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  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

Faculty Books

corporate headquarters’ role in setting, coordinating, and overseeing organizational strategy. The book’s case studies, frameworks, and sample scorecards show how to align business and support units, boards... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 21 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Career Coach

Lauren Murphy

individual leaders as well as senior management teams to improve team alignment with organizational goals. Lauren brings decades of management experience to her coaching work. For 14 years, she was the... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products; Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Manufacturing; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Retail; Health Care; Clean Technology; Energy; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Consulting; Education; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services (All); Government; Hospitality; Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Real Estate; Search Fund; Financial Services (All); Sports; Technology; Telecommunications; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All)
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

In a recent case study, professor Alan MacCormack and research associate Jay Wynn swung for the moon—Mars, actually. After two high-profile missions to Mars failed in 2000, MacCormack wanted to understand the organizational and procedural... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth

remarks follow. While our survey did not explore the reasons for choosing branching over affiliation, some nonprofits may prefer branching because it allows the nonprofit leader to exert the most control since the new organizational units... View Details
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

business moved on. Not aligning experiments to broader organizational goals. Failing to understand the end goal can lead to misguided decisions about when and how to run such tests. Experiments should answer... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-061.pdf Cross Functional Alignment in Supply Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales & Operations Planning Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson Author's Abstract In 2002, Leitax, a niche... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

intra-organizational partnerships, facilitating alignment and partnership with external constituents: customers, suppliers, and communities. The Balanced Scorecard: From Measurement To Management We introduced the Balanced Scorecard (BSC)... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 05 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

workers do not find meaning in their work. A shockingly low 25 percent of employees feel connection to their company's mission. (Contrast that to the 84 percent of Medtronic employees who feel aligned with the company's mission.) In my... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 01 Jun 2010
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

Nonprofit Accountability Working Paper. Nonprofit leaders face multiple, and sometimes competing, accountability demands from numerous actors, for varying purposes, and requiring differing levels of organizational response. The challenge... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • Web

Strategic Plan | Information Technology

who make a difference in the world. Underpinning our mission, vision, and priorities is a set of strategic initiatives that will help us ensure a cutting-edge digital and technology landscape. The strategic plan was developed in close partnership with members of our... View Details
  • Web

Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations - Recruiting

benefits, and compensation to name just a few. Yet there is another element that may be more difficult to explain on paper but is just as critical: organizational culture. There are many different ways View Details
  • 16 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

change). They can be used to diagnose a culture and to model how likely an individual leader is to align with and shape it. The authors offer five insights regarding culture's effect on companies' success: (1) When View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

regions. At the very least, this sort of mapping sparks creativity. Facing The Organizational Challenge Regional strategies, as I've noted, can take a long time to implement. One deep-seated reason for this is that an organization's... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 20 Mar 2025
  • Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Illuminating India’s Solar Future: Reflections on Tata Solar Manufacturing Plant Visit

indigenization and self-reliance in the solar value chain. Leadership’s investment in cutting-edge solar production aligns seamlessly with India’s renewable energy targets of 500 GW by 2030. The company’s positioning as a reliable... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Faculty Books

developing organizational capabilities and managerial competencies to implement a clearly defined strategic intent. This case-based book discusses the marketing challenges faced by global U.S. companies (Bausch & Lomb, Reebok, and... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • October 2009
  • Case

A Big (Double) Deal: Anadarko's Acquisition of Kerr-McGee and Western Gas Resources

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Curtis Rising
On June 23, 2006, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation announced that it was simultaneously acquiring two public companies, Kerr-McGee and Western Gas Resources, in all-cash deals. The total price was about $24 billion, a figure close to Anadarko's market cap at the time.... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Model; Transformation; Negotiation; Organizational Culture; Public Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Alignment; Valuation; Energy Industry; United States
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Christensen, Clayton M., and Curtis Rising. "A Big (Double) Deal: Anadarko's Acquisition of Kerr-McGee and Western Gas Resources." Harvard Business School Case 610-020, October 2009.
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

other's beliefs about demand. Thus, in this paper's setting, improved communication can induce alignment even if no economic incentives are changed. While consistent with the predominant view in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

IT Strategy: Building and Fostering Our Community and Culture | Information Technology

IT Strategy: Building and Fostering Our Community and Culture Strategic Initiative: 5.01 Build and Foster Community and Culture Across HBS IT By Kellyn Eaddy on April 30, 2024 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email The Opportunity HBS IT strives to... View Details
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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