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MAY 1, 2023

Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy forever changed how the world thinks about strategy. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth. But disruption, for all its power, is destructive—displacing jobs, companies, and even entire industries.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

MARCH 7, 2011

HBR’s Ten Must Reads on Strategy Various contributors Harvard Business Press (2011) How to create “a unique and valuable position” by deciding what to do…and not do This volume is one of several in a new series of anthologies of articles that initially appeared in the Harvard Business Review, in this instance from 1960 until [.].

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

For example, organizations can leverage a compelling value proposition to strengthen its profit and people propositions or build on a powerful people proposition to create a strong value proposition, which in turn strengthens the profit proposition, which makes imitation that much more difficult. Chan Kim Renee Mauborgne. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

From sitting at the kitchen table to waiting for a train, consumers have the power to browse, compare prices, and order from thousands of retailers competing for their attention. Cash registers were plentiful and easy to find, and success was measured with metrics like sales per square foot and average size of transaction.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2013

Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne , and it certainly sounds like what Apple has been up to. Apple still has an edge, in that it built that sea — "so powerful is blue ocean strategy," Chan and Mauborgne write, "that a blue ocean strategic move can create brand equity that lasts for decades."

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

Chan Kim , and Renee Mauborgne. The book details the five behaviors that help power innovation success (associational thinking, questioning, observing, networking, and experimenting), and provides a raft of practical tips to get better at innovation. One natural question is, "Who is next?" Jeffrey Dyer and Hal Gregersen.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2015

And so, he famously argued, in addition to the fierceness of price competition among industry rivals, the degree of competitiveness in an industry (that is, the degree to which players are free to set their own prices) depends on the bargaining power of buyers and of suppliers, as well as how threatening substitute products and new entrants are.

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