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  • 11 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

development in the other four strategy-focused organization principles and integrates them into a comprehensive closed-loop management system that links strategy and operations. Beyond View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new open architecture that isolates the bottlenecks in modules and allows others... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Curriculum - Business & Environment

systems to measure, track, and influence climate friendly changes to reduce CO2 emissions across the world's fourth largest dairy cooperative. Finance I Project Helios: Harvesting the Sun Key concepts: Return on Investment, Financial... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

positions. To enable such assessments, firms must become as transparent about their corporate political responsibility (CPR) as their corporate social responsibility (CSR). For their part, rating systems must demand such information from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • April 2021 (Revised January 2022)
  • Supplement

SA Taxi: A Vehicle for Empowerment? (B)

By: Nien-he Hsieh, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and F. Christopher Eaglin
SA Taxi was a vertically integrated business that operated in South Africa’s distinctive taxi industry. Despite being plagued by violence, informal structures, unsafe road practices and lack of government support, the taxi industry had grown to become South Africa’s... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Ownership; Ownership Stake; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Equality and Inequality; Race; Situation or Environment; Transportation Industry; South Africa; Africa
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  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and the Internet

complex Internet-based procurement application in just sixty days. As the fixed costs of developing systems decline, the barriers to imitation fall as well. Today, nearly every company is developing similar types of Internet applications,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details
  • 08 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

well in some aspects of the job but not in others. Avoid creating a system that plays favorites or denies people the opportunity to improve. Tie rewards clearly to performance. Ideally, this should be done at both the individual and group... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • Web

Events & Presentations - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

improvement in health care delivery. Participants gain insights and capabilities to direct the strategic implementation of value-based health care in their organizations. Health Care jan 2020 Value-Based Health Care Delivery: Systems... View Details
  • 20 Aug 2008
  • Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

he succeeded so convincingly playing the game of market capitalism that first emerged in the late 19th century and grew to great influence during the 20th century. This game or system has been dominated in many industries by large,... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

    David A. Thomas

    David Thomas is H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.  His research addresses issues related to executive development, cultural diversity in organizations, leadership and organizational change.  He recently served as a... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; consulting; consumer products; education industry; financial services; media
    • Web

    Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

    healthier alternative candy bar snack. Business Track, 2025 Argus Systems Lisa Yan (MBA 2025) Drew Borinstein (MBA 2025) Business Track Winner Accelerating AI model development for physical AI. HydroHaul Eli Litchman (MBA 2025) Fenil... View Details
    • 29 Mar 2016
    • First Look

    March 29, 2016

    principles act as an organizational guidance system that integrates and strengthens the micromechanisms that enable leaders to build dynamic capabilities and, therefore, change-adept organizations. From... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 Apr 2011
    • HBS Case

    Reinventing the National Geographic Society

    TV, cable programming—but is still trying to figure out the best strategy for integrating them. Despite repeated structural changes, employees still operate in silos. In short, the National Geographic case is fertile learning ground for... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Rounding the Bend

    Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing
    • 16 Feb 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

    in which the needs of the silo come first. Cooperation, in turn, does not solve the inevitable problems associated with the redistribution of power. To make systemic integration work, clout must be in the... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products
    • 17 Mar 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

    even cartels treat them as valid and often successful forms of business enterprise rather than inferior options to large, vertically integrated firms. Q: Is there a major theme running through the book? A: For me, a major theme is the... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Apr 2022
    • Book

    What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose

    emphasized autonomy as an operating norm, to the point where employees who had worked in more conventional organizations found the transition jarring. Leaders integrated crowdsourcing into decision-making, most notably in the firm’s... View Details
    Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
    • 19 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

    Gender-class differences are reflected in women’s employment beliefs and behaviors. Research integrating social class with gendered experiences in homes and workplaces deepens our understanding of the complex interplay between sources of... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne