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- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
plus only if consumers accept them. As an example, he cites an instance when GM and Ford customers rejected upgrades in the rear suspensions of Camaros and Mustangs because aficionados liked the feel of their "ride" just the way...
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- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
a common misconception that people who buy niche products will have greater loyalty to them," Elberse says. "But I bet that the average viewer who likes to purchase classic black-and-white movies also tends to watch hits like...
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- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
But medicinal users are frequent customers so they do care about price. "They do not need to buy it at a fancy store—they'll go to a back alley basement shop as long as the product delivers." “I believe guys like Philip Morris...
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- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
sustainably differentiated the company from its competitors. For instance, the adoption of fleet management resulted in customer loyalty levels five times higher than under the dominant business model Hilti...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
of big money in the world of sports seems to have aggravated public disenchantment with many aspects of the professional game, from high ticket prices to athletes' personal behavior. That does not bode well long term for an industry that must attract and maintain View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
HBS in 1984. "My biggest priority has always been to ensure that my career and family life function harmoniously together," says Middlebrooks, who is now a controller for Chrysler's MOPAR Parts Division. "I love what I do at Chrysler and feel a very strong View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
product, Satya Nadella must decide how to attract customers to the cloud-based platform. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/613047-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-018 Messer Griesheim (A) (Abridged) The case explores the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
a novel customer rewards and loyalty app that has already gained commercial traction? Having nearly reached the end of Hatch’s runway, should he accept his partners’ offers to fund another Hatch vehicle, or...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
813-019 The case centers on the dilemma faced by Carlo Fontana, the owner-operator of a small chain of two four-star urban hotels located in Lugano, Switzerland, and the other in Milan, Italy. Having developed an extensive customer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
the fastest-growing competitive local exchange carrier in the world, adding 500,000 customers in 10 months, and the stock price tripled. Then we learned that 40 percent of our customers couldn’t pay their...
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Walt Disney Studios
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
often even high school graduates. To train them to work in their stores in things like stock shelving, putting goods on the shelves Or a Microsoft doing that with cognitive diversity individuals, for example, autistics Or more commonly, companies that develop View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
idea was to take the best thinking of the for-profit sector and customize it in ways that would actually make it useful for nonprofits,” recalls Bradach. “We really were in uncharted territory and learning as much as we were teaching,”...
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- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
"food deserts"-areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food. In pursuit of these initiatives, the company's rapid entry into a heterogeneous set of new markets necessitated a reexamination of its store format, target View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4
officer and leader of the design team charged with overseeing a major upgrade of the company's proprietary customer loyalty platform. Davide has kept tight control on the development process and has not...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
inventory problems and dire financial crises—and whatever the symptom, the root cause was usually that the company had lost touch with its customers. “It’s one of the main reasons the country continues to fall behind,” she says. Her job was to go in, determine what the...
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Health, Social Assistance
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
companies are converting the delivery of their offerings to the as-a-service model. The next disruption will focus less on the delivery model and more on the value delivered. Bernshteyn’s value-as-a-service model is the simple idea that measurable value delivered for...
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- 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8
extract maximum value from technologies such as point-of-sale scanners and customer loyalty cards. Highly readable and compelling, The New Science of Retailing is your playbook for turning all that data into...
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Martha Lagace
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Print View - Course Catalog
propositions that reflect and leverage the zeitgeist. Iconic brands are toppled everyday by young upstarts telling new types of stories in authentic ways. Firms are aggressively buying consumers’ brand loyalty at the same time they are...
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