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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
Koh’s fifth floor office, cooking up a communications strategy ahead of the looming Boston winter. “We want to avoid what happened last year,” warns Koh, Chief of Staff to Mayor Marty Walsh. Last winter, the Hub’s snowiest on record, left... View Details
- May 15 2018
- Testimonial
Winning in a Competitive Market
- Apr 12 2016
- Testimonial
Opening Your Mind to Diverse Perspectives
- Oct 07 2020
- Testimonial
Chasing Your Career Dreams
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method
team would generate options for implementation and then define what would need to be true for each option to prevail. Through identification of barriers and tests to see how they might be overcome, the team determines which View Details
- Profile
Rocio Parra
Why was getting a business education important to you? As a consultant, I had the opportunity to work in a variety of industries from pharmaceuticals and medical devices to government and consumer packaged goods. Through these experiences, I became interested in... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 05 May 2020
- News
Innovation Through Experimentation
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
or intermediate term, to outsource production to an overseas supplier. The company can buy manufacturing services at a much lower rate if it goes to China or elsewhere, depending on the industry. But if everybody is doing that, you get a View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
The Eyes Have It: Business Plan Winners Pursue Global Vision
It is estimated that one billion people around the world need vision correction but don't have glasses because they are too expensive or simply unavailable. The resulting losses in productivity and self-sufficiency may reach as much as $70 billion annually, experts... View Details
Keywords: eyeglasses
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
the mark. "Microsoft can innovate faster than your life can change," Christensen observed dryly. The only thing we know for sure is that nobody knows the right strategy as the disruption takes root.—Clayton M. Christensen When... View Details
- Student-Profile
Sarah Wolfolds
experience at the FED, but exploring the theory in organizational economics and the literature in Strategy has led to more specific ideas about how I could arbitrage these literatures. The HBS Experience The best thing about HBS is the... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
General is a real-life example of topics that we cover in our finance curriculum such as valuation, financing, and risk management, and it brings together financial strategy and business strategy, a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
mobilizing change through strong leadership. The Strategy-Focused Organization also introduces a new framework called the strategy map. By analyzing hundreds of scorecards over the last decade, Kaplan and Norton have mapped the patterns... View Details
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2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Josh Baron Leading a Family Business (LFB) Strategy Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Ownership (OWN): Define Success, Create Advantage, Build to Last, Engage Effectively Strategy Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 John... View Details
- Mar 15 2015
- Interview
Sunil Gupta: Business in the Time of Social Media
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
investment. However, I don't expect it will ever generate significant revenues or significant profits. Q: Is that brand reinforcement enough to keep that retail strategy going? A: The stores are very good... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2016
- News
Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?
The Boston Globe has a long feature on Brian Shortsleeve (MBA 2001), the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s (MBTA) new chief administrator. The piece notes Shortsleeve’s challenge: $5.5 billion in debt and a $7 billion maintenance backlog, and pushback on his... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
perhaps prefer, the nearby independent. "There's a delicate balance between the synergies [two combatants] can generate on one hand and too much competition on the other," says Joan E. Primo, a principal of real estate and... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
An International Perspective
“I’ve been involved in international business ventures my entire career,” says Andrew L. Waite (MBA 1993), a generous supporter of global research at HBS. After majoring in civil engineering at England’s Loughborough University of... View Details
- 18 Sep 2014
- News
Room to grow: global expansion in the middle ground
consulting firm Shaldor, documents the specific strategies various companies pursued. As examples, by focusing on a neglected market segment, Netafim became the world leader in drip irrigation technology, while Teva Pharmaceutical created... View Details