Strategic Corporate Decisions - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2001
News

Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary

At first glance, not many would figure the bookish president and CEO of telecommunications carrier China Netcom Corporation for a revolutionary. But Edward Tian Suning is certainly making waves as head of one of the country’s new brand of... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Telecommunications; Information

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

Patricia F. Russo (104th AMP) is executive vice president of New Jersey-based Lucent Technologies, a $30 billion communications powerhouse, where she oversees corporate strategy, business development, and View Details

01 Dec 2012
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HBS Alumni in Harvard Leadership Roles

With new and continuing appointments, HBS alumni are playing key roles in the governance structure of Harvard University. In September, Theodore Wells (MBA 1974/JD 1976) was elected to the Harvard Corporation by members of the View Details

22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

context of competitive interactions: whether the definition makes sense in that context and what it implies for decisions to be strategic in such context. As part of this analysis, it also uses the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

through the PC revolution that it helped create in the 1980s) was its decision to bring in an outsider as CEO. Lou Gerstner was able to reimagine and reshape what had become a calcified corporate culture.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

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David A. Frankel

important realization. “Three years into it, it became clear to me that I wasn’t made to be a corporate guy and work for a boss,” he said. With his sudden wealth, Frankel had begun investing in South African startups as an angel investor.... View Details

18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607015 The Mozilla Foundation: Launching Firefox 1.0 (A) Harvard Business School Case 907-015 Explores the Mozilla Foundation's decisions leading up to the launch of Firefox... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2009
News

Alumni Books

market-segmentation scheme for reconfiguring your offerings to reduce costs while delivering new value to customers; lessening innovation risks with strategic experiments and alliances with customers; and appealing to increasingly... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

15 Sep 2015
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September 15, 2015

2015 Research Handbook on Shareholder Power Thirty Years of Evolution in the Roles of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance By: Coates, John C. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Oct 2018
News

A Chance to Lead

their way in the corporate world. “When I started my business, the building-service industry was primarily dominated by companies owned by men, but about 90 percent of the women were workers there. But many were in lower-skilled levels.... View Details

25 Apr 2016
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Just Rewards

Michael Darrington (PMD 27, 1974) believes in putting people first. As CEO of Greggs, which he led for 24 years to become the United Kingdom’s baking industry leader and in previous positions where he oversaw strategic turnarounds. He has... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Summit Sound Bites

too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to... View Details

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Online Digital Marketing Strategy Course | HBS Online

personalization, storytelling, and community building Who Will Benefit Marketing Professionals Non-Marketing Professionals Entrepreneurs Advance beyond tactics and learn digital marketing on a strategic level. "The course’s content and... View Details

May 2022 (Revised May 2024)
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The Freedom Fund (A): Ending Modern Slavery

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Courtney Han

The Freedom Fund founded in 2013 to end modern slavery had raised more than half its intended target (by 2025) of $200 million. In 2021, impressed by its decentralized-partnering style of operations, philanthropist MacKenzie Scott awarded the Fund a gift of $35 million... View Details

Keywords: Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Spending; Decisions; India; Thailand; Ethiopia

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20 Feb 2019
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Dean Nohria: Business Schools have a Vital Role in Teaching Trust

curriculum. We should prioritize trustworthiness, because ultimately, that is how we will make a real contribution to society.” Nohria goes on to note his fears that trust in corporations and their leaders could be damaged by recent... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

While HBS scholars have long appreciated the value of field-based research, the broader academic community in the field of finance has been slower to accept this method of inquiry. Field-based research, which closely studies the actions and View Details

16 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 16

aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

a January 2, 2004, article in the Wall Street Journal, large corporations are increasingly unwilling to pay for expensive upgrades to software programs. This indicates that software providers are overserving increasing swaths of the... View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

May 1985 (Revised March 1993)
Case

General Electric Co.--1984

By: Francis Aguilar and Richard G. Hamermesh

Describes the first four years of Jack Welch's tenure as CEO of the General Electric Co. Deals with the ways Welch has tried to change GE's strategy and planning activities and his attempts to make the company more entrepreneurial. View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Management Style; Change Management; Strategic Planning; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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