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- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
host of factors. Intermediary relationships, institutional commitments, legal restrictions, entrenched customer behavior, and competitive practices often limit the type and extent of changes that a firm can realistically make. 2. Within... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
global by applying innovative growth strategies at home. Rule 2: Always bring something new to market. Without an element of novelty, it will be difficult for retailers to overtake entrenched rivals. Rule 3: Differentiation is more... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
Jamshedpur. Metro Cash & Carry's primary business filled voids in the food supply chains in emerging markets, reducing waste and bringing more transactions into the tax net, although this argument could not overcome entrenched... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
women candidates. This decline is most pronounced in states with entrenched gender bias and in male-headed parties, suggesting an intensification of barriers against women in these areas. Similar results for (mostly male) Muslim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
revenue from a hundred million when you joined up to 800 million now. 98 percent of that is advertising. That’s pretty incredible first of all. But I imagine—you know how things are: Getting people to try new things and change behavior, especially when they are View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
institutions are in flux. Many of the large German firms have huge legacy costs and entrenched corporate cultures that must change. Remembering August Thyssen reminds people just how entrepreneurial corporate Germany once was. I think... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
these actors to change established practices and entrenched behaviors within a short timeframe to help Unilever meet its sustainability targets and also to improve the operations of its partners in the value chain? By encouraging... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
entrenched player: Amazon vs. Barnes & Noble, Uber vs. the taxi industry, and so on. “Our cases were necessarily snapshots,” he emphasizes, “but we knew we really needed to be in the moving-picture business. Change, change, change. We had... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
success is not only possible but may offer entrenched companies better odds than venture-capital backed startups. This actionable and proven framework explains how managers can become successful corporate innovators, and offers tools to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
grassroots community organizations; the increasing tendency of businesses, large and small, to identify the inner city as an untapped market; a drop in urban crime rates; and the "unshackling" of inner cities from the entrenched and... View Details
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Overview In a VUCA world (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous), far more value is created by companies like Amazon, Meta, and Alphabet that develop entirely novel business models than by entrenched incumbents, such as P&G or Ford,... View Details