Publications

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Unique Value Proposition - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Creating a Successful St... Creating a Successful Strategy Unique Value Proposition... View Details

March 2007
Supplement

IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Supply Chain; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry

September 2003
Case

Valuing a Cross-Border LBO: Bidding on the Yell Group

By: Mihir A. Desai, Paolo Notarnicola and Mark Veblen

A team of private equity investors must value the leveraged buyout of a Yellow Pages business that operated in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In the process, they must wrestle with issues of how to conduct cross-border valuations and how to value a... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Cash Flow; Private Equity; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Valuation

September 2009 (Revised December 2011)
Teaching Note

IBM Values and Corporate Citizenship (TN)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird

Teaching Note for [308106]. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Transformation; Fairness; Innovation and Invention; Value; Global Range; Organizational Culture; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry

Web

Globalization - Faculty & Research

Values and Beliefs ; Geography ; Global Range ; Local Range ; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues ; Globalized Firms and Management ; Government Legislation ; Recruitment ;... View Details

September 2014 (Revised November 2017)
Case

Sustainability at IKEA Group

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael W. Toffel, Vincent Dessain and Jerome Lenhardt

By 2014, IKEA Group was the largest home furnishing company, with EUR28.5 billion of sales, and planned to reach EUR50 billion by 2020, mainly from emerging markets. At the same time, IKEA Group had adopted in 2012 a new sustainability strategy that focused the... View Details

Keywords: Furnishing; Sustainability; Supply Chain; Wood; Customer Value and Value Chain; Supply Chain Management; Environmental Sustainability; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry

03 Oct 2005
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

competency and its ability to move up the value chain that will allow it to share the positive gains. If labor tries the old tactic of strikes, management will just outsource the staff from somewhere else... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2000
News

Core Values Keep Airline Flying High

another — from top managers down to front-line service representatives — may well be the essential value that sets Southwest apart from other major U.S. airlines, according to the authors. Gittell and Hansman conducted a group interview... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Air Transportation; Transportation

March 2018 (Revised March 2019)
Technical Note

Control or Flexibility? Structured Empowerment Offers Both — Lessons from Retail & Service Chains

By: Tatiana Sandino

This note explains how several retail and service organizations use a practice described here as “structured empowerment” to balance control and flexibility as they grow. I define structured empowerment as a practice that grants employees both (a) the power to make... View Details

Keywords: Service Operations; Standards; Employees; Service Delivery; Decision Making; Power and Influence; Retail Industry; Service Industry

01 Dec 2001
News

BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring

by Stuart C. Gilson (John Wiley & Sons) News of major job cuts, bankruptcies, mergers, and buyouts seems to dominate the headlines these days, as global economic forces put pressure on companies to adapt in pursuit of higher market value.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

09 Sep 2016
News

MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

your 10th anniversary with MaiTai Global this year. Tell me how MaiTai got started. Bill Tai: So MaiTai, first of all, it's a very unusual group. It's a collection of athletes, and entrepreneurs, and innovators. And we have active... View Details

December 2013 (Revised October 2014)
Case

The Munich Oktoberfest: From Local Tradition to Global Capitalism

By: Juan Alcacer, Christian Bettinger and Andreas Philippi

Oktoberfest, an annual festival held in Munich (Germany) for more than 200 years, has grown in recent decades into a hugely popular event that attracts 7 million visitors annually, a large proportion of which are foreign. In fact, Oktoberfest's global appeal is so... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Product Positioning; Marketing Channels; Global Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Ohio; Munich; Brazil; Bangalore; Beijing