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- 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
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
limitless opportunities to grow along three dimensions. It had operations in only 10 countries, while its competitors in airline catering were active in up to 50 countries. Thus, geographic expansion was one of the key growth options. DO... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
book. The success formula becomes public and is harder to amend later. Your top executives look alike. Look around. Your company won't stretch itself when all the managers think alike and see the business in the same way. Your competitors... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
corporate environmental performance data and analysis to institutional investors and corporate managers but after operating for a decade had yet to achieve profitability. Trucost was struggling to effectively differentiate its high quality products from its lower-cost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-012.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsArrow Electronics—The Apollo Acquisition Harvard Business School Case 607-007 Having already made 10 acquisitions of competitors in the last decade, the CEO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
The noncompete clause is the basis for a love-hate relationship, depending on which side of the desk you're seated. The noncompete is meticulous legal phrasing that forbids inventors or other professionals from offering their talents to an organization's View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
commoditization and the dangers of being strictly assemblers of commodity parts. And, of course, their penultimate differentiation has been software. But, as Android software continues to improve, they are facing highly competent View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
is even more important as markets and buying processes change, and key levers for linking strategy and selling behaviors. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49188 June 2015 ThinkSales It Doesn't Matter If View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
state-owned construction company strike one deal after another in South Carolina despite political backlash and in New York where well-established competitors dominate? The case examines the U.S. market entry strategy of the CSCEC,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
Kendall Square Research was a small competitor in the supercomputer industry. Sales grew rapidly in 1992 and early 1993 and the company sold stock to the public for the first time. Analysts forecast higher earnings for 1993, then the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Waking Up a Sleeping Company
undermined the company's performance. For all its strengths, it was my impression that Medtronic's culture was too Minnesota Nice. I realized that these aspects of Medtronic's culture had to change if we were going to be an effective View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- Web
Strategy Execution - Course Catalog
to know to win in highly competitive markets. The more competitive your marketplace—with competitors trying to steal your customers, attract your best people, and leapfrog you in technology—the more valuable this course will be to you.... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
billion. The company had 41,000 employees in 11 countries, but it was ill-prepared for the increasingly competitive market. With the shift from hardware to software and services, HCL had slipped behind its Indian competitors and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
because the government regulated everything. I'll never forget, I was flying on a competitor airline one day, and I saw the whole first class cabin fill up with smoke from a guy's cigar smoking. So when I went back after that and I went... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
be what it is today without Anne,” Michel said. “She was the execution powerhouse.... Remember five other people had the same friggin’ idea. And competitor ArmyTimes was definitely better positioned than anyone. So I think it’s all about... View Details
- 13 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Trust
barrier to entry to competitors offering innovative products. What were your main findings about how trust influences the speed at which new ideas and products diffuse in the economy? A: We found that the companies in our study were much... View Details