Publications

1990
Book

The Critical Path to Corporate Renewal

By: M. Beer, R. A. Eisenstat and R. Spector

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship

24 Nov 2014
News

How Washington can renew U.S. manufacturing

November 2002 (Revised April 2003)
Case

Charoen Pokphand Group: A Renewed Focus

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Cate Reavis

As one of Asia's biggest agriindustrial conglomerates, Charoen Pokphand, although solidly positioned in Thailand, was facing an increasingly competitive and complex business environment in China, where it made 30% of revenues. A change in management of the family-owned... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Agribusiness; Business Conglomerates; Family Business; Competition; Restructuring; Partners and Partnerships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Thailand; China

January 1994 (Revised October 1995)
Background Note

Renewable Energy in the United States

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

April 2011 (Revised July 2011)
Case

Renewing GE: The Africa Project (A)

By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary

This case profiles the evolution of General Electric's African American Form (AAF), an employee affinity group, and its efforts to increase the company's involvement in Africa. The AAF formed in 1991 to help advance GE's recruitment, retention and development of black... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Africa; United States

Educators

September–October 1994
Article

Development Projects: The Engine of Renewal

By: H. K. Bowen, K. B. Clark, C. A. Holloway and S. C. Wheelwright

Keywords: Projects

01 Mar 2018
News

In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal

photo by Christina Gandolfo photo by Christina Gandolfo Dan Rosenfeld (MBA 1979) witnessed the birth of the modern environmental movement while growing up in Portland, Oregon, an experience that has shaped his perspective as a real estate developer in his adopted... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

08 Aug 2006
Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurship and Business History: Renewing the Research Agenda

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & R. Daniel Wadhwani

July 2011 (Revised August 2011)
Supplement

Renewing GE: The Africa Project (B)

By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary

This case continues the story of the evolution of GE's business initiatives Africa. Between November 2010 and March 2011 several significant structural changes and leadership appointments were announced at GE, which reflected the company's commitment to global growth... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Restructuring; Multinational Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Consumer Products Industry; Hong Kong; Africa; Republic of Ireland

06 Jul 2010
News

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

2025
Working Paper

Prices and Concentration: A U-shape? Theory and Evidence from Renewables

By: Michele Fioretti, Junnan He and Jorge Tamayo

We show that when firms compete via supply functions, transferring high-cost capacity to the largest, most efficient firm—thereby diversifying its production technologies while increasing concentration—can lower prices by prompting the leader to expand output and... View Details

Keywords: Diversified Production Technologies; Concentration Levels; Market Power; Supply Function Equilibrium; Hydropower; Energy Transition; Renewable Energy; Price; Competition; Supply and Industry; Energy Industry; Colombia

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January 1995
Teaching Note

Renewable Energy in the United States TN

By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Richard H.K. Vietor

Dec 20 2011
Interview

Faculty Insights: Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

October 2021
Teaching Note

Threadless: The Renewal of an Online Community

By: Shane Greenstein, Karim Lakhani and Christian Godwin

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 621-056. View Details

December 2003 (Revised November 2004)
Teaching Note

Renewing Germany: Kohl's Legacy and Schroeder's Dilemma

By: Huw Pill

Teaching Note to (2-702-087). View Details

June 2002 (Revised October 2002)
Case

Renewing Germany: Kohl's Legacy and Schroder's Dilemma

By: Huw Pill, Michael Linse, Marie-Anne Popp and Ingrid Vogel

The German economy has long been seen as the locomotive of European (and, on occasion, global) growth. Germany appeared to weather the stagflation of the 1970s more successfully than many other economies, and reunification in 1990 appeared to present opportunities for... View Details

Keywords: Macroeconomics; Economy; Policy; Germany

Educators