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  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Faculty Books

Corporate Information Strategy and Management by Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin, and F. Warren McFarlan (Irwin/McGraw-Hill) This extensive collection of HBS cases devoted to IT gives an overview of contemporary information systems... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training
  • 01 Mar 2025
  • News

Venture: Time Heals All

Assembling a nursing schedule for a hospital ward can be surprisingly difficult—a little like playing three-dimensional Tetris, says Ilana Springer Borkenstein (MBA 2022). “It is a really challenging, tedious task.” Nurse managers must... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford; Illustration by Klaus Kremmerz; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
  • Web

Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog

What are the key strategies for creating successful MSPs? Tactics—Judo & Sumo Strategy: Many of the critical challenges in fast-moving technology businesses are tactical in nature: how and when do firms cooperate and compete with View Details
  • 04 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

“Predictions are risky, especially about the future,” according to a popular expression. Still, business is inescapably about the future—that’s what managers’ decisions are about. In the current crisis, we have daily grand predictions about “new normals,” and View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
  • Article

Multinationale et fermetures de filiales : les conséquences sociales et politiques de décisions économiques

By: Sabine Pitteloud and Leo Grob
À travers l’analyse détaillée de deux cas de fermeture de filiale dans les années 1970, cet article s’intéresse aux conséquences sociales et politiques multiples des décisions de désinvestissement des sociétés multinationales. La première étude de cas porte sur la... View Details
Keywords: Multinationals; Labor Relations; Corporate Citizenship; Business ＆ Government Relations; Disinvestment; Multinational Firms and Management; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • 1992
  • Article

Public Policy and British Multinational Banks 1914-1982

By: G. Jones
Keywords: Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Banks and Banking; United Kingdom
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  • January 2016 (Revised May 2016)
  • Supplement

IKEA in Saudi Arabia (C)

By: Karthik Ramanna, Jerome Lenhardt and Marc Homsy
Supplements the (A) Case. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Values; Islam; Multinationals; Globalization; Leadership; Equality and Inequality; Multinational Firms and Management; Religion; Organizational Culture; Gender; Consumer Products Industry; Saudi Arabia; Sweden
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  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

something about it; if the competition is engaged in abusive shelters and your firm is not you may feel pressured to do something you don't want to do. On the small business side, what are your concerns?... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Dec 1996
  • News

Starting Up and Starting Over

successfully devote itself to providing objective advice and solutions to companies experiencing management problems. In 1933 Bower joined a small Chicago firm of "management... View Details
  • Profile

Blake Landro

Motivated to make a difference in the world, Blake Landro seriously considered law school. But while working at a law firm after college, Blake found that he “liked the business side of the firm more than... View Details
  • 01 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 1, 2006

early strategic contingencies tend to misfit later ones. Over time, innovating units must either minimize the negative effects of misfit, or make difficult changes in design. Using four paired case studies, we examine how firms address... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2004 (Revised June 2004)
  • Case

Citigroup 2003: Testing the Limits of Convergence (A)

By: Lynda M. Applegate
Examines Citigroup's strategic transition and highlights issues that its newly announced CEO Charles Prince will face as he assumes leadership of this global financial corporation upon the retirement of its charismatic CEO, Sandy Weill. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Globalized Firms and Management; Management Succession; Transformation; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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  • 14 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

work, no matter where they are. "Let's face it," writes HBS Professor Leslie Perlow. "When that phone buzzes, few of us have the mental fortitude to ignore it." In her new book, Sleeping With Your Smartphone, Perlow explains how a View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
  • March 2009
  • Case

Putting Sparkle Into Soda-Club's European Partnerships

Daniel Birnbaum, new CEO of Soda-Club, has taken charge of a company with significant market penetration, brand equity, and revenues in certain European markets. The company is also plagued with hostile relationships with major distributors. He needs to decide how to... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Partners and Partnerships; Distribution; Entrepreneurship; Crisis Management; Distribution Industry; Europe
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  • 15 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

assess the quality of the young firm." It was while following a friend's small biotech firm as it went public that Higgins first noticed that pre-IPO discussions consistently homed in on one question:... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 01 Jan 2007
  • News

Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968

into a major multinational marketing services organization. The firm Sorrell bought a stake in was Wire and Plastics Products plc (soon to be renamed WPP Group), a maker of wire shopping baskets. In 1986 he became chief executive of WPP,... View Details
  • 19 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

  PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Matthew Mariner

firm exposed him to the public-sector part of business. A couple of years with PricewaterhouseCoopers, "allowed me to explore a variety of industries and ultimately helped me find my true interest: technology." The power of... View Details
  • 11 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

also—and crucially so—on whether or not the platforms subsidize one side of the market in equilibrium. For example, with prices being strategic complements across platforms, we show that a cost-reducing investment by one firm may have a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Ludcke - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

School was established in 1908, it was not until June 2, 1925, that construction of today’s campus began. Ludcke originally served as the Faculty Club. The original campus plans, based on classical models, were designed by the nationally prominent architectural View Details