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    Judo Strategy: Turning Your Competitors’ Strength to Your Advantage

    Why do some companies succeed in defeating stronger rivals, while others fail? This is a question that, sooner or later, all ambitious competitors must face. Whether you’re a tiny start-up taking on industry giants or a giant moving into markets dominated by... View Details

    • January 2008
    • Article

    Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things

    By: Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman and Willy C. Shih
    Most companies aren't half as innovative as their senior executives want them to be (or as their marketing claims suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices.... View Details
    Keywords: Investment; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Prejudice and Bias; Value Creation
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    • 21 Oct 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: October 21

    team and the ways in which firms shift their identities, build innovative cultures and processes, and begin to change the world around them. Business leaders will find the book... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Clusters and the New Growth Path for Europe

    By: Christian Ketels and Sergiy Protsiv
    This paper outlines elements of a conceptual framework that clarifies the role that clusters play relative to government policies and actions of individual companies in supporting the emergence of "High Road" strategies that lead to better New Growth Path–related... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Competition; Industry Clusters; Globalization; Economic Growth; Europe
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    Leading Professional Service Firms

    frameworks you need to develop and retain talent, deliver outstanding client service, and build a flexible corporate culture that can exploit disruptive innovation and market... View Details
    Keywords: Professional Services; Professional Services
    • March 2008 (Revised February 2009)
    • Case

    Transparent Value LLC

    By: Sharon P. Katz, Krishna G. Palepu and Aldo Sesia, Jr.
    Leading index company Dow Jones recently signed a license and joint marketing agreement with Transparent Value LLC, the creator of a new fundamentals-based valuation methodology. The agreement allowed Dow Jones to offer a family of indexes based on the Transparent... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Management; Stocks; Price; Performance Expectations; Mathematical Methods; Valuation
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    • October 2021 (Revised November 2021)
    • Case

    Bodega Aurrera: eCommerce at the Base of the Pyramid

    By: Michael Chu, Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, Carla Larangeira and Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago
    Bodega Aurrera, serving the base of the pyramid and Walmart’s main Mexican format, is considering launching a full eCommerce channel as Covid-19 has erupted in the country. In 2019, Bodega Aurrera accounted for 45% of revenues and 2,748 of Walmex’s 3,416 stores. Having... View Details
    Keywords: Bottom Of The Pyramid; Digitalization; Omnichannel; Walmart; Business Model; Internet and the Web; Marketing Channels; Technology Adoption; E-commerce; Retail Industry; Latin America; Mexico
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    • April 2010 (Revised March 2011)
    • Case

    The Auction for Travelport (A)

    By: Andrei Hagiu and Misha Sanwal
    A senior Blackstone director is deciding how aggressively to bid for Travelport, a travel distribution business containing several key services and platforms. Travelport's most important properties were Galileo, one of the top 3 global distribution systems (GDSs),... View Details
    Keywords: Value Creation; Product Positioning; Cost vs Benefits; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Competitive Advantage; Auctions; Industry Structures; Travel Industry
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    Managing Turbulence

    executives who are tasked with setting the direction of their organization in a volatile business environment. With an equal focus on strategy and leadership, the curriculum... View Details
    • November 2007
    • Article

    Solve the Succession Crisis by Growing Inside-Outside Leaders

    By: Joseph L. Bower
    This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. In his interviews and data analysis, Harvard Business School professor Bower found... View Details
    Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Planning
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    • October 8, 2012
    • Column

    Henkel's Culture Shift

    By: Robert Simons
    This case descriibes a CEO-led organizational transformation driven by stretch goals, performance measurement, and accountability. When Kasper Rorsted became CEO of Henkel, a Germany-based producer of personal care, laundry, and adhesives products, in 2008, he was... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy Execution; Culture; New CEO; Change; Performance Measures; Accountability; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Corporate Accountability; Leading Change; Competitive Strategy; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Consumer Products Industry; Germany
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    • 12 Jun 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    The Promise of Channel Stewardship

    "Kash" Rangan, distribution channels are the hardest to change of all the elements of marketing strategy. Clearly, companies need a new strategy for going to market, he says. View Details
    Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products
    • 13 Mar 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

    In randomized control trials all over the world, instead of giving access to a loan, a one-time cash grant was found to have transformative impacts on livelihoods and View Details
    Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services
    • 03 Jan 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Most Popular Articles of 2010

    Judging by the most-read articles and faculty working papers over the last year, our readers continue to be fascinated by the emergence of social networks and their potential impacts on business and... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • October 2016
    • Supplement

    24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016

    By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
    In 2016, 24 Hour Fitness was the number-two fitness chain in the United States, generating revenues of $1.4 billion from 441 clubs serving 3.8 million members. Based in San Ramon, California, 24 Hour Fitness operated clubs in 13 states. Having grown rapidly to become... View Details
    Keywords: Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Buildings and Facilities; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Age; Training; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Journals and Magazines; Human Capital; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Market Entry and Exit; Media; Organizational Design; Private Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Situation or Environment; Welfare or Wellbeing; Sports; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Software; Web Sites; Value; Valuation; Health Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; California; San Francisco
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    • 12 Nov 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: November 12, 2008

    viewership numbers. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808121 MP3 Portable Audio Player Market Harvard Business School Case 608-119 The View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 28 Feb 2022
    • Blog Post

    Making an Impact on the Media Industry with my MBA

    How did you choose a career in entertainment? I have always been passionate about film, television, and the way that we connect and empathize with one another through culture, the arts, and storytelling. I... View Details
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    Authentic Leader Development

    eligible for the Certificate of Management Excellence. Learn More Key Benefits Based on leadership visionary Bill George's groundbreaking book, True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership, this program immerses you in View Details
    • July–August 2021
    • Article

    SPACs: What You Need to Know

    By: Max Bazerman and Paresh Patel
    Special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, have been around in various forms for decades, but during the past two years they’ve taken off in the United States. In 2019, 59 were created, with $13 billion invested; in 2020, 247 were created, with $80 billion... View Details
    Keywords: Special Purpose Acquisition Companies; SPACs; Mergers and Acquisitions; Going Public; Investment
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