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How to Design a Winning Business Model
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMost executives believe that competing through business models is critical for success, but few have come to grips with how best to do so. One common... -
Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality,... -
Radical Optionality
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe next era of competition is at hand. To succeed in an environment of high uncertainty, greater short-term pressure, and tighter resource constraints,... -
Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
What Is a Business Model?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleA history, from Drucker to Christensen. -
The Circular Business Model
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMore and more manufacturing companies are talking about what's often called the circular economy--in which businesses can create supply chains that recover... -
5 Critical Priorities for the U.S. Health Care System
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleA guide to making health care more accessible, affordable, and effective. -
Does Your Strategy Have a Spine?
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleHere's how to build one. -
Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor decades, the five-forces model of competition has dominated the thinking about strategy. But it describes competition among traditional "pipeline"... -
Competing in the Age of AI
Technology & Operations Magazine ArticleToday markets are being reshaped by a new kind of firm--one in which artificial intelligence runs the show. This cohort includes giants like Google, Facebook,... -
A Better Way to Think About Your Business Model
Business models Digital ArticleHow Nespresso used a simple business model canvas to change face of the coffee industry. -
Making "Freemium" Work
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleOver the past decade "freemium"--a combination of free and premium offerings--has become the dominant business model among internet start-ups and smartphone... -
Alibaba and the Future of Business
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleAlibaba is not a retailer in the traditional sense. It doesn't source or keep stock, and logistics services are carried out by third-party providers.... -
Is Your Idea a Winner?
Ask yourself these four questions to find out. -
Innovation as a Last Resort
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleManagers are often told they should be swinging for the fences, hoping for the next blockbuster product or business model. In fact, breakthrough innovation... -
Profiting from Open Source
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleHewlett-Packard is giving away its e-speak software. The product's general manager explains the rationale for the risky move. -
Rethinking Efficiency
Organizational Development Digital ArticleBusiness thinkers have long viewed the elimination of waste as management's holy grail. But what if the negative effects from the pursuit of efficiency... -
Making Life-Saving Medical Treatments More Affordable
Business models Digital ArticleA look at the challenges and some innovative solutions. -
Everyone Should Learn the Entrepreneurial Method
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleWhen I was a teenager, the older women in my family taught me to cook. I learned it was traditional not to add salt when cooking lentils, because it would...
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NonStop Yacht S.L.
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details NonStop Yacht S.L. is a Web site that provides e-commerce service to the mega-yacht industry. Originally, the founder had planned to run NonStop Yacht... -
Global Healthcare Exchange, Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Founded in March 2000 at the height of the dot-com bubble, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) was one of 90 online marketplaces in the health care industry.... -
Portillo's: How to Deliver?
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Creating Revenue Streams for VOSS
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In 2010, the recently appointed chief executive officer of VOSS Water (VOSS), a Norwegian luxury bottled water company, had been given an opportunity... -
Better World Books (in 2013): Social Entrepreneurship and the Triple Bottom Line
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Better World Books was founded as a for-profit "B corporation" committed to a triple bottom-line of financial, social, and environmental performance.... -
Novartis (B): Reimagining Medicine
Management Case Study5.00View Details This case unfolds around the first-ever approved personalized cancer treatment, how Novartis wrapped it into a new business model design, and how Novartis... -
Ferran Adrià and elBulli's Transformation, Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case tells the story of Chef Ferran Adrià and describes the transformation of elBulli, a renowned Michelin three-star restaurant located in Spain's... -
Best Buy after Circuit City (in 2011): What's Next?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Best Buy has survived the economic recession that took out competitor Circuit City only to find an increasingly competitive landscape. Their dominance... -
The Walt Disney Company: Theme Parks
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details As he seeks to place the division he leads on a firm footing for the future, Tom Staggs, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts, is considering a range... -
Flipkart vs. Amazon vs. Snapdeal: Winner-Take-All Battle in India
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This Case presents the Internet retail battle in India among the e-commerce giants Flipkart, Amazon, and Snapdeal. The domestic player Flipkart had been... -
Perfect Diary: The C-Beauty Poster Child
Management Case Study8.95View Details Perfect Diary is the first Chinese beauty brand based on a direct-to-consumer (DTC) business model. Launched by Yixian E-Commerce in 2017, it is designed... -
INGLOT: Conquering the World
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details INGLOT is among the few Polish companies to have succeeded in 'going global'. It is recognized in the professional cosmetics industry for its pioneering... -
Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc.
Leadership & Managing People Case Study6.95View Details As CEO of leading executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles for the past 18 months, Kevin Kelly was pleased with his accomplishments so far but concerned... -
EasyJet: The Web's Favorite Airline
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Stelios Haji-Ioannou, the 32-year-old CEO and founder of easyJet airlines, achieved profitability for the first time in 1999, almost four years after... -
Growth Challenges Facing The Insurtech Startup Lemonade
Management Case Study8.95View Details The case describes how Lemonade, a leading Insurtech startup, expanded its business with a unique AI-powered digital insurance model and a "giveback"... -
Best Buy Co., Inc.: Customer-Centricity, Spanish Version
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details With FY2005 sales of $27.3 billion, Richfield, Minn.-based Best Buy Co., Inc. was the leading retailer of consumer electronics, home-office products,... -
(180) Days of Quibi
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Mobile streaming app Quibi was ready to take the entertainment world by storm at its April 2020 launch. Backed by $1.75 billion, influential investors... -
JCDecaux, 2016: Global Leader ... Again
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details In 2016, JCDecaux was number one in the world in outdoor advertising. This was a far cry from the situation in 2003; at that time, JCDecaux had been unseated... -
Zipcar: Refining the Business Model, Japanese Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Zipcar is a start-up organized around the idea of "sharing" car usage via a membership organization. This case describes several iterations of the Zipcar... -
Phoenix: Facing the Disruptive Challenges of the Bike-Sharing Tide
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case mainly describes how Shanghai Phoenix Bicycle Co., Ltd. (abbreviation: Phoenix), with a history of over 100 years, was disrupted and changed...
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How to Design a Winning Business Model
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMost executives believe that competing through business models is critical for success, but few have come to grips with how best to do so. One common... -
Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality,... -
Radical Optionality
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe next era of competition is at hand. To succeed in an environment of high uncertainty, greater short-term pressure, and tighter resource constraints,... -
Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology
Disruptive innovation Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
What Is a Business Model?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleA history, from Drucker to Christensen. -
The Circular Business Model
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleMore and more manufacturing companies are talking about what's often called the circular economy--in which businesses can create supply chains that recover... -
5 Critical Priorities for the U.S. Health Care System
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleA guide to making health care more accessible, affordable, and effective. -
Does Your Strategy Have a Spine?
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleHere's how to build one. -
Pipelines, Platforms, and the New Rules of Strategy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor decades, the five-forces model of competition has dominated the thinking about strategy. But it describes competition among traditional "pipeline"...