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Continuity of Strategic Direction - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

a strategic position involves making the company’s activities more distinctive, strengthening fit, and communicating the strategy better to those customers who should value it—not chasing after “easy” growth... View Details

    Cognizant 2.0: Embedding Community and Knowledge Into Work Processes

    Knowledge management has been a high priority for Cognizant Technology Solutions since its inception since its global delivery model requires the global sharing of knowledge. Its first major tool was called the Knowledge Management Appliance but as Web 2.0 tools came... View Details
    • August 1998 (Revised June 2000)
    • Case

    FairMarket, Inc.: Where Buyers and Sellers Connect

    By: Lynda M. Applegate, Jack Wieland and Chad M. M Raube
    On February 20, 1997, FairMarket, an Internet-based business-to-business auction site, was launched. CEO, founder Scott Randall, drew on his experience building Internet businesses at NECX Direct, Yahoo, and Internet Shopping Network to build his business. This case,... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Debates; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Growth Management; Management Style; Product Launch; Multi-Sided Platforms; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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    • January 2009 (Revised June 2010)
    • Case

    Cisco Systems (2001): Building and Sustaining a Customer-Centric Culture

    By: Ranjay Gulati
    Customer centricity has been an important part of the culture at Cisco Systems since its inception. While part of this is attributable to values put in place by the founders and retained by subsequent management, it is also closely interwoven with its organizational... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Research and Development; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Employees; Brands and Branding; Customer Relationship Management; Business Units
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    • 07 Jul 2023
    • Blog Post

    Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations

    and should call out issues related to diversity and inclusion so that they can be addressed. HOW TO CREATE A PSYCHOLOGICALLY SAFE ORGANIZATION Professor Edmondson’s research led her to View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 21 Nov 2013
    • News

    Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

    firms to develop software to complement the firm's devices. But the problem wasn't with one or two design decisions—it was likely more deeply rooted in its processes and culture, a pattern I've seen affect... View Details
    Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
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    Strategy & IT - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    and customers; and across geography. It allowed firms, for example, to closely integrate globally distributed supply chains. See below for “Strategy and the Internet.” These... View Details
    • 30 Oct 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

    Developing Theory Using Machine Learning Methods By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ryan Allen, and Michael G. Endres Abstract—We describe how to employ machine learning (ML) methods in theory development. Compared... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 25 May 2010
    • News

    Commencement and the Winds of Change

    To give peace a chance, unleash the power of business. That’s Sir Ronald Cohen’s (MBA ’69) idea for one of the world’s toughest neighborhoods: the Middle East. At an event hosted by the HBS Jewish Students Association on April 9, Cohen, cofounder View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons; Finance
    • 10 Jul 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Privatization and the New European Economy

    ownership to the private sector and become regulators—a position that will, in fact, give them more power to shape the competitive environment of industries not only in their own country but throughout the continent, as the European Union... View Details
    Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation
    • 15 Nov 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Dynamic Interplay of Inequality and Trust: An Experimental Study

    Keywords: by Ben Greiner, Axel Ockenfels & Peter Werner
    • November 1998 (Revised August 1999)
    • Case

    Mickey Maurer: IBJ Corp. and MyStar Communications

    By: Paul W. Marshall and Jeremy Dann
    Mickey Maurer is a successful entrepreneur who retired in the late 1980s and then reentered the business world with the purchase of two media companies. In the radio industry he faces competition from large national players. In his publishing enterprise, Maurer... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Competition; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Management Teams; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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    • 15 May 2015
    • Blog Post

    2+2: A "Liberating and Life-Altering" Choice

    someone with an interest in the intersection of business and policy, particularly as it relates to generating economic development in the south, I soon began to find the opportunities View Details
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    Confronting Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

    mobilizing the $100 trillion bond market for climate change solutions.  Climate Policy Initiative - An independent non-profit organization whose mission is to help governments, businesses, and financial institutions drive View Details
    • 24 Feb 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

    accounts were less likely to employ the same level of security measures (such as multifactor authentication) common among organizational accounts. According to the study, “changes to code under the control of these individual developer... View Details
    Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer
    • January 2014
    • Teaching Note

    Dr. Benjamin Hooks and Children's Health Forum

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Malone
    The case includes law, business, and public health perspectives on an African American leader's social entrepreneurship and leadership in other social movements. Later in his life, Dr. Benjamin Hooks championed the eradication of lead poisoning. Prior to that Hooks... View Details
    Keywords: Leading Change; Health Disorders; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; United States
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    Deposit Competition and Financial Fragility: Evidence from the U.S. Banking Sector

    By: Mark Egan, Ali Hortaçsu and Gregor Matvos
    We develop a structural empirical model of the US banking sector. Insured depositors and run-prone uninsured depositors choose between differentiated banks. Banks compete for deposits and endogenously default. The estimated demand for uninsured deposits declines with... View Details
    Keywords: Banks and Banking; Financial Condition; United States
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    Advancing Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research Through Open Innovation Competitions

    By: Andrea Blasco, Michael G. Endres, Rinat A. Sergeev, Anup Jonchhe, Max Macaluso, Rajiv Narayan, Ted Natoli, Jin H. Paik, Bryan Briney, Chunlei Wu, Andrew I. Su, Aravind Subramanian and Karim R. Lakhani
    Open data science and algorithm development competitions offer a unique avenue for rapid discovery of better computational strategies. We highlight three examples in computational biology and bioinformatics research where the use of competitions has yielded significant... View Details
    Keywords: Computational Biology; Bioinformatics; Innovation Competitions; Research; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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    • December 2008
    • Article

    The Teaching of Strategy: From General Manager to Analyst and Back Again?

    By: Joseph L. Bower
    Courses in strategy are an outgrowth of the business policy course first taught at Harvard Business School in 1912. This article examines how the teaching of a course concerned with the development and implementation of the goals and policies of a firm changed during... View Details
    Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Policy; Business History; Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy
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    • 29 Jan 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

    (2011), idiosyncratic shocks to the sales growth of large firms are positively and significantly correlated with GDP growth in our emerging markets sample. Relatedly, the... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman