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- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
competitive advantage.EE: How is Managing the Supply Chain: The General Manager's Perspective unique from other supply chain programs offered in recent years? Shapiro: Traditionally, the supply chain has been taught at the level of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Oct 2004
- What Do You Think?
Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?
Summing Up This month's column, in the eyes of several respondents, represents the struggle of competitive strategies based on process versus product. When seen in this light, the triumph of speed over ideas, which many see as a reality,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Mar 2017
- Cold Call Podcast
Cost-cutting Leads to Turbulence in the Airline Industry
- May 2017 (Revised October 2017)
- Supplement
Uber: Changing the Way the World Moves (B)
By: Youngme Moon
This (B) case was written as a follow-up to the original case, “Uber: Changing the Way the World Moves” (HBS No. 316-101). It describes a slew of controversial incidents besetting the company in early 2017. View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Competitive Strategy; Transportation; Problems and Challenges; United States
Moon, Youngme. "Uber: Changing the Way the World Moves (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 317-125, May 2017. (Revised October 2017.)
- 1992
- Chapter
Leadership Development as a Lever for Global Transformation
By: Noel M. Tichy, Michael I. Brimm, Ram Charan and Hirotaka Takeuchi
- June 2007
- Teaching Note
SAP: Industry Transformation (TN)
By: Andrei Hagiu and Pai-Ling Yin
Teaching note to 707435. View Details
- February 1995 (Revised July 1995)
- Case
Power Play (A): Nintendo in 8-bit Video Games
The home video-game industry began in 1972 with the founding of Atari. After riding a dramatic boom and bust in the early 1980s, most players left the business. Nintendo of Japan then rebuilt the industry--establishing a commanding worldwide position by the end of the... View Details
Brandenburger, Adam M., Monique Burnett, and Julia Kou. "Power Play (A): Nintendo in 8-bit Video Games." Harvard Business School Case 795-102, February 1995. (Revised July 1995.)
- 2006
- Chapter
UK Competitiveness-Old Labour Market Institutions, New Collaborative Roles
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Keywords: Labor and Management Relations; Working Conditions; Cooperation; Competitive Advantage; United Kingdom
Ketels, Christian H.M. "UK Competitiveness-Old Labour Market Institutions, New Collaborative Roles." In Productive Partnerships: The Role of Employment Relations in Growing the UK Economy, edited by Tony Pilch, 12–23. London: Smith Institute, 2006.
- August 2020 (Revised January 2021)
- Supplement
Facelift at Olay (B)
By: Sunil Gupta, Rajiv Lal and Olivia Hull
This supplement to Facelift at Olay (A) explains the major steps Procter & Gamble’s skincare brand Olay took to reverse several years of declining sales. View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Demographics; Age; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Digital Marketing; Transformation; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; United States; Ohio
Gupta, Sunil, Rajiv Lal, and Olivia Hull. "Facelift at Olay (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 521-002, August 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
- September 2020
- Teaching Note
TransDigm in 2017: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning?
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-422. TransDigm was a highly acquisitive company that manufactured a wide range of highly engineered aerospace parts for both military and commercial customers. Over the ten years ending in 2016, its stock price had increase ten times,... View Details
Keywords: Value Capturing; Pricing Strategy; Supplier Power; Buyer Power; Porter's Five Forces; Bargaining Power; Monopoly; Aerospace; Acquisition Strategy; Value Drivers; Ethical Behavior; Regulation; Growth Strategy; Business Ethics; Defense; Procurement; Sustainability; Value-Based Business Strategy; Acquisition; Ethics; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Growth Management; Performance Evaluation; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Horizontal Integration; Value Creation; Competitive Advantage; Aerospace Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States
- October 1992
- Teaching Note
Baxter Healthcare Corporation: ASAP Express TN
Teaching Note for (9-188-080). View Details
- January 2001
- Case
Accrue Software, Inc.
In 2000, Accrue is one of three survivors of the initial consolidation of the Web traffic analysis software industry. However, entry from CRM software providers and consultants, as well as ASPs offering Web analysis services, has introduced new threats to Accrue. Newly... View Details
Silverman, Brian S. "Accrue Software, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 701-057, January 2001.
- December 2011 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Akamai's Edge (A)
In 2009, Paul Sagan, CEO of Akamai, the leading online content delivery network with a 60% market share, needs to decide how to respond to aggressive entry in its market, whether and how to pursue the explosive growth in online video, and whether to stay with its... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Market Entry and Exit; Business Model; Competitive Strategy; Values and Beliefs; Business Strategy; Internet
Van den Steen, Eric. "Akamai's Edge (A)." Harvard Business School Case 712-455, December 2011. (Revised April 2013.)
- February 1995 (Revised April 1997)
- Case
EG&G Rotron Division
Rotron has recently entered the commercial motor market, after many years of servicing government military contracts. Faced with fierce commercial competition, Rotron has attacked its costs and reduced its delivery times and its plants. A new crisis, however, is... View Details
Upton, David M., and Andrew Matheson. "EG&G Rotron Division." Harvard Business School Case 695-037, February 1995. (Revised April 1997.)
- May 2003
- Article
The Utilization of Competing Technologies within the Firm: Evidence from Cardiac Procedures
Huckman, Robert S. "The Utilization of Competing Technologies within the Firm: Evidence from Cardiac Procedures." Management Science 49, no. 5 (May 2003): 599–617.
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Are corporate ethics sliding again?
- 13 Jan 2016
- News
Winning GE: Better than the Olympics
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
conjunction with the Olympics. Peterson had created a small academic competition in Orange County called Academic Decathlon, in which teams of high school students with a range of academic skills would participate in 10 events—including... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- September 2020
- Case
The Reinvention of Kodak (A) Multimedia Case
By: Ryan Raffaelli
This case includes links to case supplement videos for students to view with the written case before class, and also supplement videos for faculty to use exclusively during class. View Details
Keywords: CEO; Leadership; Asset Management; Transformation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy
Raffaelli, Ryan. "The Reinvention of Kodak (A) Multimedia Case." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 421-704, September 2020.