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- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
of rapid profit improvement. The question facing CEO Thomas J. Wilson was how to maintain the momentum. This case tracks the evolution of Allstate's strategy over 20 years, examining the logic behind the strategic changes, and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53199 forthcoming Industrial and Corporate Change Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract—The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
situation here, but rather a more subtle process change by some companies, especially those in volatile or fast-moving industries. What I see happening among partners I deal with is that they allocate strategically from the top (setting... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
Publications March 2015 Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Foreign Direct Investment: Effects, Complementarities, and Promotion By: Alfaro, Laura... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
he quickly announced a major strategic shift toward cloud services and invested in internal communication, including hiring a new communications director. Sadun says all new leaders can take steps to... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 06 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness
technology. America's lead in the advanced rechargeable battery business also slipped through its fingers when manufacturers retreated from investing in them, choosing to focus instead on disposable batteries that had been their bread and... View Details
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
the highest levels of the executive search business. In response, Kelly had begun making strategic investments in firms offering technology-based solutions, but had not yet made significant progress... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
given the government time to get solid growth underway. The country has invested seriously in its infrastructure, both physical and human. They have poured money into education, healthcare, water, roads, and the like. Botswana has been... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
today innovating in a complex intellectual property environment in fields where there is a high amount of cumulativeness. The case highlights the leverage that good strategic thinking can bring to influencing the outcome. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
company had consciously diversified its portfolio of investment products. In 2007 Man had to decide whether or not to spin off its brokerage business. Man was also evaluating several new business opportunities with varying View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 May 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global
stock of differences as well. Key concepts include: Some indicators of globalization aren't increasing as many experts have claimed. Toyota and Wal-Mart are examples of companies that understand how to deal with distance in a strategic... View Details
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
logic into the business process setting to find that leaders were far more likely to adopt the incremental innovation of internet-based e-buying. However, they were commensurately less likely to adopt the more strategically sensitive and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
Les Vadasz noted Intel Capital's interest in investing in companies that added value and were a good strategic fit, that were already successful in their own market, and that presented a financially viable... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
relatively little about the effect of conflicting labor market institutions on multinational firms' strategic choice and operating performance. With its decision to invest in manufacturing operations in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Healy, Nitin Nohria, and George Serafeim Publication:Financial Analysts Journal (forthcoming) Abstract A firm's competitive environment, its strategic choices, and its internal capabilities are considered important determinants of its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
Abstract—Leaders face a multitude of strategic paradoxes—contradictory pressures that are too often viewed as “either/or” choices. There are innovation paradoxes, in which the pursuit of new offerings and processes conflicts with the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
personality? How should I think about brand dilution? Does Branding Work For Business-to-business Marketing? B2B Branding: Does it Work? Does it make sense for B2B companies to take a cue from consumer companies and invest in brand... View Details
- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Putting the Project Puzzle Together
objectives, resulting in squandered resources and diminished returns. In their recent book Connecting the Dots, F. Warren McFarlan and Cathleen Benko put forward a project management process that aligns spending with strategic priorities.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
business. Cohen and his colleagues were concerned about this exact point. “Is this an area where energy firms are putting their investment dollars where their patents are?” questions Cohen, “or are they simply patenting to block other... View Details