Dropbox: “It Just Works” (HBS 9-811-065) Kunal Sharma Advanced Entrepreneurship March 11, 2013 100410018 Word Count: 854 Question 1 a) The reason that Dropbox is such a universal concept is because anyone in the world can be a buyer of Dropbox. It can be an individual trying to save and access their pictures on different platforms or it can be a multinational firm who uses the product as a “file collaboration” software within the firm. “The idea is to get people using it inside companies
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The Power of Virtual Integration: An Interview with Dell Computer’s Michael Dell by Joan Magretta Harvard Business Review Reprint 98208 The Power of V i r t ua l I n t e g r at i o n : A n I n t e rv i e w w i t h D e l l C o m p u t e r’ s Michael Dell b y J oa n M ag r e t ta H ow do you create a $12 billion company in just 1 3 years? Michael Dell began in 1984 with a simple business insight: he could by- pass the dealer channel through which personal computers were
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| | Assignment: Enterprise IT at Cisco Case Write-Up | Summary: Enterprise IT at Cisco Systems is an interesting case that demonstrates what happens when a company’s IT infrastructure is decentralized. In the case of Cisco, the word decentralized was demonstrated in how the individual departments conducted business in their own ways and not in conjunction with other business functions. At one point, this approach was encouraged as it was believed to allow departments, and the people running
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report’s findings. The committee would also like the oral presentation to include a PowerPoint presentation. Mr. MacCloud’s questions are number 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6 as noted on the attached case study from Harvard Business School. RESEARCH Please use the information presented in the attached case study from Harvard Business School. Make sure to use these facts to support all relevant aspects of your proposal. You may conduct independent research. If you conduct independent research, however, please
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"Aligning Incentives in Supply Chains." Harvard Business Review 82, no. 11 (November 2004). Kraiselburd, Santiago, V.G. Narayanan, and Ananth Raman. "Contracting in a Supply Chain with Stochastic Demand and Substitute Products." Production and Operations Management Journal 13, no. 1 (spring 2004). Narayanan, V.G. "Activity Based Pricing in a Monopoly." Journal of Accounting Research 41, no. 3 (June 2003): 473:502. Narayanan, V.G., and Lisa Brem. "Case Study: Customer Profitability and Customer
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boundary objects in NPD”, Organization Science, Vol. 13 No. 4, pp. 442-55. Chesbrough, H.W. (2003), Open Innovation: The New Imperative for Creating and Profiting from Technology, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA. Christensen, C. (1997), The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Harvard Business School Press, Boston, MA. Cooper, R.G. and Kleinschmidt, E.J. (1994), “Determinants of timeliness in product development”, Journal of Product Innovation Management
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Sports Company and Vietnam MK755A, Case Analysis October 20, 2010 Case Analysis OVERALL RECOMMENDATION Based on the market, the Sports Company’s capabilities and the competitive landscape, it is feasible for the Sports Company to enter the Vietnam market within the next three years via a joint venture with a local distributor. They should target their sneakers to the youth market, ages 21 and younger. EXPLANATION The reasons why the Sports Company should enter the market in Vietnam can
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How to Write a Great Business Plan by William A. Sahlman Harvard Business Review Reprint 97409 Which information belongs – and which doesn’t – may surprise you. How to Write a Great by William A. Sahlman Few areas of business attract as much attention as new ventures, and few aspects of new-venture creation attract as much attention as the business plan. Countless books and articles in the popular press dissect the topic. A growing number of annual business-plan contests are springing
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1. Herzberg, F. (1987). One more time: How do you motivate employees?. Harvard Business Review, 65(5), 109-120. http://search.ebscohost.com.suscorp.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=8700007903&site=ehost-live&scope=site 2. Livingston, J. S. (1988). Pygmalion in Management. Harvard Business Review, 66(5), 121-130. http://search.ebscohost.com.suscorp.idm.oclc.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=bth&AN=4403683&site=ehost-live&scope=site 3. Wellins
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9-708-497 REV: JULY 6, 2011 DAVID COLLIS JAN W. RIVKIN Strategic Decline Great strategies can, on occasion, produce exceptional performance that lasts for many years. We have seen several examples of companies that held to essentially the same strategy over a long period of time and continued to outperform the competition. Wal-Mart had 99 quarters of EPS growth, much of it greater than 20% per annum, until a slowdown in the 1990s. Edward Jones has pursued the same strategy since the early
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