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  • 18 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

it is typically context-specific and severed from strategic goals. One result is that, like clockwork every few years, someone publishes a study finding that relatively few—some research indicates less than 10 percent—of even effectively View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

commemorated the 10th anniversary of a genocide that had claimed the lives of over 10 percent of its population. It focuses on the formulation of an economic strategy to rebuild the economy and its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

Chinese Communist Party line. This tends to render the Chinese as the unpredictable aggressor and the Soviets as playing a reactive game. This article argues instead that the timing and nature of the Chinese challenge reflect the reactive elements in the PRC's own... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 27

and shapers of, beauty ideals. It uses case studies of three prominent firms to support the argument. During the nineteenth century, Coty and other French firms imagined Paris as the global capital of beauty. During the middle of the twentieth century, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

possibilities of advertising as a sales tool for various types of products and sizes of firms and to formulate effective plans of sales strategy involving its use in conjunction with other sales and... View Details
  • 01 Jan 2005
  • News

Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

the board of WWB—a role that influenced the way she formulated her strategy at the World Bank. "I applied what I was learning in the young WWB to create a network for learning and change at the Bank in areas... View Details
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

to ask themselves what their needs really are, he said, as well as whether the company has a solid economic model and has people capable of formulating good strategy and seizing opportunities that present... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
  • 19 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 19, 2008

Carlyle Japan, wants to formulate a strategy to improve his firm's ability to source high-quality deals at competitive valuations, or prices. Buyout funds like Carlyle typically have two deal phases:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

formulate strategy in large, evolving technical systems. I argue that the points of value creation and value capture in a technical system are the system’s bottlenecks. Bottlenecks arise first as important... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

support the R&D and scale necessary to enter such sophisticated capital-intensive industries. There were no firms with the deep technological roots or the skill base to even begin. Yet government planners recognized the challenges of upgrading the nation's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

materials and physical space. As we traversed Denmark in the first of our two-week immersive field course (which would later take us to the Netherlands), we were lucky to meet several organizations that are turning to circular economy View Details
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages Authors:Juan Alcácer and Minyuan Zhao Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

the price of capital across countries. This strategy is motivated by the fact that most countries import the bulk of machinery equipment from a small number of industrialized countries. We find the price of imported capital goods to be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 22

questions of how entrepreneurial leadership and strategy formulation can leverage the opportunities represented by the gaps between what the law says and what the market needs. It provides an opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

identified should be rolled into that. We believe every board should evaluate its chief executive officer; every board should oversee formulation of strategy, approve the strategic direction of the company, and monitor how well the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

provides students with the means to navigate their way through the decisions they will face and formulate an effective business strategy. This is a much-needed guide to the common strategic issues that arise when firms compete... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407060 Navigating Turbulent Waters: Glitnir Bank's Communication Challenge during a Macroeconomic Crisis Harvard Business School Case 107-050 Glitnir Bank is an Icelandic company following an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

entities. The strategy of a new evaluation system should adjust the structure of the original evaluation system with the idea of reform and require the development of the rule of law, including formulating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

portrayed in the interviews, such as bank runs, political coups, and currency crises. Furthermore, the interviews elucidate how strategy formulation and execution unfolds across time, and provides a unique... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

career at HBS. Andrews and Christensen's pathbreaking 1965 book Business Policy: Text and Cases (coauthored with Edmund Learned and William Guth [HBS DBA '60]) codified their thinking about strategy View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education