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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Case Study: Testing the Waters
channels will carry the additional SKUs. Conversely, entering new drink categories seems premature and a true loss of focus. Brand building in the ready-to-drink category will be expensive and take time (a key consideration for a VC-backed venture). It’s one thing to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
greater overall lifetime value for Surround, aligned with Terry’s other objective. Partnerships can also shine a light on adjacent areas that might have product market fit with a few additional tweaks to the product, thereby driving additional View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
the NBA to really differentiate itself, especially by leveraging the tool of the Basketball Africa League as a franchise, is actually quite strong.” “Ultimately, if we think about all the things we’re trying to do, inspiration is really... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Collective Genius: Leading Innovation and Digital Transformation
emerging technologies to innovate and create differentiated customer experiences, people in organizations have to work differently, Hill says. Corporations are finding that digital transformation often demands culture change and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Student Snapshot
Management class is developing a fund-raising strategy in which we’ve identified a new mission focus. In the past, we were inclined to play up our association with Accenture, but our research indicates that it’s the partnerships we maintain with several business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
A SEMINAL WORK: Lorsch and Lawrence, together again. A celebration of the past and a look to the future were all part of the program at an evening last December with HBS professor emeritus Paul Lawrence and professor Jay Lorsch, authors of Organization and Environment:... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
The Differentiated Network by Nitin Nohria and Sumantra Ghoshal (Jossey-Bass Publishers) The key to building an effective multinational corporation (MNC) is organizing its various parts as a differentiated... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A Modern-Day Classic
effects on the differentiation and integration needed to achieve the organization’s optimum structure. “If you look at modern-day issues, these foundational ideas have a tremendous longevity that is very powerful,” Gulati notes.... View Details
- 07 Dec 2022
- News
Putting Patients First
DaVita, which is focused on kidney care, differentiates itself, Rodriguez notes that his company's solution is a salve for a fragmented health care market. "Our patient population is unique enough that we can take care of the entire... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Advance Racial Equity in the Office
moved the needle at all.” Accountability is what will differentiate an insipid pledge from real progress. The objective is to define what progress looks like in practice. “There’s a basic framework for this, that organizations apply to... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
expensive—one cake sells for the same price as a package of 12 original cakes. The biggest challenge was how to differentiate the new version. While interviewing consumers in Seoul about their snack preferences, the team gained insights... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
crucial. This is what will differentiate Harvard from its peers in the future." Joseph J. O'Donnell (AB 1967, MBA 1971), Member, Harvard Corporation Integration with the University View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
forestall the deadliest attack ever on U.S. soil. The case is dedicated to Waleed Iskandar (MBA ’93), a colleague of Rivkin’s at Monitor Company, who died in the 9/11 attacks. The focus of your work is on how to manage integration within a highly View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual
kind of careful consideration that normally goes with a significant career change, I wouldn't have done it," says the St. Paul, Minnesota, native. Cox attributes winning the election to his ability to differentiate himself from his... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
of the issues near and dear to the Class of 2009. The event, which organizers thought might be a first in HBS history (or at least the first in quite some time) included complimentary beverages and enough popcorn to fuel a movie marathon. In classic B-school style,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Lighting the Way
to believe that all things are possible and that your assets can be key differentiators in a sea of overachievers,” she says. “Determine what anchors you and leverage what sets you apart, and then go boldly into your future with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Books
organizational performance is substantial and quantifiable. An effective business culture can account for up to half of the performance differential between organizations in the same business. Drawing on field research and case studies,... View Details
Keywords: Utilities
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Protecting against the Erosion of Brand Value
and sell books.” What’s at work here is commoditization, a process that results in companies being unable to profitably differentiate their products and services. “The specter of commoditization sends chills down every executive’s spine —... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Treasury taking a look at these upstart lenders. Funding Societies’ Teo says the attention can only help the sector: “Regulations would boost investor confidence about P2P and P2B [peer-to-business] lending and set the right operations standard, View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
very substantial product differentiation from their competition or, in the case of the “Truth” anti-tobacco campaign, no competition — just a villain that was an easy target. I don’t know if the agency pursued such clients as a conscious... View Details