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  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

examining the strategies for change employed. Instead of this halfhearted approach, managers are better off picking a pure model: a clear Theory E approach with its benefits and costs or a pure Theory O approach with its benefits and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
  • 26 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 26

evolution of multinational banks over time and suggest a conceptual framework in which this development can be understood. In-depth analyses of the multinational banking strategies of selected countries and institutions extend from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52723 forthcoming Management Science A Formal Theory of Strategy By: Van den Steen, Eric J. Abstract—What makes a decision strategic? When is strategy most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 1999 (Revised June 1999)
  • Case

1-800 Buy Ireland

By: Willis M. Emmons III, Adele S. Cooper and J. Richard Lenane
After decades of poor economic performance, the Irish government adopted major changes in economic policy in 1987. By the end of the 1990s, Ireland's real GDP growth rate of almost 10% per year exceeds that of all member nations of the European Union (EU). A key... View Details
Keywords: Integration; Development Economics; Supply and Industry; Policy; Foreign Direct Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Macroeconomics; Republic of Ireland
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  • 01 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 1

market, we induce a theoretical framework to explain how firms win the race to find a viable business model. As the new market emerged, high-performing firms enacted three strategies in sequence that helped them achieve their objective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Oct 2018
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Function of Fear in Leadership?

leader’s role should involve reducing fear among associates to a minimum. Beatriz commented that, “quite often, team members paralyze due to fear and start delegating upward New KPIs, action plans, and strategies that don’t decipher the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • June 2012
  • Article

Leadership Is a Conversation

By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
Globalization and new technologies have sharply reduced the efficacy of command-and-control management and its accompanying forms of corporate communication. In the course of a recent research project, the authors concluded that by talking with employees, rather than... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Management Style; Interpersonal Communication; Leadership; Cooperation; Partners and Partnerships
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  • 09 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

In today's global work environment, it's a given that companies need culturally diverse teams to succeed. Both scientific studies and common sense tell us that having people with different viewpoints onboard increases the creativity that teams will employ in solving... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • September 2006 (Revised November 2013)
  • Case

Airbus vs. Boeing (A)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Erich Alexander Voigt and Jordan Mitchell
Looks at the development of the competitive actions between Airbus and Boeing from 1992 to 2006. Begins with the question of whether Airbus and Boeing should collaborate on the development of a VLCT (Very Large Commercial Transport) or whether Airbus should develop... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competition; Cooperation; Air Transportation Industry
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  • 25 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

Working on a $30 million historical epic about the Tang Dynasty to be set in China, Hollywood screenwriter David Franzoni struggled to make the story appeal to Western audiences. Then Franzoni hit upon an idea: tell the tale through the eyes of a foreign-born general... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

were also proud of their company culture, which de-emphasized traditional company hierarchies and encouraged independent thinking and cooperative working arrangements across departments. Keeping the company private, in their view, had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2020
  • Case

Building Transparency within the Sustainable Apparel Coalition: The Road to Successful Pre-Competitive Collaboration

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) was founded in 2010 to develop a common set of sustainability standards for the apparel, footwear, and home textile industries. The organization was an example of pre-competitive collaboration, a strategy in which companies... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Cooperation; Social Issues; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • June 2015 (Revised July 2016)
  • Case

Gilbert Lumber Company

By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth Cooper
The Gilbert Lumber Co. is faced with a need for increased bank financing due to its rapid sales growth and low profitability. Students must determine the reasons for the rising bank borrowing, estimate the amount of borrowing needed, and assess the attractiveness of... View Details
Keywords: Commercial Banking; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Strategy; Financing and Loans; Capital Structure; Forecasting and Prediction
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  • 07 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

4+2 = Sustained Business Success

percent between 1990 and 2000. (We confirmed our findings in the five years following the study period.) Both companies' performance was directly linked to whether or not they adhered to the 4+2 formula. In the strategy practice, for... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

anti-regulation movement that started in the 1970s, voluntary self-regulation programs have emerged in many regulatory agencies, seeking to increase cooperation between government and industry to achieve greater and more cost-effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2012
  • Article

How Many Direct Reports?

By: Gary L. Neilson and Julie Wulf
If senior executives are feeling ever more pressed for time, why would they add more to their plates? It might sound counterintuitive, but research by Booz & Company's Gary L. Neilson and me shows that over the past 20 years the CEO's average span of control, measured... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Governance Controls; Managerial Roles; Adaptation; Personal Development and Career; Cooperation; Management Teams
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  • 16 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509012 Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail Harvard Business School Case 709-409 The case looks at the two dominant Finnish retailers: S Group and Kesko. S Group is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

Mistake Number 3: Passively sitting and waiting for a crisis (which many never come). A major problem with passive strategies is that nature may not cooperate by providing the right amount of lightning in... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
  • 16 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

necessarily lead to a collaborative environment, a hallmark of systemic integration. That requires the lever of cooperation—the alignment of goals. When members of disparate or competing silos cooperate around a common set of goals, they... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products
  • December 2005
  • Case

IBM and Eclipse (A)

IBM faces a collective action problem: It open sourced its $40 million application platform and has to convince other companies to contribute. Explores the events leading up to IBM's decision to make the Eclipse platform available as an Open Source project. In 1998,... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Open Source Distribution; Cooperation; Adoption; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry
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