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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Annual Report Details Strong Financial Growth
management knowledge fueled revenue growth, more than half of which came from two market-sensitive units — Executive Education and Harvard Business School Publishing. Both units have rebounded strongly from... View Details
- April 1991 (Revised May 2017)
- Teaching Note
Automatic Data Processing: The EFS Decision
By: Robert Simons
Teaching Note for (9-190-059). View Details
- 2015
- Working Paper
Executives' Financial Preferences and Shareholder Tax Outcomes
By: Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Andreya M. Perez-Silva
We demonstrate that executives’ personal financial preferences impact both layers of shareholder taxes, corporate taxes and corporate payouts. We reconstruct executives’ insider equity portfolios to quantify their personal incentives and analyze stock sales that reveal... View Details
Keywords: Executives; Capital Gain; Dividends; Effective Tax Rate; Tax Avoidance; Taxation; Management Teams; Business and Shareholder Relations
Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo, and Andreya M. Perez-Silva. "Executives' Financial Preferences and Shareholder Tax Outcomes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-034, September 2015.
- 2015
- Chapter
Chief Sustainability Officers: Who Are They and What Do They Do?
By: Kathy Miller and George Serafeim
Keywords: Sustainability; Environment; Strategy; Strategy Execution; Corporate Governance; ESG; Organization Design; Change Management; Leadership
Miller, Kathy, and George Serafeim. "Chief Sustainability Officers: Who Are They and What Do They Do?" Chap. 8 in Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective, edited by Rebecca Henderson, Ranjay Gulati, and Michael Tushman. Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Web
Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Clinic: Growth Strategy 2015 by Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth O. Teisberg The Cleveland Clinic's health care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The... View Details
- April 1997 (Revised May 1997)
- Case
Mercer Management Consulting's "Grow to Be Great" (A): The Growth Initiative
By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In late 1994, James Down, member of Mercer's Executive Committee, has to decide whether or not he should push ahead with the writing and publication of a book on growth--at a time when the more successful business publications focus on reengineering and cost cutting.... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Organizational Culture; Business Growth and Maturation; Knowledge Management; Product Development; Information Publishing; Books; Consulting Industry; Publishing Industry
Leonard, Dorothy A., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. Mercer Management Consulting's "Grow to Be Great" (A): The Growth Initiative. Harvard Business School Case 697-084, April 1997. (Revised May 1997.)
- September 2008
- Case
Israeli Special Forces: Selection Strategy
By: Boris Groysberg, Tal Riesenfeld and Eliot Sherman
Ron Guntz, commander of recruiting for Israel's Special Forces, had been instructed by his superiors to evaluate the process by which he selected solders for a 20-month-long training program. Was the Army conducting this process in an ideal manner? The case examines... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Training; National Security; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Public Administration Industry; Israel
Groysberg, Boris, Tal Riesenfeld, and Eliot Sherman. "Israeli Special Forces: Selection Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 409-041, September 2008.
- June 2010
- Case
Playa Dorada Tennis Club: Expansion Strategy
By: W. Earl Sasser Jr. and Brent Kazan
Playa Dorada Beach & Resort in Boca Raton, Florida, faces a growing seasonal demand for tennis services. The number of guests is expected to double in the next few years, and while the tennis facilities are a popular and well-promoted amenity at the resort, court space... View Details
Keywords: Service Operations; Planning; Price; Expansion; Tourism Industry; Accommodations Industry; Travel Industry; Florida
Sasser, W. Earl, Jr., and Brent Kazan. "Playa Dorada Tennis Club: Expansion Strategy." Harvard Business School Brief Case 104-221, June 2010.
- March 2015 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Shanghai: GDP Apostasy
By: George Serafeim
Balancing economic growth alongside environmental sustainability and social inclusion was becoming increasingly important in China. The case describes Shanghai's decision to abandon growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as its primary metric of measuring success.... View Details
Keywords: China; Gdp; Measurement; Measurement Problems; Accountability; Sustainability; Sustainable Development; Strategy Execution; Strategy; Balanced Scorecard; Strategy Map; Macroeconomics; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Accountability; Accounting; Environmental Sustainability; Development Economics; Corporate Governance; Shanghai
Serafeim, George, Rebecca Henderson, and David Freiberg. "Shanghai: GDP Apostasy." Harvard Business School Case 115-042, March 2015. (Revised February 2017.)
- February 2001
- Case
Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Solaris Strategy
In the late 1990s, Sun Microsystems' Solaris has emerged as the dominant UNIX-based alternative to Microsoft for server operating systems. At the same time, the open source operating system Linux has appeared unexpectedly, and it is generating significant excitement... View Details
Silverman, Brian S., and Mark Rosenberg. "Sun Microsystems, Inc.: Solaris Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 701-058, February 2001.
- July 2021
- Article
Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platforms
By: Zoë Cullen and Chiara Farronato
We study the growth of online peer-to-peer markets. Using data from TaskRabbit, an expanding marketplace for domestic tasks at the time of our study, we show that growth varies considerably across cities. To disentangle the potential drivers of growth, we look... View Details
Keywords: Two-sided Market; Two-sided Platforms; Peer-to-peer Markets; Platform Strategy; Sharing Economy; Platform Growth; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Strategy; Market Design; Network Effects
Cullen, Zoë, and Chiara Farronato. "Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platforms." Management Science 67, no. 7 (July 2021): 3985–4003.
- 1996
- Article
Developing an Organization Capable of Implementing Strategy and Learning
By: Michael Beer and Russell Eisenstat
Beer, Michael, and Russell Eisenstat. "Developing an Organization Capable of Implementing Strategy and Learning." Human Relations 49, no. 5 (1996).
- Teaching Interest
MBA Elective Curriculum: Investment Strategies
By: Malcolm P. Baker
This is a CORE course for students pursuing careers in finance. Thus, students interested in pursuing careers in mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds, endowments, wealth management, financial consulting, marketing and client service, sales and trading,... View Details
- October 2013
- Article
The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care
By: Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee
In health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality, despite the hard work of well-intentioned, well-trained clinicians. Health care leaders and policy makers have tried... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Value; Customer Focus and Relationships; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
Porter, Michael E., and Thomas H. Lee. "The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 10 (October 2013): 50–70.
- June 1981 (Revised May 1988)
- Case
L.L. Bean, Inc.: Corporate Strategy
By: Hirotaka Takeuchi
L.L. Bean, Inc., a Maine-based manufacturer and mail-order retailer of sporting goods and apparel, has grown from $3 million in sales (1967) to over $120 million (1980). Current projections predict an annual compounded growth of 25% through 1985. Management must decide... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Growth and Development; Growth Management; Production; Quality; Sales; Situation or Environment; Corporate Strategy; Internet and the Web; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry
Takeuchi, Hirotaka. "L.L. Bean, Inc.: Corporate Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 581-159, June 1981. (Revised May 1988.)
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
explored how great companies often lose their ability to innovate and eventually fail at the hands of much smaller, "disruptive" competitors. "Basically any stock you wish you have owned started out as a disruptive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2017
- News
Your Strategy Should Be a Hypothesis You Constantly Adjust
- 13 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India
across the country. The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India When you hear the phrase “coal-fired power plant,” what images come to mind? Smokestacks View Details
- June 2010 (Revised May 2017)
- Teaching Note
Sydney IVF: Stem Cell Research
By: Robert Simons and Kathryn Rosenberg
Teaching Note for 109017. View Details
Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Levers Of Control; Strategy; Risk Management; Decisions; Cooperative Ownership; Product Development; Moral Sensibility; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Expansion; Science-Based Business; Research; Management Practices and Processes; Business Subsidiaries; Biotechnology Industry; Sydney
- July 1994
- Background Note
Retail Expansion Strategies
By: David E. Bell
Describes issues that should be considered by a retailer who is thinking of expanding the number of stores from one or two to many. View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Cognition and Thinking; Expansion; Retail Industry
Bell, David E. "Retail Expansion Strategies." Harvard Business School Background Note 595-005, July 1994.