Growth Strategy And Execution - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Oct 2015
First Look

October 20, 2015

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-403 Shareholder Activists and Corporate Strategy By 2015, there had been an upsurge in activist shareholders arguing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

for companies to explain their rationale for the limitations they place on computer usage. Control access to your systems. You don't allow just anyone off the street to wander in and use your company's fax machines or sit in on a View Details

Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

leader? Bill George, the creator of the "authentic leadership" approach to management, answers critics and outlines the path for executives to be more effective. Plus: The year’s most downloaded... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

Explicating the 'Dynamics' in the Dynamic Capabilities Framework By: Jones, Geoffrey, and R. Daniel Wadhwani Abstract—This working paper aims to deepen the scholarly dialogue between strategy View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 14

unable to build on this legacy during the new wave of global banking that began in the 1960s with the advent of the Euromarkets. However, from the 1990s there was major restructuring and a much improved performance. The chapter explores... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

to be published by Princeton University Press. In this recent interview conducted by e-mail, Lodge is hopeful that the World Development Corporation will be formed. He explains why nonprofits aren't the answer to ending poverty and asks... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

February 2018 (Revised January 2020)
Supplement

Ant Financial (C)

By: Feng Zhu, Ying Zhang, Krishna G. Palepu and Anthony K. Woo

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Global Strategy; Finance; Opportunities

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April 2016 (Revised February 2018)
Teaching Note

Riot Games: Can Culture Survive Growth?

By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Norris

This teaching note gives instructors a guide for a discussion of Riot Games, a fast growing videogames firm with a strong, player-centric culture. It also offers references to research on culture that will allow students to decide whether or not Riot Games’ culture... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Video Game Industry

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12 Nov 2024
HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

lucrative gig that taught him a lot about business but ultimately landed him in prison. Once he’d served his 14 months, Blakeman sought to build a career and turn his life around. But when his criminal record kept him from getting a job,... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment

04 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 4

deontological option) were more likely to suppress their emotional expressions. In Studies 2a, 2b, and 3, we instruct participants to either regulate their emotions, using one of two different strategies... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 May 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”

Summing Up Respondents to my column about the tenets of new strategic marketing by and large projected the view that new strategic marketing, as propounded by the authors of the new book, Marketing Moves: A New Approach to Profits, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

June 2007
Supplement

Shinsei Bank: Developing an Integrated Firm (B)

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Terence Heymann

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Business Ventures; Integration; Growth and Development; Banking Industry

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August 2007
Teaching Note

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd (TN)

By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu

Teaching note to 707441. View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Cost; Competitive Strategy; Adoption; Emerging Markets; Change; Multinational Firms and Management; Genetics; Pharmaceutical Industry; India

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20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

Architecture is composed of three intellectual segments: (1) Determinants and Effects of International Capital Flows, (2) Policies and Strategies for Harnessing the Benefits of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

compiled a detailed curriculum analysis of eleven business school programs. To complete the picture, they also interviewed leading academic critics and 28 executives and... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

September 1993 (Revised December 1993)
Case

Cott Corp.: Private Label in the 1990s

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Robert S. Kaplan

Private label cola, Cott, gets 30% of the market in Canada. How does it move into the U.S. market? How do retailers evaluate its benefit costs? Does Cott use an existing structure or build new ones? Does Cott diversify from drink to snack foods? View Details

Keywords: Private Sector; Cost Management; Labels; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Structures; Diversification; Food and Beverage Industry

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12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

economic growth has stagnated, and poverty is on the rise. Most people in Latin America, the Middle East, and Central Asia are poorer today than they were ten years ago, View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

of social entrepreneurship require not only the creative combination and adaptation of social and commercial approaches, but also the development of new conceptual frameworks View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Tech Investment the Wise Way

Press, 2001. This excerpt is taken with permission from a contributed essay in Taking Technical Risks: How Innovators, Executives And Investors Manage High-Tech Risks, edited by Lewis M. Branscomb View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough & Richard S. Rosenbloom