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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
This course is part of the CLIMB program and Strategy track. Introduction to Business Strategy ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Business Strategy $1,850 Next 7-week session starts September 3rd Enroll Now View Details
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Reconceiving Products & Markets - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
William Lever in 1894 to combat cholera in Victorian England, today Lifebuoy is the world’s #1 selling germ protection soap—a win-win for Unilever and global health. The affordable soap’s unique formulation helps fight disease in the... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?
But the ascendancy of agency theory—the idea that shareholders are owners of the corporation and managers their agents in a quest to maximize shareholder value—need not be one of them. Agency theory will not be a problem if we bend it to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
Carlyle Japan, wants to formulate a strategy to improve his firm's ability to source high-quality deals at competitive valuations, or prices. Buyout funds like Carlyle typically have two deal phases: sourcing and monitoring. These... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Succession in Small and Growing Enterprises C. Roland Christensen 1976 Policy Formulation and Administration C. Roland Christensen 1961 Problems in General Management Learned, Christensen & Andrews View Details
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
that we don't allow our decisions to get sidetracked (or sidetrack them ourselves). In their book Decisive, the Heath brothers cite four major reasons—all linked to common human traits—why we make poor choices and how to avoid doing it. They are: (1) the "narrow... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts. Though executives may formulate an excellent strategy, it easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, doing what HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
Skills in persuasion are vital, because for problems requiring advanced leadership, such as climate change, with so many stakeholders and sectors involved, no single leader can order anyone to do anything. It’s all a matter of lining up... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
on sabbatical from MIT. As a general manager, he was responsible for organizations ranging from start-ups to international, multi-plant businesses. As an individual contributor, he was best known for his work on product development/ sales management View Details
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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
them to your organization's strategy. Highlights Performing the X-Test Analyzing Job Design Problems Span of Support Show Hide Details Concepts Designing High-Performing Jobs Understanding the Entrepreneurial Gap Identifying Spans of... View Details
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
should practice "emergent" strategy formulation in which long-term predictions are replaced by efforts to better understand what is going on at present. According to Watts, leaders run the risk of injecting too much common sense... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
Strategy Business Strategy equips you with a simplified framework you can immediately apply to create value for customers, employees, and suppliers while maximizing returns and your organization’s competitive edge. You’ll learn how to evaluate trade-offs and align,... View Details
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Lena Licht
formulation of their best-selling product, answered our questions, and then offered us all internships! What is one thing you brought with you to campus, and one thing you’ll be leaving with? I brought my skills as a scientist/engineer... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
export-led growth strategies are providing the right answer. This note outlines a number of these concerns, ranging from the practical to the conceptual. It argues that an underlying problem has been the misguided interpretation of export... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
annual SXSW Pitch Event in the Enterprise and Smart Data category. “Inventory in commerce is a really big problem from both an environmental and a financial perspective,” Theuerkauf notes. The problem is... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
provides students with the means to navigate their way through the decisions they will face and formulate an effective business strategy. This is a much-needed guide to the common strategic issues that arise when firms compete... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask
questions that will help them regroup, mobilize their team, formulate a plan of action, and move forward." In his new book, What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, Kaplan argues against the notion that great leadership is about having... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
as foundational skills, critical business functions, strategy formulation and implementation, and personal leadership. For the organization, according to Sasser and Narayandas, talent is key to competitive advantage. And for the talented... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Don't Turn Your Marketing Function Over to AI Just Yet
practice. “We propose to step back and ask how we can best integrate machine learning to solve previously untenable marketing problems facing real companies?” Combining man and machine A product of the 11th Triennial Invitational Choice... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
opposed to blindly continuing on a path when all the signals in your competitive environment suggest you need to change course. When I've looked more carefully at why companies fail, oftentimes they see a problem but their structure gets... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding