Strategy Execution - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2003
News

Inside the Revolution

across a set of technologies.” Pisano is heading up a June Executive Education program (Leadership and Strategy in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech) that will focus on these matters. He notes that such programs... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Eileen McCluskey; Jonathan West; Life Sciences Project; LSP; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

certain qualities and practices not observed in firms that fall short. Multinational firms have understood for some time that certain activities, such as marketing, must remain local in concept and execution to be successful. At the same... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2005
News

Do You Speak Business?

time that certain activities, such as marketing, must remain local in concept and execution to be successful. At the same time, the defining feature of globalization has been the push by multinationals toward organization-wide... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

22 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 22

her leadership style and philosophy. It examines her career strategies and rise through the ranks; strategies she used to deal with challenges faced as a woman in the military; how she turned around a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2009
News

Model Patient

Co-operation and Development (OECD), Americans pay significantly more per unit of health-care service consumed, even though they see doctors less, take fewer pills, and have shorter hospital stays. Americans are “paying more, despite using less and doing worse,”... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance

20 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407060 Navigating Turbulent Waters: Glitnir Bank's Communication Challenge during a Macroeconomic Crisis Harvard Business School Case 107-050 Glitnir Bank is an Icelandic company following an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 1999
News

Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic

and Fortune ranked her among the 50 most powerful women in American business. Business Week said you had "worked magic" at Banana Republic. What has your strategy been? I would love to take the credit for it, but I can't. The changes at... View Details

22 Nov 2017
News

How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team

games. It was all part of a long term strategy to improve the franchise by getting better draft picks. And it necessitated a short term strategy of losing. Throughout, though, the 76er CEO Scott O’Neil (MBA... View Details

01 Mar 2007
News

The Winning Season

value and revenues.” (In addition to his duties as Cardinals’ chairman, DeWitt serves on the Major League Baseball Executive Council and the Ownership Committee, and holds a seat on the board of MLB Advanced Media.) In 1995, when DeWitt... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

economic. - Michael Porter "Many approaches to revitalizing the inner city have focused on the social problems, but the more fundamental issues are often economic," notes HBS professor Michael E. Porter, a world-renowned strategy and... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

13 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

humblebragging garners negative impressions because the strategy seems insincere, compared with pure bragging or pure complaining. They tested the hypothesis in a series of five studies, detailed in the paper Humblebragging: A... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 May 2011
Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

Editor's note: Please see related story, Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It's Effective. To what extent companies contribute to a sustainable society is a question increasingly important, not only to the companies themselves, but also to investors, the countries... View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

been to teach students and executives strategies for creating value, or integration. Many negotiation scholars and teachers go one step further, arguing that value creation has a positive impact on society... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

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Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge

involved and there are a lot of startups; there is a lot of exploration and activity in this space.” By late 2023, Moonfare’s executives started to wonder if they could lower the investment threshold even further, potentially creating an... View Details

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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions The Route of the Exhibition New York and Chicago Rockefeller Center, 1934. Museum of the... View Details

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

the threat, with analysts predicting it will grow to $170 billion by 2020. (In his proposed fiscal 2017 budget, President Obama requested a $5 billion increase in federal cybersecurity spending, up to $19 billion annually.) Money is one thing, View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

18 Apr 2023
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Banks Ditch Coal: The Impact Is 'More Than Anyone Thought'

financing transactions and financial statements, and the operating status of coal mines and coal-fired power plants. They spoke with executives at several banks that have implemented coal divestment bans following the 2015 Paris Accords.... View Details

Keywords: by Barbara DeLollis; Financial Services; Mining

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

ones. For example, the two Mars missions launched in 1998 were given a budget of only half that of Mars Pathfinder, well before anyone knew how Pathfinder would fare. As one NASA executive remarked, "It was like being in the Olympic... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

responses interact with those of other actors, and how these individual and collective responses unfold over time to generate outcomes. Second, we call for stronger unification of theory within the entrepreneurial resource mobilization literature and across contiguous... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 24, 2009

government-sponsored organization that was funded with 50 billion yen in equity capital and 10 trillion yen of government-guaranteed funds. Daiei presented the IRCJ with a unique opportunity to demonstrate the effectiveness of its restructuring View Details