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How to Design a Winning Business Model
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMost executives believe that competing through business models is critical for success, but few have come to grips with how best to do so. One common... -
Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality,... -
Radical Optionality
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe next era of competition is at hand. To succeed in an environment of high uncertainty, greater short-term pressure, and tighter resource constraints,... -
Kodak's Downfall Wasn't About Technology
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
What Is a Business Model?
Business models Digital ArticleA history, from Drucker to Christensen. -
The Circular Business Model
Business models Magazine ArticlePick a strategy that fits your resources and capabilities. -
5 Critical Priorities for the U.S. Health Care System
Business models Digital ArticleA guide to making health care more accessible, affordable, and effective. -
Does Your Strategy Have a Spine?
Strategy Digital ArticleHere’s how to build one. -
Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor decades, the five-forces model of competition has dominated the thinking about strategy. But it describes competition among traditional "pipeline"... -
Competing in the Age of AI
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleToday markets are being reshaped by a new kind of firm--one in which artificial intelligence runs the show. This cohort includes giants like Google, Facebook,... -
A Better Way to Think About Your Business Model
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleHow Nespresso used a simple business model canvas to change face of the coffee industry. -
Making "Freemium" Work
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleOver the past decade "freemium"--a combination of free and premium offerings--has become the dominant business model among internet start-ups and smartphone... -
Alibaba and the Future of Business
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleAlibaba is not a retailer in the traditional sense. It doesn't source or keep stock, and logistics services are carried out by third-party providers.... -
The Internet of "Stuff Your Mom Won't Do for You Anymore"
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleWhy a dry-cleaning app will never make money. -
Have NBC and Fox Forgotten Enough to Disrupt?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleMy last post argued that disruption in online video was likely to come from someone outside the industry. Yet, consummate industry insiders NBC Universal... -
Strategies to Fight Low-Cost Rivals
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleCompanies find it challenging and yet strangely reassuring to take on opponents whose strategies, strengths, and weaknesses resemble their own. Their... -
Learning to Play in the New "Share Economy"
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleAn established rental car company acquires a car-sharing start-up and must decide whether to fully integrate it, to leave it as an independent unit, or... -
How I Knew AOL Time Warner Was Doomed (No, Really!)
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIn 2000, a couple of days after the AOL/Time Warner merger, I was scheduled to guest-lecture in a Rotman School class on the "New Economy." In the class,... -
The Dual-Purpose Playbook
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleCorporations are being pushed to dial down their single-minded pursuit of financial gain and pay closer attention to their impact on employees, customers,...
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Diversifying P&G's Supplier Base (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details In February 2003, P&G hosted two meetings-one with its largest woman- and minority-owned suppliers and one with its largest non-minority-owned suppliers.... -
citizenM: Radical innovation in the hotel industry
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2008, a group of five entrepreneurs and executives teamed up to launch an innovative hotel chain into what seemed like a highly competitive industry.... -
Global Healthcare Exchange
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Founded in March 2000 at the height of the dot-com bubble, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) was one of 90 online marketplaces in the health care industry.... -
Chengwei Ventures and the hdt Investment
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Bo Feng, cofounder and principal in Chengwei Ventures, one of the first sovereign venture capital firms in China, is trying to decide on the proper business... -
Uber in Hong Kong: A Regulator's Dilemma
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In Hong Kong as elsewhere in the world, Uber operates in a grey area. Thousands of passengers are using Uber service in the crowded city on a regular... -
Neechie Gear: Pivoting in an Aboriginal Start-up
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details A young Aboriginal entrepreneur faces three major challenges to growing his lifestyle apparel business. First, he has been unable to find a trusted partner... -
The Market Power of Platform-Mediated Networks
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details This note provides criteria to evaluate the power of a platform-mediated network. For a company considering building such a network or an investor considering... -
Equitas Microfinance (C): Advent of Regulation
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement for case 510104 -
Etihad Airways: Rethinking Internationalization and Growth
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case presents a situation faced by Tony Douglas, CEO of Etihad Airways, a government-owned, full-service airline. It is February 6, 2020, and Douglas... -
Kuoni: Missing the Digital Boat - The Downfall of an Icon in the Travel Industry
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This case illustrates the challenges for a non-digital player adjusting to digital disruption in the travel and tourism industry. The rise and fall of... -
E-Business Transformation in the Banking Industry: The Case of Citibank
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Citibank reshaped considerably its e-business program after the financial crisis of 2008 focusing on leveraging its geographical reach, rolling out global... -
What Business is Rivian In?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details By May 2020, Rivian Automotive (Rivian), a new electric vehicle (EV) battery manufacturer in the United States, had become a darling of the new battery... -
Medicines Co.
Sales & Marketing Case Study6.95View Details It is early 2001 and the Medicines Co. just received FDA approval to market Angiomax, a blood thinner to be used during angioplasties and heart procedures.... -
Commercial Space Stations, Chickens and Eggs, and Demand for Activity in Low-Earth Orbit
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details With the International Space Station set to retire in January 2031, NASA has made clear its desire to transition to commercially-led space stations in... -
Icelandair (C): WOW Now?
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Case Supplement for Case IES782 -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing in a Downturn, Expanded Edition (with bonus article "Preparing Your Business for a Post-Pandemic World' by Carsten Lund Pedersen and Thomas Ritter)
24.95View Details How do the most resilient companies survive--and even thrive--during a slowdown? If you read nothing else on surviving a tough economy and coming back... -
Beverly Edgehill at The Partnership, Inc.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
Electronic Arts in Online Gaming
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Electronic Arts (EA), the world's largest independent video-game publisher, must decide whether to support Microsoft's initiatives in online gaming. Historically,... -
Disruptive Change at Bossard with SmartFactoryLogistics.com?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case describes how Bossard Group, a Swiss family company, originally active in reselling of fastening products, achieved an effective digital transformation... -
Lemonade: Disrupting Insurance with Instant Everything, Killer Prices, and a Big Heart
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Launching its first products in the fall of 2016 in New York, insurtech startup Lemonade was on a mission to disrupt the insurance market by using AI...
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How to Design a Winning Business Model
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMost executives believe that competing through business models is critical for success, but few have come to grips with how best to do so. One common... -
Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality,... -
Radical Optionality
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe next era of competition is at hand. To succeed in an environment of high uncertainty, greater short-term pressure, and tighter resource constraints,... -
Kodak's Downfall Wasn't About Technology
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
What Is a Business Model?
Business models Digital ArticleA history, from Drucker to Christensen. -
The Circular Business Model
Business models Magazine ArticlePick a strategy that fits your resources and capabilities. -
5 Critical Priorities for the U.S. Health Care System
Business models Digital ArticleA guide to making health care more accessible, affordable, and effective. -
Does Your Strategy Have a Spine?
Strategy Digital ArticleHere’s how to build one. -
Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor decades, the five-forces model of competition has dominated the thinking about strategy. But it describes competition among traditional "pipeline"...