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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
inept or complacent management drew the attention of raiders. "I give credit to that 1980s movement as a whole for having created the profit machine that we see in the 1990s," Hayes says. "We now have an M&A; movement driven by strategic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
Underlying this change is a story of foresighted strategy and disciplined execution—of connecting knowing to doing. In strategic terms, the IBM transformation illustrates the ideas behind dynamic capabilities, showing how the company has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
http://hbr.org/product/keeping-up-with-the-quants-your-guide-to-understan/an/11177-HBK-ENG 2006 Strategic Management Journal Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies By: Alcácer, Juan, and Wilbur Chung Abstract—Geographically... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
dependencies. How is this network different from the haphazard contacts that you and all managers create in the course of doing your work? It’s likely to be bigger and more complete since it should include everyone you need and everyone who needs you. It’s composed of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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agility, and working towards strategic objectives. Managers work together to set strategy, priorities, and policies, determine resource allocation, manage performance and coach individual staff on their career goals, and measure results.... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
collectors, auction house operators, and other actors who played active roles as either institutional entrepreneurs or guardians in shaping the revitalization of the industry. We find these entrepreneurs and guardians initially espoused alternative View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
mental flexibility that enables a manager to negotiate, adapt, and modify the layers of competitive advantage and various strategic imperatives that are part of any multinational company. "We talk about building a matrix into the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
is working to change these perceptions and document inner city business opportunities. In partnership with Inc. magazine, the ICIC scours America each year looking for the most rapidly growing private companies based in inner city areas.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
intense margin pressure. This case allows students to discuss the keys to Beingmate’s past successes and debate its existing strategy in the context of a very complicated market. One key question is how Beingmate might leverage its View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
media content. Raises issues of how technology interacts with creative processes and outcome possibilities, and also invites discussion of strategic and organizational questions raised by the very different business models of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
had to be updated to enable collaboration. The current dilemma facing the CEO and COO of the foundation relates to setting strategic priorities for research so that a treatment for MS can be ready in the next ten years. The View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
examines the many strategic choices Goldwind faced as it established its first major overseas subsidiary in Chicago: building a local team around a U.S. CEO, bridging cross-cultural differences among management, overcoming regulatory... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
phases of a new industry, formed a strategic goal. Our data show goal formation as a phased social process. By aggregating previously encountered solutions to known problems, the founding team formed an emergent goal that presented an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
Group plc: May 2006 Harvard Business School Case 807-006 Since 2004, Philip Yea, the first outsider ever to lead 3i Group, one of Europe's largest publicly listed private equity firms, has been trying to help the far-flung organization become more of a streamlined... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
consider potential partnerships with, say, Apple Wallet. Price setting. At Uber, a team of economists work on how to design and fine-tune its surge pricing system, which changes fares in real time and increases prices during peak hours.... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
competitive system. April 2015 Strategic Management Journal The Throne vs. the Kingdom: Founder Control and Value Creation in Startups By: Wasserman, Noam Abstract—Does the degree to which founders keep control of their startups affect... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
emergence of political economy and the project of creating market societies. By reconstructing ideas in their historical contexts, I address motivations and contingencies at the very foundations of modernity. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
genocide. As his goals for starting and running educational ventures expanded, he set his sights on HBS to deepen his finance and leadership skills and to acquire a more strategic worldview. “Coming from a nonprofit background, I figured... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
billion market, I would go vertical for the next year or two. I would go deep and learn along the way to master the business fundamentals and identify parallel/complementary markets you can expand into. This will prepare the firm to go horizontal with View Details
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
quite limited. The best path forward involves extensive experimentation and careful evaluation. Publisher's link: http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/I/bo18508109.html August 2013 Advances in Strategic Management The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne