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  • October 1976
  • Background Note

Industry Structural Change

By: Michael E. Porter
Presents a framework for understanding and predicting industry structural change. Examines 1) the important underlying forces causing structural change, 2) the key relationships among industry elements in the process of change, and 3) some implications of change for... View Details
Keywords: Framework; Industry Structures; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Strategy; Corporate Strategy
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  • August 2006 (Revised July 2008)
  • Case

Rwanda and the Thousand Hills Coffee Co.: Breaking New Grounds

By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Michelle McDonald
Examines the strategies of a Boston-based start-up to market Rwandan coffee. Describes the history of the coffee industry, the era of cartelization and the International Coffee Agreement, and the subsequent collapse in producer prices after 1989. Also describes the... View Details
Keywords: History; Marketing Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Food and Beverage Industry; Rwanda; Boston
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  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

and leadership, there are different approaches that can be taken in seeking improvement. One has to adopt a strategy for improvement that fits the specific needs of the organization at that point in its life. Slow, steady improvement is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • August 1984 (Revised October 1992)
  • Background Note

Marketing Implementation

By: John A. Quelch
Describes a framework for evaluating marketing implementation problems and assesses the interfaces between marketing strategy and implementation. View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy
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  • Video

Rao-Innovation

  • September 1996 (Revised April 1998)
  • Case

Mobil USM&R (B): New England Sales and Distribution

By: Robert S. Kaplan
The general manager of a local gasoline/distillate sales and distribution business unit must communicate a new strategy to the unit's 300 employees. An initial strategic planning exercise identified a high-priority list of opportunities that blended the parent... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Adoption; Strategic Planning; Customization and Personalization; Management Practices and Processes; Growth and Development Strategy; Measurement and Metrics; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Evaluation; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; United States
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  • August 2007
  • Column

Pitch Your Offer—and Close the Deal

By: Deepak Malhotra and Max H. Bazerman
The article offers several strategies on how to be a good negotiator and decision maker for business developments. The strategies that are presented were an extract from the book Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Negotiation; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Tactics; Strategy
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  • May 1994
  • Case

Laura Ashley (C): Rebuilding and Transforming a Global Brand

By: Richard L. Nolan
Over the course of two years a CEO executes a business transformation strategy and key decisions. View Details
Keywords: Transition; Decisions; Performance Consistency; Performance Improvement; Business Strategy
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  • May 1993 (Revised December 1994)
  • Background Note

Geography of Competition and Strategy, The

Addresses the role of geographic scope in competition and strategy. Makes distinctions between the geographic scope of competition (or the effective area over which firms compete), the geographic scope of competitive advantage (or the geographic area from which a firm... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Geographic Scope
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  • Mar 09 2016
  • Testimonial

A New Outlook on the Day-to-Day

  • November 2009 (Revised August 2011)
  • Case

Warner Bros. Entertainment

By: Gary P. Pisano and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
Examines the process used by a major motion picture studio to develop and select movie projects. Warner Bros.' strategy is to focus its efforts on a small number of major "event" films (i.e., films with the potential to generate gross box office receipts of $300... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Film Entertainment; Risk Management; Product Development; Strategic Planning; Projects; Sales; Motion Pictures and Video Industry
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  • March 2020 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

Wachtell Lipton: Focused Excellence

By: Ashish Nanda and Margaret Cross
For years, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz—a small, New York City law firm—has consistently boasted the highest profits per partner and one of the highest “prestige” ratings among U.S.-based law firms. The firm has remained loyal to a distinctive strategy ever since its... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Law; Mergers and Acquisitions; Legal Services Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM EST, 11 Jan 2017
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided

Five years of research from Harvard Business School's US Competitiveness Project, as well as the findings from the 2016 surveys on US competitiveness, present a sobering picture of the deep structural challenges facing the United States. The US needs a national... View Details
  • Web

Overview | MBA

relevant timeframes, opportunity-costs, rewards, and organizational behavior. Assess the potential therapeutic value of discoveries emanating from lab-discovery in the life sciences and understand ways to accelerate these discoveries into therapeutics. Determine the... View Details
  • February 2010
  • Case

Applied Research Technologies, Inc.: Global Innovation's Challenges

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Heather Beckham
Applied Research Technologies, Inc. (ART) is a diversified technology company which has used its entrepreneurial culture and encouragement of innovation as an ongoing competitive advantage. The case concentrates on the challenges faced by Peter Vyas, the Filtration... View Details
Keywords: Management Style; Managerial Roles; Management Practices and Processes; Reputation; Organizational Culture; Innovation and Management; Competitive Advantage; Entrepreneurship; Management Systems; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Technology Industry
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  • Profile

Kanwaljit Bakshi

description that I would have written for myself." Now back in the Washington area, "I do all of the strategy for how the UN promotes or incentivizes countries to work together to develop laws that are consistent and... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 24 Jan 2024
  • News

Why Boeing’s Problems with the 737 MAX Began More Than 25 Years Ago

  • Web

Curriculum | MBA

Strategy Harvard Business School Social Purpose of the Firm (SPF) Harvard Business School Life Science, Ethics, and Management Seminar More on the MBA Required Curriculum SUMMER Students are free to pursue an internship of their choosing... View Details

    V. Kasturi Rangan

    Kash Rangan is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at the Harvard Business School. Formerly the chairman of the Marketing Department (1998-2002), he is now the co-chairman of the school's Social Enterprise Initiative. He has taught in a wide variety of MBA... View Details

    Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; apparel; automobiles; computer; consumer products; e-commerce industry; high technology; industrial goods; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals

      Aticus Peterson

      Aticus Peterson (apeterson@hbs.edu) is a PhD candidate in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on how entrepreneurs and investors can... View Details