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  • 24 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

already occupies. Share customer lists and credit cards with the new businesses. Share the company's competency in product purchasing. Share key management skills with the new LOBS. Financially, SMI had dual objectives: Maintain market... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 21 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?

conditions and competing forms of entertainment that is displacing legitimate sales." The industry is rethinking its position, although change occurs slowly. Q: Let's talk strategy. What have been the recording companies' strategies... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Music
  • 25 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

its disk drives and other peripherals in the early 1970s, after the truly modular design of the System/360. KC: Disk drive designers left IBM in droves and founded their own firms to design and manufacture drives that would "plug into" System/360 and thus... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

health care marketplace and make competing on value central to their strategy. All stakeholders in the health care industry—regulators, providers, insurers, employers, and patients themselves—have roles to play in creating real... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

attention, overconfidence, and identity commitments-that affected the firm's ability to learn, attend to, reflect on, and dynamically respond to information and changes in its environment. Our longitudinal research reveals a downside of legitimacy building and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

Book: http://store.elsevier.com/Handbook-of-Safeguarding-Global-Financial-Stability/isbn-9780123978752/   Working PapersLeading Amidst Competing Technical and Institutional Demands: Revisiting Selznick's Conception of Leadership... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

literacy stifle demand. A second view argues that demand is rationally low, because formal financial services are expensive and of relatively low value to the poor. This paper uses original surveys and a field experiment to distinguish between two View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

be attributed to donor firms' concerns about the potentially negative consequences of scrutiny over outsourcing for themselves and for their affiliated candidates. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-103.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsAdvanced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2022 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

DaVita Responds to COVID

By: Susanna Gallani and David Lane
Early in August 2021, DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez was assessing the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on his firm, which provided life-sustaining kidney dialysis to roughly 240,000 people. Effective infection control practices and information sharing had ensured... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change Management; Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Wages; Working Conditions; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Health Industry; United States
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  • 20 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

approach was not a universal panacea to competing in the global economy." Porter went on to suggest that even the profitable Japan had serious limitations. "Total quality management, lifetime employment, close relationships with... View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

statesmen, capitalists, and intellectuals advocated for territorial rearrangements of various European economies, a discussion that lasted with greater or lesser intensity from the 1870s to the 1950s. Their sometimes competing and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 18

egalitarianism to be based on exogenous factors including social fractionalization, religion, and war experience. Controlling for a large set of competing explanations, we find a robust influence of egalitarianism distance on cross-border... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

competencies required for achieving top-line growth through global partners are different than the competencies required to be successful in reducing costs via outsourcing. Yet, many companies continue to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

average in order to compete successfully. "Airbnb's pricing suggestions implicitly acknowledge that price is a market-driven outcome," Luca says. "In a market, prices move until supply meets demand. And the data indicate that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising
  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works

a key element of the blockbuster strategy. But the competition for the few stars at the top is so severe that the pressure on entertainment businesses is getting pretty intense. The truth is that often they can barely afford to compete... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 16 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509012 Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail Harvard Business School Case 709-409 The case looks at the two dominant Finnish retailers: S Group and Kesko. S Group is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

small open economy, final goods production is carried out by foreign and domestic firms, which compete for skilled labor, unskilled labor, and intermediate products. To operate a firm in the intermediate goods sector, entrepreneurs must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2024
  • Case

Navigating Digital Transformation at Carrefour

By: Sunil Gupta and Emilie Billaud
In 2023, Elodie Perthuisot, Carrefour’s Executive Director for e-commerce and digital transformation, met with CEO Alexandre Bompard to discuss strategies for the company’s digital initiatives. Carrefour, a global retail giant with over 14,300 stores across 40... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Decisions; Digital Strategy; Technology Adoption; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Resource Allocation; Digital Marketing; E-commerce; Operations; Logistics; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Strategic Planning; Alliances; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe
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  • April 2024 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

Moderna: Pioneering a People Platform to Accelerate Science Innovation

By: Tatiana Sandino, Emil Dy and Samuel Grad
Moderna was founded in 2010 to explore how messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) could be used to create breakthrough medicines by encoding instructions for the body to create antibodies. When Stéphane Bancel (HBS 2000) took over in 2011, he bet on the potential of this... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Talent and Talent Management; Selection and Staffing; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Strategy; Innovation and Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Alignment; Employee Relationship Management; Science-Based Business; Expansion; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

disadvantageous position to compete with the two superpowers. However, it did compete, and the question is why. The existing historiography on the Sino-Soviet split focuses on Mao's desire for leadership of the international communist... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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