Strategy For Multi-business Firm - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

ESG—factors), both because of its importance to socially conscious investors and as an indicator of long-term corporate health. Firms such as Morgan Stanley Capital International crunch hundreds of factors from carbon emissions to the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 Jun 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change

can I do? What are key enterprise risk-management strategies? How Do I Build My Business In This Environment? Building Businesses in Turbulent Times An economic crisis is a charter for business leaders to rewrite and rethink how they do... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

20 May 2013
Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

At an event at Harvard Business School that was three parts analysis and one part rally, participants tried to chart a new path forward for the sluggish US economy—a move that may require a new definition of "competitiveness."... View Details

Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette

11 Jun 2019
Book

These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway

Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power David Yoffie and colleagues reveal the principles that have made platform businesses the most valuable firms in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

possibilities for an effective resolution. Instead, she urges managers to look beyond differences in practice to underlying principles. In many instances, this approach can help managers find a strategy that... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

05 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?

investors (such as hedge funds, mutual funds, and pension funds) from 1999 to 2014. The information came from Abel Noser Solutions (formerly Ancerno Ltd.), a firm that performs transaction cost analysis for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

force them to move production destined for China to somewhere else. Such unintended consequences make businesses uneasy. Firms conduct business under a set of accepted rules, just like athletes want to... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

25 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

William Wrigley, and two years later the sale of its candy business to the Swiss firm of Jacob Suchard. In 1986 the Ecko housewares line was divested to the Packaging Corporation of America for $388.2... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

upgrading of its channel strategy design that accounted for 46% of North America sales in 2006. Nonetheless, NetApp senior management announced they expected to grow revenue another 30% in fiscal 2007 with... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

online well before any regulatory filing disclosed his holdings in the company. These tactics may have been designed for drama, but the investment strategy and its scale are nothing unusual today. Activist... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World For the first time in 100 years, new technologies such as artificial intelligence are causing View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

four firms account for 75 percent of the Australian market. Research by my colleagues Jan Rivkin and Tarun Khanna suggests that industry structure can be quite different around the world. The wine industry... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

30 May 2019
What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

differentiate itself from the ‘stuffy, hierarchical’ East Coast. I see this today when I talk to entrepreneurs trying to raise money on both coasts. I hear again and again how fast things happen on the West Coast and how long it takes for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

17 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?

the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School, who wades into the controversy with a new working paper, Enabling Versus Controlling, co-written with National University of Singapore economics professor Julian Wright. Uber may have very... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service; Technology

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

a local law firm to finally overcome the need for dual approval—an outcome that demanded local counsel well versed in the intricacies of Chinese culture. In short, successful cross-border negotiators begin... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

08 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent characteristic) at one end of the spectrum and high frequency reversal at the other. Unlike... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

line—if this had been our own retirement fund or our kids' college fund—I don't know if we would have necessarily had the conviction to stick with it," says Singhal. (She and Higgins now work together at AQR Capital Management, an asset management View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

to those funds. An alternative in more recent times is what Viceira calls “private equity in public markets.” In these cases, investment funds adopt processes similar to private equity firms but without taking a public company private.... View Details