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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
expense of longer-term investments―makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive advantage. "Short termism" has been blamed for everything from the decline of the U.S. automobile industry to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
Porsche erected a small but substantial plant in Leipzig in eastern Germany. And unlike BMW or Daimler-Benz, Porsche did not move closer to the main U.S. market. The controversial Cayenne has turned out to be Porsche's best-selling View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
a dealer's back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world's largest automaker, a... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Selling Luxury to Everyone
those that give them a little taste of luxury at a reasonable price. "It's an affordable luxury," he said of his company's beauty products. "Do you have thirty-two dollars in your pocket for a tube of moisturizer? Every day of the week." But how can... View Details
- 29 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play
divest Fiat's core automobile business; when that was rejected by creditors and shareholders, he resigned in 2003. Consider, too, John Trani, who in 1997 left a long career at GE Plastics for toolmaker and hardware View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
computer manufacturers to steel mills and retailing, he has discovered consistent patterns in the way technological innovation affects both companies and industries. Health care, he declares, is no exception. According to Christensen's... View Details
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
was recently published in the working paper How User Innovations Become Commercial Products: A Theoretical Investigation and Case Study. The authors believe that their research "provides a first opportunity for both user-manufacturers and established View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
transaction costs and supplier hold-up. The (A) case closes with the question of what GM should do about supplier Fisher Body. The (B) case summarizes the shift to all-steel body stamping and engine manufacturing as the core technologies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
Summing Up The depth of the global financial crisis is becoming clearer day by day. In the United States, it is being used as a reason to set aside ideology regarding government ownership of important financial institutions, possibly including those that also View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
students to examine Suncor's strategic positioning and cost structure, and the challenges that the firm's leaders confront as of 2007. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708023 Taiwan Semiconductor... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
Bill George, Professor of Management Practice Social networking is the most significant business development of 2010, topping the resurgence of the U.S. automobile industry. During the year social networking morphed from a personal... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-064.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsPerformance Management at Vitality Health Enterprises, Inc. John B. Bingham and Michael BeerHarvard Business School Case 913-501 Vitality Health Enterprises, a medium-sized firm that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
consumers to find cheaper products online—even as they stand in the store. The service decouples the value-creating portion of the process—testing and trying—with the non-value portion—buying. The automobile industry has been challenged... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
a major role in Japan's success in manufacturing-driven industries (e.g., Toyota in automobiles and Nintendo with videogames). First, hierarchical industry organizations can "lock out" certain types of innovation indefinitely by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
distribution strategy for Glass, a wearable computer that projected information on a display viewable with an upward glance. Options, which were not mutually exclusive, included 1) continuing to sell Glass directly through online channels, 2) creating an open platform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
abundant supply of low-cost labor in China. Highlights the unique benefits and challenges created by BYD's operations strategy and asks students to determine whether the capabilities developed by the company in battery manufacturing can... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
public health insurance market might work, imagine an automobile dealership run by the feds that sells cars made by Toyota and others, along with cars made by the government itself, manufactured with money... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
delivers in the current period conditional on a stockout in the prior period. We also provide a method for estimating the impact of changes in supplier performance along these two dimensions on customer demand. Using data from Hugo Boss, a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
downstream party's optimal sales effort and, as a consequence, lead to different order quantities. We provide a formal characterization of both effects, insight into how these effects interact, and information on which conditions the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811098-PDF-ENG La Fageda Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Joan Enric Ricart, and Jordan MitchellHarvard Business School Case 711-452 La Fageda is a manufacturer of high-quality, naturally made yogurts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne