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- 22 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China
Assistant Professor William R. Kerr teaches the required first-year MBA course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, in addition to Executive Education courses at Harvard Business School. One of his core research... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
core function in a business of making anything from widgets to washing machines to life-saving drugs. McDonald's sells burgers worldwide, but the way it does so has to change from location to location,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
reasons why corporate strategies can fail. In its treatment and coverage of these issues, the note emphasizes similarities between the core principles of business unit strategy and of corporate level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Immelt: The Voyage from MBA to CEO Harvard Business School Case 307-056 GE believes its ability to develop management talent is a core competency that represents a source of sustainable competitive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
http://www.benedelman.org/publications/affmgmt-2014-06-21.pdf July-August 2014 Harvard Business Review How the Other Fukushima Plant Survived By: Gulati, Ranjay, Charles Casto, and Charlotte Krontiris Abstract—In March 2011, Japan's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
farms to its processing plants to its vast sales and distribution operation that reached over 100,000 outlets. Notwithstanding its diverse portfolio, the core of Almarai’s business was (1) sales of branded... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
to evaluate the link between dismissal costs and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business Database, our estimates suggest that wrongful-discharge protections... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
PublicationsBuy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down Authors:John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2010 Abstract You've got a good idea. You know it could make a crucial difference for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
democratize information and change the way that stocks are traded, threatening the industry's product and business model. There were upheavals and stagnation in established core financial markets such as the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
businesses that scale undergo a graduation process in which they meet the varying expectations of multiple organizational resource providers. At the unit level, they convince established core units that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits
teach Governing for Nonprofit Excellence in the Executive Education program. How would GNE have been different for its participants five years ago, and do you think it will be significantly different if taught five years from now? A: The View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 3, 2006
Harvard Business School Case 606-071 For the past eighteen months, Mandy Cabot had worried that the shoe business she had built into a thriving operation with $90 million in annual revenue and over 110... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
firms compared to non-founder firms. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1663905 Cases & Course MaterialsTennant Company: Innovating Within and Beyond the Core Lynda M. Applegate, Toby Stuart, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-061.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsProntoWash: Washing the World's Cars to a Tango Beat Harvard Business School Case 108-037 ProntoWash management considers whether franchising and the Balanced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 25
(September 2009): 90-95 Abstract As a business broadens over time, it can lose the operational edge that led to its original success. Core strengths atrophy, efficiency or quality suffers, and sharper rivals... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
Publications October 2014 Harvard Business Review Press Aligning Strategy and Sales: The Choices, Systems, and Behaviors That Drive Effective Selling By: Cespedes, Frank V. Abstract—There are many books that provide strategy advice and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20
Society: An Alternative View and Opportunities for Future Research By: Serafeim, George Abstract—A long-standing ideology in business education has been that a corporation is run for the sole interest of its shareholders. I present an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
firms. These findings remain robust when we address potential reverse causality by exploring the regional pattern and process of agglomeration. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/10-043_4b3a99bf-8548-4001-a86a-187318dfaa4d.pdf October 2014... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 15, 2016
energy, time, and resources—in balanced measure—across what he calls "the three boxes": Box 1: The present—Manage the core business at peak profitability; Box 2: The past—Abandon ideas, practices,... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
range of contexts, information costs approach zero. In this chapter, we discuss how sharply reduced information costs enable organizations to engage with communities of developers, professionals, and users for core innovative activities,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne