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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
competing stakeholder demands, keep the business running, and ultimately paid back every dollar it owed to its creditors by selling the company’s core assets—its travel plazas—to its main competitor in 2010. Since that time, the company... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
ASOS was large by online standards, traditional fashion retailers were building their own online sales capabilities, and Amazon was expanding its apparel offering. Meanwhile, new online competitors were emerging at a rapid rate. After... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
following increased service quality (price) competition only when the incumbent offers high (low) quality service relative to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
G. GoldbergHarvard Business School Case 310-086 Oracle's proposed acquisition of Sun was on a fast track until the EC's antitrust concerns about open-source MySQL ignited a transatlantic war of words delaying the deal. Sun's performance suffered and its customers were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
orientation, and ability to execute. Irene is a competitor through and through, but that's not what I admire most in her. She is a warm and thoughtful leader who exhibits extraordinary integrity, humanity, and humor every step of the way.... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
by smart competitors and changes in their industries. In each case, there were opportunities to act before a crisis engulfed the organization. At Kodak, for example, CEO George Fisher attempted to move the company into the digital era in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 30 Sep 2016
- News
Competing Against Luck
think my way through. What causes customers to decide to buy or not buy my product is-- what is their job, and can I deliver on that job better than the competitors because I understand the experiences we need to provide, and how I need... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
venture capital for the first time. She has spent the last six long years building Sittercity into the nation's leading babysitting web service, larger than all of its competitors combined. In the process, she brought her boyfriend and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
you can have hundreds of competitors within the first hours of going live. Ideas are not important in China—execution is.” Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718426-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-030... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
increasing profitability by immersing themselves in the lives of their customers. This book shows how resilient organizations cut through internal barriers that impede action, build bridges between warring divisions, and transform former View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
who their competitors are around the world, which is a reflection of their own ambitions.” Growing Internet usage and changing social behavior have also created opportunities. WestBridge has invested in Travelguru, an online travel portal... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
Marketing (forthcoming) Abstract What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts of interest? In recent decades, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7
possibility of reversing the launch sequence and going with a "Brazos First" strategy. The case describes the microprocessor industry, its main competitors (AMD and Intel), and the evolving world of PC selling and buying. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
commissioned independent investigations to understand exactly how things had gone so wrong. They interviewed employees, partners, donors, and competitors to tease apart what was working, what wasn’t, and what the NGO’s future should look... View Details
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tastes. They co-create the meaning of the brands that shape their lives and play a participatory role in brand management that can make them allies or adversaries. The contemporary brandscape is crowded with new competitors vying to stake... View Details