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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
figure it out, someone who shouldn’t, will,” Peterson warns. This is the kind of in-the-trenches managerial decision-making that a new HBS Executive Education program for health-care administrators aims to help. Launched last fall,... View Details
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
The Roman god Janus had two sets of eyes—one pair focusing on what lay behind, the other on what lay ahead. General managers and corporate executives should be able to relate. They, too, must constantly look backward, attending to the products and View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Faculty Books
Pill, and Ingrid Vogel (World Scientific Publishing Co.) Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock-market booms and busts, and social and labor unrest is crucial in making informed managerial decisions. These... View Details
- Profile
Mike Maples Jr.
HBS, Maples was deeply influenced by a course called “The Coming of Managerial Capitalism” taught by renowned business historian Thomas K. McCraw. In that class, Professor McCraw asked his students to don the shoes of the 19th... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Innovation as P&G’s Key
make in a routine and disciplined way,” Lafley says. The “disciplined way” is the major revelation of the book. For Lafley and Charan, innovation is an operational imperative driving sustainable organic growth, not something left to chance. The key: bake innovation... View Details
- March 1991 (Revised May 1995)
- Case
Kraft General Foods: The Merger (A)
By: David J. Collis
Describes Philip Morris' acquisitions of General Foods in 1985 and Kraft, Inc. in 1989, focusing on the integration of Kraft and General Foods that forms a $30 billion food subsidiary. Details the steps required to merge these two large companies, emphasizing the... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Subsidiaries; Business or Company Management; Managerial Roles; Business Processes; Cooperation; Integration; Food and Beverage Industry
Collis, David J. "Kraft General Foods: The Merger (A)." Harvard Business School Case 391-139, March 1991. (Revised May 1995.)
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
II, according to Chandler, the management processes in most large British companies were dominated by "family capitalism." As these companies expanded abroad, family members or handpicked "trusted company servants"... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method
when we see a lot of light bulbs go on as students put into practice the technical and managerial concepts they’ve been learning in case discussions,” explains Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 15 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons Not Learned About Innovation
Every managerial generation rediscovers the need for innovation to drive growth but, decade after decade, "grand declarations about innovation are followed by mediocre execution that produces anemic results, and innovation groups are... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Essentials for Enlightened Experimentation
R&D systems for performing experiments that will generate the information needed to develop and refine products quickly. The challenges are managerial as well as technical: Organize For Rapid Experimentation Examine and, if necessary,... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke
- November 2009 (Revised January 2010)
- Case
Zara: Managing Stores for Fast Fashion
By: Zeynep Ton, Elena Corsi and Vincent Marie Dessain
Pablo Isla, the CEO of Zara, wanted to improve operational efficiencies in managing its store network. In particular, he wanted to improve labor productivity at the stores. He considered outsourcing certain store operations to third parties, changing the way store... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Managerial Roles; Service Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Retail Industry
Ton, Zeynep, Elena Corsi, and Vincent Marie Dessain. "Zara: Managing Stores for Fast Fashion." Harvard Business School Case 610-042, November 2009. (Revised January 2010.)
- October 2009 (Revised July 2014)
- Teaching Note
New Century Financial Corporation
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Krishna G. Palepu
Teaching Note for [109034] and [113-002]. View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
highlight a two-stage process for marketing resource allocation. In stage one, a model of demand is estimated. This model empirically assesses the impact of marketing actions on consumer demand of a company's product. In stage two,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Innovative Course Brings Students and Alumni Together
In the fall of 1996, HBS professor David A. Garvin was searching for teaching materials for his elective course General Management: Processes and Action. He wanted to help his students understand the pitfalls and opportunities that... View Details
Keywords: Meg Gardner; photo by Joshua Lavine
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
New Releases
Abraham Zaleznik. Grouped in three sections that address the future of organizations, the process of change, and the new role of management, the articles address topics such as how networks reshape organizations, why transformation... View Details
- 16 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal
organization in an ongoing process of change and revitalization is necessarily complex. Pitfalls lie waiting where least expected. To avoid the cyclical trap of success-failure-rebirth, firms need to develop competency in simultaneously... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Club Leaders Get a Boost from Campus Conference
managerial tasks while greatly enhancing its ability to communicate via the Web with its members and the worldwide alumni network. On day one, Professor V. Kasturi (“Kash”) Rangan led a case discussion on the particular strategy issues... View Details
- Profile
Michael Maples
HBS, Maples was deeply influenced by a course called “The Coming of Managerial Capitalism” taught by renowned business historian Thomas K. McCraw. In that class, Professor McCraw asked his students to don the shoes of the 19th... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
embassies around the world. Even after agreeing to attempt a compromise, the talks would often stall; sometimes they threatened to cease. By 2002, the original process was in disarray, and a whole new structure with new negotiators was... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 28 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative
origin and mission of the Social Enterprise Initiative? James Austin: When we began the Social Enterprise Initiative, the opportunity that motivated us was to mobilize the talent and capacity of HBS to enhance the leadership, managerial... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls