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- 26 Jul 2023
- News
Is Your Start-Up’s Growth Sustainable?
- fall 1985
- Article
Supporting Innovation and Venture Development in Established Companies
By: R. M. Kanter
Kanter, R. M. "Supporting Innovation and Venture Development in Established Companies." Journal of Business Venturing 1 (fall 1985).
- Research Summary
Investment and marketing strategies of American multinationals in Argentina (1890c-1939)
Andrea Lluch is undertaking a major research project on American business expansion in Argentina up to the beginning of World War II. The first part of the project focuses on the American companies investment strategies. The second part analyses of the evolution of... View Details
- January 1996
- Case
Managing Xerox's Multinational Development Center (Abridged)
Describes a manager's role in developing a staff group responsible for enhancing the efficiency of Xerox's worldwide logistics and inventory management systems. Illustrates a range of management strategies for upward and lateral influence in a complex organizational... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Personal Development and Career; Consumer Products Industry; Technology Industry
Ibarra, Herminia M. "Managing Xerox's Multinational Development Center (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 496-047, January 1996.
- April 2006 (Revised April 2012)
- Case
Ghana: National Economic Strategy
By: Michael E. Porter and Kjell Ke-Li Carlsson
Set in the year 2001, as President John Kufuor contemplates a national economic strategy following his election in the first democratic transfer of power in Ghana's history. Focuses on Ghana's long history of poor economic performance and intractable poverty,... View Details
Keywords: History; Economic Growth; Government Administration; Developing Countries and Economies; Growth and Development Strategy; Ghana
Porter, Michael E., and Kjell Ke-Li Carlsson. "Ghana: National Economic Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 706-497, April 2006. (Revised April 2012.)
- March – April 2009
- Article
Market Research and Innovation Strategy in a Duopoly
By: Dominique Lauga and Elie Ofek
We model a duopoly in which ex-ante identical firms must decide where to direct their innovation efforts. The firms face market uncertainty about consumers' preferences for innovation on two product attributes and technology uncertainty about the success of their R&D... View Details
Keywords: Profit; Innovation and Management; Demand and Consumers; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Research and Development; Competitive Strategy
Lauga, Dominique, and Elie Ofek. "Market Research and Innovation Strategy in a Duopoly." Marketing Science 28, no. 2 (March–April 2009): 373–396.
- September 22, 2023
- Article
How Software Companies Can Avoid the Trap of Product-Led Growth
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Oliver Jay
Companies like Slack and Dropbox have pioneered the use of Product-Led Growth (PLG). They start by building a product that’s indispensable for small teams, then count on low friction and customer advocates to expand throughout the organization. PLG works, at least at... View Details
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., and Oliver Jay. "How Software Companies Can Avoid the Trap of Product-Led Growth." Harvard Business Review (website) (September 22, 2023).
- Web
Strategy - Doctoral
Strategy The doctoral program in Strategy encourages students to pursue multi-disciplinary research that utilizes multiple methodologies—quantitative, as well as qualitative—to study how companies View Details
- Web
VBHCD Intensive Seminars - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
in the book Redefining Health Care, by Michael Porter and Elizabeth Teisberg, value for patients can be assessed by the health outcomes achieved per dollar spent. Value-based health care delivery concepts start with providers but... View Details
- Web
Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
prostate cancer care with a commitment to measure long-term health outcomes for every patient. See All Cases & Teaching Notes Courses and Curriculum Presentations Value-Based Health Care Delivery: Systems Integration View Details
- TeachingInterests
Driving Digital Strategy
Technology, like a relentless force of nature, is reshaping industries at an unprecedented pace. It poses a threat to those who resist and fail to adapt. But it also presents unparalleled opportunities to those audacious enough to harness its... View Details
- October 2024 (Revised July 2025)
- Case
Lanco Medical Group: Fostering Happiness for Growth
By: Susanna Gallani, Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago and Katherine Sonnefeldt
This case describes how Lanco Medical Group, a fast-growing pharmaceutical distributor serving Latin America, approached the design of their employee benefits and incentives program. After learning about gaps between what leadership believed motivated employees and... View Details
Keywords: Fairness; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Growth Management; Motivation and Incentives; Expansion; Pharmaceutical Industry; Latin America
Gallani, Susanna, Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago, and Katherine Sonnefeldt. "Lanco Medical Group: Fostering Happiness for Growth." Harvard Business School Case 125-062, October 2024. (Revised July 2025.)
- Program
Driving Digital Strategy
leaders must strike a delicate balance between strengthening the core of their business and boldly building for the future. Through a series of real-life case studies and thought-provoking discussions, we... View Details
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Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
foundational work on cluster mapping that Prof. Michael E. Porter has led at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), Harvard Business School over the last two decades. He launched the U.S.... View Details
- Research Summary
Developing Organizational Capabilities to Compete
By: Michael Beer
Michael Beer’s current research focuses on the question of what makes an Effective Organization. Based on his extensive research and practice about this question Beer has identified six highly interrelated core capabilities:
- Capacity of the... View Details
- spring 2007
- Article
Corporate Legitimacy and Advertising: British Companies and the Rhetoric of Development in West Africa, 1950-1970
Around 1960, the first independent African nations emerged, marking the beginning of the momentous political event that, among other things, would change the visual representations and the copy of advertisements. Development, modernity, and industrialization became... View Details
Decker, Stephanie. "Corporate Legitimacy and Advertising: British Companies and the Rhetoric of Development in West Africa, 1950-1970." Business History Review 81, no. 1 (Spring 2007): 59–86.
- January 2013 (Revised January 2013)
- Course Overview Note
Running Small and Medium Size Enterprises (RSME) Winter Term 2013: Course Overview and Syllabus
Course Overview and Syllabus for RSME View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Organizations; Entrepreneurs; Small ＆ Medium-sized Enterprises; Small And Medium-sized Enterprises; Small Business; Small And Medium Enterprises; Small Company Management; Small Companies; Operations Management; Growth Management; Growth Strategy; Growth Planning And Management; Pricing; Hiring; Firm Growth; Firm Organization; Leadership And Managing People; Entrepreneurship; Operations; Management; Leadership
Sharpe, Jim. "Running Small and Medium Size Enterprises (RSME) Winter Term 2013: Course Overview and Syllabus." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 813-128, January 2013. (Revised January 2013.)
- Web
The Value Chain - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Value Chain Developed by Michael Porter and used throughout the world for nearly 30 years, the value chain is a powerful tool for disaggregating a company into its strategically relevant activities in order... View Details
- Research Summary
FOUNDATIONS OF BUSINESS STRATEGY
Pankaj Ghemawat is involved in an ongoing stream of research and course development on the foundations of business strategy. Recent work has included the application of game theory to business strategy, as reported in the book Games Businesses Play, and the... View Details
- 1 Sep 2007
- Conference Presentation
Professional Identity Development
By: Scott Snook, Barney Forsythe and Phil Lewis