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House is also home to the Global Experience Office, which administers the global immersion portion of the required first-year Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD) course, where students travel abroad to work with selected organizations on a... View Details

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in the industry and the competitive environment, and news of innovative products and services. Duke EDGE Career Resources Career resources including slides, videos, articles, etc. to help navigate your... View Details

January 2003 (Revised August 2003)
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General Mills and the Hawthorne Huddle (A)

Examines the role of General Mills in the formation and leadership of the Hawthorne Huddle. The Huddle was in the Hawthorne neighborhood in Northern Minneapolis, which in 1997 was plagued with high crime and poverty. The Huddle served as a forum, held the first... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Management Succession; Social Issues; Consumer Products Industry; Minneapolis

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2010
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When Open Architecture Beats Closed: The Entrepreneurial Use of Architectural Knowledge

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

This paper describes how entrepreneurial firms can use superior architectural knowledge to open up a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new open architecture... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Investment Return; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Design; Organizational Design; Competitive Advantage; Technology Industry

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01 Sep 2006
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Are We Ready for Self-Management?

to create thousands of new locations, including stores and kiosks, at which its line of Mexican-themed products could be sold. At the same time, it was experiencing a shortage of capable managers in a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 24

explore the role of organizational identity in the adoption of new sustainability practices, focusing on how identity functions as a driver of (or sometimes a drag on) adoption. Drawing on illustrations from the U.S. hotel industry, we... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 19

entry of new female candidates, no change in female or male voter turnout, and no spillover effects to neighboring areas. Further analysis points to a reduction in party bias against women candidates as the main mechanism driving the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2020
Teaching Note

Shiseido Acquires Drunk Elephant

By: Jill Avery

On October 7, 2019, the Shiseido Group announced that it would acquire clean skincare brand Drunk Elephant for $845 million, a valuation of 8.5 times sales. Did Shiseido pay too much or too little for this brand asset? How much was the Drunk Elephant brand worth and... View Details

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18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

characteristics of the waste-to-energy operation, the market characteristics for waste disposal and energy, and the mechanisms regulators use to encourage production of renewable energy, we determine the profit-maximizing operating... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

What should business leaders know about the ambitions of Russia, China, and the European Union? They should know how geopolitical conditions exert enormous pressure on companies, according to Harvard Business School professor D. Quinn Mills and coauthor Steven... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Sep 2024
Cold Call Podcast

Fawn Weaver’s Entrepreneurial Journey as an Outsider in the Spirits Industry

Keywords: Re: Hise O. Gibson; Food & Beverage; Tourism

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

articles. Much of Porter's thinking originally appeared in the pages of the Harvard Business Review. Eleven of those seminal articles are collected in On Competition, a book published by the Harvard Business School Press. In addition, Porter has contributed an... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

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are still required for our credential programs: CORe and CLIMB.) You can now immediately enroll and start taking the next step in your career. All programs require the completion of a brief online enrollment form before payment. If you are View Details

01 Oct 2014
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Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

process, they provoked a new round of questions. David Physick teed up the discussion nicely by commenting, "The wonderful American motor racing driver, Mario Andretti, who was as focused an individual as any racer, remarked he'd... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

02 Oct 2017
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Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

in less than 30 seconds. "In one case, $35 million was raised in less than 30 seconds" The most highly developed of the digital currencies is Bitcoin, the product of an ingenious and secretive tech programmer who developed a... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

May 2024
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Pernod Ricard: Uncorking Digital Transformation

By: Iavor Bojinov, Edward McFowland III, François Candelon, Nikolina Jonsson and Emer Moloney

This case study explores the opportunities and challenges of the digital transformation journey of French wine and spirits company Pernod Ricard. As part of the transformation, the company launched four key digital programs (KDPs) aimed at using data and artificial... View Details

Keywords: Business Organization; Business Divisions; Talent and Talent Management; Global Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; Digital Transformation; Digital Strategy; Advertising; Sales; Organizational Culture; Product Development; Decision Making; Technology Adoption; Alignment; Expansion; Food and Beverage Industry; France; Europe

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04 May 2021
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Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS

and New Year’s, and why I always had to bring back a bunch of gifts for family after travelling. Over the years, however, I have become less focused on differentiating the Filipino experience from the AAPI experience and, instead, have... View Details

31 May 2017
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Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

and mortar big box stores instead. Amazon, unburdened by such real estate, was easily able to mobilize Internet capabilities in order to capture a dominant share of a notoriously inefficient book retailing industry. It didn’t stop there. And now it is systematically... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
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Algramo

By: Michael Chu, Monica Silva and Mariana Cal

Founded in 2013 by José Manuel Moller in Chile, Algramo first became known for addressing the “poverty tax” (the surcharge paid by lower income families for staples sold in smaller sizes) through specially-designed dispensers in low-income neighborhood grocery stores... View Details