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- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
consolidate as well as rethink their purchasing practices—moving from looking for products to looking for cost-effective solutions that added value and improved patient outcomes. These market forces caused Becton Dickinson to try to adapt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
efficient scale. Service providers see an opportunity to consolidate this volume, achieving the scale required to provide the service efficiently for a wide range of customers. Here's how it works in teleradiology in the United States.... View Details
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
"that's where we have a distinct advantage." For Tazartes and his colleagues, in fact, the demand for the services they render has never been greater, as governments privatize state-run operations and companies consolidate in a... View Details
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
fully realized and are stronger in mature, slow growth industries. Prices do not fall, however, when the acquirer is diversifying into a new product market. This direct evidence of real changes induced by merger activity is consistent with View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
here. In 2004, we also expect mergers and acquisitions activity to heat up as many industries are consolidating on a European or global basis. Industries that we are watching include airlines, pharma, and financial services. Q: What roles... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
consolidation and cost pressure. Was he right, or should Alltech take a different approach? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518001-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-088 Passion and Strategy: Novozymes' Embrace... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
new collaborative efforts with government agencies, including the Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commission. Both the private and public initiatives at industry rationalization challenged existing ideas of antitrust law, which had favored either corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
including taking Fannie and Freddie out of the investment business, simplifying mortgage disclosure documents, consolidating the federal government's highly fractured financial services regulatory agencies, and requiring that financial... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
development and potential consolidation of the household electronic appliance retailing sector. Gome, Suning, and China Paradise, the three largest players in the market, all experienced phenomenal growth, but Gome is slowly losing steam... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
has to be done by the politicians. There are some very good, young, bright politicians in their 40s, but you can't expect them to take power and consolidate in a five-year period." Vogel placed the political goals of recovery in a... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
chapter as one of the great marketing companies, in league with Kraft Food or Coca-Cola. The job of the next CEO would be to unlock the enterprise value of the company in the face of continuing customer consolidation and increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
customer service—to build his business. Covers the first 50 years of American Airlines' history, beginning with its role as an industry consolidator in the late 1920s. Smith's strategic and operational choices in building American... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
the end of another chapter in the history of the fast consolidating credit card market. For Providian CEO Joseph Saunders, it was vindication of four years' hard work in turning around a company that many thought was close to bankruptcy.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
or adding new products? Industry Dynamics: Are there fragmented industries where significant value can be delivered through consolidation? Are there shifts in power (e.g., entry or exit of a key player or consolidation of several players)... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
material as an account of recent economic trends.17 The third book would have consolidated and elaborated the splendid passages on the long-term evolution of business. In that form, the book would have been a successful marriage of... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
Business School Case 213-019 Slater & Gordon (S&G), a midsized Australian law firm with a high-growth consolidation strategy, had an initial public offering (IPO) scheduled for May 2007. Due to a series of regulatory changes in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
challenges of sustaining its advantages in a highly competitive and consolidating industry, and whether it should pursue organic or inorganic growth, while maintaining company culture. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel