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How to Fight a Price War
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticlePrice wars are a fact of life, whether we're talking about the fast-paced world of knowledge products, the marketing of Internet appliances, or the staid,... -
What Is Strategy?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleToday's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,... -
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
Blue Ocean Strategy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleDespite a long-term decline in the circus industry, Cirque du Soleil profitably increased revenue twenty-two-fold over the last 10 years by reinventing... -
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... -
The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy
Strategy & Execution HBR BestsellerIn 1979, a young associate professor at Harvard Business School published his first article for HBR, "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy." In the years... -
Strategic Management for Competitive Advantage
Strategic planning Magazine ArticleHow some large companies infuse their planning process with new entrepreneurial vigor, maintaining market leadership over the long haul. -
How 1% Performance Improvements Led to Olympic Gold
Career coaching InterviewAn interview with the former head of British Cycling. -
Creating Shared Value
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe capitalist system is under siege. Recently business has been criticized as a major cause of social, environmental, and economic problems. Companies... -
You Need an Innovation Strategy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleWhy is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to articulate an innovation... -
What's Your Data Strategy?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleAlthough the ability to manage torrents of data has become crucial to companies' success, most organizations remain badly behind the curve. More than... -
Strategy for Start-ups
Competitive strategy SpotlightFirst answer two questions; then explore four paths. -
A Better Way to Map Brand Strategy
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleCompanies may want to shift a brand's position--to exploit less crowded territory, for example, or grow sales. Companies have long used perceptual mapping... -
Competitive Advantage of Nations
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleA four-year, ten-nation study of the patterns of competitive success in leading countries concludes that companies achieve competitive advantage through... -
Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTraditional approaches to strategy assume that the world is relatively stable and predictable. But globalization, new technologies, and greater transparency... -
Customer Data: Designing for Transparency and Trust
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleWith the help of technology, companies today sweep up huge amounts of customer data. But they tend to be opaque about the information they collect and... -
How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMany factors determine the nature of competition, including not only rivals, but also the economics of particular industries, new entrants, the bargaining... -
Does Your Strategy Have a Spine?
Strategy Digital ArticleHere’s how to build one. -
Managing Your Innovation Portfolio
Innovation Magazine ArticlePeople throughout your organization are energetically pursuing the new. But does all that activity add up to a strategy? -
Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy
Strategy Magazine ArticleScale now trumps differentiation.
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Grupo Garantia (C) Lojas Americanas SA: The Retail Chain
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
MicroFridge: The Concept
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Robert Bennett, who has a Master's degree in engineering, wants to exploit his idea to combine a refrigerator, freezer, and 500-watt microwave into an... -
Grupo Garantia (D) Cervejaria Brahma SA: Beer Brewing and Marketing
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Deutsche Telekom 2020: Leading The Digital Transformation
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Tim Höttges was at the outset of his seventh year as CEO of Deutsche Telekom (DT) in 2020. The company served more than 184 million mobile customers and... -
Barco Projection Systems (A): Worldwide Niche Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Deals with the issue of niche marketing in a worldwide market. Barco Projection Systems makes video, data, and graphics projectors for the industrial... -
Iceland: Small fish in a global pond
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Describes the economic development of Iceland since 1945, focusing in particular on the years since 2000, when Iceland experienced strong growth and Icelandic... -
Cooper Industries' Corporate Strategy (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Brings students up to date regarding a recent decision by the chairman. -
Outotec (B): Action Plan
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Outotec was a market leader in providing mining solutions to large mining companies. The company's specialization and proprietary technology created value... -
Global Unichip Corporation (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplement for case 613048 -
Sea Limited: Sustain or Expand?
Management Case Study8.95View Details The case is about Sea Limited (NYSE: SE), once Southeast Asia's most valuable listed company with a market capitalisation of over USD231 billion in October... -
Autobytel.com
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Autobytel enjoys first-mover advantage in the Internet new car buying space. According to a number of metrics, it is the online leader in this category.... -
Marfrig's Quest for Sustainable Beef
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Marfrig, one of the world's leading meatpackers, strived to comply with its commitment to have a deforestation-free value chain in Brazil by 2030. The... -
Airborne Express
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In the wake of a highly successful quarter, senior managers of Airborne Express, the third largest player in the express mail industry, review the firm's... -
Grupo Garantia (E) GP Investimentos: The Private Investment Company
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation: Leading Transformational Change
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the transformation of the large independent oil and gas company, Anadarko. The company had fallen into bad times as a consequence... -
TCS: Agility at Scale-Managing Change
Management Case Study8.95View Details The head of Agile Initiative Network (AIN) at TCS, an India based multinational IT services-consulting-business solutions enterprise, has been mandated... -
Amazon, Google, and Apple: Smart Speakers and the Battle for the Connected Home
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Amazon, Google, and Apple all offer their own smart speaker. The devices represent each firm's entry point into the connected home market. All three companies... -
All-in On AI: How Smart Companies Win Big with Artificial Intelligence
35.00View Details A fascinating look at the trailblazing companies using artificial intelligence to create new competitive advantage, from the author of the business classic,... -
Oracle vs. PeopleSoft (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Focuses on the hotly contested takeover battle between software rivals Oracle and PeopleSoft in 2003 and 2004. Raises novel issues of takeover law under...
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How to Fight a Price War
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticlePrice wars are a fact of life, whether we're talking about the fast-paced world of knowledge products, the marketing of Internet appliances, or the staid,... -
What Is Strategy?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleToday's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,... -
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
Blue Ocean Strategy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleDespite a long-term decline in the circus industry, Cirque du Soleil profitably increased revenue twenty-two-fold over the last 10 years by reinventing... -
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... -
The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy
Strategy & Execution HBR BestsellerIn 1979, a young associate professor at Harvard Business School published his first article for HBR, "How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy." In the years... -
Strategic Management for Competitive Advantage
Strategic planning Magazine ArticleHow some large companies infuse their planning process with new entrepreneurial vigor, maintaining market leadership over the long haul. -
How 1% Performance Improvements Led to Olympic Gold
Career coaching InterviewAn interview with the former head of British Cycling. -
Creating Shared Value
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe capitalist system is under siege. Recently business has been criticized as a major cause of social, environmental, and economic problems. Companies... -
You Need an Innovation Strategy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleWhy is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to articulate an innovation...