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- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
the wider company culture that always affects what a firm is and is not capable of [achieving] in the marketplace. We will look at these issues in some detail in the program, with very practical takeaways for participants. Q: Discuss the challenges companies face as... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
directing the engineering unit/group to disrupt its usual integration processes—all for a nascent uncertain venture. The team's marketing techniques were disruptive, too. Whereas automotive marketers traditionally relied on television... View Details
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
of speed Technology. Although people have been talking about the idea of the integrated supply chain for a long time, it's only been in the last decade or so that information technology has made it possible to bring many concepts to life.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
system, while 20 percent felt "strongly negative." The feedback resulted in a call to arms, a report that detailed five imperatives to improve the situation. Among these imperatives: the need to integrate newly developed approaches into... View Details
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
to the "Arauco: Forward Integration or Horizontal Expansion?" case. This short case looks at the company in late 2007 after it has decided to invest in a Brazilian joint venture involving forests, saw mills, and a paper mill.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
pointillist painter, and it's easy to imagine Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey humming the same tune. But if creativity is integral to business, and to entrepreneurship in particular, how exactly does it occur? Where does this unicorn-like... View Details
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
economy. There was a cycle of greed throughout the system, and boards, for their part, allowed it to go unchecked.— Jay Lorsch Koehn: Board performance and the culture of organizations as factors affecting a firm's integrity have been... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
XNE business model called for a much greater integration of the new units with traditional business units. The autonomy offered to the XNE managers and their compensation schemes were much closer to that afforded in a traditional... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- March 2016
- Case
IC Group A/S
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
IC Group owned several of Scandinavia's leading premium fashion brands. How should it respond to the decline of its primary wholesale distribution channels (independent fashion boutiques and department stores)? Should it open more physical stores or focus on... View Details
Keywords: IC Group; IC Companys; Carli Gry; InWear; Mads Ryder; Niels Martinsen; Premium Fashion; Fast Fashion; Business Units; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Profit; Revenue; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Business or Company Management; Acquisition; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Distribution Channels; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Product Positioning; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Web Sites; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Scandinavia; Denmark; Sweden; Norway
Wells, John R., and Gabriel Ellsworth. "IC Group A/S." Harvard Business School Case 716-446, March 2016.
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
form, as we move from one element to the next. In the end, these four elements coalesce to form a single integrated process—a single source of organizational power. Talking About talk, Inc. When we began the project that led to this book,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
whether people will let him cut in line at the airport for a $10 bribe. These experiments are proving integral in learning not only what makes people tick but also how that matters for business. "Over the last decade, scholars and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
deciding if organizations should be required to disclose nonfinancial information. The EC had to determine what types of organizations would be required to disclose, which international framework would serve as a standard reporting guideline, and if ESG disclosure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 22
integration and degree of structural differentiation together affect a firm's ability to explore and exploit. We suggest that the senior team's ability to attend to and deal with contradictory internal architectures is a crucial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
(September-October 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/gyu/TWFR%20Sept-Oct%202011%20The%20Return%20Experience%20of%20Hedge%20Fund%20Investors.pdf Dynamically Integrating Knowledge in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
pharmaceutical company GSK must choose how much to integrate a recently acquired biotechnology firm, Sirtris. Moncef Slaoui, GSK's global head of R&D, championed the acquisition of Sirtris to gain access to its potentially... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
commitment to sustainability. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112064-PDF-ENG Ganging up on Cancer: Integrative Research Centers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (B) Heidi K. Gardner, Edo Bedzra, and Shereef M.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
new leaders are expected to actively query their peer coaches about lessons learned, factors that have led to success, and what the coaches wish they had known when they started working at Bank of America. A third element of onboarding is a facilitated View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?
auditors and audit committees whose mutual survival depends on each other, overly complicated accounting and tax systems, and the nature of the reporting relationships between internal auditors and those responsible for the integrity of... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
creation of a new business ecosystem. That's what we need in health care. Right now, only 5 percent of health care in America is provided by integrated institutions such as Kaiser, Intermountain, and Geisinger, but 95 percent of health... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407028 Embrapa Harvard Business School Case 507-019 Brazil's national agricultural research corporation, Embrapa, has developed an integrated crop and livestock production... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace