1 TiVo 2007: DVRs and Beyond Harvard Business Case 9-708-401 INTRODUCTION & BACKGROUND The following provides a case study analysis of a 2007 Harvard Business School case study on TiVo‚ the Silicon Valley consumer electronics company best known for its innovative digital video recorders (DVRs) (Yoffie & Slind‚ 2007). The case concerns the challenges facing TiVo now that it is no longer the only competitor in the DVR market and TiVo’s efforts to craft a winning strategy in a changing environment
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Others‚ however‚ don’t do so well. What accounts for the difference? In this article‚ first published in 1985‚ Harvard Business School professor John J. Gabarro relates the findings of two sets of field studies he conducted‚ covering 14 management successions. The first set was a three-year study of four newly assigned division presidents; the second consisted of 10 historical case studies. The project comprised American and European organizations with sales varying from $1.2 million to $3 billion
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WorldCom Critical Thinking Case Study Not only did WorldCom’s organizational culture contributed to the accounting breaches‚ in my opinion it was the catalyst to its ultimate demise in July 2002. Richard Thornburgh stated that “WorldCom could not have failed as a result of the actions of a limited number of individuals. Rather‚ there was a broad breakdown of the system of internal controls‚ corporate governance and individual responsibility‚ all of which worked together to create a culture in
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Starbucks Harvard Business School Starbucks: Delivering Customer Service MKT 690: Marketing Management Mike DiPietro Spring 2015 Nevin Johnson Abstract The following diction is an analysis of the Harvard Business School study on Starbucks coffee‚ titled “Starbucks: Delivering Customer Service.” There are many factors accounted for Starbucks extraordinary success in the 1990s. Though Starbucks offered great coffee and a great experience their customer satisfaction scores declined. There are many
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Harvard Business Case Analysis How would you categorize Kearney’s commitment to the company? How might you change or maintain this commitment? Eugene Kearney is very committed to Old Colony Associates (OCA). Kearney is committed in that he has been with the company for 13 years‚ loves going to work every day and aspires to maintain a higher level management position. However‚ he clearly needs to make improvements to his current level of commitment to OCA. Kearney needs to realize that commitment
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STRATEGIC INFLECTION: TiVo in 2003 TiVo and Digital Video Recorder (DVR) Industry Since the first time of the new DVR (Digital Video Recorder) industry‚ TiVo was clearly the leader in this new field. The first commercial broadcast quality video recorder was released Betamax video system by Sony in 1975. Two years later‚ JVC released the competing standard VHS (Video Home System). JVC formed early alliances with Matshushita Electric which had a large global distribution network. As a result
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CEO Assignment #1 Bank Analysis - Decomposition of ROE FIN 420 – Bank Management Summary: Utilizing data contained within the Uniform Bank Performance Report (UBPR) of a local bank‚ decompose the company’s 12/31/11 financial performance as well as information for its peer group. Analyze the results. Available Banks: Bank of Holland Grand River Bank Mercantile Bank Macatawa Bank Format: Part #1 – Obtaining Information
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TiVo in 2005 Analysis Introduction: TiVo is a personal TV provider for DVR technology (Software/service and Hardware). Incorporated in 1997‚ TiVo created an interactive television system with the idea of recording digital video on a hard disk. TiVo gives an opportunity to consumers to select what they wanted and when they wanted‚ by recording‚ playing back‚ and pausing live television. It has managed to gain over 3M subscribers as of 31st Jan 2005 along with a brand name for itself. TiVo converged
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This case is a classic example of exciting high potential technical innovations losing to the general inertia in adoption‚ primarily due to weak marketing strategies. TiVo being the pioneer in DVRs‚ were and are poised to capture the entire Television industry. Their weakness in Strategy stems from an imbalance in resource distribution between R&D and Marketing. The theme inferred being‚ Venture into only those domains in which the organization has considerable expertise and strong management
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When I first started to think about writing a paper for this assignment my initial thought was‚ “just get your thoughts onto paper and you can rearrange for flow‚ spelling‚ grammar‚ etc. This shouldn’t be too difficult”. About an hour later I realized three things: (1) I had never truly completed a meaningful self-analysis‚ (2) This was going to take quite a bit longer than I intended‚ and (3) Just how important clearly and thoroughly completing a self-analysis & career outlook is. I continued
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