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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Golden Opportunity? Voluntary Sustainability Standards for Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

By: Kristin Sippl
While much is known about voluntary sustainability standards' contributions to certain issues in certain sectors, less is known about their contributions to the realization of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper helps balance the... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability Standards; Gold; Certification; Eco-labeling; International Law; Extractive Industries; Fair Trade; United Nations; Sustainable Development; Environmental Sustainability; Standards; Adoption; Governance; Global Range; Luxury; Mining Industry
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  • September 1990 (Revised March 1991)
  • Case

Mod IV Product Development Team

By: Anne Donnellon and Joshua D. Margolis
Focuses sharply on a crossfunctional product development team at Honeywell's Building Controls Division. Traces the history of teams at the division, which introduced them as a response to intensifying competition and the need for faster development. Reveals the... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Management Teams; Product Development; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Competitive Strategy
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Video - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

min. 21 Jun 2016 Presentation Creating Shared Value Nestle Global Forum 2016 Creating Shared Value Nestle Global Forum 2016 by Michael E. Porter Nestle's CSV global forum entitled 'Investing in Sustainable Development in Africa,' brought... View Details
  • Web

Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Feeley, and Angela M Bader A shift in healthcare payment models from volume toward value-based will require deliberate input into systems development from both perioperative clinicians View Details
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Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

delivery are widely touted as critical to improving the health outcomes of patients worldwide and controlling runaway health care costs. Value-based health care’s central tenant is that value for patients must be the overarching principle... View Details

    Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty

    Best-Selling Cases:  

      1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details

    • August 2010 (Revised August 2011)
    • Case

    Developing an App for That

    By: Hanna Halaburda, Joshua Gans and Nathaniel Burbank
    At a time when ever-rising smartphone sales are driven as much by demand for devices that run must-have third-party "apps" as by the quality of traditional voice and data services, there is a myriad of challenges facing the software developer who is looking to choose... View Details
    Keywords: Product Development; Competitive Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Banking Industry; Information Technology Industry
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    • March 2004
    • Case

    L.L. Bean: A Search for Growth

    By: Rajiv Lal, Walter J. Salmon and James Weber
    In mid-2003, CEO Chris McCormick felt L.L. Bean was in a good position to begin to grow again. For nearly 90 years, the company sold clothing and gear for outdoor enthusiasts through its catalogs and a single retail store in Freeport, Maine. In the three decades prior... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Restructuring; Growth and Development Strategy; Cost Management; Sales; Performance Improvement; Diversification; Distribution Channels; Resignation and Termination; Retail Industry; Web Services Industry
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    • June 2007 (Revised March 2008)
    • Case

    Zoots - Financing Growth (A)

    By: Michael J. Roberts, William A. Sahlman and Todd Krasnow
    Traces the genesis and founding of Zoots, the largest chain of dry cleaning establishments in the U.S. Founded by some of the founders of the very successful Staples chain, the company raises a very large amount of capital without fully proving its business model, and... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Investment Return; Growth and Development Strategy; Valuation; United States
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    • November – December 2011
    • Article

    Explaining Influence Rents: The Case for an Institutions-Based View of Strategy

    By: Gautam Ahuja and Sai Yayavaram
    Research in strategy has identified and tried to explain four types of rents: monopolistic rents, efficiency rents, quasi rents, and Schumpeterian rents. Building on previous work on political and institutional strategies, we add a fifth type of rent: influence rents.... View Details
    Keywords: Institutions; Influence Rents; Generic Strategies; Strategy; Organizations; Renting or Rental; Economics
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    • 9 AM – 9 AM EST, 07 Nov 2018

    HBX Disruptive Strategy

    Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time Worlds Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: November 7, 2018 - December 19, 2018 View Details
    • November 2017
    • Case

    Passion and Strategy: Novozymes' Embrace of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

    By: Andy Zelleke and Emilie Billaud
    This case explores the sustainability efforts at Novozymes, the world's largest and oldest producer of industrial enzymes. In 2015, the Danish company became the world’s first company known to have crafted a new corporate strategy based on the United Nations... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Transformation; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Strategy; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Biotechnology Industry; Europe; Denmark
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    • 2006
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Rural Clusters of Innovation: Berkshires Strategy Project: Driving A Long-Term Economic Strategy

    By: Michael E. Porter
    The Berkshires Strategy Project, a six-month strategy development effort involving dozens of private and public sector organizations in the Berkshires, has led to broad consensus behind an economic strategy for the County, and galvanized a leadership group in the form... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Industry Clusters; Growth and Development; United States
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    Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog

    HBS Course Catalog Strategy and Technology Course Number 1286 Baker Foundation Professor David Yoffie Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Paper/Project Associate Professor Andy Wu Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits... View Details
    • January 2010 (Revised May 2012)
    • Case

    TopCoder (A): Developing Software through Crowdsourcing

    By: Karim R. Lakhani, David A. Garvin and Eric Lonstein
    TopCoder's crowdsourcing-based business model, in which software is developed through online tournaments, is presented. The case highlights how TopCoder has created a unique two-sided innovation platform consisting of a global community of over 225,000 developers who... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Two-Sided Platforms; Motivation and Incentives; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competition; Software; Technology Industry
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    • 16 Nov 2021
    • News

    How to Develop a Sales Strategy That Actually Works with the Author and Harvard Business School Professor Frank Cespedes

      Winning in Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Strategy and Execution

      Most books thus far on emerging markets are either investing-oriented (Mobius, Pereiro), or country - or market-specific (Farrell, Lindahl), or descriptive (Friedman, van Agtmael). No book has definitively targeted the corporate strategists who need a practical... View Details

      • December 1994 (Revised July 1996)
      • Case

      USSR 1988, The: The Search for Growth

      For decades after the revolution of 1917, Communist Party leaders claimed that the socialist economic system was superior to the capitalist system on both moral and economic grounds. By 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary of the Communist Party of the... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Systems; Economic Growth; Government and Politics; Soviet Union
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      • November 2006 (Revised May 2025)
      • Case

      Eli Lilly: Developing Cymbalta

      By: Elie Ofek and Ron Laufer
      Anticipating the expiration of its Prozac patent, Eli Lilly has to make tough decisions regarding the development of its next-generation antidepressant drug. In particular, the company needs to decide whether to first establish that once-a-day dosing for Cymbalta... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Product Development; Research and Development; Pharmaceutical Industry
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      Data - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

      HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Data Data Resources U.S. Cluster Mapping The Cluster Mapping Project assembles a detailed picture of the location and performance of... View Details