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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
and improved' attributes won't be valuable to customers forever. They should therefore be aware of how the basis of competition in their industries might be changing and preempt the commoditization of their products by finding creative...
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Judith Ross
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
What's striking about this stealth strategy is that Apple didn't affiliate the product with a specific alternative category. It simply suggested that it was not a PC—a strategy that not only disassociates the Mini from other low-priced, View Details
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by Youngme Moon
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
prescription for more commoditized products that can have little value-added and need to be produced in the countries with the lowest costs." Does Parker have something here? What's the downside to disruption in high tech? What do...
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
beneficial and regenerative, since grass-fed beef actually sequesters carbon. There’s the potential for a net-net positive benefit." Tanuj Deora MBA 2006 | Power Transfer “I'm addressing climate change by helping transform energy from a dirty, brittle, View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
differentiated product in a commoditized business, even if it’s becoming less so through competition. Some of the stuff we do is fun, and whimsical, so it makes good copy. The media reports on our tall beds for tall people, our “Guppy...
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- 20 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?
doesn't somehow commoditize users, like an elephant-sized beetle, needs a metabolic principle not found on this planet to survive. SG: If you want to become big, you can't charge people up front because they'll be reticent to join. You...
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- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
companies perform sales, marketing, and product definition work, while eastern companies in Asia like his perform the engineering and manufacturing work. Confronted with commoditization pressure, Wu is presented with the opportunity to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
growing, yet increasingly competitive Chinese market. Novozymes, a technological innovation pioneer, was prominent in China's premium enzyme markets but felt pressure from local low-cost rivals in volume-driven, commoditized segments. How...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
the business through personal relationships with clients. A passionate entrepreneur, his approach to growth-secure customers first, figure out how to make money later-was remarkably successful, if sometimes chaotic. Facing an increasingly View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
profitability of a vertically integrated monopoly. We then use our model to compare open and closed standards regimes, to understand how commoditization affects a cluster, to determine the relative profits of platform firms and firms that...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
foods, which had previously been colored with dyes extracted from natural plants and organic minerals, helping them to achieve mass production and mass marketing. Color was easier to control, reproduce, and commoditize than other sensory...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
of Your Organization Author:Ranjay Gulati Publication:Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming Abstract In an era of raging commoditization and eroding profit margins, survival depends on resilience: staying one step ahead of your...
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Martha Lagace