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  • 26 Nov 2012
  • News

J.C. Penney Strategy Is ‘Very Risky,’ Kaplan Says

  • March 2012
  • Article

Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990

By: Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski
This article is concerned with business strategies of political risk management during the twentieth century. It focuses especially on Beiersdorf, a pharmaceutical and skin care company in Germany. During World War I, the expropriation of its brands and trademarks... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Government and Politics; Risk Management; Brands and Branding; Problems and Challenges; Communication Technology; Cost; Trademarks; Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Germany
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  • Web

Technology & Operations Management - Doctoral

Shunyuan Zhang Networks Thomas R. Eisenmann Shane M. Greenstein Ebehi Iyoha Jacqueline Ng Lane Edward McFowland III Operations management Janice H. Hammond Michael Lingzhi Li Antonio Moreno Elisabeth C. Paulson Ananth Raman Stefan H.... View Details
  • Research Summary

Investment and marketing strategies of American multinationals in Argentina (1890c-1939)

Andrea Lluch is undertaking a major research project on American business expansion in Argentina up to the beginning of World War II. The first part of the project focuses on the American companies investment strategies. The second part analyses of the evolution of... View Details
  • 20 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

that no one had ever seen and that no one understood what it did was brilliant” Those are the questions David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano address in their new book, Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer
  • March 2022
  • Teaching Note

Sustainable Product Management at Solvay

By: George Serafeim
This teaching note is designed to be used in conjunction with the case “Sustainable Product Management at Solvay,” HBS No.120-081 and its related products to help faculty deepen students’ comprehension of business issues and energize classroom discussion. View Details
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  • September–October 2024
  • Article

Why Multibusiness Strategies Fail and How to Make Them Succeed

By: Bharat Anand and David J. Collis
Enterprises that own multiple businesses often have a flawed approach to strategy: They focus too much on the makeup of their portfolios and too little on enhancing the businesses in them.
Strategies for adding value to a corporation’s businesses fall on a... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Structure; Management Systems
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  • February 2003 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

Internet Customer Acquisition Strategy at Bankinter

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
Bankinter, a relatively small Spanish bank, has a large presence as an Internet financial services provider. Leading the way to profitability through the Internet will give Bankinter a major competitive advantage over the larger, more established Spanish banks. Ann... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Internet and the Web; Activity Based Costing and Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Spain
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  • 25 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

Lean start-up strategies aren't just for start-ups anymore. That was the key message that Intuit cofounder Scott Cook (HBS MBA '76) shared in a small seminar with Harvard Business School faculty recently. Since its launch in 1983, the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • March 1999 (Revised December 2001)
  • Case

Ford Motor Company: Supply Chain Strategy

Describes Ford's examination of its supply chain to evaluate whether the company should "virtually integrate" on the Dell Computers model. View Details
Keywords: Integration; Information Technology; Supply Chain Management; Auto Industry
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About Michael Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

management and competitiveness . The author of 19 books and over 130 articles, he is the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard Business School and the director of the school’s Institute for View Details
  • 2011
  • Casebook

Transnational Management: Text Cases and Readings in Cross Border Management

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Paul W. Beamish
Transnational Management focuses on the management challenges associated with developing strategies and managing the operations of companies whose activities stretch across national boundaries. The purpose of this book is to provide a conceptual framework showing the... View Details
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Economy; Framework; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Management; Problems and Challenges; Situation or Environment; Strategy; Competition
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Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

delivery are widely touted as critical to improving the health outcomes of patients worldwide and controlling runaway health care costs. Value-based health care’s central tenant is that value for patients must be the overarching principle in the organization and View Details
  • July 1993 (Revised June 1994)
  • Case

Phil Knight Managing NIKE's Transformation

By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
Describes Nike's responses to market and competitive challenges as well as its attempts at an organizational transformation from unstructured entrepreneurial management to more formalized, professional management. Focuses on Phil Knight's leadership role. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges; Competition
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Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog

performance, and the challenge of how firms can build and maintain their competitive edge in order to take advantage of new technological opportunities. This module explores how managers ‘look forward’ into highly uncertain environments,... View Details
  • February 2008 (Revised January 2009)
  • Background Note

Offshoring Day in BGIE and Strategy

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Troy Smith
Describes a set of activities in which students will participate before and during a day of classes on offshoring. The day's classes will examine the implications of offshoring for policy makers, business leaders, and workers. View Details
Keywords: Policy; Employees; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Labor; Management; Strategy
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  • January 15, 2019
  • Article

Is Your Company's Strategy Aligned with Your Ownership Model?

By: Josh Baron
The legacy of Vanguard founder John Bogle has brought attention to the transformative influence of ownership structures within the business world. Bogle's revolutionary insight into the limitations of active fund management led to the widespread adoption of index... View Details
Keywords: Ownership Type; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strength and Weakness; Competitive Advantage
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  • Nov 07 2022
  • Testimonial

The General Management Program Impact

  • 04 Dec 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Intelligent Design of Inclusive Growth Strategies

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan, George Serafeim, and Eduardo Tugendhat
  • 14 May 2009
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams

Organizations increasingly rely on teams to carry out critical strategies and operational tasks. How do teams learn, and what factors are most important to team learning? This paper reports on current perspectives and findings that... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty