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Fit Across the Value Chain - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
sustainability: when activities mutually reinforce each other, competitors can’t easily imitate them. Fit is Leveraging What is Different to be More Different When using the value chain as a framework, it’s important to remember that all... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and the Internet
for competitors to imitate information systems. The openness of the Internet, combined with advances in software architecture, development tools, and modularity, makes it much easier for companies to design and implement applications. The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
- 27 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance
and structure. Furthermore, relative to other critical inputs such as capital, a company’s management practices should in principle be easier to change—if obvious best practices emerge, they should be easily imitated so that differences... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams
Teams app to Office 365 in 2017. Microsoft executives briefly considered buying Slack, but founder Bill Gates reportedly opposed the move. "New companies like Slack emerge with a great product, better than Microsoft has, and then Microsoft observes it, View Details
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
posted a dance to Lizzo’s “About Damn Time,” other fans imitated the dance, others elaborated on the imitations, and eventually Lizzo began using the dance in stage performances. Poking fun at politicians. Fans recast the meaning of video... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 08 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching
Organizations, in which he argues that observation and imitation are rarely the best ways for employees to learn on the job. “There are some realms of life where that is true, but for the most part, problems in business are more... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
3: Be different. While many managers talk about uniqueness, when the going gets tough, they attempt to imitate their competitors. To be a price maker, be different! The difference can be in the nature of the customer value created, the... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
Raymond A. Kroc
Kroc capitalized on America’s “eat on the run” society. Believing in the real profits of fast food, he bought out the McDonald brothers and developed a restaurant empire. By the 1960s, he had 228 restaurants with annual sales totaling $37 million. Kroc emphasized... View Details
Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
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Innovating at Scale - Course Catalog
innovative ideas. Educational Objectives: This course has three overarching learning objectives. Students will learn: When to be a first mover and innovate and when to strategically imitate and follow others in the market How to build... View Details
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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
entrepreneurs in emerging ecosystems develop are those that are imitations of successful startups in other geographies, both developed and emerging ecosystems. Imitation of a successful business model... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Feedback
the dry facts to what it means to be a person who makes a difference in the world, each in our own way! Thanks for posting this great memory. —John Giudice (MBA 1978) via alumni.hbs.edu Better to have done the fly imitation than others... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Fred Newman
tour promoting his first book, MouthSounds: How to Whistle, Pop, Click, and Honk Your Way to Social Success, the same fly imitation landed Newman a job as the host of Nickelodeon’s teen talk show Livewire. Since then he has hosted The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Business Suits You: Experimenting with Professional Identity
selective. "Wholesale imitation refers to experimenting strategies in which the junior person mimics the self-presentation style of a single role model, holistically, without much adaptation," she writes. With selective imitation, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Takeaways
imitation to innovation, and Western companies need to know how to deal with that.” —George S. Yip (MBA 1976, DBA 1980), China’s Next Strategic Advantage “The future should not be about what you have to do in the future.” —Vijay... View Details
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
London’s School of Management, and Amirhossein Zohrehvand, assistant professor at Leiden University. Turing, meet Wade The Turing Test is an imitation game in which a person must guess whether they’re communicating with a machine or... View Details
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
participants play a significant role in the capital market participants' coverage and investment decisions in a dynamic setting. Download the paper from SSRN: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1465064 Business Model Innovation and Competitive View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Solving the Complexities of the Biotechnology Industry
even come close to understanding it or imitating its design. The body deploys amazing, interconnected solutions to manage the chemical wonders that continuously run. We continue to explore human physiology, and we continue to learn how... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
increasingly imitated "direct-access" business model. Designed to deal directly with the customer via phone or the Internet, Dell shuns intermediaries such as retailers and distributors and builds computers according to the customer's... View Details
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
economy. “A platform owner may imitate them and enter their markets by offering similar products,” Zhu explained. “Before you build your business model around platforms, you need to think about how to minimize the risk from these... View Details
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
new iPhone? As imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, the speedy availability of counterfeits is another indicator of popularity. Sustainability. A blockbuster brand is not a one hit wonder. It is a gift that keeps on giving.... View Details