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  • 06 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die

corporate strategy, Wells has learned that the seeds of failure are often planted years before they sprout, and only by overcoming complacency and constantly adapting to the changing competitive environment can companies prosper in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

system of expense allocation, and anti-inversion legislation—reflect the intuition that building "strong fences" around the United States advances American interests. This paper examines the interaction of a strong fences policy with the increasingly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

business partners with line executives. Finance spending as a percentage of revenues will increase, but the profit impact from these partnerships can repay the additional spending many times over. These examples collectively reveal the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service
  • Web

2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

facing the same challenge, and discuss how companies can avoid such pitfalls and effectively connect their pursuit of profit to their corporate purpose. CASE STUDY Facebook (Meta): Can Ethics Scale in the... View Details
  • Web

Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity

story of the St. Luke Bank in Richmond, Virginia: the first and only bank run by black women. Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership, Justice, Power, and Politics By: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor Race for View Details
  • 31 Aug 2020
  • What Do You Think?

Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

homogeneous Europe.” CJL stated the issue with correlation this way: “Maybe organizations with an edge in their markets are more profitable and therefore can afford to devote more effort to diversifying their workforce.” Another issue is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We study how a stock index can affect corporate behavior by serving as a source of prestige. After decades of low corporate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2019
  • Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

other mistake companies make with innovative culture is presenting it as something that is going to be really fun." And, sometimes responding is not even the right response. As I write in the book with the example of digital photography, sometimes a new thing... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2017
  • News

David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

Establishes Advisory Board Foundation, precursor to CityBridge Foundation 1997 Purchases National Journal 1999 Corporate Executive Board (CEB) IPO 1999 Purchases the Atlantic 2001 Advisory Board Company (ABC) IPO 2011 Helps free American... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 07 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 7, 2016

frictions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51088 forthcoming The Accounting Review Institutional Ownership and Corporate Tax Avoidance: New Evidence By: Khan, Mozaffar N., Suraj Srinivasan, and Liang Tan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

declared bankruptcy on June 1, 2009. “All stakeholders must work together to make GM's bankruptcy filing a comma rather than a period in the storied history of this American corporate icon." -Daniel Heller Its future appears... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 29 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

in markets, they argue, some are not. Take accounting standards, for example. While it's essential from a standpoint of complete knowledge to have everyone calculating their financials in a comparable and consistent manner, there is no View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 5

Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market Authors:Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina Abstract Reaching-for-yield-the propensity to buy riskier assets in order to achieve higher yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2014
  • Case

Babcock International Plc

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering services provider in the UK with sales of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Strategy And Leadership; Diversification; United Kingdom; Military; Nuclear Power; Nuclear; Engineering And Construction; Conglomerates; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Construction Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 15 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

take profits from one market and cross-subsidize losses in another. They've got to have a big, strategic world view, and be able to see broad cross-market trends and commonalities. In the P&G case, it was the global business manager... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

market setting, the transfer price that maximizes a multinational's profits may also be the same one that maximizes the social welfare of the domestic economy that houses it. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-098.pdf... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

firm." In order to test whether this was true, the researchers enlisted 94 CEOs of major Italian corporations who agreed to put their lives under the microscope for a period of a week at a time. The CEO's personal assistant was asked... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 25 Jan 2017
  • HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

depressed, or concerned.” But these standards are merely guidelines, not laws. “These are not really regulations,” Deshpandé says. “They’re suggestions.” That leaves WOW organizers concerned that cream manufacturers can use questionable marketing tactics to View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 17 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 17

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16922 Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Loubna Bouamane Abstract This working paper surveys the business history of the global wind energy turbine... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Aug 2008
  • Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

he succeeded so convincingly playing the game of market capitalism that first emerged in the late 19th century and grew to great influence during the 20th century. This game or system has been dominated in many industries by large, multinational View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn