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  • September–October 2024
  • Article

Why Multibusiness Strategies Fail and How to Make Them Succeed

By: Bharat Anand and David J. Collis
Enterprises that own multiple businesses often have a flawed approach to strategy: They focus too much on the makeup of their portfolios and too little on enhancing the businesses in them.
Strategies for adding value to a corporation’s businesses fall on a... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Structure; Management Systems
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Tools & Training - Alumni

they’ve learned in Harvard ManageMentor, or engage in entirely new subjects such as Authenticity, Big Data and Analytics, Design Thinking and Emotional Intelligence. The content in HMM Spark is curated and continuously updated by HBP’s Leadership Development experts.... View Details
  • 09 Feb 2021
  • News

A CEO's Guide to Crafting a Message That Reassures and Inspires Staff During a Crisis

  • 07 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

interactions they needed to succeed. When managers understand the building blocks for team work, they can allocate time better and select the right communication tools, whether teams are dispersed or together, a new study from Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • November 1994 (Revised May 2002)
  • Case

K-III: A Leveraged Build-Up

By: George P. Baker III, Nicola Bamford and Nicolas Greenspan
Explores the strategy, financing, and governance of a new type of organizational form, dubbed the Leveraged Build-Up by its inventor, Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. The company makes leveraged acquisitions of small publishing companies, managing them in a very... View Details
Keywords: Debt Securities; Financial Management; Leveraged Buyouts; Cash Flow; Organizational Structure; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Publishing Industry
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  • 17 Nov 2011
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

resources. But for other types of tasks, cultural heterogeneity had no effect on creative performance. The research is relevant to business practitioners because creating a multicultural workplace is often touted as a strategy to foster... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
  • February 1991
  • Case

Burlington Northern: The ARES Decision (B)

By: Julie H. Hertenstein and Robert S. Kaplan
The ARES team formally proposes that Burlington Northern implement the ARES system. The project meets resistance. In light of financial restructuring and high level of debt, executives wonder whether the company can afford ARES. Weak links during the ARES development... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Restructuring; Cost vs Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Borrowing and Debt; Capital Budgeting; Projects; Technology Adoption; Service Industry
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  • 11 Jun 2022
  • News

Deep Purpose: The Key To A Better World

  • 07 Dec 2021
  • Op-Ed

Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge

Unfortunately, many organizations lack a strong development culture. They view leader development as a tactical issue instead of a strategic imperative. In contrast, companies with strong development cultures invest in their middle... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle
  • 07 Mar 2016
  • News

The Limits of the Lean Startup Method

  • 07 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Innovation in Asia

Although Asian countries have been able to use cost advantages and software coding prowess to attract outsource business from around the world, the region is quickly moving up the value chain to challenge America's leadership in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2022
  • Op-Ed

Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

suspect—compensation. To those of us who have studied organizations up close for decades, none of this is surprising. But what can be done about it? “Companies with healthy, high-commitment, high-performance cultures have had... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer
  • 02 Jun 2022
  • News

Coming Corporate Criminal Liability for ESG Initiatives

  • 10 Sep 2012
  • News

Join the Insurgency Against the Jobs Crisis

  • 02 Aug 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

management back to the home office is applicable. Is it limited to businesses and organizations in which collaboration is important? Does it apply more to large than small organizations? "We can ask how far... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 1

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712052-PDF-ENG Delhi Metro Rail Corporation V.G. Narayanan and Saloni ChaturvediHarvard Business School Case 112-013 In 2009, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Sep 2012
  • News

What's the Big Idea?

  • 04 May 2021
  • Book

Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer

desperate to get the toy fixed. “At any other store, they would have been directed to the toy aisle to buy a replacement,” says Hubert Joly, Best Buy’s former chairman and CEO, who is now a senior lecturer of business administration at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
  • 11 Feb 2013
  • News

Gautam Mukunda, Author of "Indispensable" is in Studio

  • 28 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

leaders who managed to navigate their organizations through unpredictable social, political, and regulatory environments. To help fill this gap, Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets project is... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna