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- 01 Feb 2002
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New Porter Prize Awarded in Japan
honors and highlights companies that have maintained superior profitability by implementing unique strategies based on innovation in products, processes, and management techniques. Matsui Securities was chosen View Details
Keywords: awards
- 18 Sep 2014
- News
Room to grow: global expansion in the middle ground
consulting firm Shaldor, documents the specific strategies various companies pursued. As examples, by focusing on a neglected market segment, Netafim became the world leader in drip irrigation technology,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Protecting against the Erosion of Brand Value
create value,” the authors conclude. “But because that gap usually exists only temporarily, firms must watch for shifts in the location of opportunities to create new brands.” View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
traditional toilets, and they’re innovative in so many other areas, like special antibacterial glazes and low water consumption. Do they really need to pursue a strategy for the Washlet?” TOTO faces a few... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Porter's Paradox
In his pathbreaking 1990 book The Competitive Advantage of Nations, HBS professor Michael E. Porter emphasized the strategic importance of clusters, which he defined as "geographic concentrations of interconnected companies, specialized suppliers, service providers,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
do business the same way — with identical processes, functions, and operations — while approaching this elevated stage; but by the time they attain it, successful companies do share certain qualities and practices not observed in firms... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
talent in order to remain successful. The authors argue that the source of competitive advantage already exists within every organization and that how a firm creates and uses talent is far more important than how the View Details
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
status quo, at the expense of searching for (and investing in) the kinds of novel breakthrough ideas that originally propelled them to the top. Atari, Wang, Polaroid, DEC, the examples are so numerous it is actually harder to point to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
rise of private equity here and abroad hasn’t gone unchallenged. The Justice Department has launched an investigation into whether buyout deals involving multiple private-equity firms are anticompetitive. In Europe, critics are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths by Timothy Butler (HBS Press) Acknowledging that people may feel stuck or psychologically paralyzed at times in their lives, Butler, director of Career Development Programs, offers View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
of 2009 alone, Mills points out that 1.8 million small business jobs were lost. Heavily dependent on credit, small businesses were unable to access capital markets as banks reeled from the crisis and lending froze. With half of the workers in the US either owning or... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
consulting firm could do.” Urgency and Long-Term Impact After being based in Barcelona for many years, Duch was happy to bring his family to Washington, DC, a city that he says offers “more racial,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
for assessing differences between countries at the industry level; tracking the implications of particular border-crossing moves for a company’s ability to create value; and creating superior perfor-mance... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
Wells (Jossey-Bass) In fast-changing business environments, firms must adapt their strategies to remain at the top. But many firms fail to do so. Instead, they succumb to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
"How about 'No new taxes after these new taxes'?" © James Stevenson/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com As Congress starts the next round of debt ceiling negotiations, the US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups are advocating tax relief View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
much that companies can do to reassure and help employees with this transition, she adds. First, it’s crucial for CEOs and management to be firm that nonnative speakers don’t have a problem. All employees... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
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Ink: The Habit of Innovation
Leaders have gone to great lengths in the name of innovation—and yet far too often these efforts fall short, according to Scott Anthony (MBA 2001), a senior partner at the growth-strategy consulting firm Innosight and one of the authors... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
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Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
RELATED LINKS Video: Dean Nohria introduces the Project U.S. Competitiveness home page HBS Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness The Path to Economic Revival Made in America — Making Their Way How... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Invest in the New Abnormal
need to adjust to the new reality that customers prefer not to come into their stores. B2C firms must enhance their delivery and pickup options and provide incentives [such as rewards points for using a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Looking to the East
fluent Japanese. Commenting on the meeting in the Times of India (August 22, 2000), Kulkarni said, "India is looking for a strategy that will help it achieve rapid economic growth — qualitatively in terms of... View Details