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  • March 2014
  • Case

Babcock International Plc

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering services provider in the UK with sales of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Strategy And Leadership; Diversification; United Kingdom; Military; Nuclear Power; Nuclear; Engineering And Construction; Conglomerates; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
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    Corporate Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    of business units . More about business unit strategy Creating Corporate Value Added In diversified companies, corporate leaders can enhance competitive advantage by capturing synergies and harnessing fit across the value chains of... View Details
    • 08 Dec 2023
    • News

    New Leadership Role and Structure

    MESSAGE FROM ANGELA CRISPI AND DEAN SRIKANT DATAR To: HBS Faculty and Staff From: Angela Crispi and Srikant Datar Re: New Leadership Role and Structure We are delighted to announce that effective January 1, 2024, Jana Kierstead will become Executive Director, MBA and... View Details
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    HBS - The year in Review

    cities such as Tulsa, OK and Columbus, OH. Smaller group sizes allowed for faster implementation of change and gave students transferrable concepts and skills to leverage throughout their careers. FIELD Immersion Press Release Synergies... View Details
    • 27 Sep 2013
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    The Impact of Conformance and Experiential Quality on Healthcare Cost and Clinical Performance

    Keywords: by Claire Senot, Aravind Chandrasekaran, Peter T. Ward & Anita L. Tucker; Health
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    Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    School that provides a forum for exploring the synergies between all sectors to address critical social issues worldwide. Consulting for Impact Club The Consulting for Impact Club (CFI) matches Harvard MBA candidates with nonprofit and... View Details
    • 29 Sep 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable

    “yes, and” principle that lies at the heart of improv: “Yes, and we can fill it with poison before we offer it to the queen.” "Dissent is welcome, but only when there is shared respect and everyone feels they are on the same team." Some companies rely on this principle... View Details
    Keywords: by Francesca Gino
    • 15 Jul 2019
    • Book

    Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

    overconfidence. Exaggerating synergies and ignoring integration costs Synergy is the idea that once merged, the value of two companies will be greater than the sum of the values of each individual company.... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Oct 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Better by the Bundle?

    a model equipped with a convenience package or technology package. "Ideally you should be bundling products that have a positive synergy together," Kumar says, "but what we have shown here is that even when View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 12 Mar 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

    platform ecosystem by adding new sides and platform functions that might be valuable to the existing sides and therefore create positive synergies (and dominant firms!). Q: You draw a distinction between two-sided platforms and... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
    • 03 Oct 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit

    It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
    • 01 Dec 1997
    • News

    Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

    shareholder in our business. I think we are really showing that horizontal integration and synergies can work. I am also very proud that we are one of the first real cars on the information superhighway. People talk about it a lot, but we... View Details
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    Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    bank's balance sheet. Consistent with synergies in banking operations, the authors find significant correlations between a bank's productivity through these channels. The resultant measures indicate that a bank's ability to generate... View Details
    • 11 Aug 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

    fourth book, Alignment, described principle #3, how to create and capture corporate synergies through vertical and horizontal alignment of business and support units. The fourth book also contained material on principle #4, aligning and... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 17 Jun 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

    Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details
    Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail
    • 01 Apr 2000
    • News

    New Home for External Relations

    Relations, Development, the HBS Fund, Planned Giving, Alumni Records, Data Operations, and the Bulletin. "This is also the first time in many years that all of External Relations has been together under one roof, which creates important new View Details
    • 02 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

    inventing an industry and a business model based on an unproven hypothesis: that major synergies can be achieved by culling resources from existing industries whose boundaries seem to be disappearing. The challenge to management is even... View Details
    Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
    • 29 Aug 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    How Organizations Create Social Value

    organizations wanting to create social value. The researchers stressed the importance of synergies between Economic Value (EV) and Social Value (SV), calling them "two sides of the same coin." By aligning EV and SV, both... View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Salls
    • 24 Nov 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

    Strategic Business Unit (SBU) level, with emphasis on creation of a differentiated value proposition; 2) at the corporate level, through synergies and linkages based on corporate strategies; and 3) at the board level, by reducing the risk... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu