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Sustaining Competitive Advantage: Competitive Strategy
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-679-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementIn "Value Creation & Capture", we discussed how firms gain competitive advantage and create value by making choices and trade-offs, allowing them to capture more value than rivals, and hence, generate greater profit. This note focuses on the internal analysis of a firm, concentrating on how a firm can combat imitation by utilizing its unique resources, capabilities, and core competencies. This resource-based approach emphasizes that the key to pr...Starting at €8.20
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Competitive dynamics: Competitive Strategy
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-680-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementThis technical note will discuss some of the main strategies firms employ in close competition with other firms and how game theory can be used to help shape a firm's competitive strategy.Starting at €8.20
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Competitive dynamics
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-680Innovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementEn la presente nota técnica se comentarán algunas de las principales estrategias que emplean las compañías con una gran rivalidad con otras empresas y cómo la teoría de juegos se puede utilizar para dar forma a la estrategia competitiva de las organizaciones.Starting at €8.20
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Buffer.com
Gallani, Susanna; Chang, Tiffany Y.; Hall, Brian J.; Shin, Jee EunCase HBS-917019-ELeadership and People ManagementSocial media company Buffer wanted to establish clear company values early in its growth. One of these values was a commitment to transparency in its company practices. Buffer openly shared its business strategies and fundraising decks, among lots of other information. Even when they were hacked, the company live-blogged updates to keep their users informed as the situation unfolded. Having internally released each employee's salary and equity de...Starting at €8.20
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GiveDirectly
Beshears, John; Schwartzstein, Joshua R.; Chang, Tiffany Y.; Hall, Brian J.Case HBS-918036-ELeadership and People ManagementHow should nonprofits design compensation systems to attract and retain talent? GiveDirectly is a respected charitable organization with an unconventional approach. Instead of spending on traditional aid programs in areas such as health care and food access in developing countries, GiveDirectly transfers cash directly to the poor. As experiments have shown this approach to be an effective and efficient way to improve recipients' life satisfaction...Starting at €8.20
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Value Creation and Capture: Competitive Strategy
Ly, Bryan S.; Vroom, GovertTechnical Note SMN-678-EInnovation and Change, Leadership and People ManagementThis note introduces the basic concepts of value creation and value capture, which are used as the building blocks for many other concepts, tools, and frameworks in Competitive Strategy. Defining these concepts allows us to think and talk more precisely about Competitive Strategy. They also allow us to make progress in our understanding of what strategies might actually work, and which are doomed to fail. In this note, we will also define some ot...Starting at €8.20
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Buffer.com (Spanish version)
Gallani, Susanna; Chang, Tiffany Y.; Hall, Brian J.; Shin, Jee EunCase HBS-919S01Leadership and People Managementcompañía de medios sociales Buffer quería establecer valores de la empresa claras al comienzo de su crecimiento. Uno de estos valores fue un compromiso de transparencia en sus prácticas de la compañía. Búfer compartida abiertamente sus estrategias de negocio y las cubiertas de recaudación de fondos, entre mucha otra información. Incluso cuando fueron cortados, las actualizaciones en vivo en blogs de la compañía para mantener a sus usuarios inform...Starting at €8.20
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Buffer.com (B)
Gallani, Susanna; Chang, Tiffany Y.; Hall, Brian J.; Shin, Jee EunCase HBS-917020-ELeadership and People ManagementBuffer decided to release its salaries and compensation calculation formula to the public, and the public reaction was greater and more positive than they would have imagined. The company experienced both an increase in volume and a change in the kinds of inbound applications they received. As the company continued to grow, Buffer's senior leaders continued to revise the compensation formula based on feedback both internally and from the public. ...Starting at €5.74
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Pravost Consulting Services
Wasynczuk, Andrew; Chang, Tiffany Y.Case HBS-918033-ELeadership and People ManagementPravost Consulting Services considers a division manager's response to the stringent demands of his boss who lambasts him for the division's weak performance. Six months earlier Jakub Kowalski, CEO of Pravost, promoted Viktor Novak to head up the faltering Pravost Consulting Services (PCS). For the most recent two quarters, however, PCS proved to be unfertile ground for Novak who failed to reach Kowalski's (or his own) goals for the division. Kow...Starting at €8.20
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P&G Canada: Old Company, New Tricks
Hall, Brian J.; Chang, Tiffany Y.; Hall, Theresa MorinCase HBS-916019-ELeadership and People ManagementP&G Canada faces ongoing global pressure to increase productivity and reduce spending. Thom Lachman, President of P&G Canada, is seemingly out of options that will make a large enough impact without harming the business, until the idea of a radical space reduction strikes him. The case follows Lachman, working closely with Country HR Manager Jane Lewis, from idea inception to the eve of the company-wide transition to a dramatically scaled-down an...Starting at €8.20