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    Aticus Peterson

    Aticus Peterson (apeterson@hbs.edu) is a PhD candidate in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on how entrepreneurs and investors can... View Details

    • 17 Jan 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Being the Boss

    not just about having the right strategy but also about being able to do these breakthrough innovations more than once. Book Excerpt From being The Boss: 3 Imperatives For Becoming A Great Leader By Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 22 Jun 2011
    • News

    Benefits flow as top people join the battle

      Kris Johnson Ferreira

      Kris Ferreira is the Edgerley Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit. She teaches the Supply Chain Management course in the MBA elective curriculum and analytics in numerous Executive Education... View Details

      Keywords: retailing
      • April 2009 (Revised May 2009)
      • Case

      Oprah Winfrey

      By: Nancy F. Koehn, Erica Helms, Katherine Miller and Rachel Wilcox
      The case explores the entrepreneurial journey of Oprah Winfrey, examining how she built an audience for one of the most successful television shows in history; how she created the company, Harpo Productions, that produces that show as well as other media offerings; how... View Details
      Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Personal Development and Career; Strategy; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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      • April 1986 (Revised May 1989)
      • Case

      Alloy Rods Corp.

      By: Frank V. Cespedes
      In July of 1985 the managers of Alloy Rods (who recently purchased the company through a leveraged buyout arrangement) find that their chief competitor (a company more than 6 times as large as Alloy Rods) has introduced a new product clearly aimed at Alloy's most... View Details
      Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Business Strategy; Business or Company Management; Financial Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Channels; Product Development
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      • 2012
      • Teaching Note

      UFIDA (F) (TN)

      By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Guo Jia
      As an extension of UFIDA (A-E), UFIDA (F), using early 2012 as the time node, looks at UFIDA's major steps taken during 2010-2011, accomplishments, and major future opportunities and challenges. The case focuses on the new market development of Cloud Computing and... View Details
      Keywords: China; Strategy; China
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      • February 2018
      • Case

      Montes Calcados: A Step Ahead

      By: James L. Heskett and James T. Kindley
      Montes Calçados (MC) is a well-known "fast-fashion" Brazilian manufacturer of casual, but fashionable, shoes for women aged 18–35 in major cities worldwide. To boost its declining revenues, MC must evaluate two growth options: whether to expand distribution online (at... View Details
      Keywords: Brands and Branding; Distribution Channels; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Global Range; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry
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      • May 2009 (Revised January 2011)
      • Case

      HubSpot: Inbound Marketing and Web 2.0

      By: Thomas J. Steenburgh, Jill Avery and Naseem Ashraf Dahod
      This case introduces the concept of inbound marketing, pulling customer prospects toward a business through the use of Web 2.0 tools and applications like blogging, search engine optimization, and social media. Students follow the growth of HubSpot, an entrepreneurial... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Entrepreneurship; Price; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Communications; Social and Collaborative Networks; Segmentation; Web
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        Michael Beer

        MICHAEL BEER

        Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

        • 04 Feb 2020
        • Video

        Güler Sabancı

        Güler Sabancı, head of the Turkey-based diversified business group Sabancı Holding, discusses her strategy of managing risk when doing business in another country by focusing on having a local partner,... View Details
        • Career Coach

        Lobna Dawoud

        During her RC summer, Lobna interned at an investment bank and specialized in Financial Institutions Group. She is passionate about helping students with career visioning, setting a recruitment strategy, interview prep, networking tips, resume/cover letter reviews and... View Details
        • October 2022 (Revised September 2024)
        • Case

        mPharma: Scaling Access to Affordable Primary Care in Africa

        By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ben Creo
        mPharma hopes to scale up to create the largest pan-African healthcare company ever to provide much-needed primary care in retail pharmacies; a reliable, fairly priced supply of drugs; and micro-insurance for drugs. They must prioritize launching a telemedicine... View Details
        Keywords: Africa; Pharmaceutical Companies; Pharmacy Benefit Manager; Health Care; Health Care And Treatment; Health Care Costs; Health Care Delivery; Health Care Entrepreneurship; Telehealth; Health Equity; Corporate Strategy; Social Entrepreneurship; Equity; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Product Launch; Customer Value and Value Chain; Social Enterprise; Multinational Firms and Management; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Africa
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          Joshua Lev Krieger

          Josh Krieger is an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit.  Josh’s research focuses on R&D strategy and the economics of innovation.  His work examines project selection, R&D competition, and... View Details

          • October 2017
          • Article

          Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

          By: Gary P. Pisano
          The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971, The Concept... View Details
          Keywords: Business Admnistration; Market Structure; Firm Structure; Market Efficiency; Competency and Skills; Organizational Structure; Strategy
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          • 18 Jun 2024
          • Research & Ideas

          Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

          Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
          Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing
          • March 2016 (Revised October 2017)
          • Case

          Salesforce.com vs. Siebel (Abridged)

          By: David B. Yoffie
          Explores the phenomenon of software becoming a service. Salesforce.com has catapulted into the lead for offering a customer relationship management (CRM) solution as a Web-based service. Siebel, the leader in CRM packaged software sales, has to devise a strategy to... View Details
          Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Competitive Strategy; Software
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          • December 1974 (Revised February 1985)
          • Case

          Southwest Airlines (A)

          Southwest Airlines, a small intrastate carrier serving Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, begins service in 1971 in the face of competition by two larger, entrenched airlines. Improved quality service, lower prices, and innovative advertising and promotional strategy... View Details
          Keywords: Competition; Marketing Strategy; Air Transportation; Air Transportation Industry; Texas
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          • Research Summary

          By: Ashish Nanda
          Ashish Nanda's research focuses on ethics and economics of managing professional service firms.

          Nanda is working on a project that studies how management of conflict of interest influences professional identity, the role of professional associations, and the... View Details

          • March 2018 (Revised April 2018)
          • Case

          Morgan Stanley: Building Long-Term Sustainability

          By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Lynn Schenk
          This case focuses on the 10-year journey of one of the world's largest global financial institutions developing a sustainability strategy and integrating it across all of its business units. The case provides a deep dive into the challenges and successes of trying to... View Details
          Keywords: Finance; Sustainability; Green Bonds; ESG; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Business Units; Integration; Financial Institutions
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