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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

connected to a VC Quiz yourself on the key steps of the financing process Practice interpreting the provisions on a term sheet 6-7 hrs Module 4 Scaling Post Product-Market Fit Articulate how the competitive context can influence early... View Details

25 Jul 2016
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Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

first identifying and beginning to remove barriers that block system effectiveness.” Because large corporations are made up of many subsystems—business units, global functions, regions, and operating units—across-the-board corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

27 Nov 2000
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The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

independent. "Firestone's historical excellence and disastrous response to global competition and technological innovation," writes Sull, "posed a paradox for industry observers: Why had the... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

February 2017
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Yemeksepeti: Growing and Expanding the Business Model through Data

By: William R. Kerr, Gamze Yucaoglu and Eren Kuzucu

In October 2016, Nevzat Aydin, co-founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti, the Turkish online food-ordering company, was looking over the company's quarterly results and projections for the upcoming year with his management team. It had been almost a year and a half since Aydin... View Details

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12 Feb 2021
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How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

cafeteria. My father’s request was breathtaking and anxiety-producing.” Over the next 35 years, Rosenberg would turn Dunkin’ Donuts into a global icon—which last year sold to Inspire Brands for a stunning $11.3 billion. And in this... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next

(self-reliance)—proof that Indians could make their own products, without the British. Today, Godrej has a more than $4 billion global market for its products, which range from security appliances to furniture, soaps, and real estate. A... View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

many managers overestimate the attractiveness of using IP to exert market power. Rather, the value of the various means to protect and benefit from IP depends on firm strategy, the competitive landscape, and the rapidly changing contours... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 May 2017
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Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

of customers and the volume of sales increase, the retailer gains a dominant position in the market. The goal gradually shifts from attracting more customers to increasing prices and margins in order to achieve higher profits. That subjects retailers to new View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

27 Oct 2002
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Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

Financial performance is the result of operating performance. Operating performance includes all the things that a company must do to win the competitive battle in its industry to attract, retain, and profitably serve customers. It varies... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

03 Jan 2011
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Most Popular Articles of 2010

to Tactics Drivers such as globalization, deregulation, and technological change are profoundly changing the competitive game. Scholars and practitioners agree that the fastest-growing firms in this new environment appear to have taken... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

field study of 78 audit and consulting teams from two global professional firms, revealing an irony of team life: even though motivated to perform well on a high-stakes project, pressured teams are more likely to engage in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

the global financial crisis began an awakening to the uneven consequences of this move. The rise of a more authoritarian regime in China and a competition narrative began a rethinking of this model. This was... View Details

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

behaviors you use most frequently in various contexts. Description of silent animated video above: Learner completes an interactive question by dragging and dropping choices into two different categories Get social by collaborating with a View Details

10 Sep 2020
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The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

[This is the fifth installment in a monthly series on management issues in the time of COVID-19.] We have asked approximately 600 CEOs to share with us the most pressing challenges that are keeping them awake at night in the midst of the View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

relationships with their competitors affect consumers' preferences. Through a series of experiments, we show that the competitive context in which a brand operates can affect consumers' purchase interest and purchase frequency. We show... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits

year to the second. The segment now has a dedicated trade association and big expectations to meet: Global Market Insights predicts the sector will reach $30 billion by 2025. Mariah Wood (left) and Vanessa Royle (Courtesy Tilden... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

23 May 2012
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Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

In a hypercompetitive global economy, creativity has never been more important for success . But how do you create a company that unleashes and capitalizes on innovation? For answers, writers at the HBS Alumni Bulletin turned to five HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

13 Oct 2009
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7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

lead during a crisis such as the global economic crisis of 2008-09. I found that many failed to follow seven universal lessons for leading in crisis. I believe the root cause of the recent financial crisis was leaders who practiced... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

trace the theory’s evolution from a technology-change framework—essentially descriptive and relatively limited in scope—to a more broadly explanatory causal theory of innovation and competitive response. This assessment reveals that our... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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