Backward Integration - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Feb 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective

organization, and the role of the IS manager was to integrate them in support of the business's transaction processes. Then around 1980 we started to see the emergence of the microcomputer; for the next fifteen years or so, DIS reflected... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

09 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

sponsorship. With respect to end users and complementors, decisions to open or close a mature platform involve 1) backward compatibility with prior platform generations, 2) securing exclusive rights to certain complements, or 3) absorbing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

each knew, not just intuitively, but strategically—and after a time, financially and organizationally—that they had to create a sustainable market for their offerings. If Wedgwood could parachute forward into our time, or if we could go View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

Party City, was making aggressive moves to backwards integrate and cut into Amscan's profit pool. Even if Party City failed at its attempt, it could cause significant damage to the business and subsequently... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 5

David E., and Mary ShelmanHarvard Business School Case 513-045 OSI, one of the world's largest suppliers of processed meats to McDonald's and other QSRs, was in the middle of a $400 million expansion in China that included backward View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

and compete. Palepu: When we say that emerging markets have institutional voids, it almost sounds as if they are backward and not good enough. Actually there is a flip side. The more institutional voids there are, the more niches there... View Details