Publications

This module note explores why we need to study resources, what resources are, how we know they are valuable, and what a resource-based strategy requires. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy

July 2024
Module Note

The Scope of the Corporation

Every company, regardless of size or configuration, has to make decisions about the appropriate scope of its operations. In fact, the issue is so fundamental that Ronald Coase won the Nobel Prize in Economics for merely asking the question, “what determines the scope... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Mission and Purpose

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Accepting Risk and Rejecting the Status Quo: Fostering an Innovative Higher Ed Culture

Corporations across the globe have been focused on the question of innovation for decades and longer. The desire to become leaner, better, and more efficient has driven innovative leaders for years. In higher education, however, this innovative mindset is a relatively... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Innovation Leadership

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June 2016
Teaching Note

$19B 4 txt app WhatsApp...omg!

Teaching note for HBS No. 715-441 on Facebook's $22 billion acquisition of WhatsApp. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Finance; Management; Strategy; Communications Industry; Computer Industry; Information Industry; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; Telecommunications Industry

2015
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The Value of Breadth and the Importance of Differences

Honoring Pankaj Ghemawat's receipt of an Academy of Management award, this chapter examines his contribution to the global strategy field. It notes the continuing importance of country differences to international strategy and how geographic scope contributes to... View Details

Keywords: Global Strategy; Pankaj Ghemawat; Multinationals; Globalization; Management; Strategy

March 2013
Teaching Note

Strategy in the Twenty-First Century Pharmaceutical Industry: Merck & Co. and Pfizer Inc. (TN)

October 2010
Teaching Note

Edward Jones in 2006: Confronting Success (TN)

Teaching Note for 707497. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Corporate Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Performance; Goals and Objectives; Financial Services Industry; United States

June 2005
Teaching Note

The Walt Disney Co.: The Entertainment King (TN)

Teaching Note to (9-701-035). View Details

Keywords: History; Business or Company Management; Creativity; Boundaries; Business Strategy; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry

April 1995 (Revised May 1995)
Teaching Note

Cabot Corporation's Liquefied Natural Gas Business TN

March 1995 (Revised January 1996)
Teaching Note

VisiCorp 1978-1984 TN

Keywords: Information Technology Industry

April 1995 (Revised January 1996)
Teaching Note

Smashing the Cube: Corporate Transformation at Ciba-Geigy, Ltd. TN

Teaching Note for (9-795-041). View Details

March 1995 (Revised July 1996)
Teaching Note

Textron, Inc. TN

Teaching Note for (9-373-337). View Details

March 1995 (Revised January 1996)
Teaching Note

PepsiCo's Restaurants TN

Teaching Note for (9-794-078). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

March 1995 (Revised January 1996)
Teaching Note

ICI and Hanson (A) & (B) TN

fall 2001
Article

When Industries Change: The Future of Higher Education

Keywords: Business Ventures; Change; Higher Education

June 1992
Article

The Strategic Management of Uncertainty

Keywords: Strategy; Management; Risk and Uncertainty

Article

How Valuable are Organisational Capabilities?

Keywords: Organizations

April 1998
Article

Entrepreneurship, Strategy and Creativity

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Creativity

June 1991
Background Note

Corporate Advantage: Identifying and Exploiting Resources

Describes the economic theory that was behind the view that resources are central to the creation of value in multibusiness corporations and identifies tests that resources must pass to become part of a firm's "distinctive competence". Describes how those resources can... View Details

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Business or Company Management; Resource Allocation; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation

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