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- May 1999 (Revised March 2001)
- Case
Marshall Industries
Confounding predictions that the Internet would "disintermediate" commerce, making "middle man" companies all but obsolete, Marshall Industries, a leading electronics distributor, used the Internet and digital technologies to reinvent itself. Marshall continued to sell... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Supply Chain; Emerging Markets; Customer Focus and Relationships; Distribution Industry; Electronics Industry
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Cathy Olofson. "Marshall Industries." Harvard Business School Case 899-239, May 1999. (Revised March 2001.)
- 12 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Leapfrogging Traditional Agricultural Development in Africa
the African market, recognizing how fertilizer use on farms throughout the continent has been 10% of the global average. However, they have not focused on the sale of traditional products but have instead developed “customized... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
while also respecting humanistic values. They lay out the positivist, social constructionist, and postmodernist perspectives on the theory of educational organization to help readers develop new ways of thinking about organizational... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
students worked with seven NGOs, small businesses, and a government agency, variously focused on issues of social enterprise and business development. Student teams tackled projects with the goal of providing concrete solutions to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
there were great rewards for VCs who focused on a very specific investment category, such as online pet food. You could invest in five or six companies in the same area and do quite well with all of them,” he explains. Now, across the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate
is a real need for MBAs to fill key business roles, even at the smaller startups where I was focusing my search. Sometimes, the roles were already well-defined, like Business Operations or Corporate Strategy, but other times, I was able... View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- News
A Course Correction at Chris-Craft
Riva. The plan for Christ-Craft? Getting rid of generic model, and focusing on “watercraft that were high-quality and unusual in their focus on nautical beauty.” Stellican purchased the company in 2001, and sold it to Winnebago in June... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
James, a minority electrical engineer at the same company as Stephen Williams. While Williams was focused on engineering and design early in his career, James was motivated more by the prospect of getting into management. He took one... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- Web
Teach with Special Collections | Baker Library
materials in the HBS classroom to illuminate an HBS case Hands-on Special Collections experience - Class sessions in Special Collections & Archives or in the classroom with faculty- or archivist-selected collection material Class presentation - View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Electric and used a portion of the proceeds to establish the Sontag Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting brain cancer research and brain cancer patients and caregivers. The foundation’s signature initiative is its Distinguished Scientist Award. Over the last... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: DaVita Healthcare Partners, Inc.
largest operator of medical groups and physician networks, provides integrated care management as an operating division of DaVita HealthCare Partners, focusing on delivering outstanding healthcare across a broad range of services. How... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
customers to take their business elsewhere. With new Internet-only banks and brokerages popping up regularly, established firms must find innovative ways to hold onto their customers. "Traditionally, strategy was institutionally... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
dissatisfied customers to take their business elsewhere. With new Internet-only banks and brokerages popping up regularly, established firms must find innovative ways to hold onto their customers. "Traditionally, strategy was... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
theorize that institutional mechanisms of practice diffusion underlying relational networks, and filtered by organizational characteristics, influence the adoption of practices that are more customized (tailored) or less View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 05 Sep 2018
- HBS Online
HBX Disruptive Strategy
Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time Worlds Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: September 5, 2018 - October 17, 2018 View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
who are focused on their existing and most profitable markets and don't see the threat coming from below. Exhibit A: The death of Digital Equipment Corp., which, along with a string of other minicomputer firms, was taken down by the PC... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
Most of the money is taken from revenues generated by the Working Assets credit card, long-distance telephone, and Internet businesses, whose customers sign on for these services because they support the company's progressive stance and... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
linked to existing customer preferences. But the challenge is not confined to formal budgeting meetings. Operating managers often constrain strategy adaptation in ways that are very powerful. We have seen this in the response of print... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
special set of clients. “We aimed to serve disadvantaged populations and the organizations that serve those populations.” From the beginning, Bridgespan has focused on a special set of clients. “We aimed to... View Details
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
mass of customers who are not "leading edge" users, and thus preempt large shares of the existing market. Further, Christensen maintains that precisely because of their size and success, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett