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  • 30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

insights for Cunningham to utilize. Recent partnerships with Applied Predictive Technologies have allowed McDonald’s to speed up its analytics, helping it make menu decisions more quickly. “It’s great to be able to just test and learn,”... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

models, and partnerships involved in eight early "ecocity" projects to begin to identify success factors in this emerging industry. Ecocities, for the most part, are viewed as a means of mitigating threats to the natural... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508102 The Energy Foundation Harvard Business School Case 308-078 The Energy Foundation, a philanthropic foundation established through a partnership among major donors with a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

of California. Although Berkeley survived the financial crisis of 2008 under the leadership of Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, new Chancellor Nicholas Dirks inherited an ongoing structural deficit and a divided faculty. New controversies arose over the process of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

Mawilmada helped secure a $1.25 billion investment for the line from the Japan International Cooperation Agency, with two other 25-kilometer corridors prepped for public-private partnership funding. Buses are another piece of the puzzle,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government
  • 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17

expropriated American investments, but in almost every case the U.S. government's employment of economic sanctions or covert action obtained market value or more in compensation-despite the growing strategic risks. The advent of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

and cultural heritage of eastern Kentucky. By the turn of the millennium, however, financial instability, lack of a strategic plan, and leadership churn had begun to eat away at what had once been a vibrant institution with deep ties to... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook
  • 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

http://hbr.org/2014/01/can-a-strong-culture-be-too-strong/ar/1 January 2014 MIT Sloan Management Review Strategic Decisions for Multisided Platforms By: Hagiu, Andrei Abstract—Multisided platforms such as eBay and Facebook create value by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Past Issues - Alumni

delivery commercially viable Making Change Social Entrepreneurship Fellows are putting the HBS mission into action Bringing It Back Home Nonprofit leaders and HBS faculty alike benefit from the virtuous circle that is the Strategic... View Details
  • 28 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 28

effects of signals generated by different types of networks on new ventures' formation of future strategic alliances. We argue that the signaling value of a given tie in reducing adverse selection is more pronounced when another type of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

traces the strategic, organizational, and cultural challenges JMB faced in building an organization that eventually offered mentoring partnerships to 8,000 Indigenous students in 350 high schools throughout Australia. Furthermore, the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

existed, but by 1939, there were over 88,000. Approximately half were joint stock firms, and these outperformed limited and unlimited partnerships on a return on equity basis, while also accounting for most of the aggregate profits. When... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

wholesalers. Going forward, its two main strategic challenges are 1) deciding how much to rely on partnerships with large retailers for growth and 2) deciding whether to continue as a "merchant,"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

trade reasonably close to their intrinsic value. In place of earnings forecasts, management should provide information about the company's strategic goals and main value drivers. They should also discuss the risks associated with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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strategic gains and tradeoffs from globalization Balance scale and location-specificity Evaluate and maximize the value of strategic international partnerships Cultivate... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

Frederik NellemannHarvard Business School Case 712-438 Unilever's Lipton Tea had been successful with the first phase of its certification partnership with Rainforest Alliance. Now the company faced challenges in how to push forward with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

unit at BT, the strategic value of the unit, and its operating model. As the business environment becomes increasingly dynamic and firms are pressured to achieve faster innovation rates, there may be accompanying shifts in the way they... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 16, 2008

platform and its evolution. We describe three ways of representing platform architectures: network graphs, design structure matrices, and layer maps. We conclude by addressing a number of fundamental strategic questions suggested by a... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2021
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Rescue & Recovery

tackle a mission as big as ending poverty, and Mercy Corps has relied on partnerships to get there. Its global team members, 85 percent of whom are from the countries where they operate, collaborate with local leaders or communities to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

the growth of younger companies and revitalize large corporations through partnerships with innovative SMEs; 3) improving the match between education and employment opportunities, through apprenticeship programs and other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne