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18 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817064-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-021 Bayer AG: Bidding to Win Merck's OTC Business Shortly after submitting their best and final offer to acquire Merck's Consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

provides a wide array of in-aisle treats and accessories to drive impulse purchases. At the same time, they've maintained a strategy of exclusivity with pet food so that they are not stocking all of the same items that Walmart and the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

May 1975 (Revised May 1978)
Case

Litton Microwave Cooking Products (B)

By: Paul W. Marshall

Keywords: Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry

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March 1992 (Revised March 1995)
Supplement

Joline Godfrey and the Polaroid Corp. (B)

By: Linda A. Hill

Supplements Joline Godfrey and the Polaroid Corp. (A). View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Rank and Position; Leading Change; Problems and Challenges; Change; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry

December 1979 (Revised October 1983)
Case

Fred Henderson

By: John P. Kotter

Focuses on the management style of Fred Henderson in the context of a relatively stable business environment within Xerox Corporation. To be contrasted with the case, Renn Zaphiropoulos and the videotape, A Day with Renn Zaphiropoulos (9-881-501), which are appropriate... View Details

Keywords: Situation or Environment; Management Style; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry

23 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

far enough. They stopped asking the next round of innovation questions, leaving Apple to reap the benefits from recognizing that the crucial thing wasn't just the device itself, but the magical way in which the entire music industry could be transformed with the View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

translated to another—he hit upon a pair of tweezers that was being used on the assembly line of an electronics company. He was able to adapt these tweezers to the more medical use of removing splinters. Time passed and the idea took... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

can be used in powerful ways, ideally leading to better patient care, lower health care costs and, ultimately, healthier patients. “Trust on the part of both the consumer and doctor is hugely important in determining who is going to be... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

inventors. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-042.pdf Electronic Hierarchies and Electronic Heterarchies: Relationship-Specific Assets and the Governance of Interfirm IT Authors:Andrew... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

example by refurbishing electronic products and selling them in stores to contribute to the recycling effort. “Purpose becomes your lighthouse in the storm,” Barry says. “Purpose is the direction you’re always going to move the company.... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

October 1996 (Revised April 1997)
Case

Northco (A)

By: Ananth Raman and Bowon Kim

A small school-uniform manufacturer wrestles with seasonal demand. The company is saddled with excess inventory when it is bought by a leveraged buyout firm. Students are required to identify ways to analyze and solve the problem. View Details

Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Leveraged Buyouts; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Finance; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States

January 2006
Teaching Note

Strategic Inflection: TiVo in 2005 (TN)

By: David B. Yoffie

Teaching Note to 706421. View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry

June 1991 (Revised May 2002)
Case

Barco Projection Systems (A): Worldwide Niche Marketing

Deals with the issue of niche marketing in a worldwide market. Barco Projection Systems makes video, data, and graphics projectors for the industrial market. They have traditionally been the performance leader. In August 1989, Sony Corp. introduced a higher performance... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Globalized Markets and Industries; Product Marketing; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry

January 1980 (Revised October 1993)
Case

Renn Zaphiropoulos

By: John P. Kotter

Focuses on the management style of Renn Zaphiropoulos in the context of a rapidly changing business environment within Xerox Corporation. To be contrasted with the case, Fred Henderson and the videotape, A Day with Fred Henderson (9-881-502), which are appropriate for... View Details

Keywords: Situation or Environment; Management Style; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry