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- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
interesting challenge, because you have a limited amount of time to build the brand. Then it disappears. We had to develop a marketing plan that was all-encompassing, but that still got the right information to the people who needed it."... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Looking to the East
fluent Japanese. Commenting on the meeting in the Times of India (August 22, 2000), Kulkarni said, "India is looking for a strategy that will help it achieve rapid economic growth — qualitatively in terms of... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
its peak in 2017. Over the years, Ping An implemented its finance plus ecosystem strategy through three steps. First, it used technology to... View Details
- 03 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Money Making Movies
the momentum generated in the U.S. Buzz, it appears, quickly wears out. There is an important caveat. Our study suggests that foreign exhibitors—not foreign audiences—mostly drive this effect. Shortening release times can thus be a useful... View Details
- 31 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs
What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In "UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action?" Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest Reinhardt present the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Cracking Conferences
New York’s World Business Forum? Margaret Molloy (MBA 2000), frequent conference-goer and global chief marketing officer and head of business development at Siegel+Gale, a global strategic branding firm, has developed a few go-to View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
acquisition costs. These results suggest that eBay's foray into leveraging the social Internet for profit reveals a replicable strategy that benefits both the company and the consumer and can be succinctly summarized as: eBay increases... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
stagnating sales, accounting losses, or a falling stock price. In extreme cases such poor performance may cause the company to default on its debt, resulting in bankruptcy. Restructuring the debt can be difficult and costly, although in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
Instead of seeking patents, many inventors and firms choose to keep the details of their innovations secret, out of the public view. But what are the implications of keeping important new ideas locked away in vaults as trade secrets? Does View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
of our interview with authors Rajiv Lal and José B. Alvarez, they discuss what the future of storefront retailing looks like and how its transformation will also change the economy and society. Sean Silverthorne: What is happening to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Get Well Soon
Medical Center” (CCHMC) details how one institution has implemented its own version of health-care reform, taking overall perfor-mance levels from well below average to the top 10 percent in the industry. Coauthored by HBS assistant... View Details
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
should government strategy matter to business people? It seems many executives, particularly Americans, believe government is incompetent. Richard Vietor: Business people care in several ways—macroeconomic,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
people-watching, and the general ambience, it was extremely attractive to customers. Also, a key aspect of our strategy is to be preemptive; we get there ahead of the competition, and if we're a little late,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Snapshot: Gary DiCamillo, Polaroid's CEO
Gary T. DiCamillo (MBA '75) was second in command at Black & Decker Corporation and leading a turnaround of that company's power tools division when Polaroid snapped him up in late 1995. The world-famous instant-imaging company made him the first noninsider CEO in... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
To create synergy, we require more than a concept and a strategy. The enterprise value proposition defines the strategy for value creation through alignment, but it doesn't describe how to achieve it. The... View Details
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
with professor Robert Hayes. Key concepts include: Managers must rethink many of the basic principles of good operations management that worked in the past. Companies must adopt a strategy for improvement that fits the specific needs of... View Details
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
technology on the newspaper business with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne in this e-mail interview. An article based on Gilbert's doctoral research in this area received the Robert Litschert Best Doctoral Student Paper Award in the Academy of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Multimedia Simulation Provides Real-World Reality Check
students gain practical exposure to the choices involved in developing a product (beer), bringing it to market, and devising a competitive advantage. The exercise, incorporated into the required Strategy... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
competitive move would probably trigger retaliation from the attacked retailer, who would subsequently try to steal the focal retailer's loyal shoppers. It can easily be seen that such a strategy would... View Details