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- 07 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Competition of Countries
advantages. Singapore and Japan offer great examples of successful development strategies. Neither country has any natural resources. Both started out extremely poor, but over thirty years put together strategies that successfully View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- Career Coach
Alan Neider
Alan’s also happy to help with interview prep, resume and cover letter reviews, and general career conversations and coaching. To schedule a session with Alan, please send him an email. Work Experience: City of Cleveland Mayor’s Office... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
and from other institutions with the goal of creating strategies to reignite America's economic future in the global economy. Porter is the Lawrence University Professor, and Rivkin the Rauner professor of business administration and head... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
The new book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive? argues that traditional store-front retailing is at an inflection point, under tremendous pressure from ecommerce and the changing wants and needs of a new View Details
Michael Ilitch
Ilitch built a small take-out pizza shop in Detroit into a 4,700 chain enterprise. At a time when take-out food was still a novelty, Ilitch catered to an increasingly mobile and convenience-oriented population. His strategy was based on... View Details
Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
earlier this year, Barack Obama appointed General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA ’79) to head the President’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. Historically, HBS and its alumni have played a key role in the country’s manufacturing and... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
value" of a customer. Customer growth strategies generally involve striving to expand the share of each customer's spending by expanding the company's range of products or services. This involves... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution In his new book, Seven Strategy Questions, Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration Robert Simons explains how managers can... View Details
- 04 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should You Outsource Your Marketing?
still need to meet regularly with customers. Companies need chief marketing officers to drive marketing strategy and make the most of the company's customer relationships. And companies still need flesh-and-blood employees to win and... View Details
Keywords: by Poping Lin
- Web
Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog
the collection of data. The spread of generative AI has enabled companies and governments to train models on this data with the potential to create replicas of professional intelligence. How will this explosion of modeled intelligence... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
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ISSUE FOCUS: EDUCATION INNOVATION Stacey Childress (MBA 2000) Deputy Director of Education, Next Generation Learning, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington Illustrations by Peter Hoey TAILORED TEACHING "One of our anchors... View Details
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Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise Q4 - Course Catalog
will and will not be effective in the various circumstances in which our students find themselves. We integrate a unique understanding of strategy formulation with practical solutions to the execution challenges faced by View Details
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
service-level strategy better than one that varies by market? There is something to be said for and against both approaches. While there are certainly cost benefits to service standardization (Buell cites McDonald's as an example), the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
Graduate School of Business faculty, cites evidence that “when leaders are generous at sharing credit, they actually are more trusted. It shows that they are fully confident.” HBS Professor Francesca Gino, in her recent book, reminds us... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- February 2015 (Revised March 2016)
- Case
China Shenhua Energy Company
By: Forest L. Reinhardt, G. A. Donovan and Keith Chi-ho Wong
A leading Chinese energy firm, active in coal mining and electric power generation, analyzes coal-to-liquids technology in light of energy security and environmental concerns. View Details
Keywords: Environment; China; CO2; Coal Mining; Electricity; Sustainability; Energy; Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; China; Asia
Reinhardt, Forest L., G. A. Donovan, and Keith Chi-ho Wong. "China Shenhua Energy Company." Harvard Business School Case 715-026, February 2015. (Revised March 2016.)
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
a dealer's back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world's largest automaker, a... View Details
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
commensurable, which in turn is critical to enabling market exchange. For example, until the early 1990s, when 20th-century Indian art was generally characterized as "decorative art" in international art circles, it was... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
Fialkow, managing director of General Catalyst Partners, he would first employ the "earnest young man routine" to get an interview with an old guy in business who could explain the ins and outs of the industry. "Keep your... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
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of thinking about complex choices. They suggest that the decision-maker start by probing his or her objectives (including interests, fears, and aspirations) and use these reflections to help generate creative alternatives for evaluation.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Building Sustainable Brands
Prior to attending HBS, Liz Thomas worked at Colgate-Palmolive, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, and Crossmark with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. Since graduating from HBS in 2018, Liz joined General... View Details