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- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
competitive reviews we examined. Indeed, only once in fifteen years did Microsoft products fail to win more than 50% of these reviews. Given the number and diversity of competitors they faced in each different product category, this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
leadership versus transactional leadership. We also wondered to what extent there were different insights depending on the unit of analysis with which one began. We knew it was essential to also invite people who were reflective,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details
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Globalization - Faculty & Research
Boundaries By: Laura Alfaro , Paola Conconi, Fariha Kamal and Zachary Kroff 2025 | Working Paper | Faculty Research We leverage newly linked data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis to study transactions... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
J&J company performing well, and I tried to implement the best of what J&J did while avoiding the pitfalls it fell into. —Steven Newman (MBA 1992) Back to top “Heublein, Inc.,” aka the Smirnoff Vodka Case Smirnoff has 23 percent of the vodka market in 1965 and outsells... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
in the control group receive a standard volunteer contract often offered for this type of task, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive small financial rewards, large financial rewards, and non-financial rewards, respectively. The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0733-558x&volume=33 Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements Authors:Krishna G. Palepu and Paul M. Healy Publication:5th ed. Cengage Learning, forthcoming An abstract is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online
pricing strategies Benchmark costs compared to competitors through relative cost analysis Apply conjoint analysis to understand what features customers value most Understand... View Details
- 20 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting the Marketing Mix Right
when a company attempts to move in on its market share, perhaps by offering price discounts. Since this strategy is viewed as more threatening, the competitor can be expected to retaliate with prejudice—often by firing off a campaign to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
provide analysis and derive general insights from this negotiation campaign. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52027 Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments By: Sebenius,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
lacked the funds necessary to build a DVD factory and exited the consumer electronic industry almost entirely at the end of the 1990s. Again, this relatively unknown story provides an intriguing opportunity for description and analysis by... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Tsoutsoura. 2017 Lauren H. Cohen : Named a Top 40 Under 40 Business School Professor Globally by Poets & Quants in 2017. Lauren H. Cohen : Named one of Harvard Business School’s Best Teachers - CNBC, 2017. Lauren H. Cohen : Competitor in... View Details
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
destroying or even harming the competitor. The focus must be on your own success. Smart competitors don't try to beat their adversaries; they avoid direct competitors and instead maximize profits. The astute... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
international operations over long periods of time. But that either/or characterization of globalization strategies is very broad. Finer-grained analysis of case studies—particularly of companies that have in various ways been global... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
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Consumer goods: market research
Individual reports include analysis of drivers of the industry, industry risk, market data and segments, competitors and industry performance. SimplyMap Is a mapping tool for the U.S. that incorporates... View Details
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Defense Industry Research
sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 13.3333px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Provides research reports on industries in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and China. Global industry reports for selected industries are also available.... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
devised, which paved the way for the use of quantitative analysis in formal strategic planning. In 1944, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern published their classic work, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. This work essentially... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- Fast Answer
Scaling Minority Businesses (SMB)
current company, industry and region reports. Includes full-text of Harvard Business Review. Factiva - For information on competitors and their products, search this database of business and news publications, trade... View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
can be made not just once a year but multiple times daily. “What we show, theoretically, is that (algorithmic competition) leads to higher profits for both firms.” Enter the rise of pricing algorithms, where software monitors prices posted by View Details
- 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
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