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- April–June 2015
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It Doesn't Matter If Competitors Know Your Strategy
It is difficult for people to implement what they don't understand. Yet, research indicates that, on average, more than 50% of employees in organizations say they do not understand their organization's strategy. Further, the percentage of people reporting ignorance of... View Details
Cespedes, Frank V. "It Doesn't Matter If Competitors Know Your Strategy." ThinkSales (April–June 2015), 10–11.
- August 2009 (Revised April 2012)
- Case
Genzyme's CSR Dilemma: How to Play its HAND
Genzyme, a global biotechnology company, launches a program to develop therapies for neglected diseases (e.g., malaria, TB), giving away the intellectual property. This case focuses on the decision of which diseases, which partnerships, and which markets should... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Intellectual Property; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A., Tarun Khanna, and Prithwiraj Choudhury. "Genzyme's CSR Dilemma: How to Play its HAND." Harvard Business School Case 910-407, August 2009. (Revised April 2012.)
- 08 Oct 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
The Federal Reserve’s Abandonment of Its 1923 Principles
- 08 Aug 2021
- News
Business Needs to Rethink Its Role in Politics
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Greater Than the Sum of its Parts
complex, it is clear that a new model based on collaboration and deeper integration is essential to the University’s ability to sustain its impact in the 21st century. Harvard President Drew Faust has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
set up a payment system under her new company’s name—all in one day and all on her mobile phone while (I hope) doing her regular work. Needless to say, she can mentor me any day. Of course, reverse mentoring goes on all the time, often in an opportunistic or... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
their companies' CRM initiatives had failed to deliver profitable growth and had damaged long-term customer relationships. Tempting as it may be to point the finger at your CRM technology, that won't help you reverse these worrisome... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 23 Feb 2010
- News
The US public debt hits its tipping point
- 09 Feb 2012
- News
Crowdfunding is Great, But is it Right For Startups?
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Making It Possible to Explore and Grow
is important,” Friedlander continues, “but telling the right story about it moves a company forward.” Realizing that he lacked the business knowledge to craft such a story with credibility and impact, Friedlander resolved to bridge the... View Details
- 01 Nov 2021
- News
How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?
- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
jobs and others will follow, perhaps losing some people hired during the past few years. Companies will look to shore up spending, perhaps investing less in diversity and inclusion. It could be a precarious time. Leaders, you will be in a... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 18 Feb 2015
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
U.S. Competitiveness: An Economy Doing Half Its Job
The HBS U.S. Competitiveness Projects report on the most recent alumni survey highlighted a troubling divergence in the U.S. economy. Middle- and working-class citizens are struggling, as are many small businesses. Professor Jan Rivkin will focus on aspects of the U.S.... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Lessons from a Working Mom on “Doing It All”
- Sep 2014
- Article
What It Takes to Reshore Manufacturing Successfully
The data on comparative labor and energy costs may seem compelling, but the process of bringing assembly work back to domestic factories from abroad is substantially more challenging than the economics alone would predict. This paper looks at some of the issues firms... View Details
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What It Takes to Reshore Manufacturing Successfully
By: Willy C. Shih
The data on comparative labor and energy costs may seem compelling, but the process of bringing assembly work back to domestic factories from abroad is substantially more challenging than the economics alone would predict. This paper looks at some of the issues firms... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; Manufacturing Costs; Manufacturing Strategy; U.S. Competitiveness; Competitiveness; Labor Force Participation; Labor Management; Trade; Production; Management Practices and Processes; Manufacturing Industry; United States; China
Shih, Willy C. "What It Takes to Reshore Manufacturing Successfully." MIT Sloan Management Review 56, no. 1 (Fall 2014): 55–62.
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Distributionally Robust Optimization and Its Tractable Approximations
By: Joel Goh and Melvyn Sim
In this paper we focus on a linear optimization problem with uncertainties, having expectations in the objective and in the set of constraints. We present a modular framework to obtain an approximate solution to the problem that is distributionally robust and more... View Details
Goh, Joel, and Melvyn Sim. "Distributionally Robust Optimization and Its Tractable Approximations." Operations Research 58, no. 4 (pt.1) (July–August 2010): 902–917.
- July–August 1993
- Article
Organizational Diagnosis: Its Role in Organizational Learning
By: M. Beer and B. Spector
Beer, M., and B. Spector. "Organizational Diagnosis: Its Role in Organizational Learning." Journal of Counseling and Development 71, no. 6 (July–August 1993).