Strategy Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jun 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change

there is a danger that commitment to an organization can undermine work-life balance. Successful CEOs are good role models. In addition to open and honest communication and continued investment in HCHP management practices, corporations need to View Details

Keywords: by Staff

July 2024
Case

Google Stadia: Game On or Game Over?

By: Derek C. M. van Bever and Akshat Agrawal

This case explores Google leadership's decision to pursue its cloud gaming innovation, Google Stadia, following disappointing early uptake by premium videogamers, the segment of the market that Google had targeted. Google had invested substantial resources and time... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Product Development; Leadership; Segmentation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Video Game Industry

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May 2004 (Revised October 2004)
Case

Globe Telecom

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Ingrid Vargas

The Ayala Group, one of the oldest and largest Filipino business groups, partnered with Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) to launch a telecom venture following industry deregulation in the Philippines. The partners must decide whether to continue the venture in... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Development Economics; Partners and Partnerships; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Telecommunications Industry; Singapore; Philippines

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March 1992
Case

Amgen, Inc.: Planning the Unplannable

By: Nitin Nohria

By the early 1990s, Amgen--a pharmaceutical company started little over a decade ago as Applied Molecular Genetics--was within range of becoming a billion-dollar company. With two extremely successful biotechnology drugs on the market, Amgen stood as the largest and... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Success; Risk and Uncertainty; Pharmaceutical Industry

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October 2001
Article

The On-Line Auction Phenomenon: Growth, Strategies, Promise, and Problems

By: Gillian Ku and Deepak Malhotra

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Auctions; Growth and Development; Strategy; Problems and Challenges

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26 Oct 2018
News

A Chance to Lead

Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA 1969) is a retired business executive and author of The Road to Someplace Better: From the Segregated South to Harvard Business School and Beyond. In this interview, she talks about using her position as a business owner to provide... View Details

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Funa Maduka

Importance of educating leaders "The biggest weakness I saw in nonprofits," Funa says, "was in management education. I saw many managers with good ideas, but not the skills for executing them." Attracted to HBS' leadership View Details

12 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

accurately reflect the demographic diversity of the U.S. population. Yet, most research on diversity in organizations has focused on the outcomes associated with workforce diversity and not on the processes that can enhance diversity in organizations. We address this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2014
News

Leaders must be strategists first

Cynthia Montgomery believes strategy should be a habit of mind, not a document; a continuous process, not a destination. Leaders need to use strategy as a dynamic tool for guiding the View Details

14 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition

way when it introduced faster, larger expresso machines that ruined the service experience for baristas and customers alike by shortening the contact time and obstructing their view of each other. Satisfying customers is not enough. Great service leaders take steps to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett, W. Earl Sasser & Leonard A. Schlesinger; Retail

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

when Surette joined TB12 he was focused on bringing in adaptable and talented business leaders who could develop a strategy for growth and execute on that strategy. Peters was a key addition to a team that... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

09 Mar 2021
Blog Post

New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk

Climate Finance that was offered to MBAs in January 2021, and has worked to bring in more opportunities to students interested in careers related to climate change. Lynn will continue to leverage and broaden the close relationships she has View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

New Releases

the characteristics of distinct types of property - apartment, office, hotel, industrial, and retail. Noting that this book is designed to help people spot risks, develop strategies for coping with risks,... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

The Past Informs the Future of Work

multinational company with operations in 26 countries and numerous international partnerships. In 2017, the company had more than half a billion mobile, fixed, and TV customers. During case discussions, students explore Vodafone’s View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Telecommunications; Information

05 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

and Prince had spent several days contemplating a strategy for the release of Musicology, Prince's newest album-length recording. As McMillan reflected on their discussions, the infectious music on his headphones underscored the enormous... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 1998
News

Short Takes

Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing projects that... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey

May 1989 (Revised April 1998)
Case

Dynatronics, Inc.

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

The student must determine the financing requirements posed by growth, change of inventory policy, and introduction of new product and then select the best method of financing them. Has been used as a four-hour exam. A revised and updated version of an earlier case by... View Details

Keywords: Financial Strategy; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development; Product Launch

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March 2013 (Revised July 2014)
Supplement

Bay Partners (B)

By: Josh Lerner and Lauren Barley

In December 2012, Salil Deshpande has rejoined Bay Partners (Bay), which had been restructured following the 2010 departures of three of its general partners. Life was good for Deshpande: his firm had distributed roughly $1 billion to its limited partners (LPs) over... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Funds; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry

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