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Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online

and mid-career professionals looking to build a leadership toolkit and master managerial processes. Management Essentials Negotiation Mastery View Details

February 2008 (Revised January 2009)
Background Note

Offshoring Day in BGIE and Strategy

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Troy Smith

Describes a set of activities in which students will participate before and during a day of classes on offshoring. The day's classes will examine the implications of offshoring for policy makers, business leaders, and workers. View Details

Keywords: Policy; Employees; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Labor; Management; Strategy

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2013
Report

Developmental Readiness and Mindful Engagement in the Singapore Public Service

By: D. Scott DeRue and Christopher G. Myers

Keywords: Leadership; Leadership Development And Career Planning; Leadership Development; Public Administration Industry; Singapore; Asia

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May 2021
Case

Megan Ming Francis: Leadership and Racial Injustice

By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei

In this multimedia case, Megan Ming Francis, a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington (UW) and a visiting professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, discusses the roots of racial injustice and the need for change. Through... View Details

Keywords: Racial Injustice; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership

August 1986 (Revised May 1993)
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Rohm and Haas (A): New Product Marketing Strategy

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Lesley Susan

Joan Macey, Rohm and Haas' market manager for Metalworking Fluid Biocides, found that sales of a new biocide, Kathon MWX, was utterly disappointing. This was all the more puzzling since sales of her other product--Kathon 886 MW, a liquid biocide used only in... View Details

Keywords: Communication Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Distribution; Performance; Sales

01 Sep 2013
News

Authentic Leadership

Scott Snook "ALD helped me grow both roots and wings. I grew roots that firmly planted me in a worldview and a leadership view, but I also grew wings—the confidence to go out... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

Sep 02 2014
Testimonial

Rethinking Leadership

April 1982
Background Note

Note on Corporate Strategy and Politics

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Keywords: Corporate Strategy

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Team - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

by Professor Michael E. Porter and is based in the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School. Faculty and staff... View Details

2019
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Product Market Strategy

By: Anoop Menon and Dennis Yao

Product market strategy is the collection of choices, actions and activities of a firm that determines how it positions itself in its product markets, and allows it to achieve and maintain a COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE. This article examines product market strategy from the... View Details

Keywords: Product Positioning; Competitive Advantage

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March 2015
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Leadership at Echoing Green (A) and (B)

By: Julie Battilana and Felicia Khan

Keywords: Leadership

11 May 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Creating an R&D Strategy

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano

November 2002
Background Note

Strategy and Sources of Motion Picture Finance, The

By: Mihir A. Desai, Gabriel J. Loeb and Mark Veblen

This case considers the alternative financing mechanisms for film financing, the evolution of film finance in the United States, and the nature of tax-motivated film financing in the United States and around the world. It develops the strategy driving motion picture... View Details

Keywords: Film Entertainment; Financial Instruments; Financial Strategy; Financing and Loans; Globalized Markets and Industries; Taxation; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States

Jul 25 2018
Testimonial

A Team Approach to Learning and Leadership

09 Nov 2020
News

Best Business Books 2020: Talent and Leadership

April 2015
Case

Accor: Designing an Asset-Right Business and Disclosure Strategy

By: Mozaffar Khan and George Serafeim

Sebastien Bazin was now in charge of Accor, the world's largest French hotelier, a CAC 40 company with 3,600 hotels in 92 countries and a market cap of €10 billion. Previously as the European head of Colony Capital, one of the largest private equity groups and the... View Details