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  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

traces the strategic, organizational, and cultural challenges JMB faced in building an organization that eventually offered mentoring partnerships to 8,000 Indigenous students in 350 high schools throughout Australia. Furthermore, the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

collectors, auction house operators, and other actors who played active roles as either institutional entrepreneurs or guardians in shaping the revitalization of the industry. We find these entrepreneurs and guardians initially espoused alternative View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare

Knowledge next month.How can providers compete on value? To do so, they must embrace a series of strategic and organizational imperatives, shown in Figure 5-1. We describe the imperatives in the context of hospitals and physician groups.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 27 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

is working to change these perceptions and document inner city business opportunities. In partnership with Inc. magazine, the ICIC scours America each year looking for the most rapidly growing private companies based in inner city areas.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

had to be updated to enable collaboration. The current dilemma facing the CEO and COO of the foundation relates to setting strategic priorities for research so that a treatment for MS can be ready in the next ten years. The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

intense margin pressure. This case allows students to discuss the keys to Beingmate’s past successes and debate its existing strategy in the context of a very complicated market. One key question is how Beingmate might leverage its View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

media content. Raises issues of how technology interacts with creative processes and outcome possibilities, and also invites discussion of strategic and organizational questions raised by the very different business models of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

Frederik NellemannHarvard Business School Case 712-438 Unilever's Lipton Tea had been successful with the first phase of its certification partnership with Rainforest Alliance. Now the company faced challenges in how to push forward with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

unit at BT, the strategic value of the unit, and its operating model. As the business environment becomes increasingly dynamic and firms are pressured to achieve faster innovation rates, there may be accompanying shifts in the way they... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

the growth of younger companies and revitalize large corporations through partnerships with innovative SMEs; 3) improving the match between education and employment opportunities, through apprenticeship programs and other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy

authors explain why access is the key and why networked incubators are emerging only now.If networked incubators offer such compelling advantages, why are they emerging only now? The answer reflects a subtle aspect of the new economy: While there are tens of thousands... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Henry W. Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria & Donald N. Sull
  • 03 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

innovation and technology at the top of their lists, but it’s also not something that they do well,” concludes Groysberg, Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration. The two findings, adds Cheng, “go hand in hand. If they don’t see innovation as a View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • September 2021
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Vignettes on Professional Service Firm Governance

By: David G. Fubini, Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
The two vignettes within “Vignettes on Professional Service Firm Governance” (HBS No. 122-024) present various issues relating to governance in professional service firms (“PSFs”). In the first, the Managing Director of a U.S. consulting firm contemplates whether to... View Details
Keywords: Consulting Firms; Professional Services; Board Of Directors; Professional Service; Global Firm; Executive Leadership; Globalized Firms and Management; Private Equity; Governing and Advisory Boards; Global Strategy; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Leadership Development; Leading Change; Emerging Markets; Strategic Planning; Partners and Partnerships; Service Industry; United States; India
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  • 09 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

years ago we launched a research program to develop a process that leaders could use to engage their people in an honest conversation. The "strategic fitness process" was designed in partnership with senior executives to enhance... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
  • 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

achieved global acclaim by launching successful missions to the moon and Mars at a fraction of the cost of prior Western missions. It is now faced with an important strategic dilemma—whether to continue exploring deep space in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 10, 2008

governance, voluntary public-private partnerships and self-regulation programs have proliferated. However, because few have been subjected to robust evaluation, little is known about whether these innovative approaches are achieving their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Feb 2003
  • Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

(diamonds) and have managed this resource extremely well. Working with De Beers, the government has consistently and strategically limited its sales of diamonds, striving to keep prices steady over the long run rather than maximizing... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12

School Case 413-120 Kvadrat: Leading for Innovation In 2013, Anders Byriel, CEO of the family-owned Danish textiles company, Kvadrat, considered the firm's strategic plan. In 2000, Byriel and Mette Bendix, Kvadrat's Product Director, had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

sharpen its "Stepping Up in Asia" strategy, LEGO executives employed scenario planning as a key tool to weigh potential outcomes. The technique, which has been around since the 1960s, fell out of favor in recent decades. In his 1994 book, Rise and Fall of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 29 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

consider potential partnerships with, say, Apple Wallet. Price setting. At Uber, a team of economists work on how to design and fine-tune its surge pricing system, which changes fares in real time and increases prices during peak hours.... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

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