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  • Program

Strategy: Building and Sustaining Competitive Advantage

geography Distinguish between short-run gains and lasting competitive advantage Adapt your strategy to market shifts and your organization's changing ambitions Transform ideas into successful action plans Know when to initiate a strategy... View Details
  • 09 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 9, 2016

that covers 1992–2008 and many states. We describe differences in the types of businesses initially formed by immigrants and their medium-term growth patterns. We also consider the relationship of these outcomes to the immigrants’ age at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2013
  • Supplement

Transport Corporation of India (D): Business Development across Divisions

By: V.G. Narayanan and Saloni Chaturvedi
Transport Corporation of India was a logistics company that provided multi-modal transport solutions to its customers. Set up in 1958, TCI had grown from a 'one man, one truck, one office' set-up to a company with revenues of $400 million in half a century. TCI's... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Business Divisions; Sales; Transportation Industry; India
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  • May 2013
  • Supplement

Transport Corporation of India (C): Dealing with Shortcomings in Service Quality

By: V.G. Narayanan and Saloni Chaturvedi
Transport Corporation of India was a logistics company that provided multi-modal transport solutions to its customers. Set up in 1958, TCI had grown from a 'one man, one truck, one office' set-up to a company with revenues of $400 million in half a century. TCI's... View Details
Keywords: Transportation; Transportation Industry; India
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  • May 2013
  • Case

Transport Corporation of India (A): The Cross-selling Conundrum

By: V.G. Narayanan and Saloni Chaturvedi
Transport Corporation of India was a logistics company that provided multi-modal transport solutions to its customers. Set up in 1958, TCI had grown from a 'one man, one truck, one office' set-up to a company with revenues of $400 million in half a century. TCI's... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Business Divisions; Performance; Sales; Transportation Industry; India
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  • 02 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Web

Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Social Enterprise Initiative We educate, support, and inspire leaders across all sectors to tackle society's toughest challenges and make a difference in the world. Supporting a Dynamic Community MBA Experience Learn more about... View Details
  • 24 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

these extremes. Moreover, obtaining strategic value from principles-based guidelines requires attention to the business itself. Values and principles may be invoked to shape approaches, but a "business case" is also important.... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

    Myra M. Hart

    Myra Hart's research focus is high potential entrepreneurship.  She has taught MBA and executive programs, co-chaired the entrepreneurship unit, and led several HBS initiatives. As a founding memberView Details

    Keywords: consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; real estate; retailing
    • 09 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 9

    aligning strategic choices with organizational architecture. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410007-PDF-ENG Meeting the Diversity Challenge at PepsiCo: The Steve Reinemund Era Harvard Business School Case 410-024... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Program

    The HR-Executive Suite Connection

    management to engage fully in every aspect of senior leadership discussions. As you analyze the core business challenges and opportunities that arise in typical executive committee meetings, you will improve your ability to build and implement View Details
    • 18 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 18

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0986298603/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me= February 2015 Strategic Management Journal Modularity and Intellectual Property Protection By: Baldwin, Carliss Y., and Joachim Henkel Abstract—Modularity... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Mar 2016
    • First Look

    March 29, 2016

    how today's organizations run. By demonstrating the interconnectivity among the three key pillars of management, students see how decisions impact strategic choices, organizational alignment, and leadership approaches, ultimately leading... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Program

    Disruptive Innovation

    around innovation initiatives Rethink your product, market and strategy Apply disruptive theories to complex problems and opportunities Build the skills and vision critical to leading change Make better decisions through View Details
    • 17 Nov 2015
    • First Look

    November 17, 2015

    away from complex technologies where initial experiments cost more towards those where information on future prospects is revealed quickly and cheaply. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48776 View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 08 Nov 2016
    • First Look

    November 8, 2016

    are difficult to assemble. We combine several restricted-access U.S. Census Bureau data sets to create a unique longitudinal data platform that covers 1992–2008 and many states. We describe differences in the types of businesses initially... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 11 Apr 2023
    • Op-Ed

    The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

    When you enter an organization as its new leader, forget about plotting out the first 90 days. Focus on the first 90 hours. Why are those initial hours on the job so important? Because you don’t get a second chance to make a first... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch
    • 15 Mar 2024
    • HBS Case

    Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

    organization’s ability to groom successors, threatening performance. “This leads many ambitious 50-year-olds to leave the company in search of better opportunities,” Wing says. Instead, companies would be wise to initiate an open dialogue... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • June 2016 (Revised April 2018)
    • Case

    Boys & Girls Clubs of America: Driving Impact

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Lisa C. Cox
    With $1.8 billion in 2015 revenues, Boys & Girls Club of America had evolved over its 155-year-old history to occupy the lead position in the Youth Development space in the United States. Its new CEO Jim Clark had initiated yet another change process in 2015 to ensure... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Strategy; Planning Process; Transformative Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategic Planning; Change Management; Growth Management
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Negotiating the Path of Abraham

    By: Kimberlyn Leary, James K. Sebenius and Joshua Weiss
    In the face of daunting barriers, the Abraham Path Initiative envisions uncovering and revitalizing a route of cultural tourism that follows the path of Abraham and his family some 4,000 years ago across the Middle East. It begins in the ancient ruins of Harran, in... View Details
    Keywords: Development Economics; Social Entrepreneurship; Negotiation; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Religion; Environmental Sustainability; Tourism Industry; Middle East
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