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- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
Demand: Model and Estimation Methodology Authors:Nathan Craig, Nicole DeHoratius, and Ananth Raman Abstract To set service levels, firms must understand how changes in service affect customer demand. Supply learning is a process whereby... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- July 2023
- Case
Schuberg Philis: From Success to Significance
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Daniela Beyersdorfer
The founders of Dutch professional services firm Schuberg Philis, and the new leadership team entrusted with the day-to-day management, must set the path forward in 2019. The company has grown into a €70 million revenue strong IT provider with top ranks in the... View Details
Keywords: Management Succession; Growth Management; Change Management; Transformation; Mission and Purpose; Leadership; Leading Change; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; Europe; Netherlands
DeLong, Thomas J., and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Schuberg Philis: From Success to Significance." Harvard Business School Case 424-012, July 2023.
- 18 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement
Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
- 24 Jan 2011
- HBS Case
Terror at the Taj
that it has to do with governance of the Tatas; two-thirds of their profits are donated to charitable causes, so the employees feel that they are working for a higher good." But the IT firm Tata View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible
threat lack credibility, but you also have no way of changing course if the situation becomes dire. 3. Visibly incur sunk costs Suppose you are negotiating with a consulting firm to renew its contract to... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
firms do that already. "These results seem to make a lot of sense to organizations like The Boston Consulting Group or McKinsey & Company, which deliberately use very different structures for... View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Personal Connections: How Shared Experiences Boost Performance
consultancies and accounting firms already do this by putting “cohorts” of new employees on similar professional development tracks, with shared workshops, activities, and milestones designed to strengthen... View Details
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
graduate from HBS in Spring 2009. He must decide whether to join his father's company, Toronto-based AME Learning, as president working alongside his father who will be CEO. AME has been in business for 12 years, mostly as a small View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
departments within the firm could query it for answers to questions ranging from optimal pricing to product design. What prevents this from materializing? After all, machine learning is delivering self-driving cars and beating human... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
followed by flexible execution. McDonald says that might seem like the reverse of a good strategy—shouldn’t a new firm be flexible at the beginning to see what works? But he says focused selection earlier is what allows a company the best... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- April 2002
- Case
Pallotta TeamWorks
By: Allen S. Grossman and Elizabeth Kind
Pallotta Team Works is a for-profit, privately owned company that produces multiday fundraising events for nonprofit organizations. Dan Pallotta, the 40-year-old CEO, founded the enterprise in 1992. The company has grown rapidly, having raised over $200 million for... View Details
Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Business Model; Nonprofit Organizations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry; United States
Grossman, Allen S., and Elizabeth Kind. "Pallotta TeamWorks." Harvard Business School Case 302-089, April 2002.
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
keep a tight rein on costs—but the dynamics of the budgeting process often undermine this effort. "In tough times like these, any significant real cost growth feels imprudent and is hard to justify for most businesses," writes Mike Baxter, a partner in the... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
estimates of corruption and study its relationship with organizational ownership. Book: http://www.cmi.no/research/project/?1473=the-international-handbook-on-the-economics-of Knowledge-based Innovation: Emergence and Embedding of New Practice Areas in Management View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
as a result, but also avoiding disasters. The ice cream and other foods businesses were built patiently by the acquisition of one local firm after another, and their melding into the Unilever model. Following the National Starch... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Cost-Efficient Decarbonization of Portland Cement Production
By: Gunther Glenk, Anton Kelnhofer, Rebecca Meier and Stefan Reichelstein
Accounting for nearly 8% of global annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the cement industry is considered difficult to decarbonize. While a sizeable number of abatement levers for Portland cement production is becoming technologically ready for deployment, many are... View Details
Keywords: Decarbonization; Carbon Abatement; Carbon Accounting; Carbon Emissions; Carbon Regulation; Carbon Tax; Net-zero Emissions; Management; Environmental Management; Sustainable Cities; Accounting; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Environmental Accounting; Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Construction Industry; Steel Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Real Estate Industry; Consulting Industry; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Utilities Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
Glenk, Gunther, Anton Kelnhofer, Rebecca Meier, and Stefan Reichelstein. "Cost-Efficient Decarbonization of Portland Cement Production." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-025, October 2023. (TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency Working Paper Series, No. 120, May 2023.)
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?
The sure recipe for failure is to suck it up and try to do it all.—Isabel Parlett, Parlance Training Let's begin with what you shouldn't do: "The sure recipe for failure is to suck it up and try to do it all," says Isabel Parlett of Parlance Training, a Santa... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
on intangible capabilities, such as the ability to assess the value of the knowledge and skills that are already present within the firm and in some instances within its broader ecosystem; to rapidly understand how to redeploy them in new... View Details
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
School professor Josh Lerner, an expert in intellectual property protection and commercialization. He believes many companies have failed to recognize the growing importance of IP in the global economy. "It has become more essential than ever that View Details
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
manufactured by another firm elsewhere, and distributed by dealers everywhere—all underwritten by global cash flows. Often these networks are established without much redundancy planning or other risk-mitigation factors to counter... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
consulting firm to offer dairy management services. Should he continue to invest in these initiatives that benefitted the whole industry or focus resources on growing his own business? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne