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  • 04 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

advantages, great employee and customer loyalty, and a smoother on-ramp in leadership succession. A book excerpt from The Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage by HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 19 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

demand for auditing by the licensor. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit strategy choice by the licensor. We show when the owner prefers to license the property in exchange for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

supported by management. Deshpandé's observation that in top international firms, "corporate culture trumps national culture," is in line with what other studies show. They indicate that as high-performing global companies implement transnational View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Do You Speak Business?

international firms, “corporate culture trumps national culture,” is in line with what other studies show. They indicate that as high-performing global companies implement transnational strategy and strive to achieve View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • May 2008 (Revised March 2010)
  • Supplement

Palm (C): 2005

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Kevin Boudreau and Jordan Mitchell
This case series looks at three important inflection points in Palm's history that relate to decisions about its platform: when the company was debating whether to open its operating system (OS) for licensing to third-party hardware manufacturers; 2001, when the... View Details
Keywords: History; Decisions; Business Model; Technological Innovation; Value Creation; Digital Platforms; Rights; Competition
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  • September 2006 (Revised April 2007)
  • Supplement

Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (C)

By: Boris Groysberg, Christopher Marquis and Ayesha Kanji
Supplements the (A) case. The (C) case includes Keller's actual 2006 mid-year and self evaluations. View Details
Keywords: Projects; Management; Leadership; Organizations; Situation or Environment; Competition; Rank and Position; Attitudes; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Evaluation; Consulting Industry
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  • November 1995 (Revised April 1996)
  • Case

ENTel and the Privatization of Argentine Telecommunications

By: Willis M. Emmons III
Growing fiscal deficits, persistent economic recession, and underinvestment in the nation's telecommunications infrastructure lead the Argentine government to privatize its state-owned monopoly provider of telecommunications services, ENTel, in late 1990. The... View Details
Keywords: Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Communication Technology; Privatization; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competition; Development Economics; Policy; Government and Politics; Performance Effectiveness; Telecommunications Industry; Argentina
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  • February 2024 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

Can Families Conquer Private Equity? Pritzker Private Capital

By: Lauren Cohen and Sophia Pan
Anthony (Tony) Pritkzer, Paul Carbone, and the Pritzker Private Capital (PPC) team wondered how to approach the firm’s next phase of growth. PPC was a private equity firm that offered a differentiated approach to the family capital market. Back in 2016, the partners... View Details
Keywords: Family Office; External Financing; Succession; Leadership Transition; Family Business; Private Equity; Investment; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Business Model; Private Sector; Financial Liquidity; Risk Management; Organizational Structure; Competitive Advantage; Venture Capital; Management Succession; Financial Services Industry; Chicago; Illinois; United States
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  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

A Binary Formula

that each of these different institutions is innovative and successful, and we want to better understand their best practices.” HBS professor Gary Pisano has long researched and written about the biotech industry. “The competitive... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; science; research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 18 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

the offering, given the value proposition and value chain structure chosen; describe the position of the firm within the value network linking suppliers and customers, including identification of potential complementors and competitors; formulate the View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom
  • 22 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 22, 2015

competitive landscape, Cineplanet, the leading movie cinema chain in Peru, hired a team of IDEO designers to reinvent the movie-going experience for Peruvians. Cineplanet’s management team wishes to better align the company’s operating... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

in bringing their products to market, yet we know very little about the kinds of strategies they can employ to influence regulatory actor decision making. In this paper, we highlight a firm's strategic use of symbolic signaling in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

port their data between products securely and reliably. This paper reviews the rationale for these principles and examines their impact on competition in the cloud computing ("Internet-software") environment. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

MBA vs. MBA

conservative values,” he says. Both parties have made winning the district a priority. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has designated the race as one of its competitive “Frontline 10” elections. Collegio calls it “one of... View Details
Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 10 Mar 2021
  • News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

their firm’s competitive advantage. Based on the author’s successful strategy course, Better, Simpler Strategy will become every business strategist’s must-have guide for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 04 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

at the market level, then translate these into strategies at the market segment level. A paper mill's marketing strategy, for instance, might call for selling newsprint to the publishing industry segment and paperboard to the packaging... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
  • 14 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

founded a regional marketing effort to brand or market the area, but then shifted focus to building clusters. Examines the motivations of companies and company executives to get involved in regional competitiveness efforts and provides a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 29

competitive advantage-Red Bull had established itself as the U.S. market leader in energy drinks. By 2008, however, Red Bull's dominance was challenged as Monster drinks surpassed it in volume. The case considers judo View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

Healy, Nitin Nohria, and George Serafeim Publication:Financial Analysts Journal (forthcoming) Abstract A firm's competitive environment, its strategic choices, and its internal capabilities are considered important determinants of its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

However, in pursuing this strategy in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou, China's largest cities, Huang was not receiving warm responses. Local officials feared XAIU would jeopardize the survival of locally run private universities, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace