Publications

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Media: Courting the Cord-Cutters

When the phenomenon of cord-cutting— dropping a cable subscription in favor of one or more online streaming services—started attracting media attention a couple of years ago, the TV industry didn’t respond quickly. Cord-cutters were a very small piece of the TV... View Details

Keywords: Laura Martin (MBA 1983) , entertainment and internet analyst, Needham & Company

01 Dec 2016
News

Carving a Niche

strategy for building Faction embraces that aura of distinction (“for the few” is one tagline) while leveraging several key retailing trends. “The average size of an interesting, exciting brand is smaller and more premium than it used to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

14 May 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams

Organizations increasingly rely on teams to carry out critical strategies and operational tasks. How do teams learn, and what factors are most important to team learning? This paper reports on current... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

02 Dec 2015
Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Laura Mackay...

Current Position: VP of Operations, Fibroblast; formerly, VP of Strategy & Operations, NeoCare Solutions, a Healthagen Business (part of Aetna) Current Location: Chicago; formerly, NYC Tell us what you're up to these days. Right after... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Health Care; Entrepreneurship

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

emerging markets has been part of a larger effort to understand how local business environments influence company strategy. Thus far, strategy scholars have emphasized the importance of industry and firm-specific characteristics in... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

and wellness company dedicated to helping people do what they love – better and for longer. Now they both are key leaders in the growing company that is making a positive impact on athletes around the world. Building a Winning Strategy... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

May 1995
Case

Hannaford Brothers: Leading the Grocery Channel Transformation

The merchandising manager of a supermarket chain leads an effort to reorganize the process of buying and delivering products from manufacturers to their warehouse for further distribution to stores. The company is an early mover in implementing efficient consumer... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Supply Chain Management; Distribution Channels; Customer Focus and Relationships; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

October 1978 (Revised July 1991)
Case

U.S. Pioneer Electronics Corp.

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi

Focuses on the problem of the means by which a manufacturer controls its channel of distribution. U.S. Pioneer's retail outlets have turned "dissident" and management has to decide what tactics to employ to stop further erosion (short-run) and what long-run... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Growth and Development Strategy; Distribution Channels; Production; Problems and Challenges; Software; Electronics Industry; United States

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

has moved many jobs to other countries. They are not perfect. But they aspire to meet higher standards, and in their operations around the world they also try to raise the standards. Q: A critical point for you is that a company needs an... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2008
News

Alumni Books

advice on how to own and run a business, find the right deal, negotiate, determine when to get in and get out, and much more. Dubai & Co.: Global Strategies for Doing Business in the Gulf States by Aamir A. Rehman (MBA ’04) (McGraw-Hill)... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

June 2010
Teaching Note

Monsanto: Helping Farmers Feed the World (TN)

By: David E. Bell and Mary Louise Shelman

Teaching Note for [510025]. View Details

Keywords: Food; Production; Adoption; Leadership Style; Globalized Markets and Industries; Performance Productivity; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry

February 2010
Teaching Note

Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center: Breast Cancer Care in Taiwan (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron

Teaching Note for [710425]. View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Strategy; Service Delivery; Quality; Performance; Insurance; Growth and Development; Health Industry; Taiwan

25 Jan 2019
News

IndiGo's New Captain

Keywords: India; airline industry; leadership; Air Transportation; Transportation

28 Jun 2011
News

IDEO's Approach to Innovation

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Article

Foreign Competition and Domestic Innovation: Evidence from U.S. Patents

By: David Autor, David Dorn, Gordon H. Hanson, Gary P. Pisano and Pian Shu

Manufacturing accounts for more than three-quarters of U.S. corporate patents. The competitive shock to this sector emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U.S. patents matched to corporate... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Production; Trade; Competition; Innovation and Invention; United States

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July 2005 (Revised January 2009)
Case

Paper and More (A)

Provides a context and exercise for introducing retail inventory management, including cost optimization, service-level criteria, and forecasting in single and multiproduct settings. The owner of a single-location paper and paper products store considers the... View Details

Keywords: Cost Management; Measurement and Metrics; Logistics; Sales; Expansion; Consumer Products Industry; Retail Industry