Synergies - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Dec 2000
What Do You Think?

Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?

selective increases in capacity, new approaches to managing consumption, and increased merger and acquisition activity, with attendant realization of synergies and lower costs (Jill Feblowitz), and (3) has delivered on its promise of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

organizations to overemphasize the potential for integration and synergy between a newly launched business and the core business. When disruptive technologies are first exploited, they are applied in new ways with new customers. Over... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

02 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

responsible for the majority of variation in bank value. We also find evidence consistent with synergies between deposit-taking and lending activities: banks with high deposit productivity have high asset productivity, a relationship... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Nov 2021
News

Strength in Numbers

what’s working with respect to mental health, and also bring scale and resources to bear, so that we can help these organizations and create a network effect? We will identify synergies across our grantee web to find opportunities where... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

decision. The (B) case explores the specific identified synergies in-depth and provides an opportunity to judge their viability. The (C) and (D) cases conclude the story and update the case with issues facing the global confectionery... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

activities differ as well, as creating and marketing a wine brand typically diverges from the approach used to develop a beer label. Finally, sales force synergies appear minimal, as a single sales force will find it difficult to support... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

04 May 2017
News

Going the Distance

Economic Development under Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. “I had learned from [HBS professor] Michael Porter about the synergy that comes from establishing industry clusters, and that became our focus. We became metrics driven and also... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Oct 1998
News

A Community Investment

that entered the business world at a time when, as one classmate puts it, "we certainly heard more praise for socialism than capitalism" - respond to questions about their personal and professional involvement in social enterprise efforts. Their comments illuminate a... View Details

28 Sep 2015
News

Rockin’ for a Cause

firm. A veteran in the industry with recent experience in late-stage start-ups such as Mandiant and ArcSight, Scheel joined the company in 2014. Symantec is spinning off Veritas, a storage and back-up business it acquired a decade ago. “The View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Symantec

11 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

as the Career and Professional Development are always available to students to help them with their career goals, the recruiting team supports companies with recruiting strategies and any questions they have to ensure synergy between HBS... View Details

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

quality or prices for consumers. Such mergers reduce competition in the insurance market, ultimately dampening much-needed innovation. What’s more, there’s no requirement or expectation that any savings from synergies generated from the... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

01 Sep 2016
News

Offshore Learning

National Science Foundation grant to implement an ambitious inquiry-based science curriculum.” Highest and Best Use With that synergy as a starting point, since 2009, Thompson Island’s Connections program and the science department of... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Outward Bound; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

Web

The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

collections and to make them accessible to business school communities and scholars across disciplines. The NAAI collection has come to exemplify a dynamic synergy between photography and corporate culture, illustrating the inventive... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Blockbuster Deals

industry) will ultimately be successful. Those associated with growth and so-called synergies - such as the Time Warner acquisition of Turner - will ultimately be viewed as unwise. Today's activity, he notes, is more like the "disastrous"... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

13 Apr 2017
News

Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

the experience of having grown up in Africa and a desire to help solve the problem of unemployment among youth. Navid Rahimi, another classmate, joined the team along with two classmates from an HGSE course on entrepreneurship in education. In all, their combined... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Apr 2002
News

Q&A - Mark Fields

thing to do. Many other companies are now doing it as well. Now we look forward to better days. Our business plan for the next three to five years — known as our Millennium Plan — calls for growth, continued restructuring and reform, investment in our people, and View Details

Keywords: auto; Mazda; Ford; Mark Fields; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

that had synergies with the company's businesses, and formed a small venture capital fund for exploratory investments. Komori also initiated a reorganization that created six new divisions within the company while simultaneously... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

03 May 2016
First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

while also finding linkages and synergies across goals. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50994 The Great Training Robbery By: Beer, Michael, Magnus Finnstrom, and Derek Schrader Abstract—In 2012 U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

Harvard Business School Case 208-129 Bob Kelly, the new CEO of Mellon Financial, is considering the terms of a proposed "merger of equals" with The Bank of New York, just before the final Board meeting to approve the deal. The combination offers a great... View Details