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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
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMore and more manufacturing companies are talking about what's often called the circular economy--in which businesses can create supply chains that recover... -
5 Critical Priorities for the U.S. Health Care System
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleA guide to making health care more accessible, affordable, and effective. -
Does Your Strategy Have a Spine?
Strategy & Execution 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.... -
How to Identify Your Enemies Before They Destroy You (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThis is an enhanced edition of HBR article R0211J, originally published in November 2002. HBR OnPoint articles include the full-text HBR article, plus... -
The New Corporate Garage
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe innovation revolution spurred by venture capitalists decades ago has created the conditions in which scale enables big companies to shift from shackling... -
The Strategy Trap Successful Companies Fall Into
Strategy & Execution VideoExploit the present, but not at the expense of the future. -
Mumbai’s Models of Service Excellence
Business models Magazine ArticleWhat the city’s dabbawalas can teach your company about quality -
Why Innovation in Health Care Is So Hard
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleHealth care in the United States--and in most other developed countries--is ailing. Medical treatment has made astonishing advances, but the packaging... -
Do You Really Want to Be an eBay?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleLured by the success of marketplaces such as eBay, many companies have tried operating as multisided platforms, which let buyers and sellers transact...
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The National Hockey League (NHL)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case profiles the National Hockey League (NHL), the most prestigious professional hockey league in the world. It presents the league's history, highlighting... -
Bulb 2018: Hypergrowth
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details After a wild and volatile year, Bulb, a new entrant in the UK residential energy market, ended March 2018 with 329,171 properties, 1.2% of the total residential... -
Nehemiah Strategy: Bringing It to Boston (Multimedia Case)
Strategy & Execution Tool25.00View Details In 2003, Lee Stuart was working with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization to implement an affordable housing initiative in Boston. She and her colleagues... -
Live from the Met: Opera in the 21st Century (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details This two-part case looks at the issues related to the Metropolitan Opera's decision to start transmitting its productions in high definition (HD) to movie... -
ChoicePoint (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The CEO of ChoicePoint, a leading company in the rapidly growing U.S. personal data industry, must reexamine the company's business model after a serious... -
Canyon Ranch
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details How should Canyon Ranch leverage its uniqueness in the face of increasing competition and an entrenched customer definition of the firm? The firm is attempting... -
Drinkworks: Home Bar by Keurig
Sales & Marketing Case Study15.05View Details In the summer of 2018, Drinkworks CEO Nathaniel Davis needed to make a number of go-to-market decisions ahead of his company's upcoming product launch.... -
GPS & Vision Express (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In the summer of 1997, the executive team of GPS, a very successful French retailer in the one-hour photo finishing and one-hour eyewear business, is... -
HuStream Technologies Interactive Video
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details A management consulting team has been hired to advise HuStream Technologies on a new business model and target market. HuStream operates a service-based... -
Luckin Coffee (A): Caffeine-fueled Growth?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the founding of Chinese coffee chain Luckin Coffee in 2017 and its path to surpassing Starbucks as the largest coffee chain in China... -
Launching Egypt's First Digital Banking Platform: QNB Bebasata
Management Case Study8.95View Details The leadership team at QNB Alahli, Egypt's second biggest private bank, looked back on their efforts to create a brand-new, fully digital banking platform... -
The Imagination Machine: How to Spark New Ideas and Create Your Company's Future
35.00View Details A guide for mining the imagination to find powerful new ways to succeed. We need imagination now more than ever--to find new opportunities, rethink our... -
Argo Interactive (A): Surviving in the Roller-Coasting Mobile Industry
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This FocusCase is about a young VC-backed technology company in the UK, trying to turn around from a near-death crisis after their market did not pick... -
Top Cloud-Agri Technology Co., Ltd.: Digital Business Model
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Top Cloud-Agri Technology Co., Ltd. (TPYN) was a Chinese high-tech company serving the agricultural industry. By implementing a digital business model,... -
Formula One Motor Racing
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Documents the entrepreneurial efforts of a single individual to bring together car and engine manufacturers, local circuit owners and promoters, advertisers,... -
Riverview Law: Applying Business Sense to the Legal Market
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Riverview Law, run like a business rather than a traditional law firm, wants to expand its unconventional concept from the UK to the US. The firm's approach... -
Ajax Health: A New Model for Medical Technology Innovation
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case teaches key success factors for both startups and established medtech firms. It examines how to structure a firm to maximize financial returns.... -
Fishbowl: Scaling Up
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Fishbowl is a social media app that allows professionals to connect with other relevant professionals both within their company and across industry. Unlike... -
Revenue Management at Sparsh Nephrocare
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the challenges related to topline enhancement faced by Sparsh Nephrocare, a growing chain of dialysis centers in India. In the early...
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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
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMore and more manufacturing companies are talking about what's often called the circular economy--in which businesses can create supply chains that recover... -
5 Critical Priorities for the U.S. Health Care System
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleA guide to making health care more accessible, affordable, and effective. -
Does Your Strategy Have a Spine?
Strategy & Execution 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"...