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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
- 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
- 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
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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