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- 15 Oct 2012
- News
There’s no quit in Michael Porter
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
that as one of the main differentiators for Ancestry.com, which has become the dominant player in the genealogy sector, with 3.6 million paying subscribers globally. (The next largest is MyHeritage, which claims one million paying...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead
As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We...
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- 01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim
greater overall lifetime value for Surround, aligned with Terry’s other objective. Partnerships can also shine a light on adjacent areas that might have product market fit with a few additional tweaks to the product, thereby driving...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Case Study: Testing the Waters
Illustration by Christina Spano Endurance training was nothing new to Lauren Picasso (MBA 2014), who’d raced through her younger years as a cross-country runner and swimmer. In 2017, when she was director of marketing at Jet.com and looking for a physical challenge,...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened by temporary road...
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Dan Morrell
- 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...
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- 01 Feb 1998
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New Releases
The Differentiated Network by Nitin Nohria and Sumantra Ghoshal (Jossey-Bass Publishers) The key to building an effective multinational corporation (MNC) is organizing its various parts as a differentiated...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Sep 2014
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Case Study: Declawing the Competition
cofounder and president, Deena Malkina (MBA 2008), offered this case study query to alumni: “KitNipBox is laser-focused on differentiating its brand by sourcing the most unique, high-quality products on the...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Case Study: Sweat the Technique
Ackerly (MBA 1976) Until the product has user traction and the resulting revenues, it is just a dream. Pursue the analog option aggressively and produce the compelling and differentiated value that was the...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Manufacturing: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech
must now be more cost competitive, in both domestic and foreign markets. Meanwhile, the explosion of digital technology has forced manufacturing to look at its competitive advantage not just in terms of cost competitiveness, but also in the way the sector defines View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
required course designed to develop students’ global and cultural intelligence. In the course, students tackle a real product or service challenge for a partner organization and complete an immersion in their partner’s city. Seoul was...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
has been 12.1 percent. Second, this remarkable return differential doesn’t reflect a more general differential in investment returns. During this same period, the equity markets in the United States...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
outlines—the “theory of jobs to be done”—and how that concept might play out in the auto industry. —Dan Morrell Your theory essentially reframes how managers think about their products or services—as a sort of job that the customer is...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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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 2004
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Protecting against the Erosion of Brand Value
and sell books.” What’s at work here is commoditization, a process that results in companies being unable to profitably differentiate their products and services. “The specter of commoditization sends chills...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
legal firms. Then I would consider the kind of bundled options one might find in “gold-plated” health care policies. —Kate Stohlman (MBA 1984) If customer results can differentiate your product(s) for the employer, your pricing should...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Magician Turns HBS Upside Down
thereby mitigates his chances of failure, makes the trick more impressive, and develops new techniques that can be applied to new tricks. This focus on simplification to offer a better product reminded me of Apple’s innovative process.”...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
she picked up customer expertise at P&G and later at Disney, where she ran the Consumer Products Division. As a VP at Bain & Company, she gained industry experience that she later applied as head of the Children’s Group at Stride Rite and...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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The Digital Deck
As a professor in the Strategy Unit, Bharat Anand has studied how media companies move a traditional product into the online space. Some have managed that transition well, he says, and others have not. In the early days, Anand observes,...
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Julia Hanna