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- 01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
who are no strangers to violent protests, mocked the ruckus with the Twitter hashtag #angrybird in reference to violence meted out by drivers from the dominant taxi company, Blue Bird. The company apologized and atoned with free trips...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Private Equity under Investigation
Medina flagged a half-century ago seem destined to be repeated. Far from being a static industry with ossified giants, private equity features brutal competition and enormous dynamism. Groups that were dominant just a few years ago, such...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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The Hard Way
Russo at home in her Brisbane apartment. She credits her domineering Sicilian father with teaching her the street smarts to succeed in business. PHOTO BY PATRICK HAMILTON /NEWSPIX/NEWS LTD. Every successful entrepreneur can look back and,...
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- 01 Jan 2004
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Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
question. Japan's reliance on industrial policy had already triggered a backlash in the United States with cries of unfair trade practices. With its emphasis on size and dominant market share, Mitsubishi Corporation may have topped the...
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- 01 Jan 2005
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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
a technical one." On April 1, 1993, he became the first CEO of IBM hired from outside company ranks. When Gerstner arrived, he found an organization that was, in some respects, a victim of its own success. Thanks to its longtime dominance...
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- 01 Dec 2007
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Lighten Up
established market channels. Many top-notch sales reps balked at taking on a new company that would compete with the brands they were used to selling. Similarly, many retail outlets weren’t interested in adding a new brand to their already crowded shelves and racks of...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail
government is the problem.” Thereafter, regulatory minimalism and a “market knows best” mindset took hold in Washington and on Wall Street and dominated decision-making for nearly three decades. Lawmakers not only weakened or dismantled...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story
industry wouldn’t survive because a certain retailer was dominating the market. She felt somewhat uplifted as she joined the conversation and learned that the time frame being discussed was the 1970s and that the retailer was Sears.
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
been living in an America-centric world in terms of business education and the conduct of business. The most important management practices were being developed at American companies. That’s changing. Although America will continue to be enormously important and a...
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
globalized, it’s been Americanized.” If you wanted to build a global brand or service, you had to dominate the U.S. market, he explained. That is rapidly changing with the rise of multinationals in China, India, and even Korea....
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- 01 Dec 1999
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The Way You See It
fueling the automobile has dominated world industrial development." Another described the car as "revolutionizing the role of transportation in everyday life and business. It made more of America accessible, resulting in the generation of...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
that idea with help from successful entrepreneurs in a variety of fields. What do you see for the future of the health care sector? Lately, I’ve become optimistic. It’s a big struggle to turn from an industry in which the suppliers are View Details
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April White
- 01 Jan 2007
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Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
Although 40 percent of WPP's business still comes from the United States—a reflection of the continuing dominance of this country's multinationals and financial services firms—Sorrell's frequent visits to what he calls "faster growing...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Rx for Too Big to Fail
taxpayers on the hook when things went bad. The upshot is that the nation’s largest financial institutions now live in a “heads I win, tails you lose” world of moral hazard. No wonder calls to end too big to fail have hit a fever pitch. At present, there are two View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Detroit’s auto dominance is just like the challenge Silicon Valley is facing to its innovation dominance. We can already see some of this, says Alex. London has become a global capital of fintech innovation, Estonia has become the go-to...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
mainstream, in a climate where fear and anger and frustration dominate the horizon.” Concluded Ross, “Negotiations are about what's achievable, not impossible. They are about identifying an objective that makes sense given the...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ron Shaich’s Café Society
myself as a quarterback. I try to figure out where the receiver will be before I release the ball. I knew we had a phenomenal opportunity to build a significant brand in Panera Bread, but years of experience also taught me how difficult it is to build a nationally...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Mary Callahan Erdoes
the case. In the U.S. service sector, which makes up two-thirds of our economy, inflation is still running at 3 percent. So while some manufacturing businesses are experiencing price deflation for the first time in the postwar era, the View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 2002
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Faculty Research Symposium
compensation used to consist of cash, in the form of salaries and bonuses, executive wealth today is dominated by stock-option holdings. This, in turn, has led to dramatic yearly swings in executive wealth, which are largely tied to huge...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
the orbit of Pluto by Voyager 1 in 1990. “Space may be our deeply-rooted passion, but we all have to temper that so we don’t make bad business decisions,” says Nagaraj. In other words, you need a business plan, not a Star Wars obsession. “Fifty years ago, space was...
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Robert S. Benchley