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- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: The Strategy of Differences
respond to local differences. Recently, as at Coke, many companies have moved toward more localization and less standardization. But no matter how they balance localization and standardization, all companies that view global strategy in...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
kind—of someone who could achieve so much in his career and yet have the strength and wisdom to keep balance in his life, and pursue agendas far beyond explaining "Big Business." Al was a fine human being as well as a superb...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
balancing basic and applied research while demonstrating accountability to the company's stockholders: Our scientists get half of their time for themselves, to be free scientists, to think, to dream, to imagine . . . But the other half of...
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- January 2021 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
Best Buy's Corie Barry: Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic
By: William W. George and Amram Migdal
This case examines the leadership of Corie Barry, the new CEO of Best Buy, with a focus on actions the company took in 2020 to adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. The case includes a history of Best Buy’s strategy and leadership, including the transitions between the...
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COVID-19 Pandemic;
Change;
Disruption;
Volatility;
Communication;
Competency and Skills;
Customers;
Decision Making;
Ethics;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Finance;
Cash Flow;
Financial Condition;
Financial Liquidity;
Goods and Commodities;
Corporate Governance;
Health Pandemics;
Human Resources;
Executive Compensation;
Employees;
Employee Relationship Management;
Resignation and Termination;
Retention;
Selection and Staffing;
Innovation and Invention;
Jobs and Positions;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Job Design and Levels;
Job Interviews;
Job Offer;
Labor;
Employment;
Human Capital;
Working Conditions;
Law;
Leadership;
Leadership Development;
Leadership Style;
Management;
Business or Company Management;
Crisis Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Management Practices and Processes;
Management Style;
Management Succession;
Management Systems;
Management Teams;
Risk Management;
Operations;
Distribution;
Order Taking and Fulfillment;
Logistics;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Supply Chain;
Organizations;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Outcome or Result;
Personal Development and Career;
Retirement;
Work-Life Balance;
Planning;
Strategic Planning;
Problems and Challenges;
Relationships;
Business and Community Relations;
Labor and Management Relations;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Safety;
Science;
Strategy;
Retail Industry;
North and Central America;
United States;
Minnesota
George, William W., and Amram Migdal. "Best Buy's Corie Barry: Confronting the COVID-19 Pandemic." Harvard Business School Case 321-073, January 2021. (Revised April 2022.)
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
organizational processes—are good advice for any brand diving into the digital realm. And while ceding control over voice can be nerve-racking for any brand, Tate's experience has shown that it can yield results far from those that show up on the quarterly View Details
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Harvard Business School
the Harvard Law Review. Melissa James MBA 1989 Melissa James is a vice chairman and managing director of Global Capital Markets at Morgan Stanley. She is currently chief risk officer for lending, where she oversees capital, liquidity, and View Details
- 2019
- Working Paper
Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose
In this paper, I address how the ascendance of the theory of shareholder value maximization into the central consciousness of public corporations and its canonization as the only legitimate expression of corporate purpose has contributed to both a widening breach...
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Capitalism;
Justice;
Corporate Purpose;
Shareholder Value Maximization;
Ethical Reciprocity;
Economic Systems;
Business Ventures;
Mission and Purpose;
Ethics;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Salter, Malcolm S. "Rehabilitating Corporate Purpose." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-104, April 2019.
- Research Summary
Overview
Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also...
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- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
rewarding and promoting people who can team, and actively work across the marketing/sales boundary leads to a cadre of more balanced managers. These same companies also often explicitly punish salespeople and marketing executives who...
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by Benson Shapiro
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
communities or condos we live in need not yet be protected by armed guards — but whom are we kidding? When CEOs make 500 times what their employees make, there is an upper class. This isn’t to say all taxation is good. It’s not — and Democrats know that. (But the...
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
evident. Join Professor Christina Wallace for a discussion of her new book, The Portfolio Life , which offers a framework for an anti-hustle, pro-rest approach to work/life balance built on three tenets: You are more than any one role or...
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- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
group at my first job that I was able to recognize this internal tension and explore ways to do well at work while staying true to my values. While I have yet to find the right balance today, I hope that one day I will. Aaron Yang – Class...
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
establishing or revising their safety protocols or preemptively stacking inventory. Adaptation sometimes meant being able to strike a fine balance between leveraging existing capabilities and finding innovative ways to integrate old...
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- 2018
- Chapter
New Prospects for Organizational Democracy?: How the Joint Pursuit of Social and Financial Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs
By: Julie Battilana, Michael Fuerstein and Michael Lee
For an extended period during the first half of the 20th century, industrial democracy was a vibrant movement, with ideological and organizational ties to a thriving unionism. In 2015, however, things look different. While there are instances of democracy in the...
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Battilana, Julie, Michael Fuerstein, and Michael Lee. "New Prospects for Organizational Democracy? How the Joint Pursuit of Social and Financial Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs." In Capitalism Beyond Mutuality? Perspectives Integrating Philosophy and Social Science, edited by Subramanian Rangan, 256–288. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- 09 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Perspectives from the Boardroom--2009
- Research Summary
Sustainability and Integrated Reporting
A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Happening Fast
and on the shortlist of possible successors to JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon (MBA ’82), Forbes magazine (September 12, 2011) reported. “The rare female comet in the male-dominated firmament of Wall Street,” Erdoes seeks “work/life integration” rather than an elusive, and...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Carla Small
Working mothers may have become commonplace in corporate America, but in business school, student moms are still in a class by themselves. Just ask Carla Small. "I went from being surrounded by other women trying to balance a job and...
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Linda Goodspeed
- Research Summary
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take...
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