Harvard Business Review
JUNE 17, 2016
They do so by building powerful growth engines. If you build a robust growth engine on a strong foundation, rather than seeking individual opportunities, you can be confident knowing that sustainable expansion will follow. Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. How do we add value in ways that others do not?
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 17, 2014
Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. Business models that can prosper at structurally lower price points are the engines that power true market disruption.
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Harvard Business Review
JUNE 19, 2015
As with the original Gold Rush of the 1840s, we believe two principal business models will emerge: Goldminers , who dig deep in one major area, and Bartenders , who offer customized and convenient options to address routine needs. The Bartender strategy represents a much more dramatic transformation.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 25, 2013
The business model changes. The marketing model changes. We looked at the three biggest segments — packaging, food waste, and apparel. Renault has a 230 million Euro remanufacturing business with engines and gear boxes. The remanufactured cars leave the factory with the same warranty as a new engine.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 22, 2012
But when the retailer took a more careful look, it found that its best opportunity was to get people to buy more in the categories they were already shopping (such as apparel or electronics or groceries). One is surrendering to the business cycle — under-investing in the down part and over-investing in the up part.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
Activists’ interventions are often described, favorably or not depending on your point of view, as slashing and burning, taking out cost, and engaging in financial engineering. These companies may do business in a dozen different sectors, but everything they do nonetheless fits together in a coherent way.
Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 20, 2011
The extreme weather seriously disrupted coal production , one of the most important economic engines in the country. On the use side of the water issue, companies with products that depend on water in production (beverages) or in use (shampoo, apparel) are also seeing the writing on the wall and getting creative.
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