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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
2013–2014. I would attempt to get 40–50 percent market penetration before someone else gets the idea. That’s 500–600 customers. Then start selling the ancillary services. You have a geographic advantage in California, and there are lots... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
children and parents alike. “Our interests really aligned on early childhood education,” Mahajan says. Recognizing that more than 50 percent of Indians have smartphones—and that mobile internet penetration is high, even among low-income... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
large, established carriers, which write policies to cover cyberattacks but do little to preempt them, At-Bay takes a preventive approach to cyber insurance. Before signing up a new policyholder, the company performs non-intrusive View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
is no longer an issue, they base their choice on price." In the mainframe disk-drive industry, for example, smaller drives were slow to penetrate the market because the larger ones were good enough. Eight-inch drives eventually edged out... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
mobile services in Delhi and in time became India’s largest telecom company. Then, looking overseas for new markets, Mittal decided on Africa, where mobile penetration is still only about 40 percent, and 60 percent of the continent’s 1... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- News
Patient Medical Records, Pocket-sized
Burlington, Vermont. “It is a simple, inexpensive, and straightforward solution to a complex problem.” Despite the fact that MedKaz is being used by patients, Bushkin’s biggest challenge is penetrating medical bureaucracy. Hospitals are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
realize that unless senior management, right up to the CEO, is involved in some way, this issue won’t get the attention and investment it deserves throughout the company.” Hackers can make trouble for a company without even penetrating... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
and with modest penetration in many of them. In fact, many analysts believe Panera is only in the second or third inning of its potential growth. What are some of your challenges? Generally, the most difficult challenge has been leading... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
11 years later, with market penetration essentially complete, that number hovers around 6 million, with over $300 million in annual revenues. Afghanistan’s stability, however, is entering a particularly challenging time. GDP growth is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
of our sales, second only to France. But Club Med's penetration is still low in North America, so the region represents a tremendous opportunity for us. "Because we are in a business -- travel and leisure -- that is fairly unbranded,"... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
who intends to focus on the Chinese market at first, has every intention of eventually coming to the United States. Chinese penetration of foreign markets could take a variety of forms. But Ford’s Jeff Jones (MBA 2007), who oversees the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
key component of solutions.” With increasing interdependence between the nation’s electric grid and the public internet, cybersecurity is gaining attention of both regulators and the public. “Foreign adversaries have regularly penetrated... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
corporation that came with the emergence of investor capitalism in the 1970s. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when the debate about the sources of America’s economic malaise, and what could be done about it, began to penetrate... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
record of geological formations penetrated during drilling that includes technical details of the operation. Mud Logger: On call 24/7 to analyze rock cuttings from a well that is being drilled. Pay Zone: The stratum of rock in which oil... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
mixed success, to make immigration a hot-button issue, accusing Edwards of being soft on illegal immigrants. Talking tough, Taylor vows to fight any amnesty plan and favors deporting illegals. “I’m for zero penetration on the border,” he... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
this activity: Egypt's population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
roughly 35 percent of its more than one million users and its $45 million in gross merchandise sales. "The biggest challenge for us is increasing market penetration from 4 percent to 15 percent, where the Internet reaches a critical... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
all ages were convincingly behind Gates, albeit sometimes grudgingly ("I pick Bill Gates, not necessarily from a moral character or leadership standpoint, but from an 'influential' product penetration standpoint"). More typical were... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
yogurt. Then it was chicken," she says—both previously unattainable. Appliances came next. "We started seeing people changing their refrigerator, buying their first microwave, buying their first washing machine. The washing machine View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
Bailey notes. “New energy technologies will always penetrate the private sector at the point of greatest weakness: where energy is most expensive.” Â Bailey’s green centerpiece to date is the InterContinental Bora Bora Resort & Thalasso... View Details