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- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
have no interest in your special capabilities. Avoid those customers. You must also avoid prospects who cannot perceive your superior value. Simply put, schizophrenia is terminal in business. Your company must stand for a unique value... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
so interested in strategy and the intricacies of running a business? A: Grove made the transition from technologist to technologist/manager because he had no choice. When Intel was founded in July of 1968, he was employee number three.... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Most Accountants Aren’t Crooks—Why Good Audits Go Bad
build relationships that allow them to sell their more lucrative consulting services. Thus, from the executive team down to individual accountants, an auditing firm's motivation to provide favorable audits runs deep. As the collision case also showed, once people... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- Research Summary
Automotive Product Development
At present, my primary research focus is studying product development in the auto industry. I am working with Stefan Thomke (HBS) and Takahiro Fujimoto (University of Tokyo) on the 4th Round of the Global Automotive Development Study. The first round of this... View Details
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
would be interesting , he continued, to examine sectors other than technology “for their natural tendencies and what drives such culture and procedural traits.” Joe noted that some of the principles of experiment design provide “a piece... View Details
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
Pike Place Roast, which emphasizes the brand's humble Seattle coffee culture beginnings. Adidas's "Impossible Is Nothing" campaign emphasized the underdog stories of famous athletes. Q: How did you notice this trend? How did you study it in-depth? A: Our... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
The Business of Medicine: MD/MBA Students Having an Impact
experience working in the global health arena, says she feels that both programs have equipped her “to tackle big problems in health care.” A childhood spent partly overseas with parents who work in international development established her View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
forthcoming IMF Economic Review Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—In the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically. We revisit sovereign debt... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Research Summary
Output and asset price fluctuations
What are the sources of business cycles? How are these shocks propagated in the economy? Why are their effects so persistent? How can we explain asset price fluctuations? How are shocks transmitted internationally?To study these questions, I have developed a series... View Details
- November 2019 (Revised April 2021)
- Technical Note
Rechargeable Batteries, 2017: Gigafactory Wars in the Offing?
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In 2017, the global market for rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries was 126 gigawatt-hours (GWh) valued at $37 billion, growing by $10 billion in two years. Once confined largely to consumer electronics and appliances, the rapid increase in demand was spurred by... View Details
Keywords: Batteries; Rechargeable Batteries; Lithium-ion; Lithium-ion Batteries; Electric Vehicle; Electric Vehicles; Energy Entrepreneurship; Energy Markets; Energy Storage; Battery; Demand Uncertainty; Demand Forecasting; Supply ＆ Demand; Supply And Demand; Capacity Planning; Tesla; Technological And Scientific Innovation; Technological Change; Technology Change; Technology Commercialization; Policy Change; Subsidies; Power/Energy; Power Grid; Energy Policy; Developing Markets; Alevo; Samsung; LG Chem; CATL; Northvolt; General Motors; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Commercialization; Policy; Demand and Consumers; Forecasting and Prediction; Supply and Industry; Emerging Markets; Competitive Strategy; China
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Rechargeable Batteries, 2017: Gigafactory Wars in the Offing?" Harvard Business School Technical Note 720-371, November 2019. (Revised April 2021.)
- January 2014 (Revised April 2025)
- Supplement
The PGA Tour (B)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Cole Magrath
In 1994, the PGA Tour (the "Tour"), the dominant incumbent professional golf circuit, had created tremendous value for its players. In the 1974 season, players competed for $8 million in prize money; by the 1994 season, the total prize purse had increased to $56... View Details
Keywords: PGA Tour; Tim Finchem; Deane Beman; Golf; Professional Golf; Business Model; Value Creation; Adaptation; Sports; Business Strategy; Sports Industry; United States
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Cole Magrath. "The PGA Tour (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 714-443, January 2014. (Revised April 2025.)
- December 2013 (Revised April 2025)
- Case
The PGA Tour (A)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Cole Magrath
In 1994, the PGA Tour (the "Tour"), the dominant incumbent professional golf circuit, had created tremendous value for its players. In the 1974 season, players competed for $8 million in prize money; by the 1994 season, the total prize purse had increased to $56... View Details
Keywords: PGA Tour; Tim Finchem; Deane Beman; Golf; Professional Golf; Business Model; Value Creation; Competition; Adaptation; Monopoly; Globalization; Sports; Business Strategy; Sports Industry; United States
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Cole Magrath. "The PGA Tour (A)." Harvard Business School Case 714-442, December 2013. (Revised April 2025.)
- 17 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
Upcoming Interview? No Problem—Just Connect the Dots
and with a bit of reflection and preparation, you can certainly come up with an answer for each of these (and if you can’t, then perhaps you aren’t as interested in the role as you think). However, the most important question to answer is... View Details
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
needed to find alternative models that overcome the IPS, and he hopes that the FSL model will be applied in other studies that examine the effectiveness of marketing instruments. "It would be interesting to apply the FSL model in a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
emphasize developing good leadership drive an extra 10 percent premium in EPS , I think most CFOs and CEOs would salute those results." Several shifted the topic (or did they?) to followership, suggesting an interesting set of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
interest in the subject was initially stimulated by the explosive growth of the Microsoft Windows operating system. The real value of Windows, we learned, was not about the product, per se, but the applications written by independent... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
learned that its 20 percent interest rate was higher than average and that the card didn’t provide travel insurance. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/prRmhGSXiSbMwOabP4CL][/div] After qualified customers activated their credit cards,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
family business, interested in long-term success, poor performance may not be reason enough to fire the leader. The business leader may not be responsible for the poor results and may even be the right person to help restore good health.... View Details
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
Judging by the most-read articles and faculty working papers over the last year, our readers continue to be fascinated by the emergence of social networks and their potential impacts on business and management. Another developing area of View Details
Keywords: by Staff