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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Action Plan: Whole Sale
of Walmart’s beauty business. Balbale was a vice president at the Vitamin Shoppe in the mid-2010s when he saw Amazon and startup e-tailers moving into the wellness category. The competition inspired him to transition into the e-commerce... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
doubling down in China, where over half of its workers are based. Yang aspires to introduce new competitive strategies to the entire textile and apparel industry, and to be a leader in positive economic development in China. Esquel is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
versus Apple terms: Should AGR adopt a Microsoft Windows–style ecosystem, where it focuses on its core platform (Burro) but shares data with partners that could build out additional tools? Or should it take the Apple approach of owning... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
New Venture Winner an Undercover Success
winner of the Alumni New Venture Contest and its $50,000 grand prize at an April awards ceremony at HBS. “I like to think of our product as the software that protects your hardware,” said Newnam, whose husband, Todd Newnam (MBA 1996) encouraged her to enter the View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
Allen, argues that a timeless strategic principle — building market power in a well-defined core business — remains the key source of competitive advantage and the most viable platform for successful... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
the trio mastered five rules of strategy: Look forward, reason back. Figure out where you want your company to be in five years, then reason back to identify steps to get you there. Make big bets, without betting the company. Be bold, go for big wins, but not in a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
CDs played music, not virtual-reality games. Will I even recognize the place? Related Platforms and Collaborations: Technological Innovation as a Case Method Supplement Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction: Multimedia Cases Focus... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
entrepreneurial graduates, and to create a mechanism to connect alumni with HBS faculty and the global HBS network of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and angel investors. More than seventy teams entered the March regional competitions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
system. Handspring’s Visor quickly distinguished itself from the competition through the addition of an expansion slot that allows users to add a variety of capabilities — digital camera, MP3 player, or cell phone, for example — to their... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
LendingClub, and Kabbage—entered the marketplace. They revolutionized the customer experience by providing a streamlined application process and faster decision-making. It seemed as if these new entrants would someday dominate the market, but banks still maintained... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
It's easy to think that the 2010 disaster at the BP drilling platform Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico was the result of a chain of cascading events beyond the control of anyone to stop. But as the authors of Avoiding Corporate... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
the ability to learn, to take control of their own destiny. But like any competitive industry, people are reluctant when disruptors like Robinhood come along and change the game. The dismissive attitude we see toward our customers or our... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
Both transitions have strategic and competitive implications for firms operating in and out of the region. The current "reconstruction" of Asia offers insights about differentiating systemic from asystemic risks and illuminates possible... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75
example," she continues. "It's where HBS professor Ted Levitt first outlined the principles that defined the field of marketing and where Mike Porter first identified the five competitive forces that shape strategy. It's also where key... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
first thing you need to know is that competitive video gaming has been around a lot longer than you think. On November 10, 1980, five teenage boys faced off at the Warner Communications headquarters in Rockefeller Center in the middle of... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
product launch platform that helps innovative products reach a community of millions―guides you through every step of the consumer product creation process. Connected Strategy: Building Continuous Customer Relationships for View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
speaking with a worker at the BulkWhiz warehouse. Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) Rashad: I am Amira Rashad. I am founder and CEO of BulkWhiz, an online bulk grocery platform based out of Dubai in the UAE and covering the... View Details
- 19 Oct 2021
- News
In the Contest for Content
well as streaming options like Spotify and Apple Music. A recent New York Times article, “A $1 Billion Competitor for Music Rights Says ‘Content Is Queen,’” explains that HarbourView is backed by up to $1 billion from Apollo Global Management, catapulting the firm into... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
Engagement Opportunities The "Case for HBS" ebook NN: We have been giving both of these questions a lot of thought, particularly since the launch of the edX/HarvardX platform more than a year ago. We've approached this at HBS not as an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
because it would’ve been violating all kinds of transportation laws. Ultimately, they said Uber was a technology platform that simply connected people. Airbnb ignored zoning laws in some instances. They have largely described this as... View Details