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OPM Renew
OPM alumni, you will explore how the world's top entrepreneurial business leaders are starting new ventures, driving operational excellence, and capitalizing on disruptive innovation. As you join in on the View Details
- 01 Apr 2022
- News
Can Supply Chain Disruptions Lead To a Recession?
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
you have global frameworks that are robust and travel across boundaries, you don't actually have to teach management country by country. So the first order of business for us is to get the global content...
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- 26 Sep 2023
- Book
Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target
Volberda et al. (2021) put it: “with these advances in digital technology, the very nature of strategy is changing”. Others might argue that there is “nothing new under the sun” about digital strategy. It is just “dressing up” the competitive context in which firms...
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- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
theoretical extensions of the proposed integrated theory. Read the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-056.pdf Turning Waste into By-Product Author:Deishin Lee Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2010 (Revised April 2017)
- Case
Aspen Skiing Company (A)
By: Michael W. Toffel and Stephanie van Sice
Having begun improving the environmental performance of its own operations, Aspen Skiing Company is considering "greening" its supply chain and lobbying for greenhouse gas regulations. A world renowned ski resort vulnerable to global climate change, Aspen's activities...
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Keywords:
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Supply Chain Management;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Business and Government Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Environmental Sustainability;
Climate Change;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Aspen
Toffel, Michael W., and Stephanie van Sice. "Aspen Skiing Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 611-002, September 2010. (Revised April 2017.)
- September 1993
- Case
Rhone-Poulenc (A)
Rhone-Poulenc, France's largest chemical firm, with revenues of more than $7 billion in 1985, seeks to dramatically expand its presence in the United States. From 1986 to 1990, Rhone-Poulenc undertakes 18 separate acquisitions, ranging from small entrepreneurial firms...
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Rosenzweig, Philip M. "Rhone-Poulenc (A)." Harvard Business School Case 394-040, September 1993.
- April 2017 (Revised October 2017)
- Case
Wal-Mart Update, 2017
By: David B. Yoffie and Eric Baldwin
In 2017 Wal-Mart was still the world’s largest company, with over $480 billion in annual revenue and operations in 28 countries. Although it had mostly vanquished its rival discount retailers in the U.S., it was struggling to find the right growth strategy. Facing a...
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E-Commerce Strategy;
Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Global Range;
Business Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
E-commerce;
Retail Industry
Yoffie, David B., and Eric Baldwin. "Wal-Mart Update, 2017." Harvard Business School Case 717-468, April 2017. (Revised October 2017.)
- 23 Nov 2021
- Book
What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins
think of culture and strategy operating in tandem to produce competitive superiority. "It’s easier to change a strategy than it is to change a culture." Culture and strategy complement each other in the most successful organizations. For...
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by Avery Forman
- 2010
- Case
Groupe Ariel, S.A.: Parity Conditions and Cross-Border Valuation: Brief Case.
By: Timothy A. Luehrman and James Quinn
Groupe Ariel evaluates a proposal from its Mexican subsidiary to purchase and install cost-saving equipment at a manufacturing facility in Monterrey. The improvements will allow the plant to automate recycling and remanufacturing of toner and printer cartridges, an...
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- 21 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?
the number of players globally tops 3 billion, the paper says. “People don’t realize how pervasive games are,” Amano says. “They are larger than music and movies combined.” Amano and Simonov analyzed the decisions made by 2.5 million...
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- 23 Jan 2024
- News
A Wide Net
Growing up in Mumbai, Navroz Udwadia (MBA 2005) spent most of his time on the tennis court, where he was an internationally ranked athlete. Today, as cofounder and partner of Alpha Wave, a global investment group with a...
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April White
- June 2011 (Revised October 2012)
- Case
IBM China Development Lab Shanghai: Capability by Design
By: Willy Shih, Kamen Bliznashki and Fan Zhao
When IBM shifted from a traditional territory-based multinational organization to what it called a globally integrated enterprise, it established its headquarters for "Growth Markets" in Shanghai and "Established Markets" in New York. This positioned its China...
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Diversification;
Corporate Strategy;
Global Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Research and Development;
Emerging Markets;
Product Development;
Information Technology Industry;
China
Shih, Willy, Kamen Bliznashki, and Fan Zhao. "IBM China Development Lab Shanghai: Capability by Design." Harvard Business School Case 611-055, June 2011. (Revised October 2012.)
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Student Association - MBA
committees comprised of section officers (Presidents, Educational Representatives, Career Representatives, Technology Representatives, Community Values Representatives, etc.). The Executive Committee consists of the two Co-Presidents and Chief Financial Officer of SA,...
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- January 2020
- Case
Celata Bioinnovations
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In December 2019, Jon Hu (HBS ‘19) and Dr. Samantha Dale Strasser, co-founders of Celata Bioinnovations, were raising $1 million to launch their company. They had founded Celata less than six months earlier with the aim of redefining the drug discovery process....
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Drug Development;
Drug Discovery;
Drug Trials;
Pharmaceutical Companies;
Pharmaceutical Company;
Pharmaceuticals;
Therapeutics;
Biologics;
Biotech;
Biotechnology;
Biopharmacy Company;
Biochemistry;
Technology Commercialization;
Technology Companies;
Drug Testing;
Startup;
Start-up;
Startups;
Start-ups;
Startup Financing;
Strategic Decision Making;
Strategic Decisions;
Strategic Evolution;
FDA;
Food And Drug Administration;
Clinical Trials;
Disease Management;
Market Attractiveness;
Market Entry;
Market Opportunities;
Health Disorders;
Technological Innovation;
Information Technology;
Commercialization;
Business Startups;
Finance;
Decision Making;
Strategy;
Market Entry and Exit;
Opportunities;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Biotechnology Industry
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Celata Bioinnovations." Harvard Business School Case 720-427, January 2020.
- July 2013 (Revised October 2013)
- Supplement
United Rentals (B)
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante
In April 2012, Jenne Britell, the Chairman of the board of directors of United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE: URI) was preparing her notes for an upcoming stockholders' meeting. It was a meeting unlike most other meetings she had chaired. Stockholders were about to vote on a...
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Boards Of Directors;
Board Committees;
Chairman;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Corporate Governance;
Construction Industry;
North America
Lorsch, Jay W., and Kathleen Durante. "United Rentals (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 414-031, July 2013. (Revised October 2013.)
- September 2019
- Case
Teaming Up to Win the Rail Deal at GE (A)
By: Amy Edmondson, Ranjay Gulati and Rachna Tahilyani
In 2012, Nalin Jain, then head of GE aviation for South Asia, was given the added responsibility for GE’s transportation business in India, including bidding for a $2.5 billion contract to manufacture, service and maintain 1,000 diesel locomotives for state owned...
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Recruitment;
Selection and Staffing;
Human Capital;
Groups and Teams;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Industrial Products Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Rail Industry;
Transportation Industry;
United States;
India
Edmondson, Amy, Ranjay Gulati, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Teaming Up to Win the Rail Deal at GE (A)." Harvard Business School Case 420-058, September 2019.
- December 2010
- Article
The Case for Professional Boards
By: Robert C. Pozen
When the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States...
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Financial Institutions;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Failure;
Accounting Audits;
Quality;
Behavior;
Legal Liability;
Experience and Expertise;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Performance Effectiveness;
United States
Pozen, Robert C. "The Case for Professional Boards." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010).
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HBS - The year in Review
Faculty Brian K. Baik Accounting & Management Sebastian Hillenbrand Finance Ebehi Iyoha Entrepreneurial Management Elisabeth Kempf Finance Jacqueline Ng Lane Technology & Operations Management Joseph Pacelli Accounting & Management...
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Finance - Faculty & Research
and Maxwell Nii Laryea September 2024 | Case | Faculty Research A leading global infrastructure fund debates whether and when to become engaged in the electrolysis and distribution of hydrogen, as part of the hydrogen economy and the...
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