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• Teaching Note | HBS Case Collection | July 2020

  Hurtigruten: Sailing into Warm Water?

  Jan W. Rivkin

  Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 720-410.

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  Rivkin, Jan W. "Hurtigruten: Sailing into Warm Water?" Harvard Business School Teaching Note 721-360, July 2020.  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | January 2020

  Hurtigruten: Sailing into Warm Water?

  Jan W. Rivkin and Kerry Herman

  As this case opens in 2019, CEO Daniel Skjeldam and his team have successfully reinvigorated Hurtigruten, a storied but struggling Norwegian ferry and cruise operator, and have established it as the leading provider of polar expedition cruises. They now face a critical decision: should they expand beyond the polar regions and begin operating expedition cruises extensively in warm waters? The case introduces students to relative cost analysis; illustrates how a market can be structurally unattractive despite a current boom; and explores the logic of expanding from one segment of a market into other segments.

  Keywords: relative cost analysis; market attractiveness; Diversification; Decision Making; Expansion; Tourism Industry; Norway;

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  Rivkin, Jan W., and Kerry Herman. "Hurtigruten: Sailing into Warm Water?" Harvard Business School Case 720-410, January 2020.  View Details

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• Report | 2019

  A Recovery Squandered: The State of U.S. Competitiveness 2019

  Michael E. Porter, Jan Rivkin, Mihir Desai, Katherine M. Gehl, William R. Kerr and Manjari Raman

  In this report, the authors synthesize their views on U.S. competitiveness and unveil the findings of the 2019 HBS surveys on U.S. competitiveness. Specifically, this report—built on the survey findings and eight years of prior research on the competitiveness of the United States—highlights a disturbing pattern: despite a decade of steady economic growth since the Great Recession, America has done remarkably little to address underlying structural weaknesses in the country’s economy and society. The nation has squandered the recovery.

  Keywords: U.S. competitiveness; Competitive Strategy; Macroeconomics; Government and Politics; United States;

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  Porter, Michael E., Jan Rivkin, Mihir Desai, Katherine M. Gehl, William R. Kerr, and Manjari Raman. "A Recovery Squandered: The State of U.S. Competitiveness 2019." Report, U.S. Competitiveness Project, Harvard Business School, December 2019.  View Details

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