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  • May 2019
  • Case

Whiskey and Cheddar: Ingredient Branding at the Caesan Cheese Cooperative (Brief Case)

By: John A. Quelch and Katherine B. Hartman
The Caesan Cheese Cooperative is considering introducing a new high-quality, high-margin artisan whiskey cheddar cheese. Deidra Kelly, vice president of marketing and product development at Caesan, must recommend to the Board of Directors whether to launch the product... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Product Development; Management; Product Marketing; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • March 1994 (Revised September 1994)
  • Background Note

Note on Competitive Positioning

Emphasizes the connection between a firm's activities and its prices, costs, and volumes. A firm obtains a competitive advantage when it adopts a system of interrelated activities that generate superior profitabiltiy. Briefly describes differentiation and low-cost... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage
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  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

appointments go wrong Let’s begin by taking a look at three examples of poor leadership at public companies and addressing what went wrong. Then, I will recommend five ways boards can ensure they appoint the right leader as CEO: General... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 26 Jun 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

Lithuanian, Belarusian and Ukrainian nationalists had had their way, their states' foreign economic strategies during the 1990s would have been nearly identical. For him, the political economy of post-Soviet international relations... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • December 2011
  • Article

Platform Envelopment

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Geoffrey Parker and Marshall Van Alstyne
Due to network effects and switching costs in platform markets, entrants generally must offer revolutionary functionality. We explore a second entry path that does not rely upon Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. Through envelopment, a provider in one... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Economic Systems; Development Economics; Business or Company Management; Business Strategy; Network Effects; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 11 Feb 2021
  • Blog Post

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

powerful, fundamental leadership strategy is being largely overlooked. It is, in fact, the most innately human one: Be kind. According to a recent Gallup survey, less than half of employees (45 percent) feel strongly that their employer... View Details
Keywords: All Industries

    Stefan H. Thomke

    Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; automobiles; automotive; banking; biotechnology; chemical; computer; defense; electronics; health care; high technology; home video games; information technology industry; manufacturing; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; plastics; semiconductor; service industry; telecommunications; video games
    • December 1999 (Revised May 2002)
    • Case

    CNBC (A): NBC and Its Startup Friends

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
    NBC expands further on to the Internet with CNBC.com. NBC's Internet strategy, supported by corporate parent General Electric, involves numerous investments as well as new ventures like CNBC.com. Soon after CNBC.com is launched in 1999, NBC brings in a new CEO, Pamela... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Change Management; Management Teams; Corporate Strategy; Leadership Development; Internet and the Web; Expansion; Media; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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    • 16 Jul 2024
    • Blog Post

    Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

    The HBS Summer Fellows Program enables students to apply their classroom training as they explore career opportunities in roles or regions where compensation is generally lower than the traditional MBA level. This summer, we are... View Details
    • 24 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Platform Rules: Multi-Sided Platforms as Regulators

    Keywords: by Kevin J. Boudreau & Andrei Hagiu; Technology
    • November 2009
    • Journal Article

    A Theory of Growth and Volatility at the Aggregate and Firm Level

    By: Diego A. Comin and Sunil Mulani
    This paper presents an endogenous growth model that explains the evolution of the first and second moments of productivity growth at the aggregate and firm level during the post-war period. Growth is driven by the development of both (i) idiosyncratic R&D innovations... View Details
    Keywords: Volatility; Microeconomics; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Performance Productivity; Mathematical Methods; Research and Development
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    • Web

    Program Requirements - Doctoral

    Strategy Program Requirements Below please find the program requirements for a students in Strategy . Doctoral students in Strategy generally... View Details
    • 08 Dec 2021
    • News

    How to Lay Off Your Employees without Totally Blowing It

      Richard L. Nolan

      Professor Nolan earned his B.A. from the University of Washington in Production and Operations Research in 1962, and his M.B.A and Ph.D. in 1963 and 1966, respectively. Upon graduation in 1966, he joined Boeing Commercial Airplane Company as an Information... View Details

      Keywords: aerospace; information technology industry; internet
      • July–August 2024
      • Article

      The Middle Path to Innovation

      By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Duke Rohlen, Ben Creo and Will Kynes
      Too many companies are failing to innovate. One reason, say the authors, is the polarized approach companies take to innovation. At one end of the spectrum, corporate R&D efforts tend to focus on product refreshes and incremental line upgrades that generate modest... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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      • Program

      The HR-Executive Suite Connection

      compete, grow, and thrive. Details Become your organization's top resource for human capital strategy Apply your human capital insights to discussions about strategic opportunities, differentiated capabilities, and competitive threats... View Details
      • September 2006
      • Supplement

      Brainard, Bennis & Farrell (B)

      By: Joseph L. Bower
      Brainard, Bennis and Farrel is a short case designed to explore the challenge of establishing appropriate compensation from a general management/CEO perspective. Brainard (B) is a one-page handout that is designed to show how an already difficult problem is made more... View Details
      Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Compensation and Benefits; Executive Compensation; Relationships; Strategy
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      • 10 Mar 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      A Reexamination of Tunneling and Business Groups: New Data and New Methods

      Keywords: by Jordan I. Siegel & Prithwiraj Choudhury
      • 08 May 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: May 8

      Business Speaks English: Why You Need a Language Strategy Now Author:Tsedal Neeley Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 5 (May 2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book:... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 12 Feb 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans

      Keywords: by Doug J. Chung, Thomas Steenburgh & K. Sudhir