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- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
fast-growing competitor in the used car auction market. After its founding in 1993 by Circuit City's management, CarMax had grown rapidly. The company had been profitable since 2000 and independent from its parent company since 2002.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
requiring commitment mechanisms. I suggest that a small set of large institutional investors, importantly, but not exclusively, index investors, could provide this commitment mechanism. Common ownership of competitors within industries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
The swift current of modern business presents a challenge for any woman deciding to temporarily step out of the corporate rapids to tend to family or other concerns. While they are away competitors come and go, technology constantly... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
where technology helps users combat mental health disorders by relaxing, meditating, and completing other mind-calming exercises. Competitors include meQuilibrium, Headspace, Big Health, and myStrength. The research team conducted an... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
show that increased competition is associated with greater inspection leniency, a form of illicit quality that customers value but is illegal and socially costly. Firms with greater numbers of local competitors pass customers at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
companies with a range of field marketing activities in Belgium and the Netherlands. The core of the group consisted of two companies-Bananas and Demonstrate-which were operationally completely independent and acted as competitors in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
profitable and sustainable airline if we don't have a very slim and efficient cost structure," she says. "And it's a challenge for the region because there are a lot of regulations that make our cost bar much higher than our competitors... 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
- 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
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
Silicon Valley software developers and technological innovations such as autonomous vehicles, aggressive marketing strategies, and cutthroat poaching practices—all of which forced number three competitor Sidecar out by January... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
value-creation problem and leads to even lower total quality. Surprisingly, this result can reverse with competition. Notably, introducing a competitor opens the door for the possibility of a Pareto-improving outcome in which all firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the optimal price for internal transfers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
compromising our values and the culture of our organization trying to keep up with competitors who were pushing products down people’s throats.” While customers hunkered down, iTrust had the breathing room to perfect its hybrid model of... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
operate according to a business model that can be broken down into four elements: a customer value proposition that fulfills an important job for the customer in a better way than anything competitors offer; a profit formula that lays out... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace