Publications

March 2019
Teaching Note

Zespri Grows

By: David E. Bell and John Masko

Teaching Note for HBS No. 519-047. View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

22 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

New Challenges in Leading Professional Services

"bifurcated" model? A: The new model (Editor's note: see book excerpt below) was developed by getting under the skin of these organizations and observing, collecting, and then responding with what... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Consulting; Accounting; Legal Services

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Developing Instructor Style - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

expense. Instructors can draw on verbal and non-verbal signals, such as facial expression, gesture, posture, and movement, in order to convey two basic messages to students: "You are in good hands" and "Now, it's up to you." Instructors View Details

25 Jan 2018
News

A Whole New Game

After leading a group of investors to purchase the Sacramento Kings in 2013, Vivek Ranadivé (MBA 1983) partnered with local government in California’s capital to open a new arena and 1-million-square-foot mixed-use View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

The New “In” Crowd

graduates develop new social ventures. The sum here is greater than the individual parts. Behind the numbers of conference attendees and fellowship recipients is a shift in attitude and understanding. Social... View Details

November 2017
Case

Passion and Strategy: Novozymes' Embrace of the UN Sustainable Development Goals

By: Andy Zelleke and Emilie Billaud

This case explores the sustainability efforts at Novozymes, the world's largest and oldest producer of industrial enzymes. In 2015, the Danish company became the world’s first company known to have crafted a new corporate strategy based on the United Nations... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Transformation; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Strategy; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Biotechnology Industry; Europe; Denmark

01 Aug 2004
Conference Presentation

Achieving Flexibility in NPD: New Processes and New Ways of Organizing

By: Alan MacCormack

Keywords: Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management Practices and Processes

2017
Working Paper

Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives

By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist

This working paper provides a long-term business history perspective on environmental sustainability. For a long time, the central issues addressed in the discipline of business history concerned how business enterprises innovated and created wealth, as well as... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Perspective

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19 Dec 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

a new luxury brand specializing in cashmere garments. It describes how this venture emerged organically out of a combination of manufacturing and retail expertise with the ambition of creating the first pure... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

February 2003 (Revised April 2004)
Case

Pharmaceutical Industry, The: Challenges in the New Century

By: Stephen P. Bradley and James Weber

Provides a broad overview of the numerous internal and external forces that were driving change in the global pharmaceutical industry in 2003. These forces--including downward price pressures, political and social pressures, increased development costs, new... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Change; Cost; Price; Globalization; Government and Politics; Brands and Branding; Industry Growth; Society; Competition; Consolidation; Technology; Pharmaceutical Industry

October 2009
Article

Managing Risk in the New World

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Anette Mikes, Robert Simons, Peter Tufano and Michael Hofmann Jr.

Five experts gathered recently to discuss the future of enterprise risk management: Kaplan, the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, who with his colleague David Norton developed the balanced scorecard; Mikes, an assistant professor at HBS who studies... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Risk Management

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04 Aug 2020
News

Glossier Built a Cult Brand and a Digital Community, but What’s Next?

01 Jun 2004
News

New MBA Leadership Course

design-team member and course head Lynn S. Paine, one of ten HBS faculty members who taught LCA this year. Paine explains that after a lengthy review of the first-year offerings on managers’ responsibilities that began in 2001, the faculty voted to View Details

Keywords: HBS; LCA; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

04 Aug 2020
Blog Post

HBS Career & Professional Development Responds to COVID-19

Kristen Fitzpatrick (HBS '03) is the Managing Director of HBS Career and Professional Development (CPD). In this role, she also coaches alumni and MBA students. Through her interactions with recruiters over the past decade, Kristen is... View Details

Research Summary

Putting Patients First: Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in Developing Nations

It is more than mere coincidence that the highest rates of HIV occur in the world’s poorest countries. Of the over 40 million people currently living with HIV, 95 percent are in the developing world. The first half of this paper explores the economics of HIV and... View Details

January 2015 (Revised July 2019)
Case

Rebranding Godiva: The Yıldız Strategy

By: Rohit Deshpande and Esel Çekin

This case concerns Yıldız Holding’s acquisition of Godiva Chocolatier from its previous owner, Campbell Soup, and its salient strategy in preserving Godiva’s “made in Belgian” brand position. Provenance Paradox, a problem faced by companies in emerging countries trying... View Details

Keywords: Branding; Internationalization; Provenance Paradox; Acquisitions; Positioning; Innovation; Customer-centricity; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Emerging Markets; Product Positioning; Change Management; Innovation and Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Food and Beverage Industry; North America; Turkey; Japan