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  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

improve their automated product recommendations. These recommendations are often presented as ''inspired by your browsing history'' or ''recommended for you,'' and help consumers discover new View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 01 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 1

organizational processes of developing a business model. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46978 The Liability of Leakage: How Indirect Ties to Competitors Impact... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands

experience to the American mass market. Wall Street bought into the vision of Starbucks as the "third place" after home and work. New store openings and new product... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail
  • 06 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 6

August 2013 Management Science The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance By: Eccles, Robert G., Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

each distinct product area, where strategy is set, core product and process technology are maintained, and a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

"fallacies" that sometimes enter into discussions of art in relation to money. This, in turn, leads us to propose a framework to support more productive discussion and to describe a direction for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Sep 2022
  • Blog Post

Latina Women in Leadership: Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014)

of Sales and fell in love with the sales and marketing side of the tech and media business. It’s always changing and the problems – from View Details
  • 10 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Meet the Health & Wellness Club

group-chat that developed into the start of the Harvard Business School Health and Wellness Club. The pandemic has been an opportunity for many people to rethink how they spend their time, who they spend... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail; Consumer Products / Retail; Consumer Products / Retail
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

employees to raise their creative game. But Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, has a different approach, creating an organization that values and rewards innovation rather than attempting to create it with his bare hands. AG Lafley, P&G's... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • June 2010
  • Supplement

Chet Huber on OnStar, video

By: Willy C. Shih
Chet Huber, general manager of GM's OnStar unit, givbes an update on how OnStar is doing, talks about the job OnStar does for consumers, and reflects on assembling the OnStar team. The video is organized into three chapters so that instructors may use then... View Details
Keywords: Product Positioning; Product Development; Service Delivery; Performance Evaluation; Groups and Teams; Auto Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 18 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

and positioning with customers who are (or should be) core customers. Over time, this process also nurtures the development of "commodity competencies." The venture... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2017
  • Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

number of companies are placing users at the core of their business strategies. Take MUJI, a leading Japanese design retailer, which has created a range of products designed by customers including a car, light fixtures, View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

addressing three questions: (1) do military officer-cadets grow or change in their basic level of psychosocial development [Kegan, R. (1982). The Evolving Self: Problem and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Mar 2014
  • Blog Post

Looking to the Next Decade of Change: A Recap of the 10th Annual Retail & Luxury Goods Conference

is luxury?” to practical topics such as “How do you grow retail and brand across geographies and channels?” the responses were diverse and underscored how companies have View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • November 1998 (Revised December 1998)
  • Case

Asea Brown Boveri (Condensed)

By: Robert L. Simons
The merger of Asea AB and BBC Brown Boveri required a restructuring of operations and a change in organizational cultures. Competitive success also necessitated the benefits of scale while remaining "local" for political and customer-responsiveness reasons. The case... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Cost vs Benefits; Competitive Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development; Performance Effectiveness; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2021 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

TikTok in 2020: Super App or Supernova?

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Dan Maher and Dan O'Brien
TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around a simple idea – helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing Subway. In less than a decade, it had become one of the world’s most valuable private companies, with investors... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Business Organization; Change Management; Disruption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Health Pandemics; Innovation Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Channels; Network Effects; Digital Platforms; Product Design; Product Development; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Social Issues; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; Value Creation; United States; China
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  • September 1998 (Revised February 1999)
  • Case

Interactive Insurance Services: Redefining Insurance Distribution

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Marla Malcom-Nagler
Founded in July 1995, Interactive Insurance Services provided personal lines of insurance over the World Wide Web. In June 1996, the company was acquired by Intuit for $7.5 million. The case details the competitive and organizational issues faced by this rapidly... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Restructuring; Growth and Development; Distribution; Business Processes; Competitive Strategy; Web; Insurance Industry
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  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

order to slow the build-up of network effects around the first mover and ensure that the second mover's product begins to build up a critical mass. A number of smaller strategic elements converge to generate... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
  • 14 Nov 2019
  • Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne