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- December 1998 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Vivendi (A): Revitalizing a French Conglomerate
By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and John M. Turner
Examines corporate strategy for a diversified firm in the French business context. Issues include corporate governance, vision, and the management of unrelated diversification. After the company's first loss ever, the Vivendi board elected a new chairman who completed... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Telecommunications Industry; France
Montgomery, Cynthia A., and John M. Turner. "Vivendi (A): Revitalizing a French Conglomerate." Harvard Business School Case 799-019, December 1998. (Revised May 2003.)
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center
offer from HBS, he says, came at a time when he was open to a new challenge. Mookerjee lost no time planning a research agenda. He convened a series of campus-based meetings with 35 HBS faculty members interested in India research. From... View Details
- Web
Influencing Practice | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
One of the primary interfaces between the Social Enterprise Initiative and practitioners is through our open enrollment and custom Executive Education programs offered each year. 1_0fzgdmtm Strategic Perspectives In Nonprofit Management... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues
HBS, along with ten other business schools, has been recognized for its "cutting-edge programs incorporating societal-business issues" in a report issued by the World Resources Institute and the Initiative for Social Innovation through... View Details
- October 2005 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
Pharmaceutical Industry in 2005, The
By: John R. Wells and Elizabeth Raabe
The entire pharmaceutical industry faced uncertain times in 2005. Many of the industry's most pressing issues—patent expirations, new drug pipeline development, price pressures, regulatory issues, and political pressures—were long standing. Fundamentally new... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Research and Development; Framework; Change; Competition; Technological Innovation; Pharmaceutical Industry
Wells, John R., and Elizabeth Raabe. "Pharmaceutical Industry in 2005, The." Harvard Business School Case 706-423, October 2005. (Revised January 2021.)
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
A Side of Data with Your Dinner
also makes it a dangerous time to be a restaurateur.” The danger is the diners’ high expectations amid ever-increasing competition for their dollars. “More than ever, technology must play a critical role in helping a restaurateur optimize... View Details
- October 2023
- Case
Fixie and Conversational AI Sidekicks
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In March 2023, Fixie Co-Founder and Chief Architect Matt Welsh and co-founders had the kind of meeting no founders want to have. The president of leading artificial intelligence (AI) research and deployment firm OpenAI, which had catapulted into fame with its ChatGPT... View Details
Keywords: Large Language Model; Entrepreneurship; Decision Choices and Conditions; AI and Machine Learning; Technological Innovation; Competitive Strategy; Technology Industry; United States
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Fixie and Conversational AI Sidekicks." Harvard Business School Case 824-037, October 2023.
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
past few years (yes there are some). It is true that Greece reformed laws and regulations to make its economy more open to foreign trade and as a result more competitive. Trade (defined as the sum of exports and imports) to GDP ratio... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
against follow-on inventions and sometimes patenting eases the task for other to design around them," says Ahuja. "Whenever you invent something, you open up a trajectory and people are going to come after you. And if they have... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
The Innovator’s Guide to Growth: Putting Disruptive Innovation to Work by Scott D. Anthony (MBA ’01), Mark W. Johnson (MBA ’96), Joseph V. Sinfield, and Elizabeth J. Altman (HBS Press) Building on HBS professor Clayton Christensen’s The... View Details
Keywords: Management
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strategies for competitive leadership. Strategy and Innovation Insights on innovation: sustaining creativity, digital transformation, and essential tech principles for leaders. Diversity and Inclusion... View Details
- March 2005
- Background Note
Home Video Games: Generation Seven
By: Elie Ofek
Discusses the issues facing firms in the seventh generation of home video game platforms. In particular, Sony and Microsoft plan to launch new game consoles in the 2005 to 2006 time frame. Each firm seems to be following a different strategy. Microsoft wants to launch... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Technological Innovation; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry
Ofek, Elie. "Home Video Games: Generation Seven." Harvard Business School Background Note 505-072, March 2005.
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forum
living in Taichung, Taiwan, opening a purchasing office for a British sports shoe company. Mainland China was not yet open for business. I purchased this bronze casting of a Chinese peasant pulling a heavy... View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
file sharing has robbed them of billions of dollars after four consecutive years of falling music sales, they criticized the team's methodology, which consisted of monitoring 1.75 million downloads over 17 weeks in 2002, scouring through server logs from OpenNap (an... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
monetary policy rules are no short-cut to credibility in situations where vulnerability to economic and political shocks, not time-inconsistency, are overarching concerns for investors. Download the paper from SSRN ($5) http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13918 Using... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World
called "The Computer as a Communication Device." These guys imagined human capabilities moving to a new level when real-time interactivity was realized. They expected an acceleration of our abilities to innovate and work... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
together to facilitate visibility. The idea was that watching the workers would help managers improve operations and replicate innovations on one line across others, thus increasing productivity and driving down production costs. A... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
innovation is coming from everywhere and it's getting improved as it scales. And Silicon Valley will continue to be a great hub for innovation, but the best businesses here will see increased competition... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
presently exists for navigating, coaching, and managing the innovation process, particularly in relation to "closure." Closure is a point of convergence that happens once or repeatedly in productive activity; it signifies an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Nurturing Emerging Scholars and Leaders
Mary Sauer and Bob Doris (MBA 1977/JD 1978) HBS’s focus on innovation connected Bob Doris (MBA 1977/JD 1978) and Mary Sauer more deeply with the School. “We are very impressed with the work HBS is doing to foster a startup culture at the... View Details