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  • 21 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

a lower-cost business model. This strategy has worked well for Wal-Mart, for example, but you still remain vulnerable to competitors disrupting your success from below. The third model Christensen termed new-market disruption, whereby you... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

moves itself. According to industry observers, Merck intends to use this period in which its competitors are busy with postmerger integration to improve its position through aggressive marketing and other initiatives. Make Friends.... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

to raise an important new set of questions for the team to consider going forward, which I included in my final presentation. Supplying BEV with added bandwidth to tackle projects and offering my perspective was a privilege. Kaelyn: I conducted detailed View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

Case Study: Something New

in revenue. In mid-2015, KitNipBox—which now has eight employees—became profitable. They have a small number of competitors but are the largest player in the market—another barrier to entry for others. New challenges: Launched in early... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 30 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

Google reviews (Google’s current tying strategy) or reviews from multiple platforms determined to be the best-performing by Google’s own organic search algorithm. We find that users prefer the version that does not exclude competitor... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

more sophisticated mobile devices, the industry's four main players spent heavily to improve their infrastructures for providing reliable high-speed data services. T-Mobile, the smallest of the four major carriers, lacked the scale of its View Details
  • 01 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

they must be specific to the strategy of the business. Company scores on these metrics may be benchmarked against direct competitors and/or outstanding companies in other industries. Second, CEOs must ensure an adequate pipeline of new... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 20 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

7 Resolutions for Recruiting in the New Year

workplace. 6. Resolve to Embrace the Right TrendsA competitor is using TikTok to attract new candidates, does that mean you should too? Maybe, and maybe not.It’s important to stay up to date on industry trends and best practices in human... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models

behavior of the customers is so vastly different that having the same policy often doesn’t make sense. It’s very much like you’re selling a certain type of product in Japan and China: different markets with different competitors and... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

Ink

THE BOOK “Tom Witt [MBA 1987] originally told me the story of how his father had owned a small, family-run grocery store and successfully fought off a big, new competitor over the price of sugar. The new store trumpeted a big special: 49... View Details
  • 22 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

California pharmacist and drugstore owner who balked at the price-slashing practices of chain store competitors and spearheaded a local price-control movement to protect her own bottom line—a crusade that would ultimately gain such... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

trucks with global positioning satellite (GPS) locators, allowing dispatchers to arrange deliveries within a twenty-minute window, versus the three hours CEMEX's competitors require. This system—which did not emerge from a central R&D... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari
  • 02 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

then they will build these other businesses for the future. The question is, can they sustain the huge premiums they earn with today's iPod when Dell is coming in with much lower-priced products and other competitors are entering the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing

channels. Vobejda said that when a retailer launches an Internet channel, "it is seen as a competitor by the store merchants." She said that making store staffers understand that the Internet can send traffic to their stores is... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Consumer Products; Retail
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Alumni Forums - Alumni

Forum placement process work? Organizers in an alumni club or SIG assemble forums whose members have commonality and diversity both personally and professionally, and who do not have any possible conflicts of interest. (For example, alumni who are business View Details
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Alumni Book Briefs

Greatest Competitor as Our Greatest Teacher by Ann Lee (MBA 1995) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Fully aware of China’s shortcomings, particularly in human rights, Lee details the policies and practices—in areas ranging from education and... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Sep 2020
  • News

Giving Amazon the Boot

Amazon], for them to come up empty handed is a missed opportunity,” he says. And if you’re not on Amazon, odds are good that a competitor is. But brands are also wary of the site for the reasons Ford described, especially the fact that... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade
  • 07 Aug 2019
  • News

“The Star of the North”

competitor analysis, trend research, and leadership programs. Since then, the team has helped Granite Equity research individual company profiles, whether it’s for an acquisition or a vendor or a potential partner. The service also has... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Collective Wisdom

prize. In a community-based setting, you give up IP in exchange for complementary assets that create value for customers. Then there's the fear that my competitors will find out what I'm working on. Open companies have adopted a nuanced... View Details
Keywords: crowdsourcing; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 18 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

School Case 809-009 To help her finance her aggressive expansion plans, Genevieve Thiers plans to raise venture capital for the first time. She has spent the last six long years building Sittercity into the nation's leading babysitting web service, larger than all of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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