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  • April 2007 (Revised March 2018)
  • Case

M-TRONICS (A)

By: Joseph L. Bower and Lynda M. Applegate
The new CEO of a small manufacturing firm pursues growth through the launch of Entrepreneurial Subsidiaries. While the firm grows revenues from $600 million to over $2 billion in 10 years, problems surface as the subsidiaries are integrated into the established... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Model; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Integration
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  • November 2004 (Revised January 2007)
  • Case

Ice-Fili (Abridged)

By: John R. Wells, Pai-Ling Yin and Michael G. Rukstad
Designed as an overview of all aspects of the strategy process: industry analysis, positioning, dynamics and sustainability, and scope issues of corporate strategy, including vertical integration, horizontal diversification, and location issues. Ice-Fili is the largest... View Details
Keywords: Product Positioning; Geographic Location; Competition; Vertical Integration; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Russia
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  • 23 May 2011
  • Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

which corporate and investor behavior is changing. We did so by analyzing data from more than 2,000 companies in 23 countries, and then ranked those countries based on the degree of integration of corporate environmental and social... View Details
Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim
  • August 2008
  • Case

System on a Chip 2008: Ardentec Corporation

By: Willy C. Shih, Chen-Fu Chien, Chintay Shih and Ting-Chen Chen
Ardentec Corporation is a specialist in "wafer probing," a highly specialized niche sandwiched between the "front-end" and the "back-end" of semiconductor manufacturing. Because the semiconductor industry uses modular processes and has standard containers for the... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Structures; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Manufacturing Industry; Semiconductor Industry
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  • September 1996 (Revised May 1997)
  • Case

Mobil USM&R (C): Lubricants Business Unit

By: Robert S. Kaplan
The general manager of a Lubricants Business Unit in Mobil's U.S. Marketing and Refining division launched a project to develop a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) for his unit. The purpose was to provide focus for all employees of the unit, enabling it to operate on an... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Employees; Customization and Personalization; Performance Evaluation; Measurement and Metrics; Management Teams; Projects; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; United States
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  • March 1999 (Revised April 1999)
  • Case

Environmental Risk Management at Chevron Corporation

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Monica M Mandelli and Jennifer Burns
Chevron Corp., headquartered in San Francisco, manages a worldwide, vertically integrated value chain from the oil well to the gasoline station. Mishandling of oil at any stage of production can damage the natural environment, human health, corporate profitability, or... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Generation; Supply Chain Management; Metals and Minerals; Management Systems; Management Teams; Trade; Vertical Integration; Energy Industry; Mining Industry
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  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

2000). But it is also politically harder to sustain then, for example, the Thai "dual track" strategy with growth impulses for both exporting and local activities that turned out to generate broad-based public support (Looney,... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels

    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • February 2008 (Revised April 2008)
    • Case

    Avaya (A)

    Avaya's top management wants to improve demand generation. This requires an improvement in the relationship between Sales and Marketing. This case series (Avaya (A)-(D)) walks the student through each phase of this process. The (A) case begins with background on the... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing; Demand and Consumers; Performance Improvement; Relationships; Sales; Cooperation
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    • June 2017
    • Case

    Harmonie Water: Refreshing the World Naturally

    By: John A. Quelch and John L. Teopaco
    The marketing director of Harmonie Mineral Water—the second-best selling bottled water in the world—is using findings from two project studies to assess how to establish a global brand identity for Harmonie via television advertising. He must decide what product... View Details
    Keywords: Brands and Branding; Advertising; Marketing Communications; Global Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • March 2002 (Revised January 2010)
    • Case

    BP and the Consolidation of the Oil Industry, 1998-2002

    By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and David J Hanson
    Examines the economics of the oil and gas industry with a focus on 1998 through 2001. Discusses the rationale behind using a growth in scale as a means to increase profitability and to gain competitive advantage. Also examines the classic strategic implications of... View Details
    Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Structures; Competitive Advantage; Consolidation; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Energy Industry
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    • February 2015
    • Supplement

    MedCath Corporation (C)

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Kevin Schulman and F. Fallon Upke
    MedCath is a horizontally integrated chain of heart hospitals that partners with local cardiologists. It claims that its focus leads to better and cheaper results than those of an everything-for-everybody general hospital. Community hospitals generally vehemently... View Details
    Keywords: Medical Specialties; Market Entry and Exit; Service Delivery; Conflict and Resolution; Horizontal Integration; Health Industry
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    • September 2002 (Revised January 2013)
    • Case

    MedCath Corporation (A)

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Pete Stavros
    MedCath is a horizontally integrated chain of heart hospitals that partners with local cardiologists. It claims that its focus leads to better and cheaper results than those of an everything-for-everybody general hospital. Community hospitals generally vehemently... View Details
    Keywords: Medical Specialties; Market Entry and Exit; Service Delivery; Conflict and Resolution; Horizontal Integration; Health Industry
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    • February 2004
    • Case

    New HP, The: The Clean Room and Beyond

    By: Leslie A. Perlow and Elizabeth Kind
    When the $19 billion merger of Silicon Valley legend Hewlett-Packard and Houston-based PC giant Compaq Computer Corp. legally closed on May 3, 2002, both companies had already devoted an immense amount of time preparing for the challenges that lay ahead. Chief among... View Details
    Keywords: Horizontal Integration; Management Teams; Management Style; Problems and Challenges; Employees; Organizational Culture; Computer Industry; San Francisco
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    • April 1997 (Revised February 2002)
    • Case

    Europe in 1996

    By: Huw Pill and Effie Anagnostopoulos
    Describes the process of economic and political integration in Europe in the period since 1945. The main issues discussed are: the common market; the single market; economic and monetary union; EU enlargement encompassing the former centrally planned economies; and EU... View Details
    Keywords: Integration; Trade; Macroeconomics; Europe
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    • May 2003
    • Module Note

    Managing Product Development

    By: Stefan H. Thomke
    Introduces students to the managerial aspects critical to conceiving, designing, and developing innovative products and services. Considers the full range of activities required: learning about customer needs, understanding and managing experimentation and problem... View Details
    Keywords: Product Design; Product Development; Service Operations; Business or Company Management; Projects; Management Practices and Processes; Experience and Expertise; Customers; Research; Management Skills; Integration
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    • December 2015 (Revised February 2016)
    • Case

    Ocado

    By: José Alvarez, David E. Bell and Damien McLoughlin
    In 2015, U.K.-based Ocado was the world's largest pure player in the online home-delivery grocery business and was gaining a growing share of the highly competitive U.K. grocery market. Ocado had made heavy investments in technology, including a highly automated... View Details
    Keywords: Ocado; Grocery; Retail; Online Grocery; Supermarket; Delivery Models; Service Models; United Kingdom; Technology; Operations Management; Digital Platforms; Competition; Internet and the Web; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Supply Chain; Marketing; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United Kingdom
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    • 05 May 2015
    • Blog Post

    See What's New on our Site

    In an effort to provide our recruiting partners with the most timely and relevant information about recruiting at HBS, we've launched a new website seamlessly integrating ways to engage with current students and alumni. Below are the new... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 22 Mar 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

    represents what actually gets done. Strategic integrity is when emergent and directed strategies are one and the same thing: when the strategy executes with the full, aligned... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
    • May–June 2020
    • Article

    The Agenda for the Next Generation of Health Care Information Technology

    By: Thomas W. Feeley, Zachary Landman and Michael E. Porter
    As the diffusion of value-based health care efforts accelerates globally, the need for interoperable information technology systems that support value-based care is essential. Such systems are needed to facilitate dramatic improvements in patient outcomes and... View Details
    Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Integration; Performance Improvement; Performance Efficiency
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