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01 Dec 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014

Build. Repeat—to reinvent the way one maneuvers in an unpredictable job market. International Strategy: Context, Concepts, and Implications by David View Details

01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

Trap: A Strategist's Guide to Digital Change by Bharat Anand (Random House) Digital change means that everyone today can reach and interact with... View Details

2018
Chapter

The United States in Contemporary Perspectives: Evolving Forms, Strategy, and Performance

By: David J. Collis, Bharat Anand and J. Yo-Jud Cheng

BOOK ABSTRACT: In spite of surging interest in the business group organization among business scholars, economists, and historians in recent years, academic research on business groups has, to date, remained within the boundary of emerging markets. The major aim of... View Details

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01 Jun 1997
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Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field

emerging technologies. Looking at corporate strategy, Cynthia Montgomery and Associate Professor David J. Collis recently published Corporate... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

22 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 22

on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, edited by David Audretsch, Oliver Falck, and Stephan Heblich. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22

Working PapersInternational Differences in the Size and Roles of Corporate Headquarters: An Empirical Examination Authors:David Collis, David Young, and Michael Goold... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Strategy - Doctoral

Piner Joey Ryu Kyle Schirmann Yifei Wu Haiyang Zhang Current HBS Faculty Juan Alcacer Laura Alfaro Bharat N. Anand Brian K. Baik Julie Battilana Ethan S. Bernstein Jeffrey J.... View Details

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Strategy Faculty - Faculty & Research

Professor of Business Administration Josh Baron Senior Lecturer of Business Administration David J. Collis Adjunct Professor Carolyn J. Fu... View Details

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Marketing - Doctoral

Elisabeth C. Paulson Isamar Troncoso Jeremy Yang Shunyuan Zhang Product management Tomomichi Amano Sara McKinley Torti Pricing David E. Bell Ayelet Israeli Elie Ofek Value creation Anita Elberse Rajiv Lal Strategy Juan Alcacer View Details

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Influential Textbook Authors by the Academy of Management Learning and Education in 2018. David J. Collis :... View Details

July–August 2021
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Why Do So Many Strategies Fail?

By: David J. Collis

THE PROBLEM: Seemingly successful new companies struggle to turn a healthy profit. Established firms get disrupted by upstarts. Companies that excel at serving their markets can’t adapt when customers’ tastes shift. THE ROOT CAUSE: All too often, business leaders focus... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Strategic Planning; Business Model; Value; Value Creation; Opportunities

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October 2021
Case

(180) Days of Quibi

By: David J. Collis and Terrence Shu

Mobile streaming app Quibi was ready to take the entertainment world by storm at its April 2020 launch. Backed by $1.75 billion, influential investors from Hollywood to Wall Street eagerly anticipated early success for this brainchild of Meg Whitman, former CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Strategy; Business Model; Business Startups; Mobile Technology

June 2023 (Revised January 2024)
Case

Siemens AG: A Private Equity Approach within an Industrial Corporation?

By: David J. Collis and Haisley Wert

In July 2022, Horst Kayser, Chairman of Siemens AG Portfolio Companies (POC), was reflecting on the advice he could offer Roland Busch, Chief Executive Officer of the parent company Siemens AG, about whether and how to operate a private equity-like approach inside the... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Management; Value Creation; Private Equity; Corporate Strategy

February 2008 (Revised November 2015)
Case

Danaher Corporation

By: Bharat Anand, David J. Collis and Sophie Hood

Between 1985 and 2007, Danaher has been one of the best-performing industrial conglomerates in the U.S. This case examines the corporate strategy of this diversified, global corporation. It describes the firm's portfolio strategy and the Danaher Business System—a... View Details

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation

November 2022
Case

GE: A New Way Forward?

By: David J. Collis and Haisley Wert

One of the most iconic American companies, General Electric (GE) was founded in 1892 in New York state. Named among the original dozen companies on the Dow Jones index in 1896, it was the list’s most tenacious holdout, maintaining its “blue chip” stock status for over... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; GE; Conglomerate; Conglomerates; Corporate Strategy; Management; History; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Change Management; Transformation; Strategic Planning; Value Creation; New York (state, US)

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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

Pons , Jesse M. Shapiro , Bharat Anand and Susan Pinckney March 2025 (Revised April 2025) | Case | Faculty Research The case examines the Dominion Voting Systems View Details

2018
Working Paper

The Limitations of Dynamic Capabilities

By: David J. Collis and Bharat Anand

The concept of dynamic capabilities draws its theoretical basis from two classic traditions within the strategy field—the resource-based view of the firm (RBV) (Wernerfelt, 1984) and market positioning (Porter, 1996). A dynamic capability qualifies as a source of... View Details

Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Business Ventures; Performance; Competitive Advantage