Strategy Driven
APRIL 10, 2019
For example, if you run an agricultural business and your customers are interested in purchasing wetting agent chemicals, private label products allow you to focus your efforts on marketing while ensuring your customers receive top-quality goods from a more specialized manufacturer. Establish a Unique Brand.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 28, 2012
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have created a system of electronic noses that can smell explosives or other chemical substances. With modifications, this technology could identify perfumes worn by shoppers and send related ads and discount offers to video screens in elevators or corridors.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 27, 2014
In our opinion, which of the two is the more successful depends on the context in which the business operates. Given the still-prevailing “conglomerate discount” Western firms are subject to (i.e., Quite a respectable performance for a company operating in a fairly mature industry. Quite to the contrary. Consider PPG Industries.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 28, 2014
Why shop there for tools or appliances rather than at Home Depot, Harbor Freight Tools, Kam Appliances, or some other big-box, discount, or specialty store? At the hoary age of 128, it had already beat the odds twice over when it lost its place to chemical maker LyondellBasell at close of trading this year on September 4 th.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 11, 2013
But my youngest uncle worked behind the scenes to make sure that his sons, Fred, Roy, and Bill, were given executive positions in the operating units despite their obvious shortcomings. Fred, Roy, and Bill never rose as high in the company as Ricky, who is now the chief operating officer. As for me, I''m happily uninvolved!
Strategy Driven
SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
The logic of NPV is to project cash flows into the future and then discount those flows back into today’s dollars at a given cost of capital. Companies that will eventually be wrecked by others’ innovations are operating on autopilot. Many conventional metrics we use to estimate value are based on faulty assumptions.
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