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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
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleCompeting in overcrowded industries is no way to sustain high performance. The real opportunity is to create blue oceans of uncontested market space. -
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
Corporate social responsibility Magazine ArticleHow to reinvent capitalism—and unleash a wave of innovation and growth. -
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 & Execution 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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Leadership Online (B): Barnes & Noble vs. Amazon.com in 2005
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement. -
Enron: Entrepreneurial Energy
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Describes an entrepreneurial energy company that has attempted to capitalize on deregulation and privatization. Enron's experiences in energy markets... -
Zappos.com (A): Bring the Shoe Store to Your Home
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This is the first part of two-case series of Zappos's blue ocean strategic move as an innovative online shoe retailer. Part A focuses on how Zappos reconstructed... -
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... -
ANA (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details All Nippon Airways (ANA) became the largest airline in Japan in 2013. Having been designated as a domestic carrier by the Japanese government till the... -
Bridgeton Industries: Automotive Component & Fabrication Plant
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Bridgeton Industries was experiencing reduced sales. To become more competitive it introduced a classification procedure for products based upon their... -
Molycorp: Financing the Production of Rare Earth Minerals (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Molycorp, the western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth minerals, was in the middle of a $1 billion capital expenditure project in its effort to... -
The Innovator's Solution, with a New Foreword: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
Management Book35.00View Details The "New York Times" bestseller and seminal work on disruption--for every company seeking new growth. Clayton Christensen's bestselling book, "The Innovator's... -
Sizmek Chapter 11: Surviving Walled Gardens in Their Ad Tech Empire
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This case provides a post-mortem of the advertising technology (adtech) company Sizmek. Sizmek grew via multiple acquisitions, with the vision of becoming... -
Airbus vs. Boeing (J): New Plane Developments (2016)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details This case describes Airbus and Boeing developments in 2016, including Airbus's delivery of the first A320neo and Boeing's work on the 737 MAX and 777X... -
Zappos.com (B): Strategy Powered by Culture and People
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details The second part of Zappos case focuses on Zappos's people proposition, which led to high performance and raised barriers to imitation. It demonstrates... -
Boond: Dynamic Capability - Creating a BoP Energy Market
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Boond, a last-mile energy access company, was founded to serve the rural base of the pyramid market in India. The company operated in the two states of... -
Airbus vs. Boeing (B): The Storm Intensifies
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Discusses the growing competition faced by U.S. producers of civil aircraft due to the success and expanding product line of Airbus Industries. Designed... -
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... -
Galanz: From Price Killer to Consumer Brand Innovator
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Chinese Galanz was the world's largest microwave oven manufacturer in 2013. It had sales of 20 million microwave ovens, group revenues of RMB46 billion... -
Chrysanthemum and Dragon: JAFCO Asia in China
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In the autumn of 2002, JAFCO Asia, a subsidiary of JAFCO Co., Ltd., became the first foreign private equity firm to open an office in Beijing's Haidian... -
Trucost: Valuing Corporate Environmental Impacts
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Trucost provided corporate environmental performance data and analysis to institutional investors and corporate managers, but after operating for a decade... -
Pacific Drilling: The Preferred Offshore Driller
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Founded in 2006, Pacific Drilling was a fast-growing offshore drilling company. From the beginning, the company's chief executive officer was determined... -
Molycorp: Issuing the ''Happy Meal'' Securities (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Molycorp, the Western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth minerals, was in the middle of a $1 billion capital expansion in its effort to become a... -
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...
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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
Competitive strategy Magazine ArticleCompeting in overcrowded industries is no way to sustain high performance. The real opportunity is to create blue oceans of uncontested market space. -
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
Corporate social responsibility Magazine ArticleHow to reinvent capitalism—and unleash a wave of innovation and growth. -
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...