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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
of 93 teams that competed in the 13th annual HBS Business Plan Contest. Final presentations were held in Burden Auditorium in late April. A number of competitors from years past (Endeca, Finale, New Leaders for New Schools, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
the Valley isn’t just facing more competitors, but competitors with truly unique ideas that are shaped by their distinct circumstances and distinct opportunities. Alex refers to these nascent entrepreneurial ecosystems—both in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
need something to sell in return. And one look at the trade deficit ($558 billion in 2011) clearly indicates we don’t have as much as our foreign competitors to sell in return. To make up the difference, we just borrow. Sure, with... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- News
A Taxing Question
repeal the tax law that allows corporations to defer paying taxes on their overseas income, thereby generating billions in much-needed revenue for the US Treasury. And they point to major competitors with tax policies resembling the US... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Kanter contends that vanguard companies deliver what their customers want better than their competitors do, thereby providing the financial success shareholders demand and the social conscience demanded by the new generation of managers.... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
matter if competitors know your strategy, says Senior Lecturer Frank Cespedes. The real question is, do your employees know your strategy? Research indicates that less than 50 percent of employees do. Companies that withhold strategy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
competitors in an industry often known for low wages and dismal environmental records. “We can be a catalyst of change,” says Yang, who is planning sustainability conferences and factory tours to share her company’s successful strategies.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
content to have reinvented gas retailing for the 2010s. “Yoshi” roughly translates as “keep moving” in Japanese, and as like-minded competitors hit the streets, the company is looking to the future. One opportunity is automation.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Greatest Competitor as Our Greatest Teacher by Ann Lee (MBA 1995) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Fully aware of China’s shortcomings, particularly in human rights, Lee details the policies and practices—in areas ranging from education and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
Amazon], for them to come up empty handed is a missed opportunity,” he says. And if you’re not on Amazon, odds are good that a competitor is. But brands are also wary of the site for the reasons Ford described, especially the fact that... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
competitor analysis, trend research, and leadership programs. Since then, the team has helped Granite Equity research individual company profiles, whether it’s for an acquisition or a vendor or a potential partner. The service also has... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
prize. In a community-based setting, you give up IP in exchange for complementary assets that create value for customers. Then there's the fear that my competitors will find out what I'm working on. Open companies have adopted a nuanced... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
teaching, and learning that helps the company keep pace with clients’ needs. “Unlike some competitors that provide back-office services,” he explains, “we don’t just sell software. Our cloud-based platform gives clients the advantage of a... View Details
- 12 Jul 2011
- News
Phone Fun
marketing costs down by targeting the teens and twenties age group and by focusing — unlike some competitors — mainly on selling mobile phones. Although Phones 4u offers a range of mobile communication and entertainment equipment,... 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
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
New Releases
continue to outperform equally service-conscious competitors year after year. But in The Service Profit Chain: How Leading Companies Link Profit and Growth to Loyalty, Satisfaction, and Value, HBS professors James Heskett, Earl Sasser,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
model that will predict how its competitors will react to changes in pricing. “I felt completely clueless,” he recalls in the case. The dynamics of the project team are equally demanding. Keller, who launched and ran a company in Cambodia... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
before, but its “product mix,” unlike IBM’s, changed in a single morning. Turning to teaching, is there a case of yours that’s a personal favorite? One of my favorites is the three-part Ryanair series. In Part A, it’s 1986, and Ryanair is set for launch as a View Details