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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
outside the banking system. BancoSol's success has spawned competitors in both the nonprofit and formal financial sectors that are eager to serve microentrepreneurs. Every Bolivian political party now includes microenterprise as part of... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
comparisons of performance among industry competitors and to measure whether owners could actually affect performance over time." Kang's data reveal that there were 81 publicly held U.S. textile firms in 1983 whereas by 1992 only 47 such... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty
time," Tumulty recalls. "The paper was owned by Hearst, and our chief competitor was published by Rupert Murdoch. It was a classic newspaper war, with dueling headlines along the lines of 'Baby Eats LSD' and 'Pregnant Cat Gunned Down.'"... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Prepare for Your Interview with Research
worldwide. CompetitorsDemonstrating your knowledge of a company’s competitors will show that you have an understanding of the firm’s competitive position in the market. OneSource Global Express provides a link that identifies top... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit, Information, and the Courts
the Courts Credit and Information Technology Credit in a Consumer Society Research Links Credits As pioneers of the nascent information industry, the nineteenth-century credit ratings firms survived near-fatal attacks on several fronts. The Mercantile Agency was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
between ideas from unrelated fields; challenging common wisdom; scrutinizing the behavior of customers, suppliers, and competitors to find new ways of doing things; constructing interactive experiences and provoking unorthodox responses... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
What I Do: Lindsey Mead (MBA 2000), Vedica Qalbani and Jessica Wu (both MBA 2007)
its competitors in the hunt for talent in the high-stakes, trilliondollar finance industry. Ratio’s focus is on search for private equity and hedge fund firms, and its founders’ strategy for winning in that specialized, competitive market... View Details
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby firms trade-off service quality and price, and in turn, the incumbent attracts service (price) sensitive customers in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
dedicate the last part of the paper to exploring why the effect of globalization on corporate governance convergence might be limited. The case study is based on interviews and field research at Infosys in early 2001, and with several dozen field interviews with View Details
- 07 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Innovation in Asia
in the U.S. may soon have as much to fear about losing their jobs to overseas competitors as call center employees do today. Executives debated "The Present and Future of Innovation in Asia" during the 2005 Asia Business... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
out the waste, and focus on how to differentiate yourself from your competitors in meaningful ways. But the tools available to—and the challenges facing—companies are so much greater now than before, that managers have to rethink many of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
undermined the company's performance. For all its strengths, it was my impression that Medtronic's culture was too Minnesota Nice. I realized that these aspects of Medtronic's culture had to change if we were going to be an effective View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
The Bachelor is a wildly popular reality dating game show on which 28 women compete for the hand of a single man. Along with flirting and fighting and engaging in feats of derring-do, many of the competitors spend ample time confessing... View Details
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
they are way out of whack with the market norm—and when the firm makes it clear that its own markup is much higher than what competitors charge. For instance, if a company charges $30 for a T-shirt, but emphasizes that View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
little attention has been given to its effect on innovation consequences. This is the first meta-analytic effort to study the independent effects of market orientation components (customer orientation, competitor orientation,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
business there? What should they watch out for? What opportunities are ripe for exploration? A: In all areas of greater China, understanding the local systems, the role of government regulation, and the behavior of suppliers, customers, and View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- What Do You Think?
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?
if anything, would the courts have to say about it in response to potential shareholder lawsuits? As it turns out, the two final bids involved two news organizations, one with a stellar journalistic reputation willing to pay 20 percent less than its View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
of 93 teams that competed in the 13th annual HBS Business Plan Contest. Final presentations were held in Burden Auditorium in late April. A number of competitors from years past (Endeca, Finale, New Leaders for New Schools, and... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
engaging in real earnings management and suggest the effects on subsequent reporting periods and competitor behavior are greater than previously documented. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-073.pdf Negotiating the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
of widths and eschewing celebrity endorsement of its products—and discusses New Balance's operations decisions to support that strategy. These include significant use of domestic manufacturing at a time when nearly all other competitors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace