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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
rail," Le Roy Moore observes. "I often think about Professor Bharat Anand's strategy course. He was always talking about how competitive advantage is at the crux of a company's strategy but only works if the entire organization is aligned around it. UP is View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI
ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100...
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April White
- 07 Dec 2022
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Putting Patients First
DaVita, which is focused on kidney care, differentiates itself, Rodriguez notes that his company's solution is a salve for a fragmented health care market. "Our patient population is unique enough that we can take care of the entire...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dare to be Different
to do something extraordinary and every other brand in the market simply emulates it, those other brands lose, the marketplace loses, consumers lose, and you end up destroying value for everyone. So differentiation is not a formula....
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Deal on Wheels
so high, sellers typically make a few thousand dollars even after CarLotz takes its cut. “Once we realized that serving people—not selling cars—is the business we’re in, that established a basis for rooting all our decisions in creating a View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
activities. I still view work as an arena where I can thrive and grow, but in 25 years I've gone from being a rookie on the team to being a star player, and now I'm really making the transition to coach." Joe O'Donnell concurs. "I love this business. For me, it's...
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Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A Modern-Day Classic
effects on the differentiation and integration needed to achieve the organization’s optimum structure. “If you look at modern-day issues, these foundational ideas have a tremendous longevity that is very powerful,” Gulati notes....
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
HBX: Expanding Our Reach
intended to enhance rather than compete with or substitute for current offerings. Finally, the platform will be built on a robust and self-sustaining economic model. “We are committed to leveraging technology to develop highly View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
A SEMINAL WORK: Lorsch and Lawrence, together again. A celebration of the past and a look to the future were all part of the program at an evening last December with HBS professor emeritus Paul Lawrence and professor Jay Lorsch, authors of Organization and Environment:...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
crucial. This is what will differentiate Harvard from its peers in the future." Joseph J. O'Donnell (AB 1967, MBA 1971), Member, Harvard Corporation Integration with the University
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Lighting the Way
to believe that all things are possible and that your assets can be key differentiators in a sea of overachievers,” she says. “Determine what anchors you and leverage what sets you apart, and then go boldly into your future with...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Books
organizational performance is substantial and quantifiable. An effective business culture can account for up to half of the performance differential between organizations in the same business. Drawing on field research and case studies,...
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Utilities
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
planet." "There are certain images that come up with five-star service that I just don't like: telephones, swimming pools, valet service," Evanson says from his 500-acre island. "It's a way of differentiating our product, which is...
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
that of Kentucky’s established breeding farms, some of which managed over forty stallions. Clay adopted a boutique approach to guarantee personal service for both the owners and their horses, and serve as a point of differentiation to...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
would you do if Ford said, “Boy, we could take the car as is, but the cockpit would be very different if we conceive of it as a job.” Imagine the differentiation that it would bring to Ford. It is not just a compact anymore. + ONLINE...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
hiring to anyone currently driving for the competition. To clinch the deal, he appealed to his countrymen’s sense of national pride in supporting an Indonesian company. The video was not widely well received, but the overall approach could be a strong View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
their wristwatches. “Randal’s energetic ease in his own skin, his masterful storytelling, and his ability to recall everyone’s name also electrified and mystified the crowd,” said Scott Spencer (MBA ’09). “That ability to connect with people often View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
New Releases
mountaineer Yvon Chouinard, the company differentiates its clothing along environmental lines, using expensive organic cotton and polyester made from recycled bottles. Patagonia's margins shrank, but sales to its high-end retail clientele...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Do Good: Eat Chocolate
also differentiated by percentage of cacao solids, from 50 percent to 70 percent. In her HBS application essays, Endline wrote of wanting to start a business but instead went to Yahoo! as a product manager after graduating. “The company...
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Julia Hanna;
candy;
chocolate;
Crop Production;
Agriculture;
Food Manufacturing;
Manufacturing
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
differentiator he sees for space startups: the ability to generate income while they wait—possibly for many years—for the technology and capital to catch up to their ambitions. Planetary Resources’ Arkyd line of spacecraft, a sort of...
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Robert S. Benchley