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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog

performance. Course Content and Organization The course is structured into four modules: 1. Business Models and The Complete Strategy Landscape How can firms create enormous entrepreneurial value by developing new business models? The... View Details

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Advancing Social Enterprise | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

school in terms of social enterprise and global entrepreneurship. Business schools were much more geared to Wall Street and Fortune 500 company management. Now, 20 years later, there are case studies on Endeavor as part of the MBA... View Details

March 2016
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IC Group A/S

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

IC Group owned several of Scandinavia's leading premium fashion brands. How should it respond to the decline of its primary wholesale distribution channels (independent fashion boutiques and department stores)? Should it open more physical stores or focus on... View Details

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25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14483 The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization Authors: Maria Guadalupe and Julie M. Wulf Abstract This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007

from the 1920s onward, including geographic, product, and matrix architectures. Market development organizations, global business units, and global business services unit, each of which is heavily... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

For decades, the U.S. auto industry ruled America's economy, shaped the country's development, and influenced American culture and social mores. Now, buffeted by globalization and other powerful forces, it faces a moment of truth. The... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

07 Jun 2004
What Do You Think?

How Important are Big Ideas?

them. This raises a new set of questions concerning the future of global competition. As Winfried Schoepf put it, "The big idea is the only thing with the ability to attract enough people around a new concept when real change is... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2006
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Drive-In Nation

For decades, the U.S. auto industry ruled America’s economy, shaped the country’s development, and influenced American culture and social mores. Now, buffeted by globalization and other powerful forces, it faces a moment of truth. The... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

14 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

report violations when they observe them, so they are actually violating their ethics code by not reporting violations,” Soltes says. Companies have good reason to try and change that. For starters, firms that have an effective compliance... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Lehman Brothers - Introduction | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s Leadership Transitions 2008 Bankruptcy... View Details

01 Mar 2006
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Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?

ENRIQUEZ: People take too much for granted. PHOTO BY JEFF THIEBAUTH As CEO of Biotechonomy, a life-sciences research and venture capital firm, Juan Enriquez (MBA ’86) has examined the impact of life sciences on the global economy. In his... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Finance; Health, Social Assistance

13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

systematically examined. This contempt for business groups in mature market settings stands in sharp contrast to the intensive research that has been conducted on other major models of large modern enterprises in those economies, such as functionally organized View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Supply Chain Management - Course Catalog

(e.g., operations, marketing, finance) in firms that make, sell and/or distribute physical products, or in organizations (e.g., consulting firms, investment banks, private equity firms, software providers, transportation providers) that... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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The Prophet of Start-Ups

famous inventor Charles F. Kettering (MBA ’27) predicted ARD would go bust in five years. But Doriot proved him wrong over the next 25 years, as his firm financed and nurtured more than 100 start-ups, many of which became huge successes... View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

June 2024 (Revised December 2024)
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Climate Governance at Linde plc (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain

In July 2023, the Linde plc board of directors' sustainability committee convened in London to review the company's environmental performance, with a focus on decarbonization and clean energy. Linde was the world's largest industrial gas supplier, with a workforce of... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Innovation Strategy; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Business and Shareholder Relations; Chemical Industry; United States; Germany; Europe; North America; London

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01 Jun 1999
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Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies

Fortune magazine's "Fifty Most Powerful Women in American Business." Why has Lucent performed so well since its divestiture from AT&T? We have been growing globally faster than our markets. Our ability to focus on the hottest growth... View Details

09 Jun 2015
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Media

into creating the world's largest pop star? A case study by Anita Elberse examines the strategic marketing choices that created a global brand. To Read More: ARTICLES Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands Playing with... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Advertising

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Yueran Ma

growing up also had a major influence on my interests in finance. I travelled with my family in China, and everywhere I saw firms and entrepreneurs struggling to raise funding as the financial system was riddled with frictions and... View Details

19 Oct 2021
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In the Contest for Content

well as streaming options like Spotify and Apple Music. A recent New York Times article, “A $1 Billion Competitor for Music Rights Says ‘Content Is Queen,’” explains that HarbourView is backed by up to $1 billion from Apollo Global... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2016
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Inside the Bestseller List with Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

the world, both for the better and for the more challenging,” says Lemmon, who wrote The Dressmaker while working at global investment management firm PIMCO. “I want to tell stories that have implications... View Details

Keywords: April White

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