

Let's get one thing straight from the start: Apple and Amazon are not friends. If they were high school students, they'd be mean girls glaring at each other from opposite sides of the cafeteria, jealously forcing their friends to pick sides between Team Chloe and Team... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology

18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

characteristics of the waste-to-energy operation, the market characteristics for waste disposal and energy, and the mechanisms regulators use to encourage production of renewable energy, we determine the profit-maximizing operating... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2016
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August 23, 2016

methods. Myth Number 1: Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs reduce returns on capital and long-run shareholder value. Reality: Companies committed to ESG are finding competitive advantages in product, labor, and capital... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne