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Digital Operations - Course Catalog
into operational strategy is increasingly critical. Focusing on the operational enablers and implications of digital transformation, this course examines how companies integrate and scale digital technologies in their core operations.... View Details
- 10 Mar 2017
- News
As Head of Fidelity, Abigail Johnson Is Just Getting Started
record $3.5 billion operating profit for 2016, in part due to targeted expense cuts. Fidelity recently cut its fees for online brokerage trades on a bold bet it would result in a strong increase in... View Details
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Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog
strategies employed by private equity firms to identify and evaluate investment opportunities. Students will be expected to articulate clear, compelling and differentiated investment theses. Important tools... View Details
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
advantage? It's a conscious strategy to play to their strengths? A: I think that's right. For instance, Polaroid identified digital imaging as an opportunity very early on; in fact, you could argue that its... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Cure All
interactions between health care providers and payers, as well as antitrust enforcement. Here, they discuss what it would take to improve the provision of care. Say you’re settling into your seat for a short-haul flight, and your seatmate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Books
Wells (Jossey-Bass) In fast-changing business environments, firms must adapt their strategies to remain at the top. But many firms fail to do so. Instead, they succumb to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Next Cyber Threat? by Ray Rothrock (MBA 1988) Amacom Rothrock lays bare tactics used by hackers, vulnerabilities lurking in networks, and strategies not just for surviving attacks but also View Details
- 07 Jun 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Important are Big Ideas?
exercise unless management approaches them with military discipline." Mike Kirkeberg goes even further in saying, "All new management philosophies and strategies work ... until they don’t. ... It seems very simple: Make a good... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
uses state-of-the-art machines to fabricate component parts for a worldwide customer base. For the Kirlin Company, technologically advanced lighting designed and manufactured in the United States keeps the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Expands Global Presence
the region's business issues and the research opportunities they present. "The integration of Europe is leading companies to devote more attention to their pan-European strategy," says Crane. "Cross-border mergers, for example, have... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Clusters and Competition
Michael E. Porter: learning more about the processes that produce competitive success. Michael E. Porter, acclaimed expert on competitive strategy and leader of the HBS-based Institute for View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
determine whether the practice results in "collusion and monopoly?" In fact, does platform leadership have to be confined to those firms developing technology? Can it just as well be established by marketers who serve as traffic... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
Agency (KBRA). When the firm lured away Moody’s executive Jerome Fons, whom Becker knew, “I contacted him to say this might be a fantastic opportunity to write an exciting case about this topic.” Enter Jules Kroll, widely recognized as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Faculty Books
of international capital markets. Several cases go inside multinational firms to consider how hedging strategies can be devised, how to value assets around the world, and how to pursue major financings that... View Details
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
at the market level, then translate these into strategies at the market segment level. A paper mill's marketing strategy, for instance, might call for selling newsprint to the... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
executive to set up Eastern Labs and start innovating. Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption? Are information technology companies subject to the same kinds of blinkered strategies of more traditional... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog
while still responding to ever-changing policy directions in Beijing, Washington, and Europe. Our course will examine case studies of firms that have faced these challenges and will equip students with View Details
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
range of ideas into debates that can be used to formulate questions and strategic directives for management. Those conversations can’t happen if boards aren’t making time for them, however. “There can be a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
both theory and practice. In the United States, for example, the amount invested in sales forces exceeds an estimated $800 billion a year. That's more than three times the money US firms spend annually on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
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and product markets." Jensen and his contributors detail three major systems that play a critical role in organizational strategy and help address control problems within the decentralized organization. They are a system View Details