General Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2016
News

The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout

(both MBA 1992) have written, produced, and directed Live Another Day, a documentary in the spirit of Inside Job that delves into the government bailout of General Motors and the Chrysler-Fiat merger through extensive research and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

February 2015 (Revised March 2016)
Case

China Shenhua Energy Company

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, G. A. Donovan and Keith Chi-ho Wong

A leading Chinese energy firm, active in coal mining and electric power generation, analyzes coal-to-liquids technology in light of energy security and environmental concerns. View Details

Keywords: Environment; China; CO2; Coal Mining; Electricity; Sustainability; Energy; Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; China; Asia

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01 Jun 2001
News

Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution

many WEBSE business models. To succeed, Austin argues, WEBSEs must execute effective strategies in three key areas. For driving traffic to the site, he uncovered two primary models: WEBSEs can generate the... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

21 Nov 2013
News

Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

multiple generations of technology. Microsoft and IBM perhaps? Yet no one is pointing to them as bastions of novel and breakthrough ideas! It's easy to point to specific design decisions as the cause of Blackberry's demise. They ignored... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Oct 1998
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New Releases

of thinking about complex choices. They suggest that the decision-maker start by probing his or her objectives (including interests, fears, and aspirations) and use these reflections to help generate creative alternatives for evaluation.... View Details

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Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage - Course Catalog

competitive advantage and how that affects the general manager's role in formulating and executing strategy. Course Content The course starts by exploring the structure of competitive advantage and how the key drivers of advantage... View Details

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

the outcomes. Teradyne found that by using generic components offered with Windows NT software, it could slash the cost of delivering the product to integrated circuit manufacturers. Despite the significant cost advantages offered by... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

10 Aug 2015
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Seeding a Better Future for Colombia

format when he served as his country’s pavilion director during the Shanghai Expo, in 2009. The experience led to his leadership role as commissioner general for Colombia at Expo Milano 2015. This year’s Milan gathering runs through... View Details

Student-Profile

Kala Viswanathan

Technology and Operations Management.” Kala feels inspired by the community of scholars she has joined at HBS—and, more broadly, at Harvard. “The people who work alongside you in a doctoral program really shape your experience,” she says. “My professors are incredibly... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

The New Global Business Manager

function of today’s global manager? We used to think of the CEO as being the grand strategic architect. Now the world is so complex and fast-moving that the general manager’s role is less about managing content and more about managing... View Details

Keywords: Management

01 Dec 2013
News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

headquarters in New York, one of the executives charged with growing the league's reach and revenues is Peter O'Reilly (MBA 2002), vice president, fan strategy & marketing. "My focus is on strengthening our year-round calendar for our... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

15 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands

Green and Black's, and Coca Cola purchasing a significant interest in HonestTea.) As the authors write, "Making a virtuous mouse and rich elephant merger work is a delicate, but potentially high-value undertaking in terms of View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

01 Jun 2005
News

Better than Cash

and general management consulting services — all free of charge. “The five CAP volunteers assessed our agency carefully and gave me the kind of information I hadn’t had before,” says Alston-Follansbee. “They helped us realize that what we... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; CAP; HBS; nonprofits; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

05 Aug 2002
What Do You Think?

Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?

course, one can argue that this is what the highway system of the U.S. (or any country, for that matter) is all about. Or at a more micro level, it is what General Motors, Ford, and others created when they built a system of complementors... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Corporate Finance: Corporate Financial Operations (CFO) - Course Catalog

spring course, Strategies for Value Creation - Abridged (SVC-S) 1418, students cannot take both of them. Career Focus This course provides a general management perspective on corporate finance and is... View Details

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Impact on Research & Curriculum | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Home Exhibition Business Education & The Case Method The General Shoe Company, 1921 Case Writing & Industry Expansion of the Case Method The Case Method Classroom Teaching & The Case Method Impact on... View Details

16 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "Interdepartmental coordination doesn't tend to happen organically. It needs some intervention to create collaborative networks." “What corporate-level View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Oct 2001
News

Q&A: Orin Smith

people-watching, and the general ambience, it was extremely attractive to customers. Also, a key aspect of our strategy is to be preemptive; we get there ahead of the competition, and if we're a little late,... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

16 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

explores whether the strategy will save the Chinese economy or generate social and political problems that imperil the country's growth and stability. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jul 2016
First Look

July 12, 2016

framework is their degree of fungibility: capabilities span a continuum ranging from highly general purpose (e.g., quality management) to highly market specific (e.g., knowing how to manufacture an airplane wing). To illustrate the... View Details