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  • January 2018
  • Case

Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.

By: Boris Groysberg, Matthew G. Preble and Katherine Connolly Baden
In April 2017, Victoria Sopik and Jennifer Nashmi, CEO and CFO (respectively) of Kids & Company, a Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded in the early 2000s and developed into a nearly 100-unit enterprise, are discussing how the company should proceed... View Details
Keywords: Child Care; Childcare; Day Care; Daycare; Early Childhood Education; Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Expansion; Leadership; Marketing; Product Marketing; Brands and Branding; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Product Design; Product Development; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Selection and Staffing; Customer Focus and Relationships; Entrepreneurship; Service Industry; Education Industry; United States; Canada
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  • June 1991 (Revised May 2002)
  • Case

Barco Projection Systems (A): Worldwide Niche Marketing

Deals with the issue of niche marketing in a worldwide market. Barco Projection Systems makes video, data, and graphics projectors for the industrial market. They have traditionally been the performance leader. In August 1989, Sony Corp. introduced a higher performance... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Globalized Markets and Industries; Product Marketing; Consumer Products Industry; Electronics Industry
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  • Article

Relationships, Competition, and the Structure of Investment Banking Markets

By: Bharat Anand and Alexander Galetovic
Keywords: Relationships; Competition; Banks and Banking; Markets; Banking Industry
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  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

first thing you need to know is that competitive video gaming has been around a lot longer than you think. On November 10, 1980, five teenage boys faced off at the Warner Communications headquarters in Rockefeller Center in the middle of... View Details
Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • November 1995
  • Teaching Note

Rattling SABRE: New Ways to Compete on Information TN

By: Lynda M. Applegate
Teaching Note for Harvard Business Review article (90307). View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Competitive Advantage; Technological Innovation
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  • 30 Jul 2008
  • Op-Ed

Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI

that may underpin the profitable experience of U.S. firms as they expand abroad are not there for foreign firms investing in the United States. More generally, the presence of highly competitive local firms in the United States undercuts... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
  • 27 Jan 2023
  • News

Turning Up the Volume

the process. “It just kind of kept building until we had this whole outline of a program,” says Goldman. “And the next thing you knew, we were talking about having an annual competitive process, reaching our community of 1,900 to become... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 20 Sep 2013
  • News

Connections Add Up

and it opened my eyes and I just loved the class." Morrison believes every skill she learned at HBS has helped her at some point. But the class she says made most impact was Competition and Strategy, taught by Andrall Pearson. "He taught... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

average of $33 per month. Premium clubs also continued to flourish, while the competition from not-for-profits such as university and employee gyms continued unabated. In 2016, the new CEO announced a new View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 2009
  • Chapter

Company Strategy: Business Model Reconfiguration for Innovation and Internationalization

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart
Keywords: Business Strategy; Business Model; Competitive Advantage; Innovation and Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Globalized Firms and Management
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  • September 2020
  • Case

Apple Bets on Augmented Reality

By: Rory McDonald, David Lane and Mel Martin
In 2020, augmented reality (AR) was still a nascent technology with blockbuster potential, one which Apple was actively developing as its iPhone franchise waned. But the emergence of AR was uneven, including the disappointing Google Glass and the unexpected viral... View Details
Keywords: Augmented Reality; Industry Structures; Product Development; Commercialization; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Video Game Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Made in the USA

competitiveness? That’s a central question, and key challenge, posed by the School’s US Competitiveness Project. Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, the project’s cochairs, contend there’s reason for optimism. Almost 2,000 of the... View Details
Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; cheese; lobster fishing; Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • Web

Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & View Details
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

organizations large and small; Professor Michael E. Porter will offer his latest thinking on strategy and the need to move beyond simple "best practice" improvement to actually establishing a unique View Details
  • October 2008
  • Case

TripIt: The Traveler's Agent

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Gabriele Piccoli and Kathryn Brohman
In July 2008, the co-founders of TripIt, a free online travel organizer that aggregated travelers' bookings from many top travel websites, had recently secured $5.1 million in new financing. While the co-founders believed that their company offered travelers a unique... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Investment; Profit; Revenue; Growth and Development Strategy; Competition; Internet; Travel Industry
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  • March 2011
  • Exercise

Customer Intelligence Advantage: Module 2 Assignment

By: F. Asis Martinez Jerez
This exercise directs students to analyze a customer-centric firm by first understanding the elements that characterize a customer-centric organization, then by capturing and comparing this firm's approach to customer-centricity. Students interview three levels in the... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Employees; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leadership; Competitive Advantage
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  • August 2010 (Revised August 2011)
  • Case

Developing an App for That

By: Hanna Halaburda, Joshua Gans and Nathaniel Burbank
At a time when ever-rising smartphone sales are driven as much by demand for devices that run must-have third-party "apps" as by the quality of traditional voice and data services, there is a myriad of challenges facing the software developer who is looking to choose... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Competitive Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Banking Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 11 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

  Working PapersTesting Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24 Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp, and V.G. Narayanan Abstract We analyze balanced scorecard data... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

The Next Big Thing

It's a case of competition and strategy on a global scale, and the stakes could hardly be higher. The prize? Leadership in the realm of life sciences, a field that experts say will shape and dominate... View Details
Keywords: life sciences; Scientific Research and Development Services
  • 18 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands

competitive hunt for media coverage, brands have made deliberate "mistakes" or released misleading statements just to induce a spike in online chatter, revealing later that the actions were stunts damaging their credibility. Deighton and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising