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    Repositioning and Cost-Cutting: The Impact of Competition on Platform Strategies

    We study how platform firms use repositioning and cost-cutting in response to competition, elucidate external and internal factors that constrain or enable these responses, and examine how the firms’ responses affect their performance. Our empirical context is... View Details
    • March 2019 (Revised May 2019)
    • Case

    Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery

    By: V.G. Narayanan and Eren Kuzucu
    By mid-2016, five years of aggressive growth had transformed Fetchr from a small logistics startup to a 1,000-employee, full-fledged last-mile delivery company operating across four countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Already beneficiaries of the... View Details
    Keywords: Startup; Decision; Financial Strategy; UAE; KSA; MENA; Cost Accounting; Business Model; Business Startups; Transformation; Cost Management; Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Logistics; Service Delivery; Supply Chain Management; Performance Evaluation; Mathematical Methods; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Transportation Networks; Middle East; United Arab Emirates; Dubai; Bahrain; Egypt; Saudi Arabia; North Africa
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    Narayanan, V.G., and Eren Kuzucu. "Fetchr: A New Way of Last Mile Delivery." Harvard Business School Case 119-018, March 2019. (Revised May 2019.)
    • 24 Jan 2024
    • Op-Ed

    Why Boeing’s Problems with the 737 MAX Began More Than 25 Years Ago

    Boeing’s culture. The first was acquiring archrival McDonnell Douglas in 1997, a leader in military aviation with its fighter jets and Boeing’s major competitor in commercial aviation. In contrast to Boeing’s culture of engineering excellence, McDonnell Douglas focused... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George; Air Transportation; Transportation; Aerospace
    • 05 May 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can

    cost-cutting plan” to slash $3.6 billion in expenses by 2019. In 2021, well into the economic disruption caused by the pandemic, P&G management announced price increases for a range of products, from adult diapers and baby care... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • 26 Jun 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

    says Harvard Business School professor Hirotaka Takeuchi, was their dedication to responding to the needs of employees and the community first, all with the moral purpose of serving the common good. Less important for these companies, he says, was pursuing layoffs and... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 08 Oct 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

    complicated them: Cost-cutting and remote work mean that both the acquisition and bonding drives are harder to meet via traditional means such as raises and team outings. Uncertainty around the pandemic itself, and its effect on... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
    • 04 Nov 2010
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Do We Chase Stars?

    organization to another. Several discussants maintained that portability is high for certain leadership talents. C. J. Cullinane stated, "The manager who is experienced in cost-cutting and turn-arounds can use this talent in many... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett

      Steven A. Burd

      Burd implemented an extensive cost-cutting plan, which included deep cuts in capital expenditure, enabling the company to lower the shelf prices in its stores and to boost revenue. Once costs were under control, Burd began expanding the... View Details
      Keywords: Retail

        Henry Ford

        In 1908, Ford introduced to the market the Model T automobile. Through cost-cutting production methods, Ford was eventually able to reduce the price of the Model T to $260, making it affordable for the mass market. Establishing the... View Details
        Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
        • 07 Feb 2018
        • News

        Athenahealth Taps Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt as Chairman

        August. The search for a new chairman was prompted in mid-2017 after activist investing firm Elliott Management bought a 9 percent share of the company. That move also triggered about $100 million in cost-cutting changes, including 400... View Details
        Keywords: Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
        • 15 Feb 2000
        • Research & Ideas

        Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

        realize the potential threat posed by these new technologies, they invariably enter a downward spiral of cost-cutting and consolidation in a futile effort to become competitive again at the market's low end. Ironically, this 'thumbscrew... View Details
        Keywords: by Staff; Health
        • Web

        The Campus Emerges - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

        remaining facilities concluded the following year. The campus emerged rapidly from the formerly marshy area over a two year period. In order to keep within the budget some cost-cutting measures proved necessary, such as reducing the... View Details
        • 01 Oct 1996
        • News

        New Releases

        an eight-step process to help firms achieve the lasting organizational transformations essential for success in the coming decades. The Balanced Scorecard by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Harvard Business School Press) After years of View Details
        • 01 Apr 1998
        • News

        Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO

        marketing specialist with an engineering background, DiCamillo immediately set about restructuring Polaroid, filling key positions with new people, "refreshing the brand," as he puts it, and instituting cost-cutting measures to stem a... View Details
        Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
        • 07 Oct 2019
        • Sharpening Your Skills

        How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers

        Switch Habits Juul vaping products have become a cigarette alternative for adult smokers and a growing concern among parents of teens. What the company did initially to head off concerns. Cost-cutting Leads to Turbulence in the Airline... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Air Transportation
        • 26 May 2009
        • Research & Ideas

        Improving Market Research in a Recession

        the do-it-yourself approach rather than outsourcing to a market research firm is attractive in a cost-cutting era, but you risk getting no more than what you pay for. The opinions of convenience sample of an enthusiastic online brand... View Details
        Keywords: by John Quelch
        • 28 Feb 2017
        • First Look

        First Look at New Research, February 28

        Strategies By: Seamans, Robert, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Organizational structures are increasingly complex. In particular, more firms today operate as multi-sided platforms. In this paper, we study how platform firms use repositioning and View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 15 Nov 2006
        • Research & Ideas

        Lessons Not Learned About Innovation

        Every managerial generation rediscovers the need for innovation to drive growth but, decade after decade, "grand declarations about innovation are followed by mediocre execution that produces anemic results, and innovation groups are quietly disbanded in quiet... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
        • 02 Apr 2010
        • What Do You Think?

        Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

        are, at the same time, exercising cost-cutting efforts (such as low wages, poor benefits, no health insurance for many employees in the case of Wal-Mart, fines for safety violations in the case of BP) in dealing with their employees.... View Details
        Keywords: by Jim Heskett
        • 17 Jul 2017
        • Op-Ed

        Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

        As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
        Keywords: by Bill George
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