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- June 10, 2022
- Article
Does Your Company’s Culture Reinforce Its Strategy and Purpose?
By: Hubert Joly
Good strategy has traditionally been seen as the key to business success. More recently, purpose has become an essential element of doing business. But something else is missing: culture, or the essential elements of how an organization and its employees behave, as... View Details
Joly, Hubert. "Does Your Company’s Culture Reinforce Its Strategy and Purpose?" Harvard Business Review (website) (June 10, 2022).
- September 2001
- Case
DaimlerChrysler Knowledge Management Strategy
Provides an overview of knowledge management and the knowledge management strategy of DaimlerChrysler relative to its competition. View Details
Rukstad, Michael G., Peter J. Coughlan, and Carl Johnston. "DaimlerChrysler Knowledge Management Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 702-412, September 2001.
- Research Summary
Strategy Implementation: Role and Management of the Sales Force
My research concerns the role and management of the sales force as agents of a firm's business strategy and not only as individual or team contributors to profitable growth. This work takes the form of course development, teaching and workshops in HBS executive... View Details
- Program
The Women's Leadership Forum
and leadership skills to the next level. By focusing on your leadership potential, sharing experiences and insights with peers, View Details
- April 2007
- Case
Leadership Forum: America's International Leadership - Video
By: D. Quinn Mills and Carole Winkler
Mills, D. Quinn, and Carole Winkler. "Leadership Forum: America's International Leadership - Video." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 307-710, April 2007.
- Web
Course History - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
distinctive challenges facing first-time chief executives in large, complex enterprises. The focus of the workshop is on defining an agenda as CEO, and preparing for the most challenging issues that a new CEO is likely to face. The... View Details
Strategy Execution Series
The 15-module Strategy Execution series forms a complete course that teaches the latest techniques for using performance measurement and control systems to implement strategy. Module... View Details
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 2023
- Working Paper
Going Beyond the ‘Self’ in Self-Control: Interpersonal Consequences of Commitment Strategy Use
By: Ariella Kristal and Julian Zlatev
Commitment strategies are effective mechanisms individuals can use to overcome self-control problems. Across seven studies (and three supplemental studies), we explore the negative interpersonal consequences of commitment strategy use. In Study 1, using an incentivized... View Details
Keywords: Self-control; Willpower; Commitment Strategies; Goals and Objectives; Behavior; Strategy; Perception
Kristal, Ariella, and Julian Zlatev. "Going Beyond the ‘Self’ in Self-Control: Interpersonal Consequences of Commitment Strategy Use." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-033, November 2021. (Revised January 2023.)
- TeachingInterests
Senior Executive Leadership Program—China
Today's global business environment offers many exciting prospects for talented executives and ambitious organizations. To take full advantage of emerging opportunities in China and beyond, businesses need exceptional leaders—forward-thinking executives who are... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- Blog Post
Align Your Social Media and Recruiting Strategies
critical to the success of your efforts. Create an editorial calendar and content strategy based on your goals and enable those managing your social media accounts to follow it... View Details
- October 2005
- Article
Zeitgeist Leadership
By: Anthony Mayo and Nitin Nohria
Keywords: Leadership
Mayo, Anthony, and Nitin Nohria. "Zeitgeist Leadership." Harvard Business Review 83, no. 10 (October 2005).
- July 1997 (Revised April 2000)
- Background Note
Competition and Business Strategy in Historical Perspective
Describes the contributions of strategic concepts in the business world, and how they came to be influenced by competitive thinking. View Details
Ghemawat, Pankaj. "Competition and Business Strategy in Historical Perspective." Harvard Business School Background Note 798-010, July 1997. (Revised April 2000.)
- 2019
- Working Paper
Why Has Strategy Become Irrelevant? Understanding the Complete Strategy Landscape
By: David J. Collis
Developing the firm’s strategy was once seen as the most important task facing a CEO. Yet in the last 20 years, the practice of strategy has been relegated to a routinized function—part of the annual planning process, like performance management and succession planning... View Details
Collis, David J. "Why Has Strategy Become Irrelevant? Understanding the Complete Strategy Landscape." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-027, September 2019.
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Negotiation Strategies for Doctors — and Hospitals
- January 1995 (Revised July 1996)
- Background Note
Antitrust and Competitive Strategy in the 1990s
Describes U.S. antitrust policy, including major judicial decisions and their impact on competitive strategy. View Details
McGahan, Anita M., and Julia Kou. "Antitrust and Competitive Strategy in the 1990s." Harvard Business School Background Note 795-059, January 1995. (Revised July 1996.)
- Web
Course Overview - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
defining the appropriate portfolio of businesses - creating a distinctive strategy for each business, and an effective planning process Creating an effective relationship with the board - understanding the... View Details
- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
decades. Whether you adopt the one-leader model for your own family enterprise, as RBS has done, or whether you build a team of leaders, you still need to design, structure, and allocate all the necessary View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
- July 1993 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Millipore Corporate Strategy
By: Nitin Nohria and V. Kasturi Rangan
Millipore, a $750 million (sales) company with three divisions, had been growing at a rate of 20% in the 1970s, but this growth rate had slowed considerably in the 1980s. CEO John Gilmartin was looking for ways to reenergize the organization and redirect its strategy... View Details
Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Corporate Strategy; Restructuring; Growth and Development Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Business Processes; Organizational Structure
Nohria, Nitin, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Millipore Corporate Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 594-009, July 1993. (Revised March 1995.)
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
series of ecosystems, they urge, with "keystone" companies such as Microsoft and Wal-Mart providing for the health of all who do business with them. What are the best strategies for companies... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien