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  • August 2007
  • Case

Manila Water Company

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, David Wheeler and Jane Comeault
In 1997, the Philippines government privatized its water utility in the metropolitan Manila area. The East Zone concession was won by Manila Water Company and the West Zone concession by Maynilad Water Services. Over the next decade, Manila Water turned in an... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Framework; Business or Company Management; Bids and Bidding; Privatization; Performance Improvement; Utilities Industry
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  • 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008

Publication:Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract I model inefficient resource allocations in M-form organizations due to influence activities by division managers that skew... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2019 (Revised June 2019)
  • Case

Where to Grow Next at Online Marketplace OLX

By: Thales Teixeira, Leandro A. Guissoni and Samy Dana
The CEO of OLX Brazil, an online classifieds platform business, is debating among multiple paths to grow sustainably (i.e., profitably) without the need for investor money. The options under consideration are (1) penetration growth by focusing on the core, (2) new... View Details
Keywords: Online Marketplace; Growth; Customer Acquisition; Facebook; Two-sided Network; E-commerce; Classifieds; Naspers; Schibsted; Innovation; Startup; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Brazil
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  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

systematically examined. This contempt for business groups in mature market settings stands in sharp contrast to the intensive research that has been conducted on other major models of large modern... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

access to its proprietary library of human antibodies. Recently, the company decided to deviate from this model, and attempt to develop its own proprietary products. The case allows analysis of "license... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2018 (Revised June 2021)
  • Supplement

Bulb 2017: Launch

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
On August 21, 2015, Amit Gudka and Hayden Wood, co-founders of Bulb Ltd. (Bulb) launched a new business to supply energy to the United Kingdom’s 27 million residential homes with a promise of 100% renewable electricity at affordable prices. By the end of March 2017,... View Details
Keywords: Green Energy; Start-up; Launch; Customer Acquisition; Customer Churn; Customer Engagement; Electricity; Resources; Growth Strategy; B-Corp; Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Journey; Entrepreneurial Financing; Renewable Energy; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Working Capital; Product Launch; Customers; Growth Management; Business Plan; Decision Making; United Kingdom
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  • 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

to exert over the different segments of their production processes. We describe a property-rights model of firm boundary choices along the value chain that generalizes Antràs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016

Umit G. Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—We develop a theoretical model of, and provide the first large-sample evidence on, the behavior and impact of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

tractor technology generalized. The sequence of diffusion is consistent with a model of R&D in specific- versus general-purpose attributes and with other historical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 5, 2010

supplier capabilities and hence about future supplier performance. This paper presents a multi-period model of service level competition among suppliers selling substitutable products to a customer that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Career Coach

Troy Peterson

Troy (HBS’19, West Point ‘08) has 15+ years of experience in technical program management, organizational leadership, and product development & operations. Troy has worked in roles across the tech ecosystem from startups/growth... View Details
  • 08 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

In a snapshot of the PresenceLearning leadership team taken this spring, CEO Kate Eberle Walker (MBA 2005) stands, smiling, just right of center. She’s flanked by three other women and four men—the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • 09 Mar 2016
  • Lessons from the Classroom

In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade

outside vendor for the Strategy course, but Casadesus-Masanell said that there were several shortcomings in that arrangement. It was hard to alter the model to align closely with the objectives of Strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education; Food & Beverage
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

(TMTs) by creating psychological conditions of trust and facilitating learning from failures in their teams. Structural equation modeling (SEM) analyses of survey data... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

market leadership position? "We believe that there is still a great deal of confusion and puzzlement on how this competitive battle will develop," say the authors of the academic paper Dynamic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

Navigator 1.0 part of a whole package of Internet tools, it sidestepped the competition by offering its product as a stand-alone browser. By also distributing Navigator over the Web and using a new pricing... View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
  • 10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

process is to help diffuse stringent local standards through more centralised regulations, a dynamic that has recently become more important in the EU than in the U.S. Book: http://www.e-elgar.com/bookentry_main.lasso?id=14063   Working PapersExpertise Dissensus: A... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health Care explores the best practices for reorganizing and coordinating care, improving process efficiencies, implementing new reimbursement approaches, and integrating care delivery across practices. You will return with the frameworks... View Details
  • July 2004 (Revised December 2004)
  • Case

Timberland: Commerce and Justice

By: James E. Austin, Herman B. Leonard and James Quinn
When Jeffrey Swartz became the third generation in his family to lead the Timberland Co., he pursued a strategy in which commerce and justice were "inextricably linked." Community involvement, environmental management, and global labor standards became not addenda to... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Innovation and Invention; Leadership Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Programs; Opportunities; Alignment; Business Strategy; Value
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  • 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

research suggests that the random coefficients logit is a highly flexible model that overcomes the problems of the homogeneous logit by allowing for differences in tastes across individuals. The purpose... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace