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  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Basics of Consumer Marketing in Asia

are very exquisite in design and consumers also have very high expectations of the [look] and materials," he said. And companies must be fleet of foot to keep up with changing consumer demands. Duan said that since 2000, the updating View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • December 1996
  • Supplement

Cleveland Turnaround: Leadership in Action

By: James E. Austin, Jaan Elias and Andrea L Strimling
Consists of three separate parts. Part 1, The Cleveland Turnaround, describes Cleveland's decline until its bankruptcy in 1978. This is followed by the remedial actions taken by community leaders, starting with the election of a new mayor, the formation of new... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Business Cycles; Development Economics; Urban Development; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Cleveland
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  • 08 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

flexibility," Collis says. "These are the cycles and choices that companies go through." The answers to these four questions, Collis says, flow out of an understanding of a firm's international advantage. "We talk about competitive... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 10 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

whole context. Ely: In Men and Women of the Corporation, you dig into roles and structures, and you weave it all together into cycles of advantage and disadvantage. I’m curious to know how you think about actually intervening in those... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
  • 05 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 5, 2016

instance. The essay also features the leading proponents of this program, especially Charles Hook of ARMCO, and reasons for its eventual decline. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50915 Wesley Mitchell’s Business View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

Effective value-based competition will be centered on addressing health conditions over the entire life cycle of care (not the specific components of care such as surgery, office visits, home care, and so on), and competition will shift... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • October 29, 2011
  • Other Article

Upstream Sovereigns

By: Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan and Vadym Volosovych
With all the focus on Europe, it is easy to ignore the argument that global imbalances remain a drag on economic recovery. This column decomposes international capital flows into public and private components and claims that upstream flows from emerging to advanced... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; Business Cycles; Balance and Stability; Capital; Developing Countries and Economies
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  • 02 Jul 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

shows a lack of perspective ... While it may be true that the cycle of change is faster today than before and companies have to adapt to it more efficiently and quickly, it would be unwise to submit ourselves to the ideal of creative... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 26 Aug 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

business life cycle how these fledgling ventures can operate across multiple countries. The course would also identify advantages and liabilities of starting an international company, how to manage it locally and globally, and building... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education
  • 14 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

unacknowledged, he suggested. Misunderstandings about goals are the result. Pay-for-performance may also have a natural life cycle that managers are unaware of, he said. Problems In San Diego One HP unit that threw the matter into relief... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 08 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?

hopped in lateral cycles and the upward flow of creative offensive schemes stopped at the college level, with most teams running similar, risk-averse offenses, and innovation taking root slowly.” This conservative approach to hiring seems... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

Provision in a Business Cycle Model By: Begenau, Juliane Abstract—This paper develops a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model in which households' preferences for safe and liquid assets constitute a violation of Modigliani and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Apr 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?

enterprise market values as well as greater disparities between them suggests that an upturn in mergers and acquisitions can't be far behind. Unfortunately, if research is any guide, the operative question is whether more or less value will be destroyed in this View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

with Microsoft (The Free Press), Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano of MIT's Sloan School of Management use this high-tech confrontation to outline a comprehensive approach to strategy in the ultracompetitive environment created by the Internet. Warp-speed View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
  • 02 May 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?

This brings us full cycle to some of our original questions about consumer generated marketing. Is it really something "new under the sun"? Is it, for marketers, a disruptive technology in its own right, something offering... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 13 Dec 2004
  • Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

Presentation date: November 2, 2004 The following is a summary of the virtual seminar covering: The definition, levels, and cycles of confidence. How leaders prevent losing streaks and instill organizational confidence. The keys to... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel
  • February 2023 (Revised February 2025)
  • Case

Doing Business in New Delhi, India

By: Vikram S Gandhi and Radhika Kak
The case uses the example of Tata Motors to discuss the opportunities and challenges of doing business in India. View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economy; Macroeconomics; Business History; India
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  • March 2014
  • Article

Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence

By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet fluctuations in bank-loan supply have been hard to quantify in the time series. While loan issuance falls in recessions, it is not clear if this is due to... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Banks and Banking; Bonds; Financial Markets; Financing and Loans; Banking Industry
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  • 29 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

controllers, growers, or cycle managers on the basis of their line management experience at GE. Using S&P industry reports, we then coded the strategic challenges facing each new company the former GE managers were hired into. Nine of... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment
  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

healthcare—i.e., patient-centered outcomes achieved per healthcare dollar spent—can define quality and unify performance improvement goals with health outcomes of importance to patients across the entire cycle of care. We describe the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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