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- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
and/or competitive best practices. The goal of stewardship is to identify the gaps. Managers may realize that their channels serve neither their customers nor their channel partners well, but it is too late. Closing them is the job of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
the Russian economy, Mlotok entered an annual case competition sponsored by McKinsey; of the thousands of applications received, she was one of twenty finalists, and one of two offered a full-time position. Hoping to build on her work... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
concentration ratios (CRs), varies across the nine sectors comprising the industry, but all are within the range generally considered as indicative of a competitive industry. At the holding company level, the four largest organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
products. In the world of railroads, business is open to competition from other railroads, trucking companies, and barges. "There can be a significant strategic component, where we try to understand the inputs of a customer's business and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
possessions when they know there is a newer version available to them. “Content is king, but whose content will trump? “I believe 2016 will show more brands owning their own destinies by becoming content creators. As competition rises for... View Details
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
middle management willing to—and this is another part of Intel culture—constructively confront you and your suppositions and your assumptions and the suppositions and the assumptions of the whole firm, you've got eyes and ears all over the country, all over the world,... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
of the firm. There is substantial evidence for this: see Danny Miller and Isabelle Le Breton-Miller's book Managing for the Long Run: Lessons in Competitive Advantage from Great Family Businesses. These leaders also start with the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
on shared terminals in Baker Library, the game required first-year students to put their newly acquired knowledge of marketing, control, finance, and operations to the test in a simulated competitive business environment. In addition to... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- April 2021
- Teaching Note
Drinkworks: Home Bar by Keurig
By: Sunil Gupta and Jonathan Levav
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 521-010. In the summer of 2018, Drinkworks CEO Nathaniel Davis needed to make a number of go-to-market decisions ahead of his company’s upcoming product launch. Formed through a joint venture between Keurig Dr. Pepper and Anheuser-Busch... View Details
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- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
that attract consumers to retailers’ websites. Companies typically have to balance the popularity of these policies in a competitive market with the high costs of managing returns, including shipping and restocking fees that cut into... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
regimes that reduce bias in quality assessments in domains such as food safety, process quality, occupational safety, working conditions, and regulatory compliance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52570 Demand Estimation in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
marketing, operations, and pricing. This led to greater profitability as well as to a tighter competitive focus and greater differentiation. Thus, order cycle management contributed to cost optimization, revenue improvement, and better... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
clear objective. If you don't have a good fix on your destination—be it a product or service, a strategic or competitive outcome, or anything else—you may as well not start the journey. For a lot of your work, though, this so-called... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
revolutionized by bringing in market forces in a way that they never were before. Competition that we take for granted in most sectors of the economy is now driving efficiencies and innovations in the space sector, making it much more of... View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
new “blue ocean” opportunity for companies eager to activate diversity as a competitive advantage. Chitra: And when you talk about the opportunities and just going even another level deeper based on this tremendous research that you both... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
organizational change an actor may undertake. Entrepreneurial Theory and the History of Globalization Authors:G. Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani Periodical:Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade 7, nos. 3-4 (December 2007): 143-323... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
away from my daughter," she says candidly. HBS's Myra Hart is not surprised by this. "We see a lot of women who are very highly trained and have been very competitive in the past who want to go back to work," Hart explains, "but they... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
distinct geographic markets, we show that such combinations can reduce competition among merging hospitals for inclusion in insurers' networks, leading to higher prices (or lower-quality care). Using data on hospital mergers from 1996 to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
precisely this competition that keeps ecosystems healthy: Without niche players who understand and exercise this leverage, ecosystems will be less healthy than they could be and may fall into sickness if their keystone loses sight of its... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
and soot in fires. When one of Myra Hart's students asked Krasnow whether he would now counsel starting a business right out of school or gaining experience in a company, Krasnow said, "The laws of economics haven't changed, and the laws of View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg