Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In a marketplace gone global, productive partnerships are more crucial than ever. Getting executives into a room and hammering out a contract doesn''t make a deal. The vendor with the best sunglasses at the lowest price didn''t get the lucrative partnership. There is no substitute for grass roots research. Don''t figure it out.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2012

In just the past few years, there has been a global boom in the wind and solar industries, with wind power's generating capacity expanding dramatically and companies competing to offer free solar panels to households. Declining energy prices would also help raise U.S. The clean-energy field is evolving rapidly.

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Energy Competitive Advantage Price Constraint 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 27, 2015

When Comcast rolls out a new “triple play” pricing scheme, is that a break­through? In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation. Balance: the mix of different types of innova­tion (product, service, pricing, distribution, operations, etc.);

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