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- April 2008
- Article
Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?
By: David J. Collis and Michael G. Rukstad
Keywords: Strategy
Collis, David J., and Michael G. Rukstad. "Can You Say What Your Strategy Is?" Harvard Business Review 86, no. 4 (April 2008). (50th Anniversary McKinsey Award Winner for Best Article in Harvard Business Review, 2009.)
- May 2020
- Teaching Note
Edward Jones: Implementing the Solutions Approach
By: David J. Collis
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 719-411.Updates the classic Edward Jones strategy case as the firm shifts to a new "Solutions" business model from its previous "product" model in response to changes in the brokerage industry, technology and demographics, and its own... View Details
- Web
About the Project - Creating Emerging Markets
About the Project View Video Creating Emerging Markets explores the evolution of business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. At its core are interviews, with leaders or former leaders of highly impactful businesses and NGOs. It began with a... View Details
- Web
Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Samuel Hartzmark, and David Solomon. Eugene F. Soltes : Received the 2015 Charles M. Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching. Eugene F. Soltes : Winner of the 2015 Hillcrest Behavioral Finance Award from Hillcrest Asset Management for... View Details
- Web
Research - Race, Gender & Equity
ago by Bill Milliken, CIS, a network of 110 affiliates, had built a strong program of assisting and supporting... Load More Initiative Leadership Robin J. Ely Organizational Behavior 11 results Related... View Details
- December 2020
- Supplement
Tokio Marine Group (B)
By: David J. Collis, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno
Updates the Tokio Marine (A) case by providing information on the organisation structure adopted by the Japanese insurance firm as it moved to integrate its global operations, along with changes in HR policies that sought to balance traditional Japanese practices with... View Details
Keywords: Organisational Design; Organization Structure; Culture; Global Strategy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Values and Beliefs; Human Resources; Insurance Industry; Japan
Collis, David J., Nobuo Sato, and Akiko Kanno. "Tokio Marine Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 721-418, December 2020.
- June 2023
- Teaching Note
Komatsu and Smart Construction
By: David J. Collis
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 521-042. The case describes the introduction by Komatsu, the Japanese earth moving equipment manufacturer, of a new business model—Smart Construction. This replaces the one-time sale of a capital good with a software platform that... View Details
- 2005
- Book
Corporate Strategy: A Resource-Based Approach
By: David J. Collis and Cynthia A. Montgomery
Keywords: Corporate Strategy
Collis, David J., and Cynthia A. Montgomery. Corporate Strategy: A Resource-Based Approach. 2nd ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2005. (Available in Chinese, Korean, and Italian versions.)
- March 1995 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Smashing the Cube: Corporate Transformation at CIBA-GEIGY Ltd.
By: David J. Collis and Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
CIBA-GEIGY is a large, diversified multinational corporation that transforms itself in the 1990s through a massive structural and cultural change. The case describes the changes implemented and the processes used to effect change in portfolio, people, and structures.... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Change Management; Transformation; Investment Portfolio; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Culture; Corporate Strategy
Collis, David J., and Elizabeth Wynne Johnson. "Smashing the Cube: Corporate Transformation at CIBA-GEIGY Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 795-041, March 1995. (Revised March 1995.)
- Web
Events - Business History
Seminar Shaping Computers and the Computing Industry in the United States, 1940-2010 Lars Heide, HBS (Visiting Fellow) and Copenhagen Business School Oct 27 27 Oct 2016 Conference Varieties of Big Business: Business Groups in the West Organized View Details
- Web
C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
spanned half a century. At the time of his death in 1999, he was the Robert Walmsley University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard. Beloved and revered by generations of HBS students, Christensen regarded himself first and foremost as a... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Does Pension Automatic Enrollment Increase Debt? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Experiment
By: John Beshears, Matthew Blakstad, James J. Choi, Christopher Firth, John Gathergood, David Laibson, Richard Notley, Jesal D. Sheth, Will Sandbrook and Neil Stewart
Does automatic enrollment into retirement saving increase household debt? We study the randomized roll-out of automatic enrollment pensions to ~160,000 employers in the United Kingdom with 2-29 employees. We find that the additional savings generated through automatic... View Details
Keywords: Retirement; Saving; Personal Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Compensation and Benefits
Beshears, John, Matthew Blakstad, James J. Choi, Christopher Firth, John Gathergood, David Laibson, Richard Notley, Jesal D. Sheth, Will Sandbrook, and Neil Stewart. "Does Pension Automatic Enrollment Increase Debt? Evidence from a Large-Scale Natural Experiment." Working Paper, October 2024.
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
revolutionary functionality. We explore a second path to entry that does not rely on Schumpeterian innovation: platform envelopment. By leveraging shared user relationships and common components, one platform provider can move into... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2019
- News
Is This Disney’s Next CEO?
all, turned Disney’s film business into the envy of the industry. Last year, the division earned a record $3 billion profit, the most ever for a Hollywood studio.” The piece opens with a mention of Mayer’s habit of returning to HBS to speak in the first-year strategy... View Details
- November 2006 (Revised November 2007)
- Case
Strategy in the Twenty First Century Pharmaceutical Industry: Merck & Co. and Pfizer Inc.
By: David J. Collis and Troy Smith
The global pharmaceutical industry has gone through substantial changes in the last few decades and pharmaceutical firms face major challenges including headline-grabbing litigation, imminent patent expirations, new technologies, rising drug development costs, generic... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Research and Development; Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
Collis, David J., and Troy Smith. "Strategy in the Twenty First Century Pharmaceutical Industry: Merck & Co. and Pfizer Inc." Harvard Business School Case 707-509, November 2006. (Revised November 2007.)
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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni
Programs & Events HBS Entrepreneurship Summit NOV 4-5 4-5 NOVEMBER 2022 HBS ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUMMIT: LEADING HIGH-GROWTH VENTURES IN AN UNPREDICTABLE WORLD Brought to you by the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and Alumni Relations... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Behavior of Global Banks By: Victoria Ivashina , David S. Scharfstein & Jeremy C. Stein AUG 2015 Foreign banks play large roles in the US domestic funding market. However, unlike domestic banks, which are funded View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Strategic Management Journal and elsewhere. He has also authored, co-authored or supervised over 150 cases at Harvard Business School. He is the author of Do Lunch or Be Lunch: The Power of Predictability in Creating Your Future, published View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Operations Management Society (POMS). Robert S. Huckman : Awarded the Inaugural David J. Fine Distinguished Visiting Professor in Healthcare Administration from the University of Minnesota in 2023. Christian... View Details
- December 2020 (Revised December 2021)
- Case
Komatsu and Smart Construction
By: Rajiv Lal, David J. Collis and Akiko Saito
Komatsu, Japan's leading construction equipment manufacturer, is considering investing in a digital platform "Smart Construction" that will digitise the entire work process on a construction site, allowing for substantial reductions in cost and time while improving... View Details
Keywords: Platform; Digital Business; Construction; Business Model; Strategy; Technology Adoption; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Construction Industry; Japan
Lal, Rajiv, David J. Collis, and Akiko Saito. "Komatsu and Smart Construction." Harvard Business School Case 521-042, December 2020. (Revised December 2021.)