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- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
huge impact on the business models of major record labels. Modularity, and the commoditization spill-over enabled by modularity in the personal computer industry, was a major force in the development of the market. While Apple's iPod... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The MBA Turns 100
pack. Indeed, popularity has led to a disturbing commoditization of the degree. Just a generation ago, notes Dean Jay Light, there was only a two-year MBA. “Now there are one-year programs, two-year programs, daytime programs, nighttime... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
assessments of corporate environmental responsibility. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54635 Summer 2018 MIT Sloan Management Review Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating By: Shih, Willy C.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
and improved' attributes won't be valuable to customers forever. They should therefore be aware of how the basis of competition in their industries might be changing and preempt the commoditization of their products by finding creative... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
doesn't somehow commoditize users, like an elephant-sized beetle, needs a metabolic principle not found on this planet to survive. SG: If you want to become big, you can't charge people up front because they'll be reticent to join. You... View Details
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
What's striking about this stealth strategy is that Apple didn't affiliate the product with a specific alternative category. It simply suggested that it was not a PC—a strategy that not only disassociates the Mini from other low-priced, View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
- Web
Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog
capabilities, enhanced over time, duplicated at no cost and commoditized to destroy its uniqueness and value This change could shift how you should navigate your career and develop and value your expertise. The lessons will be useful to... View Details
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
prescription for more commoditized products that can have little value-added and need to be produced in the countries with the lowest costs." Does Parker have something here? What's the downside to disruption in high tech? What do... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
growing, yet increasingly competitive Chinese market. Novozymes, a technological innovation pioneer, was prominent in China's premium enzyme markets but felt pressure from local low-cost rivals in volume-driven, commoditized segments. How... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Impact Stories - Business & Environment
beneficial and regenerative, since grass-fed beef actually sequesters carbon. There’s the potential for a net-net positive benefit." Tanuj Deora MBA 2006 | Power Transfer “I'm addressing climate change by helping transform energy from a dirty, brittle, View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
differentiated product in a commoditized business, even if it’s becoming less so through competition. Some of the stuff we do is fun, and whimsical, so it makes good copy. The media reports on our tall beds for tall people, our “Guppy... View Details
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
companies perform sales, marketing, and product definition work, while eastern companies in Asia like his perform the engineering and manufacturing work. Confronted with commoditization pressure, Wu is presented with the opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
profitability of a vertically integrated monopoly. We then use our model to compare open and closed standards regimes, to understand how commoditization affects a cluster, to determine the relative profits of platform firms and firms that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
the business through personal relationships with clients. A passionate entrepreneur, his approach to growth-secure customers first, figure out how to make money later-was remarkably successful, if sometimes chaotic. Facing an increasingly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
foods, which had previously been colored with dyes extracted from natural plants and organic minerals, helping them to achieve mass production and mass marketing. Color was easier to control, reproduce, and commoditize than other sensory... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
of Your Organization Author:Ranjay Gulati Publication:Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming Abstract In an era of raging commoditization and eroding profit margins, survival depends on resilience: staying one step ahead of your... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
to package the maize. Masha's company warehouses the grain at the end of the process, commoditizes it, and sells it to food conglomerates like Nestlé, which uses it to make baby food and breakfast cereal sold in Nigeria and abroad. Babban... View Details
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Print View - Course Catalog
recombined with other capabilities, enhanced over time, duplicated at no cost and commoditized to destroy its uniqueness and value This change could shift how you should navigate your career and develop and value your expertise. The... View Details