Growth Strategy And Execution - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

company. A simple portfolio strategy of going long the buy recommendations with school ties and going short buy recommendations without ties earns returns of 5.40% per year. We test whether Regulation FD,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

that the buyer's plans will go awry. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208060 Fu Ji Food and Catering Harvard Business School Case 208-004 Fu Ji, the largest corporate caterer in China, is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

grew at a compound annual rate of 30 percent between 1966 and 1970, and reached 4.5 million at the end of that period. By contrast, the compound annual growth rate in... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

January 2024
Teaching Note

Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (A) & (B)

By: Tiona Zuzul

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 724-391 and 724-398. In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between... View Details

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26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

known, unknown, and potential competitors. In February 2010, Subramanian will publish Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace, a book that draws on his experience studying... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

typically are presented four to six weeks after the close of a quarter, often involve a conference call by company executives with shareholders and stock analysts. Part of those sessions may include View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

November 2017
Supplement

One Life; One Love (B)

By: Thomas DeLong and Kerry Herman

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Strategy; Social Enterprise; Growth and Development Strategy; United States

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03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

assess the company's growth strategy and develop a model to value a prospective customer to the company's website. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

thought of as something that's investable for private equity. We see exciting young, growth companies, and we want to make them available to our limited partners." Hence, the creation of Causeway Media... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services

14 Aug 2015
Blog Post

What is a Career Coach?

(what industry/function/role is a good fit for me?) through the strategy and tactics of a successful job search. How do you match students with coaches? We have our coaches reach out to students for an... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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and 90%. Executives can dramatically increase their odds of success, the authors argue, if they understand how to select targets, how much to pay for them, and whether View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 2020 (Revised November 2020)
Case

Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads

By: Christina R. Wing and John Masko

For decades, Gera Developments (Gera) was a boutique family-owned real estate development firm in Pune, India. But since 2000, managing director Rohit Gera had turned the company into a dynamic innovator in housing solutions for urban Indian families. Over the 2010s,... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Business Growth and Maturation; Construction; Geographic Location; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Housing; Leadership Style; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; Family and Family Relationships; Urban Development; Customization and Personalization; Real Estate Industry; Maharashtra; India; United States

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17 May 2018
Blog Post

HBS/HKS Alum Regan Turner on Empowering Veterans

discovered a job opportunity at The Mission Continues and has since become the Executive Director. The following interview is an excerpt from the HBS Alumni Story, “The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA... View Details

24 Sep 2013
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trust and liking. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45471 August 2013 Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Investment Incentives in Open-Source View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Apr 2010
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highlight the paradox that managed globalization has been a force for liberalization. Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals Authors: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Publication: Management Science... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Mar 2013
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PublicationsHow to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business Authors:Cespedes, Frank V., James P. Dougherty, and Ben S. Skinner III Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review Abstract How can businesses achieve profitable View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2010
Case

Revitalizing Dell

By: Jan W. Rivkin

Dell Inc., with its vaunted Direct Model, defined success in the personal computer industry for more than a decade. Starting in the mid-2000s, however, the company fell on hard times. In 2009, Michael Dell and his management team must figure out why the Direct Model... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Change Management; Industry Growth; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Computer Industry

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12 Aug 2014
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the co-founders and co-CEOs of salaUno, Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, were encouraged by the results of their fledgling start-up. salaUno was founded as a for-profit enterprise in order to have the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

herself on the path to CEO. Her mentors were chief operating officers and chief administrative officers. She imagined a similar career—until, that is, she took a job as senior vice president for strategy... View Details

December 2010
Article

Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations

By: Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado

We explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine.... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Microfinance; Growth and Development Strategy; Identity; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Policy; Recruitment; Business Model

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