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- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
Several best practices, as explained by past and current masters of judo strategy, can help you reach the top of your game. While there are no substitutes for mastering the concepts of judo strategy and carefully studying your industry... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
acquisition as the biggest challenge. But lacking a CM strategy and able to respond to only short-term financial pressures, most organizations do an inadequate job of selection, retention, and growth. For many years, Mobil pursued a... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 27 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should I Pay the Bribe?
been more salient than others. I've been surprised by how little progress we have made with the standard economic model of incentives (to fight corruption). For example, I don't think we could have predicted the little use we have for View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell
- 09 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 9
strategy that will put LEGO back on track. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/713478-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 613-025 Austal, Ltd. (A) Austal, Ltd. was an Australian builder of high-speed passenger ferries. It had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
defensiveness in colleagues and subordinates. Second-guessing a senior manager can demoralize and demotivate not only that person but others around him, while eroding his authority and confidence. What's more, the need to overrule a... View Details
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
moral of this story is not how to do crisis management faster and better in a lightning-fast digital world. It’s that even the nimblest and deftest crisis management response cannot contain the damage of going straight to “call security” and crossing the last line of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
has dramatically reshaped the competitive landscape and the founders must decide between pursuing their high-growth strategy versus retrenching—including cutting costs and pulling out of their first international expansion that they had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
accompanies most jobs. "Networking and building relationships are key—pay attention to those 'softer' skills," advised Gonsalves, sector head of Goldman, Sachs & Co.'s Aerospace & Defense Group and a managing director in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 16 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant
The team was initially very focused on defense and a running-dominated offensive scheme, which they used to win Super Bowls in 2002, 2004, and 2005. Partially in response to New England’s dominant defense, the NFL introduced a new set of... View Details
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
now or wait a bit. Selection It’s not possible or even a defensible investment strategy to try to reinforce every asset everywhere, and forever. High value assets in high risk areas clearly merit investment... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
customers rather than take possession of and responsibility for the products or services in question, they have inherently low cost structures and fat gross margins. They are highly defensible once established, owing to network effects.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing of a President
Democratic caucuses in red states; the organizations he built for the primaries in these states set him up to win several of them in the general. In the closing weeks, he put McCain on defense in multiple red states, making it tough for... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
to care in the use of the Internet, Gerald Nanninga pointed out that the best defense might well be a carefully-crafted strategy that competitors can't replicate even if they are familiar with it . Another... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
sellers find themselves operating in an environment where their hosts could become enemies at any time, and they must figure out a defensive strategy. But platform operators have some strategizing to do as well, deciding when and whether... View Details
- 02 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?
strategy on artificial intelligence research and development ” As he put it, “DARPA is a government agency responsible for developing and deploying weapons for war fighters of the future. We need CARPA—the Cyberhealth Advanced Research... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
When we perceive a competitor's groundbreaking innovation as a threat, we may act defensively and hastily. But if we see that same event as an opportunity, our response might be more deliberate and unhurried. As a leader, how you frame... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
Sustainable Evaluation System Strategy By: Eccles, Robert G., and Peijun Duan Abstract—China's sustainable development faces three challenges: first, the follow-up momentum of sustainable economic growth and economic transformation is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
of the business model as decisions enforced by the authority of the firm; this definition enables the analysis of business models through the analysis of individual firm choices. We situate negotiation outcomes within the strategy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
reducing tax revenues. Unable or unwilling to raise tax rates, cities cut public spending, especially in education, to meet a tighter budget constraint. While the fall in tax revenues was partly offset by higher debt, this strategy may,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
Harbour Group invested in Babcock & Wilcox, an energy and construction company. Blue Harbour developed an investment thesis around Babcock & Wilcox spinning off its non-nuclear, coal-based energy segments and focused on being a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne