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17 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

organizational structure has become the norm in several industries, it has received little attention from academics and consultants. Garvin and Levesque set out to fill that gap in management thinking with... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

Indeed, many of the leaders we've celebrated over the last decade or two made their organizations competitive by instituting fairly linear improvements, such as reengineering, supply chain management, enhanced customer responsiveness,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

11 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

plant stock, fertilizers, and pesticides; and began directly paying them a premium for better beans. Higher yields and quality increased the growers' incomes, the environmental... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)

SeventyFour Few phrases in business are more seductive than the one attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 19th century: “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” Unless, of course, what you are selling is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies; Medical Devices & Supplies

10 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 10

http://hbr.org/search/313096-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 212-082 Schneider Electric: Becoming the Global Specialist in Energy Management Global electrical products company assesses growth and market View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Portrait Project

Kathryn Andersen

one's health to eat cheaply. And, who on earth has time to cook? I want to inspire our generation to get into the kitchen. I want to show people that cooking is fun, fast, and easy, and that anyone can... View Details

05 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 5

address the diverse values and interests of their companies' stakeholders. Publisher's link: http://www.greenleaf-publishing.com/productdetail.kmod?productid=4059 May 2015 Environmentally Responsible Supply... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

Over time, the media conversation about work-life balance has shifted slightly, Ely said, from discussing women's individual choices to showing "a whole set of experiences that look less like women opting out and more like women... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

14 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

Beers at the Millennium Harvard Business School Case 706-518 At the time of the millennium, diamond demand was threatened by an increasing awareness among jewelry customers that diamond production and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2015
Keynote Speech

Revitalizing Inner Cities: The Strategic Agenda

By: Michael E. Porter

Keynote presentation at the Inner City Economic Summit, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, Detroit, MI View Details

Keywords: Clusters; Economics; Industry Clusters; United States

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16 Sep 2015
Keynote Speech

Revitalizing Inner Cities: The Strategic Agenda (Video)

By: Michael E. Porter

Video of Keynote presentation at the Inner City Economic Summit, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, Detroit, MI View Details

Keywords: Economic Development; Urban Development; Economics; Industry Clusters; United States

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06 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

that the Chinese companies could buy oil in the highly fungible global marketplace. But Sinopec, the nation's largest refiner, was one of the three companies (together with PetroChina and CNOOC) engaged in the equity oil play. With... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

constrained by it. Managers who succeed at meeting their team members’ drive to acquire: Set clear expectations by which performance is evaluated Demand high performance Ensure their team members receive rewards View Details

Keywords: All Industries

08 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

constrained by it. Managers who succeed at meeting their team members’ drive to acquire: Set clear expectations by which performance is evaluated Demand high performance Ensure their team members receive rewards View Details

August 2004 (Revised February 2006)
Case

Marketing James Patterson

By: John A. Deighton

Can a successful novelist use direct-to-consumer marketing to grow his brand? The author, who in a previous career ran a major advertising agency, uses advertising with great success to build his stature as a crime fiction writer. Further, he applies his experience at... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Debates; Surveys; SWOT Analysis; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Outcome or Result; Sales

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06 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

operations. And through Arbitrage, they exploit disparities between national or regional markets, often by locating different parts of the supply chain in different places—for instance, call centers in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Jun 2023
Blog Post

How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values

understanding that people are demanding a higher degree of specificity, and provide clear metrics by race and gender,” said Eliason. Avoid reporting numbers in aggregate... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

03 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Carol Fishman Cohen (MBA 1985) On Getting Back into the Workforce

fortunate and we find we were on exactly the right career path before our career break. Those of us in this category return to exactly what we were doing before. Some of us who loved what we were doing before find that the View Details

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

grown." These persistent problems seem to demand new models and new ways of thinking to crack them, and in that spirit Wei-Skillern and her... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

December 2010
Case

Fortis Industries, Inc. (A)

Fortis Industries' packaging division manufactures steel and plastic strapping. In 2007, the company underwent a leveraged buyout. The case focuses on the packaging division's need to maintain high profitability in a declining market for steel strapping. Since 1998,... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Decision Choices and Conditions; Marketing; Supply and Industry; Manufacturing Industry

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