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2014
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Strategy Reading: Setting Aspirations—Mission, Vision, and Values

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell

"Setting Aspirations-Mission, Vision, and Values" introduces students to the concepts of organizational aspirations and the link to strategy. The Reading presents a framework for analyzing aspirations, discusses the differences between mission and vision, and uses... View Details

December 2024 (Revised March 2025)
Case

Strategy and CEO Succession at Starbucks

By: Krishna G. Palepu and David Lane

On August 13, 2024, Starbucks announced that Laxman Narasimhan who was appointed as the CEO only in September 2023, was stepping down as CEO and board director “with immediate effect.” Laxman would be replaced on September 9 by Brian Niccol, CEO since 2018 of Chipotle... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Corporate Governance; Leadership; Management Succession; Cost Management; Labor Unions; Working Conditions; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Service Operations; Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Resignation and Termination; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

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19 Nov 2004 - 22 Nov 2004
Conference Presentation

Managing Innovation and Product Development...Under Uncertainty

By: Alan MacCormack

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Management

2016
Book

Strategy Beyond Markets

By: John de Figueiredo, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Rick Vanden Bergh

Strategy beyond markets has been an active area of research inquiry since the early 1990s. Since its inception, the scholarship emanating from this research stream has grown substantially in quantity, quality, and breadth. Likewise, firms across the world have... View Details

Keywords: Strategy

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Video - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Presentation The Future of Value-Based Health Care Delivery The Future of Value-Based Health Care Delivery Michael Porter: ASCO Opening Session (May 30, 2015) 12 May 2015 Presentation Shared Value and View Details

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The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity

By: Laura Alfaro

We evaluate manufacturing firms' responses to changes in the real exchange rate (RER) using detailed firm-level data for a large set of countries for the period 2001-2010. We uncover the following stylized facts about regional variation of manufacturing firms'... View Details

2019
Editorial

Yes, Sustainability Can Be a Strategy

By: Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Sustainability Standards; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Performance; CSR; Environmental Sustainability

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2003
Book

Corporate Information Strategy and Management: Text and Cases

By: L. M. Applegate, F. W. McFarlan and R. D. Austin

Keywords: Information; Strategy; Management; Information; Cases

October 2013
Blog Post

Negotiation Strategies for Doctors and Hospitals

By: Deepak Malhotra and Manu Malhotra MD

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09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

into a low-end disruptive innovation targeted at these customers. This strategy provided a better match among the innovation, the target market, and the organization's... View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

Article

Roundtable Discussion: Business Strategy and Antitrust

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery, Dennis Yao and Toby E. Stuart

Keywords: Business Strategy; Policy

December 2001
Article

Strategy and Location: Part 1 and Part 2

By: Christian H.M. Ketels

Keywords: Geographic Location; Strategy

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News - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

shorter amount of time... 18 July 2019 Media Mention American College of Surgeons and Harvard Business School’s Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness Partner to Develop... View Details

March 2018
Teaching Note

Becton Dickinson: Innovation and Growth (A) and (B)

By: Raffaella Sadun

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 717-419 and 717-504. View Details

01 Jun 2010
Conference Presentation

Modeling a Paradigm Shift: From Producer Innovation to User and Open Innovation

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Change

December 2015 (Revised July 2020)
Technical Note

Some Strategy Ingredients: Scale, Learning, and Market Structure

By: Eric Van den Steen

This note introduces students to some economic concepts and ideas that are important ingredients for strategy, such as scale, learning, and the effects of market structure on competition. The note approaches these ideas really from a strategy perspective with a focus... View Details

Keywords: Scale; Market Structure; Strategy; Markets; Learning

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