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Product Positioning in a Two-Dimensional Vertical Differentiation Model: The Role of Quality Costs

By: Dominique Lauga and Elie Ofek
We study a duopoly model where consumers are heterogeneous with respect to their willingness to pay for two product characteristics and marginal costs are increasing with the quality level chosen on each attribute. We show that while firms seek to manage competition... View Details
Keywords: Duopoly and Oligopoly; Customers; Quality; Product Positioning; Competition; Management; Cost; Product
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  • February 2008
  • Exercise

Gerson Lehrman Group

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr. and David Lane
Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) brought together decision makers in search of hard-to-find answers with specialized experts in nearly every imaginable field. Over time, GLG developed software to help minimize potential conflicts of interest among and between experts and... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Customer Focus and Relationships; Governance Compliance; Conflict of Interests; Competitive Advantage; Software; Consulting Industry
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Our Team - Social Impact Collaboratory

research examines corporate and household finance in emerging markets, with a focus on insurance, credit, and savings. He has also done extensive work on financial education in the US and emerging markets.... View Details
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Faculty and Research - Alumni

Professor Rebecca Henderson’s online course Sustainable Business Strategy draws upon her research focused on energy and the environment. How You can Help The easiest way for donors to foster faculty thought... View Details
  • 03 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

from 260 employees to 38 in 10 days,” one CEO shared. “Decisions had to be made swiftly. It was heart-wrenching. My mindset has changed. Priorities have changed, personally and professionally.” Executives have turned to a handful of... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

delivered for more than 6,300 global participants, representing an increase of 40 percent compared with fiscal 2021. The group also delivered custom programs in a range of industries, on-boarding 18 new clients into the portfolio and... View Details
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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Details Concepts Business and the Broader System Changing the Rules: Focusing on Governance and Finance Business & Politics: Driving Systemic Change Individual Action in Business Featured Exercises Values... View Details
  • 27 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

Sara J. Singer show that the commonly accepted "analysis" approach, wherein great attention is given to identifying and prioritizing a large number of problems, is not associated with success. Instead, an "action" approach is preferable. According to their research,... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
  • December 2003 (Revised September 2005)
  • Case

Rein Chemical Company: Specialty Division

By: Francis Aguilar
This case describes corporate management's recent discovery of widespread unethical pricing transactions in one division and key managers' different views on how to respond. Students are asked to evaluate management's position and decide who should do what to resolve... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Price; Ethics; Business Divisions; Chemicals; Crisis Management; Chemical Industry
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Industry Information - Alumni

Education Week National news source focusing on pre-K-12 education policy. Serving as a bridge between the worlds of policy and practice, Education Week is recognized as American pre-collegiate education’s... View Details
  • 25 Aug 2014
  • News

Ashraf M. Dahod, MBA 1981

$12 million in sales. Over the next 30-plus years, Dahod built five additional companies, each capitalizing on his own insights into technology and what the future would require—be it high-speed switching (Sigma Networks), high-speed... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Use of Harvard Name & Logo | About

Guidelines . Department Marketing Materials The Harvard Business School logo may be used on official HBS marketing materials (brochures, flyers, Web sites, etc.). (Note that this does not include an individual's activities outside of... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • News

An Engine of Innovation

with at least one Harvard undergraduate or graduate founder could access the resources of innovation and entrepreneurship. These include a wide range of courses and programs; maker, media, and AR/VR studios; experienced mentors; and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Derek Ferguson

describing how Apple paid to have its iPod placed in a P. Diddy music video. “Some extremists think that recorded music will be free in ten years,” Ferguson comments. “Companies will make money by selling sponsorship around the content.” Keeping the Faith As View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 12 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

Pietro Verri and Cesare Beccaria, author of the epochal On Crimes and Punishments. Yet the views and concerns of these first socialists, developed inside a pugnacious intellectual coterie dubbed the Academy of Fisticuffs, differ... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • April 2001
  • Teaching Note

MindSpring TN

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Steven Silverman and William A. Sahlman
Teaching Note for (9-899-178). For book only - not listed on case. View Details
Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Growth and Development Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Culture; Competitive Strategy; Web Services Industry
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  • 30 Aug 2018
  • Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

year at Google, and it still felt like a dream. I loved my role. My coworkers and managers were expert mentors. I felt like the company’s top priority (so did everyone else!). I played soccer twice a week on Google’s idyllic Mountain View... View Details
  • 04 Feb 2022
  • Book

Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Feb 2021
  • News

Investing in Entrepreneurship

investments in what became Eastern Air Lines and McDonnell-Douglas. At Venrock, he continued, “in the early days, we focused on aviation, aeronautics, electronics, computers, and software. Over time, we... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Five Ways to Rethink Your Job Description - Recruiting

to engage with targeted groups of students. See all clubs Recruiting Contacts Work with a member of our office, focusing on your industry or location, to create a personalized hiring strategy. See all... View Details