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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind (Harvard Business Review Press) How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the “magic”—the tight View Details
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
related bills that have both costs and benefits are combined. Using a laboratory study, we confirm across a set of four legislative domains that this bundling technique increases support for bills that have both costs and benefits. We also demonstrate that this effect...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
increase is largely driven by more functional specialists like CIOs or CMOs, not general managers.” “There ultimately is no such thing as effective selling that is not tied to the company’s strategic objectives” The reason for that is...
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by Michael Blanding
- 19 Jan 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis
back on CSR programs—quite the opposite, says HBS professor V. Kasturi "Kash" Rangan. As a marketing scholar, Rangan is optimistic about strategic CSR efforts that provide value in communities and society. Key concepts include: Companies...
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by Staff
- 26 Sep 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: How can I negotiate more skillfully and confidently? How can I negotiate in an uncertain environment? Do...
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- Web
War & Peace: The Lessons of History for Leadership, Strategy, Negotiation & Humanity - Course Catalog
over 2,500 years of history in which human beings have sought to avert, instigate, wage, win & end wars? The course is designed with one primary objective in mind: to take the long history of war & peace and weave it together in a way that fundamentally challenges &...
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- October 1998 (Revised November 1999)
- Case
Chantal Cookware Corp.
By: H. Kent Bowen, Paul W. Marshall and Stephanie Dodson
Chantal Cookware is a small, private company with a 15-year record of success in the design, assembly, and sale of high-end cookware. It experiences serious setbacks when consumers' tastes shift from colorful enamel-on-steel products to commercial-style cookware....
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Consumer Behavior;
Strategic Planning;
Market Entry and Exit;
Product Positioning;
Trends;
Manufacturing Industry
Bowen, H. Kent, Paul W. Marshall, and Stephanie Dodson. "Chantal Cookware Corp." Harvard Business School Case 699-023, October 1998. (Revised November 1999.)
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
themselves and new industries will grow. The number-one priority is to change the competition laws and the whole approach to regulating competition. Without competitive pressures, sick industries will never restructure. Until Japan stops...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- Web
Strategy Execution - Course Catalog
motivates people to help others achieve shared goals. Adapting to change: You will learn how to identify the strategic uncertainties that could upend your strategy, build early warning systems, and adapt current strategies to View Details
- November 1999
- Case
net.Genesis, Inc.
By: Robert J. Dolan, Rajiv Lal and Perry Fagan
Net.Genesis is planning a strategy for the developing Internet market. In particular, it is creating the category of e-business intelligence and striving to be the brand leader in it.
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Emerging Markets;
Strategic Planning;
Expansion;
Brands and Branding;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
Marketing Communications;
Internet and the Web;
Change Management
Dolan, Robert J., Rajiv Lal, and Perry Fagan. "net.Genesis, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 500-009, November 1999.
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
literature when it comes to linking sales efforts with strategy. Part 1 of this book provides data indicating how and why sales remain (by far) the biggest part of strategy implementation in most firms, the issues involved in linking selling investments with View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Post-Office
remote-work models for years, focusing on what he calls “the geography of work” in organizations as diverse as the US Patent Office and open-source collaboration platform GitLab. In this conversation, he and Chandrasekar discuss the View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
- Research Event
Venture Capital
international economy. It is appropriate that the conference took place in Silicon Valley. This all but unique confluence of ideas, research, financing, and human resources has served as a matrix in which venture capital has either invented or revolutionized whole...
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- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
Review article, “What’s the Optimal Workplace for Your Organization?” The article itself, with its two-by-two matrix of strategic space configurations, is an illustration of the value of face time. “This project would very much not exist...
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- 22 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future
Delmotte, a senior scientist at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), “very clearly set the stakes” of climate impacts, while Pierre Vandier, head of the French Navy, provided a “crisp and insightful view” on the new...
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Margie Kelley
- November 2017 (Revised November 2021)
- Case
Irene Rosenfeld at Mondelēz International: Crafting a Corporate Strategy
By: Raffaella Sadun, David J. Collis, Amram Migdal and Kerry Herman
The case focuses on Irene Rosenfeld’s tenure as CEO of the global snack food company Mondelēz International. Beginning in 2006, she had led the company through many acquisitions, including France’s LU Biscuit and British confectionery company Cadbury, before, in 2012,...
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Snack Food;
Snack;
Global Snacking;
Packaged Food;
Consumer Packaged;
Kraft Foods;
Kraft;
Agribusiness;
Change;
Change Management;
Corporate Strategy;
Transformation;
Geography;
Geographic Scope;
Global Strategy;
Leadership;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Management;
Business or Company Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Style;
Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Demand and Consumers;
Consumer Behavior;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Planning;
Strategic Planning;
Strategy;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Illinois
Sadun, Raffaella, David J. Collis, Amram Migdal, and Kerry Herman. "Irene Rosenfeld at Mondelēz International: Crafting a Corporate Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 718-403, November 2017. (Revised November 2021.)
- Blog
Inside the Learning: The Impact of a Personal Case
Every executive who applies to the HBS Advanced Management Program (AMP) is likely facing some business challenges that keep them up at night. Issues on their mind might be anything from a tough strategic decision or distressing financial...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
A Conversation with John Doerr (MBA '76)
term—and please define what long term means in your industry—as the next major developments in business? Doerr: We do a long-term strategic plan that looks ahead three years. We used to prepare it once a year, but now we do it twice...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
A Juicy Story
2005, that figure increased again to over $4.5 billion. “This is a case where you can focus on strategic success as well as strategic failure,” Yoffie notes. “There aren’t many instances where you have both...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Faculty Updates
also devote time to the Center for Organizational Fitness, an organization he cofounded that helps senior managers enable a strategic change process. William J. Poorvu, the MBA Class of 1961 Adjunct...
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