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- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
Administration, under mounting pressure to act, offered its own regulatory plan on April 24. Ironically, if regulation does go forward, it might help the major tobacco companies by limiting the marketing playbook of the competitors that... View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
years. Unlike a commercial brand, the political brand doesn't need a close ongoing relationship with consumers, and it doesn't need to coexist with competitors after the election. The political brand just needs to close the deal once--on... View Details
- 25 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University
That is no longer true, though, for any but a relative handful of institutions. Costs have risen to unprecedented heights, and new competitors are emerging. A disruptive technology, online learning, is at work in higher education,... View Details
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
state's sovereign fund investors) when his competitor is able to arrange to have state aid or investment provided or withheld in large quantities to a potential customer's country of origin depending on whether that customer favors a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
with the goal of seizing a leadership position in the emerging field against formidable competitors like Honda, Toyota, and Matsushita. But making a robot that could do anything useful proved daunting. Sony knew that marketing an... View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
expand internationally, we finally found our expansion domestically. When we merged with our competitor in Brazil, that was the best opportunity that we had," he said. In de Brito's view, international expansion "is good only if... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- Profile
Angela R. Hicks Bowman
employees, along with 3 million members in more than 200 cities. The service now includes health care professionals, pet care and even offers a special subscriber list for buying and selling classic cars. Given competitors such as Yelp,... View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
markets choose the winners, not government officials—no matter how well-intentioned. No politician seeks public financing for a specific competitor without threat of voter reaction. In short, competition does what it is supposed to do. We... View Details
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
were able to lock in gas prices before the Russian-Ukraine war and have benefitted from very low cost during the winter, while some of their competitors had to stop producing because they could not purchase natural gas due to the sudden... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
disintegrated, specialized providers. And if those providers don’t start to integrate as competitors in the health-care market, they will be the losers. — Deborah Blagg Related Links An Excerpt from The Innovator's Prescription: A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
track. Revenues for the last quarter of 2000 hit $115.6 million, a 600 percent increase from the same period in 1999. Dubinsky, however, remains vigilant: “Many companies are interested in this marketspace,” she observes, “so we have a wide array of View Details
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
what they believed had a better than average chance of succeeding because there were women and men working together in leadership roles. This belief has since been substantiated by numerous studies showing that companies with diversity in the C-suite consistently... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
competitor without anyone being the wiser. Working from home has facilitated searches. Employees didn’t have to close the door and hold hushed phone conversations with recruiters (not that such efforts ever fooled anyone). At home and... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
advertising. It is well documented that brands that increase advertising during a recession, when competitors are cutting back, can improve market share and return on investment at lower cost than during good economic times. Uncertain... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
more successful if it drives other aspects of your business. (And it doesn't hurt that you're also putting a stick in the eye of a competitor who makes money from the operating system layer of the software stack.) "It changes the way... View Details
- 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
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
had increased access to location data, potentially threatening to enter the real-time traffic information (RTTI) space. Current competitors Navteq and Tele Atlas were also looking to grow through global expansion. Mistele also knew that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne