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Leading Professional Service Firms

Summary As entry barriers rapidly disappear, competition is accelerating and reshaping the business landscape for professional service firms. Navigating this continual change successfully requires extraordinary leadership abilities. This professional service firm... View Details

Keywords: Professional Services; Professional Services

04 Dec 2013
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Harvard Business School to Dedicate Tata Hall, a New Executive Education Building

04 Nov 2010
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Harvard a Hit in China, but India Proves Trickier

06 Apr 2020
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Rollout For U.S. Small Business Relief Leaves Fintechs Hanging

20 Dec 2018
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Consumer Rating Algorithms Score Big with Businesses, Governments

16 Dec 2016
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Make America's workforce great again by revamping education

04 Mar 2022
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A Home on Campus: HBS Residence Halls

29 Mar 2023
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The Blavatnik Fellowship: A Lifelong Community of Entrepreneurs

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Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

By: Andy Wu

In the fight for market leadership, your company must be able to build a winning strategy—and execute it seamlessly across multiple business lines. This program prepares you to identify and exploit sources of competitive advantage and implement game-changing... View Details

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Exec Ed: Real Estate Executive Seminar: Capital, Partnerships, and Portfolios

By: John D. Macomber

With both a quest for yield and new opportunities emerging across the real estate supply chain, business leaders must have the financial capabilities, analytical tools, and strategic skills to ensure the long-term profitability of their development projects and... View Details

Research Summary

Customer-Centric Marketing Strategy

By: Rohit Deshpande

Rohit Deshpandé's research program focuses on Customer-Centricity. A stream of projects examines the interaction between corporate and national culture as they influence the development and implementation of global marketing strategies in high performance firms. This... View Details

2002
Other Unpublished Work

Clusters of Innovation Initiative: Research Triangle

By: Michael E. Porter

This regional report examines the composition and performance of the Research Triangle regional economy, how industry clusters developed and innovation arose, how clusters affected the region's economic future, and how the region can establish a strategy and action... View Details

Keywords: Clusters; Economics; Industry Clusters; Economy; Growth and Development; North Carolina

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2008
Other Teaching and Training Material

Great Negotiator 2004: Ambassador Richard Holbrooke

By: James K. Sebenius and Ellen Knebel

The Program on Negotiation honored Ambassador Holbrooke in events in October 2004. These began with an in-depth faculty-moderated discussion with an invited group of students, faculty and guests at Harvard Business School and concluded with Ambassador Holbrooke... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Negotiation

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January 1987 (Revised January 1988)
Case

Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (A)

The setting is a food manufacturing company which has stumbled in terms of its historic growth and profit achievements. In trying to recapture its momentum, the president has used information technology as one element in his program of transition. The case focuses on... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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September 1981 (Revised August 1987)
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CIBA-GEIGY Agricultural Division

By: Benson P. Shapiro and Roy H. Schoeman

In 1979 Leo Bontempo, marketing vice president of Ciba-Geigy Agricultural Division was deciding whether to purchase an $840,000 program for TeleSession. This was a marketing service designed to accelerate the adoption of new products among large innovative growers by... View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Communication; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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