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Strategy - Faculty & Research

Strategy Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students July 2025 Case Mitsui & Co., Ltd. By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Akiko Saito In 2025, Kenichi Hori, President and CEO of Mitsui & Co.,... View Details
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Field Global Immersion

By: Archie L. Jones

The FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) is a semester-long first-year (RC) MBA course. The course is a capstone of sorts, and it requires students to build on learnings from their first-year courses and apply them to real-world business problems. At the beginning of... View Details

  • December 2014
  • Case

Groupon: A New CEO Takes Charge

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Arnold B. Peinado
On August 7, 2013, Eric Lefkofsky, the chairman and largest shareholder of Groupon was named CEO, replacing founder Andrew Mason, who had run the company since its inception in 2009. When Groupon had its initial public offering (IPO) in November 2011, the company's... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Disruptive Technologies; Growth Strategy; Customer Relations; Service Management; International Business; Business Models; Strategy Execution; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; United States
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  • 04 May 2021
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  • 24 Mar 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Francine Blau, ILR School, Cornell University

    Identity Workspaces for Leadership Development

    Profound changes in individuals' relationship with their employers and expectations for their work lives have generated an increasing demand for leadership development, while at the same time exposing the limitations of traditional leadership programs focused on... View Details

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    About - Case Method Project

    History of American Democracy, developed mainly for undergraduates. The course quickly became one of the highest-rated classes at Harvard College. Students described the teaching method as highly engaging... View Details
    • 25 Nov 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: November 25, 2008

    Working Papers Reality versus Propaganda in the Formation of Beliefs about Privatization Authors: Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Galiani, and Ernesto Schargrodsky Abstract Argentina privatized most public utilities during the 1990s but... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 14 May 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide

    he says. “That might work in a digital platform, where you have tons of data on customer history you can use to drive a recommendation engine, but in a store environment, there is a lot of View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
    • 2013
    • White Paper

    Building and Governing a Democratic Federation: The ActionAid International Story

    By: Sherine Jayawickrama and Alnoor Ebrahim
    This report examines the governance model and reform process of an international nongovernmental organization (INGO), ActionAid International (AAI). It describes the evolution of AAI's governance model and draws key lessons for peer INGOs. The paper is based on a... View Details
    Keywords: Governance; NGO; Accountability; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Non-Governmental Organizations
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    • 20 Nov 2017
    • Blog Post

    A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

    professionals network of the International Rescue Committee, dubbed “GenR”. I joined the community on a whim, but as I learned more about the work that the IRC did, including visiting their field station in... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
    • 2017
    • Chapter

    Getting Started with Ambidexterity

    By: Andrew Binns and Michael Tushman
    This paper demonstrates the value of thinking about ambidexterity as having three distinct moments—ideation, incubation, and scaling—that share common features for success, such as the role of the senior team, and that also have distinct disciplines. Incubation is a... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention
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    • June 2007 (Revised October 2009)
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    Les is More, Times Four

    By: Noam T. Wasserman and Rosy Fynn
    "I've had enough! I've decided that I need to resign," read the email from the founder of Webpoint to the company's board of directors. Les Trachtman, the CEO of Webpoint, has to figure out how to react to the founder's "it's Trachtman or me" ultimatum. Webpoint was... View Details
    Keywords: Conflict Management; Management Succession; Entrepreneurship
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    • 23 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

    of trust is so high at Buurtzorg that such decisions don’t ruffle feathers, and one of de Blok’s key responsibilities is to ensure stakeholders learn from, rather than punish,... View Details
    Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health
    • 10 Sep 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

    lover who played saxophone in high school, discussed what he learned from violinist Robertson in this interview with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: What drew you to writing a business case that looks at the world View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
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    Strategy

    By: Jan W. Rivkin

    The objective of this course is to help students develop the skills for formulating strategy, and provides an understanding of:

    • A firm's operative environment and how to sustain competitive advantage.
    • How to generate superior value for... View Details
    • December 2023
    • Case

    Robert McNamara: Changing the World

    By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
    This case traces the life of Robert McNamara from Harvard Business School to Ford Motor Company to the U.S. Department of Defense. McNamara excelled in every job along the way: becoming the youngest-ever professor at Harvard Business School, the first non-family... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Measurement; Military; Leadership Development; Values and Beliefs; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Success; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence; Business Education; War
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    • September 2007
    • Case

    Metro International S.A.

    By: Tarun Khanna, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Vincent Marie Dessain, Ane Damgaard Jensen and Anders Sjoman
    Explores the business model of Metro International, a company publishing 70 editions of its free newspaper in 20 countries. Metro had been a pioneer in the free newspaper market, fighting incumbent publishers distributing traditional paid-for newspapers. Looks at the... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Digital Marketing; Advertising; Expansion; Globalized Firms and Management; Journalism and News Industry; Spain
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    • October 2020 (Revised May 2023)
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    SenseAim Technologies: Pricing to Win

    By: Elie Ofek, Eyal Biyalogorsky, Marco Bertini and Oded Koenigsberg
    This exercise serves to help students understand the proper role and use of costs in a firm’s pricing decisions. The exercise is designed such that the learning of students evolves across a classroom session, starting from understanding which costs are relevant when... View Details
    Keywords: Pricing Decisions; Cost; Information; Price; Decision Making
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    FAQs - Alumni

    www.bostonsbestbabysitters.com Care.com www.care.com UrbanSitter www.urbansitter.com Reunion Giving Thank you for your interest. There are many ways to make a gift to HBS in honor of your reunion. You can give online at give.hbs.edu or go... View Details