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- 28 Dec 2016
- News
Retail price reality check
- 04 Dec 2010
- News
Gregg Steinhafel has faced up to many challenges as Target CEO
- 17 Sep 2021
- News
AI Can Help Address Inequity — If Companies Earn Users’ Trust
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
John Gourville and Alex MacKay (Image by John Ritter) Rising inflation and pandemic-related supply-chain challenges are driving up prices at the grocery store. While some manufacturers, like Procter & Gamble, have come forward to announce...
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
it's supposed to." Bower continues: "Theoretically, when an industry has excess capacity, prices fall and the least efficient producers can't survive." But, Bower adds, that doesn't always happen. "In many countries, for all sorts of...
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Garry Emmons
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
to name the building Madikizela, in honor of the late South African political activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, a symbol of Black female resilience.) The upper floors will contain well-appointed rentals, whose target market includes...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
October 14, experts warned that “voluntary” carbon reduction targets being set at COP26 are far from sufficient to meaningfully address climate change. Methane, which is 60 to 80 times worse than CO2, they said, isn’t even part of the...
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- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
and chips chain, figuring that if I could grow earnings of 50 percent compounded with a donut shop chain, just imagine what I could do with several other franchise businesses. Bad idea. It did not work and earnings stagnated. Stock price...
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- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
were the social cost of carbon. Which I think is probably a couple of times higher than that, but let's imagine that for argument's sake. That means those folks are kind of opting in to a carbon priced world where they're recognizing this...
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- 05 Dec 2016
- News
Scaling Up at Five Below
target audience, where Joel Anderson (MBA 1993) is CEO. A retailer of trendy goods where everything is (you guessed it) five dollars and below, Five Below was launched in 2002 and now has over 500 stores throughout the United States....
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
then it is most likely for very large companies that do their own benefits, are still on the mostly employer-paid benefits platform, and make enough money to feel able to add to their menu. Focus on a coterie of these targets to get...
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
How would you advise them? Leemore Dafny: What I’d say is something that holds true in most health care service markets in the United States: You should think about what market position you occupy, how it is differentiated from others’, and whether you are fulfilling...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Crisis and Creativity
fundamental decisions for any business: where to play, how to deliver, and how to win. Where to Play. Entrepreneurs must target downturn needs such as superior value relative to existing players or provide good substitutes for the...
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Bhaskar Chakravorti
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
things I learned at HBS is that when something is hard, you ask why. Looking at industry data, I saw a ton of untouched white space in targeted media, which was common in New York back in the 1800s. You had a newspaper for German New...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Downhill Re-Boot
softer “walking” boot that fits into a carbon-fiber chassis that in turn fits into a ski binding. “Our whole design concept is first and foremost to have a boot that’s comfortable,” Hanson told the Associated Press (September 5, 2009). “Comfort and warmth are important...
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- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
introducing other new products like the Scooba a robot mop that are targeted to solve more difficult household chores.” Clocky’s sales have begun to flatten by 2010, when the follow-up case, “Nanda Home,” takes place. Revenues in 2009...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
interests, and then reserve their spot. Hosts set the price of their meals, and Bookalokal earns a commission on each meal. Soon after launching the site, however, Bookalokal's market expanded. It turns out that local diners—especially...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
173, 2007) Go big or go home. Instead of competing against the “heavies” in a “land grab,” Ario should position itself as a target for acquisition or as a partner. The heavies and the IPO market value innovative tech and business models...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
Above: photo by Sarah Frankie Linder Vinyl is back. The once-anachronistic segment of the music industry was on target for its seventh straight year of double-digit growth in 2017, according to a Deloitte Global forecast, selling an...
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April White