Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

In the hypercompetitive travel space, Kayak has gone head to head with well-established brands like Expedia and Priceline quite successfully. In a related article at Scientific American , Tim Folger says that future generations will make us seem like dimwits in comparison. Commenters at both sites are skeptical.

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Hypercompetition Comparison Travel Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2015

So although you might expect that in a hypercompetitive environment, ambitious companies would constantly wrest market share from the leading firms, the reality is quite the opposite. The proportion rose slowly and relatively steadily, reaching 5% by the mid-1990s. It then leapt suddenly to 14% by the 2005–2007 period.

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ROIC McKinsey GDP Company 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2012

Building on Logan's success, Renault has now developed an entire line of low-cost vehicles (under the brand Dacia) all modeled after Logan's technology platform. Since its launch in September 2011, DOST has garnered more than a third of India's hypercompetitive light commercial vehicles market. lakhs ($6,600).

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CEO Innovation Constraint Engineering 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

We had brand new equipment, much of it still in crates. Keeping a firms asset base up to date and flexible is an important way to ensure that “legacy” doesn’t turn into a liability in today’s hypercompetitive environment. But sometimes you just have to bite the bullet.

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Technology Depreciation Christensen Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. So find them, ask questions, and let them help you.

Airlines 8

Airlines Energy Self-aware Learning Curve 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Long before becoming CEO, in 2016, he was searching for new growth in the hypercompetitive travel reservations market, coming across a pair of small European startups with a business model opposite to Priceline’s in two key ways: Instead of taking an up-front 25% commission on a hotel reservation, the startups charged only 15% after check-out.

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Franchising CEO Business Model Strategy 14