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- January 2005 (Revised December 2006)
- Background Note
Midway's Entry into Milwaukee: An Interactive Game
By: Dennis A. Yao
Provides background and instructions to the Airline Pricing Game courseware (9-705-802), an interactive simulation of a new entry by a lower cost airline. The courseware allows students to make round-by-round competitive pricing decisions and react to changing market...
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- February 2001 (Revised June 2001)
- Case
Competitive Dynamics in Home Video Games (B): Nintendo Power
Tells the story of Nintendo's revival of the home video game industry in the mid-1980s and its dominance of the market in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Strategic issues addressed include the creation of value by sparking dormant demand and the capture of value...
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Coughlan, Peter J. "Competitive Dynamics in Home Video Games (B): Nintendo Power." Harvard Business School Case 701-092, February 2001. (Revised June 2001.)
- February 2001 (Revised June 2001)
- Case
Competitive Dynamics in Home Video Games (A): The Age of Atari
Tells the story of the rise and fall of Atari Corp., the dominant player in arcade and home video games in the 1970s and early 1980s. During this period, Atari grew from a $500 initial investment into a $2 billion in revenues per year enterprise, becoming the fastest...
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Coughlan, Peter J., and Deborah Freier. "Competitive Dynamics in Home Video Games (A): The Age of Atari." Harvard Business School Case 701-091, February 2001. (Revised June 2001.)
- May 1999
- Case
African Communications Group (Condensed)
Describes the opportunities that confront the African Communications Group, an entrepreneurial organization that plans to introduce a wireless pay-phone system in Tanzania. Provides a foundation for the analysis of value creation and of value capture. The possibility...
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McGahan, Anita M. "African Communications Group (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 799-148, May 1999.
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
Working PapersTesting Strategy with Multiple Performance Measures Evidence from a Balanced Scorecard at Store24 Authors:Dennis Campbell, Srikant M. Datar, Susan L. Kulp, and V.G. Narayanan Abstract We analyze balanced scorecard data...
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Martha Lagace
- 1996
- Book
Strategic Operations: Competing through Capabilities
By: R. H. Hayes, G. P. Pisano and D. M. Upton
Hayes, R. H., G. P. Pisano, and D. M. Upton. Strategic Operations: Competing through Capabilities. New York: Free Press, 1996.
- 1993
- Book
Beyond Free Trade: Firms, Governments, and Global Competition
By: D. B. Yoffie
Yoffie, D. B., ed. Beyond Free Trade: Firms, Governments, and Global Competition. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1993.
- June 2018 (Revised January 2020)
- Teaching Note
Apple Inc. in 2018
By: David B. Yoffie
Teaching Note for HBS No. 718-439.
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- November 1990 (Revised June 1993)
- Background Note
The Economics of Product Variety
Examines the economic tradeoffs affecting a firm's decision to offer one or more versions of a product to a segmented market. Also presents some arguments for and against product variety.
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Dhebar, Anirudh S. "The Economics of Product Variety." Harvard Business School Background Note 191-099, November 1990. (Revised June 1993.)
- August 2003 (Revised July 2004)
- Case
Marketing at The Vanguard Group
By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Senior executives at Vanguard are evaluating their marketing strategy. In particular, they are looking at their approach to market segmentation, the organization of the marketing function, and the weight placed on marketing metrics in the corporate dashboard in light...
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Quelch, John A., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Marketing at The Vanguard Group." Harvard Business School Case 504-001, August 2003. (Revised July 2004.)
- Profile
Erika Sanchez
the kinds of opportunities they offer. Now I look at the way companies run and how they are aligned with my values.” For her summer internship, Erika will be working in Business Strategy for Danaher in Portland, Oregon. After graduation,...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
sell its products, Neurosmith decided it needed to reorient its strategy toward mass-market accounts in order to survive. “This isn’t a change you make overnight,” notes Abercrombie wryly. In addition to needing to design toys to hit much...
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- October 2023
- Case
To Fizzle Out or Heat Up? PepsiCo and Coca-Cola’s SodaStream and Costa Coffee Acquisitions
By: David Collis and Haisley Wert
U.S. beverage giants PepsiCo and Coca-Cola shared many similarities by August 2018—both were founded by pharmacists in the 1890s, grew to offer hundreds of drink brands, and championed rival flagship products that drove loyalists into taste-testing wars. That month,...
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Corporate Strategy;
Acquisition;
Diversification;
Expansion;
Brands and Branding;
Food and Beverage Industry
Collis, David, and Haisley Wert. "To Fizzle Out or Heat Up? PepsiCo and Coca-Cola’s SodaStream and Costa Coffee Acquisitions." Harvard Business School Case 724-394, October 2023.
- March 2017
- Supplement
eBay vs. Carl Icahn, 2014: Interview with John Donahoe, eBay CEO 2008-2015
By: David B. Yoffie, Eric Baldwin and Tom Ryder
This video, a supplement to HBS Case No. 717-417, features an interview with former eBay CEO John Donahoe, providing his perspective on eBay's response to activist investor Carl Icahn's attack on eBay, which began in January 2014. After giving some of his own...
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Activist Shareholder;
Activist Investors;
Technology;
Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Investment Activism;
Financial Services Industry;
Retail Industry;
Technology Industry
Yoffie, David B., Eric Baldwin, and Tom Ryder. "eBay vs. Carl Icahn, 2014: Interview with John Donahoe, eBay CEO 2008-2015." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 717-801, March 2017.
- June 2015 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
High Liner Foods, 2015
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2015, Canadian-based High Liner Foods Ltd was one of North America's largest frozen fish processors with extensive shares of both the food service and retail channels in Canada, the USA and Mexico. With over C$1 billion in revenues, the company had grown four fold...
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- February 2001 (Revised June 2001)
- Case
Competitive Dynamics in Home Video Games (C): The Sega Genesis
Describes the launch of Sega's 16-bit Genesis console in 1988 and its effect on competitor Nintendo. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
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Coughlan, Peter J. "Competitive Dynamics in Home Video Games (C): The Sega Genesis." Harvard Business School Case 701-093, February 2001. (Revised June 2001.)
- 11 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy
exposed me to so many fascinating, smart, kind, humble, incredible people with so many different diverse backgrounds.” It was also at HBS that Leahy learned she could utilize her skillset in strategy consulting to contribute to an iconic...
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Consumer Products / Retail
- 04 Dec 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Dynamics of Platform Competition: Exploring the Role of Installed Base, Platform Quality and Consumer Expectations
- 31 Aug 2007
- Working Paper Summaries