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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
about companies in terms of ‘distinctive competencies,’ charting a path that diverged from the thinking of their intellectual forebears — who resisted theoretical thinking — toward a more systematic approach.” By the mid-1960s, Christensen and Andrews embarked on a... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
urban and rural, the new urbanization does not upend China’s longstanding duality between those categories. The central goals of the new urbanization are to manage urbanization so as to generate domestic demand and reorganize agricultural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
businesses. In reorganizing to capitalize on its technology, Xerox created a new entity in 1989, headed by Robert Adams, that effectively established a third phase for managing spin-offs. Adams had created a new business for Xerox out of... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
changed, and people now realize he is a credible threat. There has been a strong push to reorganize the sector and trim the incredible fat that was everywhere. There is no magic to it—you have to find ways to lower your costs, or you... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
R&D lab, increased its mergers and acquisitions of companies that had synergies with the company’s businesses, and formed a small venture capital fund for exploratory investments. Komori also initiated a reorganization that created six... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
(e.g. rent). Next, reduce fixed costs, starting with salary cuts that commence at the top and the furloughing of all non-essential staff. Finally, reorganize to operate with a permanent lower fixed-cost base. Third, they must protect the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
Business School Case 508-028 Lincoln Financial Group (LFG) reorganizes its business in order to improve customer intimacy. However, to implement the strategy, they need to effect significant changes in the skills of their salespeople.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
businesses, each of which was not performing up to its full potential, it was uncompetitive. The chairman of the group, Ratan Tata, creatively reorganized the business to make it survive in the new open global economy, and then challenged... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
reflecting upon the company’s “agile” transformation, a reorganization of work that had been critical to respond to and exceed rapidly changing customer expectations. Launched in 2015 at the head office, agile had spread to the rest of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
I approached him, and he picked up the telephone and called a former student at General Foods who agreed to hire me for the summer. That resulted in my eventually working there full-time, and it launched my marketing career. The other time was when I was working in... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
that had synergies with the company's businesses, and formed a small venture capital fund for exploratory investments. Komori also initiated a reorganization that created six new divisions within the company while simultaneously... View Details
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
called Edelnor that was in danger of becoming insolvent within months. Fernando had six months to restructure the company before it would become completely insolvent, and his headache was compounded by the fact that the process for company View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
clearinghouse: it coordinated the timing of the market in a way that increased its thickness and scope. The clearinghouse does not seem to have had an effect on wages. As this became known among gastroenterologists, an opportunity arose to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
going through major reorganization or collapse were probably headed there in five to ten years anyway. It’s a difficult transition, but it’s exciting in the sense that this economic recession is forcing transitions faster, quickly... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
facilitate innovation among its diverse subsidiaries. But when news reports surfaced revealing struggles within Alphabet companies including Nest, the smart thermostat maker, observers began to wonder if the reorganization made sense... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
system. It's complicated, takes a long time, and is very expensive. Should FasterCures reorganize to better understand this issue and make a high-level push to improve it? Or perhaps the company should look at drug reimbursement... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
legislation, called the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA), became effective on October 17, 2005. This note summarizes key provisions of the new law that affect business bankruptcy reorganization under... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
that E Ink reorganize and resigned. As the new CEO, Wilcox raised $11 million by asking all existing investors to pitch in a dime for every dollar they had already put into the company — enough to keep E Ink solvent for almost another... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
overstaffed, corrupt, rife with subsidies, and losing money. Finally, in 2012, President Enrique Peña Nieto announced his intent to drastically reform both. Over the next two years, the Mexican constitution was amended, and a dozen implementing laws were passed to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
informal organization arising from reorganization can help create ambidextrous organizations. We argue that under some conditions, the informal organization can compensate for the formal organization by motivating a distinct but valuable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace