• 30 Jan 2018
• First Look

January 30, 2018

J’s board, became its new CEO and was able to successfully manage competing stakeholder demands, keep the business running, and ultimately paid back every dollar it owed to its creditors by selling the company’s core assets—its travel... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 06 Mar 2012
• First Look

First Look: March 6

benefits from racial diversity but that diversity is a liability when society's negative stereotypes about racial minorities' competence inhibit such interactions. We analyze two years of data from 496 retail bank branches to investigate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 02 Jun 2014
• Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’

photo; shared or liked a Coca-Cola-related deal; or wrote a product recommendation.   Related Article An Interview With The Author Read The Interview Indeed, many firms began to compete with each other over who can have most Facebook fans... View Details

• September 1994 (Revised September 1994)
• Case

Acer Group, The: Vision for the Year 2000

By: D. Quinn Mills and Richard C. Wei

In the early 1990s, Acer, Inc. set two goals: to be a top-five PC company worldwide in 1995 and to be a global consortium of companies by the year 2000. The company identified potential obstacles concerning capital, image, number of experienced international managers,... View Details

Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Goals and Objectives; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Structure; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Experience and Expertise; Marketing Strategy; Production; Rank and Position; Business Strategy; Capital; Computer Industry; Japan

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• 06 Nov 2017
• Research Event

Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

acknowledged his job involves competing against the promise of autonomous electric cars. “The government needs control.” Panelist Harriet Tregoning, former director of the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Office of Economic... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

• 12 Oct 1999
• Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

Having received one day of instruction in interviewing, the task force members talk with approximately one hundred employees and, if needed, customers about what they regard as the organization's strengths and the barriers that prevent it from View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

• 21 Jun 2010
• Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

"We've wanted to learn about the challenges of the process and the challenges of companies in those markets trying to compete on a global platform. We are also curious how international companies have been able to intimate themselves into... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

• 22 Feb 2016
• Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

countries improve trade conditions and build sustainable practices. Back then, fair trade essentially referred to a system of price-fixing, using Resale Price Maintenance contracts to help smaller businesses and associations compete... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

• 18 Feb 2013
• Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

the variables that align with different customer types. Given the competing priorities in any venture, we've found that an ICP process must come from the top team to be credible and effective. Conversely, the process itself often helps to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

• 05 Jul 2011
• First Look

First Look: July 5

note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711419-PDF-ENG Television Competes for a Digital Audience Stephen P. Bradley and Nancy BartlettHarvard Business School Note 710-476 In the face of major disruption in the industry, television... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 01 Aug 2005
• Research & Ideas

How to Choose the Best Deal

or the other? Maybe there's a win-win possibility if Jim can quickly forge a deal with the bank and spare it the expense of putting the orchard on the open market. On the other hand, Jim might act differently if he hears of a competing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

• 26 Jan 2004
• Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

million. Voted company of the year by Exame, Brazil's leading business magazine, Natura has from its inception focused on serving the distinctive needs of Brazil's ethnically diverse population. Recognizing that the company could never View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari