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- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
a disadvantage. Strategic focus is not about narrow specialization, but the pursuit of excellence and deepening penetration in the chosen fields. At Fairview-University Children's Hospital (Minnesota), for example, a long-term commitment...
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- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
longer-term investments—makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive advantage. "Short termism" has been blamed for everything from the decline of the U.S. automobile industry to the low View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
Another option was to deepen penetration within Seattle by recruiting caregivers with less experience and by broadening the range of services caregivers could provide, e.g., driving children to appointments. Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
more importantly, the human problem, the lack of quality and the lack of assets. Q: It seems a hard case to make. As you described, in the current system the consumer has no power, no leverage, basically. A: The reason I'm sanguine about it is managed care went from...
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- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
biosimilar drugs, we analyze how market features and public policies predict entry, market prices, and penetration of biosimilars. We find significant heterogeneity across countries and drug classes in all of these outcomes. While we...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
an emerging market. The prescription of this chapter is to think about a more ambitious role for such markets: establish a strategic business unit, designated as a "disruptive innovation hub," that is charged with first View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809114 TOTO: The Bottom Line Harvard Business School Case 809-064 TOTO, the leading manufacturer of toilets in Japan, is struggling to penetrate the U.S. market with its premier...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
excitement and uncertainty of entrepreneurial life. The case also details the innovative marketing the company created to expand its customer base, the means it devised to cultivate and maintain customer loyalty, and the strategies it employed to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
you've done on firms' location decisions. Could businesses be doing a better job of that? MP: American businesses should be locating certain activities abroad because that makes them more competitive by enabling them to better penetrate...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
thrive-but would their deeper penetration into the market of disaster and emergency response (where contracts were smaller and peaks and troughs in demand larger) still be compatible with their business model? Purchase this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
David LaneHarvard Business School Case 810-075 Iqbal Quadir, a former New York investment banker, set about to bring universal telecommunications to his native Bangladesh. He was convinced that GSM, the same advanced wireless technology that View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
reviewing the company's marketing strategy for charge and credit cards in the United States. A variety of growth options exists for students to consider, including further penetration of existing markets and the opening of new markets....
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
"intersections" between both groups, i.e., instances that required combining both groups' resources. By 2008, however, JLL was facing challenges associated with harnessing the potential of this new structure. There was more growth that could be obtained from...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
School Case 316-093 Allianz Turkey: Focus on the Customer (A) At the age of 39, Solmaz Altın took over the helm at Allianz Turkey. Solmaz quickly realized that, although the insurance market was thinly penetrated in Turkey, the company...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
and become the clear technology leader or move ahead with its current offering and focus on getting new customers to penetrate the market as quickly as possible before competition intensified. Some in the company called for devoting the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
HamelHarvard Business School Case 113-054 On January 1, 2012, the LEGO Group announced a major new initiative to enhance its market penetration in Asia. Later in the year, a cross-functional group of senior managers gathered at company...
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Sean Silverthorne