General Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

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

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

link improvements in their daily processes to achievement of high-level strategic objectives. The Balanced Scorecard framework describes strategy with strategic objectives, measures, targets, and initiatives. (See Figure 2-1.) Strategic... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

21 Nov 2013
News

Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

multiple generations of technology. Microsoft and IBM perhaps? Yet no one is pointing to them as bastions of novel and breakthrough ideas! It's easy to point to specific design decisions as the cause of Blackberry's demise. They ignored... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

10 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 10

capabilities across markets: no learning, local learning, and global learning. Three equilibrium strategies arise: accommodate, marginalize, and collocate. We identify how these strategies emerge depending... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

superior innovation performance. Yet despite this need, there is little guidance on how to develop or deploy this ability. This article describes the results of a study to understand the strategies and practices used by firms that achieve... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Dec 2001
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?

Summing Up Respondents to the latest "What Do You Think?" column expressed a general lack of concern about adverse effects from Microsoft's settlement with the Federal Government for a variety of reasons. Charley Cullinane... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Profile

Annora Wang

after I left, entertainment remained in the back of my mind. How did HBS influence your ambitions? When I applied to HBS, I knew I wanted to go into general management, and I knew that I wanted to go into a consumer-facing industry. I... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media

01 Dec 2013
News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

headquarters in New York, one of the executives charged with growing the league's reach and revenues is Peter O'Reilly (MBA 2002), vice president, fan strategy & marketing. "My focus is on strengthening our year-round calendar for our... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

29 Oct 2007
HBS Case

Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement

centers on the media, entertainment, and sports industries. One general question I try to answer in my research is what value is created by superstars in these sectors, and how much of that value these stars themselves capture. I was... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

17 Feb 2015
News

The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)

implementation of our organizational strategy and budget. I work with our team and other stakeholders to think through research questions, and partner with funders to identify funding to investigate questions and disseminate our results.... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

Web

Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise - Course Catalog

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 general... View Details

03 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn

retained and grown." At HBS, Rangan serves as cochair of the Social Enterprise Initiative (with Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard) and as faculty chair of the Executive Education program Corporate Social Responsibility: Strategies... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2011
News

Alumni Book Briefs

in organizational success and personal growth. He also provides a 28-day program for mastering innovation’s key steps: finding insight, generating ideas, building businesses, and strengthening innovation prowess in the workforce and... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Aug 2014
News

A closer look at the industry of beauty

homogenization persists, the purchasing power of emerging economies, aging populations, and increasingly multiethnic US consumers has now led to a new sensitivity to diversity. Further, Jones has found that today's generation of industry... View Details

17 Oct 2014
News

A desire to help Chinese companies go global

Chao Zeng (MBA 2015) is expanding his global perspective at HBS, which will help him pursue a general management career and help more Chinese companies go global. (Published October 2014) View Details

23 Sep 2024
Blog Post

2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

in wind and solar power generation and is committed to driving the transition to a decarbonized energy future. As one of the top five largest capital deployers in the U.S., NextEra has been a driving force behind significant investments... View Details

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