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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
world won't help. Q: You write in this book that "earlier thinking about global strategy, which focused only on globalness and networks, was clearly too simple." How so? A: Facing the global economy, many companies made the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 17 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers
personal caregiving obligations is an approach employers almost entirely overlook as a mechanism for maximizing employee productivity and minimizing turnover,” the authors write in the study, which was released Wednesday. With almost... View Details
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
Corporations, Wells collects case studies from companies that have learned this lesson—some of them the hard way—and explains how all companies can strategize more intelligently. Michael Blanding: Why did you decide to write a book about... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
organization.” In his book Experimentation Works, Thomke writes that at Booking.com, “experimentation is an integral part of everyday life (where) anyone can conduct or commission a test (without approval from above).” This requires that... View Details
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
to research and write this case? A: I came across the company during some of my travels in South India. It was so unusual to find "first-world health care at emerging-market prices" as the case says. Often better care—by which I... View Details
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
the things I write about in these papers are applicable to a large range of Americans. Programs such as automatic defaults and 401(k) defaults, as embodied in proposals like the auto-IRA and AutoSave, are effective and would appeal to... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
investors, sometimes called “vultures,” have raised vast sums of money for the purpose of investing in distressed companies. As I write about in my book Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring, they employ a variety of strategies... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
with them. The press wants to write about them. Cognitive referents have buzz. McDonald delves into how companies can come to epitomize a market in the working paper Becoming a Cognitive Referent: Market Creation and Cultural Strategy. An... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Enron’s Lessons for Managers
widespread and so toxic in Enron." Salter, a specialist in corporate strategy and corporate governance who is also writing a book on Enron, said he is trying to operate as a sort of forensic analyst. Forensic scientists usually fill... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
given up on trying to be more ethical and insightful myself or on encouraging others to be more ethical, but I think I’m going about it in a more effective way. Writing this book has helped me think through how to be more effective at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
make on us. Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014) Managing Partner, Burnt Island Ventures Bake Sustainability into the Core of What You Do BIO The role of business leaders is to see the writing on the wall and act accordingly. The transition to a clean... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
along, but Shelly, can you just tell me, what prompted you to write this case? Santana: I was teaching a course on branding this year, and we were going to do a module on brand storytelling. I thought the Super Bowl is such a unique... View Details
- Research Summary
Corporate Lobbying Strategy and Foreign MNEs
“U.S. Defense Contracts and the Lobbying Strategies of Foreign MNEs: The Liability of Foreignness and Make-or-Buy Decisions about Political Goods”
Many firms engage in lobbying with the expectation that their lobbying efforts will... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
crises. Participants will leave this session understanding the state of the art in identifying financial market bubbles, and how predictable crises are. Women Protagonists: On and Off the Page Carin Knoop (MBA 1994), Executive Director, Case Research and View Details
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
president and CEO of Estée Lauder International Inc. "Ted's writings taught me that relationship management is particularly relevant in a global business," she adds. "I knew every single department store owner in every part... View Details
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
their own weaknesses. Please elaborate; you write in your book that "learning how to express your vulnerabilities on appropriate occasions is an emerging leadership skill." A: One of the great myths of leadership in recent years... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
prepare, Gilbert has been refining teaching plans, writing cases, and getting advice from the eight faculty members in his teaching support group. Gilbert says that support is critical, since the case method requires intense preparation.... View Details
- 08 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
International Women's Day Featured Stories
leaders to challenge our school to do better. Jessica McNeill Assistant Director, Annual & Reunion Giving For hundreds of years there was a conscious effort to silence Black Voices in America. Words have energy and power so they kept us from reading and View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
“Rebalancing must occur." -Srikant Datar "Increasingly, we believe, business schools are at a crossroads and will have to take a hard look at their value propositions," the authors write in the introduction. "This was true before the... View Details