Strategic Initiatives - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Dec 2017
News

Growing from Within

expectations; helping us understand impact at the restaurant level of initiatives we are rolling out; and developing a pipeline of talent for the company. What have you seen as the largest growth drivers in the past 12 months? It all... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

Profile

LaToya Marc

"The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to do something about it." Learning to be a better leader LaToya shifted careers, leaping full time into the public-school system in Georgia where she taught middle-school math. She was a fast learner: She View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit/Government/Education

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

public within five to seven years of its initial financing, will be able to pursue research that will not have a payoff for fifteen, twenty, or even more years in the future. (But it's not impossible—after all, venture capital has played... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

05 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

blended identity; thus, limiting the extent to which such organizations can truly "re-direct" future career choices. Strategic Orientations in a Competitive Context: The Role of Strategic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

A New Ecosystem for Business and Society

dominant form of organization has been of a hierarchy. Now and in the future, Clark said, many more people in the organization will be responsible for taking action and initiating strategic activities. As... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

strategic importance to the organization and reports its recommendations at the end of the term. Organizations benefit directly from the student interaction and output. Examples Some past successful Social Enterprise independent projects... View Details

08 May 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Writing the Case for Public School Reform

The state of public education in the United States is a perennial hot-button topic, with rhetoric often outpacing any real sense of progress. The Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a 2003 joint initiative of HBS and Harvard's... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

Business of Emerging Markets

Business History Initiative provides a challenging but collegial environment, with a multidisciplinary approach that has greatly expanded my perspective for future research projects. It’s also been a true revelation to see firsthand how... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

Since its official launch four years ago, the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise has flourished, providing ever-greater support and know-how for HBS students, alumni, and nonprofit leaders who are keen on bringing their expertise to... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Keeping Your Balance With Customers

Internet and database software, the customer can now initiate the business transaction, not simply respond to the salesperson's overture. Instead of being on the end of the value chain ("product push"), the customer is now at... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

08 Apr 2021
Blog Post

HBS Entrepreneurship Immersion - Four Highlights

revenue by 6x and tripled our headcount to 150 over the past two years! Prior to that, I helped Dropbox scale from a Series B startup to a post-IPO public company, going from 200 employees to 2,000 employees. I served as VP of Corporate Finance & Strategy and led... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Summit Sound Bites

too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to explain that raising the top... View Details

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

species' survival by triggering learning and adaptation; it can have the same effect on organizations. Businesses and the people inside them don't learn to change unless they have the courage to confront difficult truths. Because most View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

01 Jun 1997
News

Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field

it's Professor Michael E. Porter's seminal work on the competitive advantage of nations or Professor Cynthia A. Montgomery's recent book on corporate strategy, HBS C&S faculty are a leading voice in the strategic management arena. Most of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

04 Nov 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

leather that is produced through sustainable, non-polluting practices. Many years later, it’s gratifying to see the positive results of that project.” As CEO of Competitiveness.com until 2012, Duch personally led more than 120 of the nearly 200 View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Aug 2021 June O’Sullivan MBE is CEO of London Early Years Foundation. June attended the Strategic Per... SPNM Perspectives: Rhonda Haynes, National Association For Urban Debate Leagues Rhonda Haynes 19 Aug 2021 Rhonda Haynes is Executive... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

A Mission in Motion

Since its beginnings 20 years ago, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative has been a focal point for applying innovative business practices to drive sustainable, high-impact social change. Conceived by John Whitehead (MBA 1947), the SEI was... View Details

Keywords: summary

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

performance. That initially led managers inside both companies to resist devoting scarce resources to developing those technologies because their lead customers were saying they wanted additional performance features, not fewer. But... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

07 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

Strategic Leadership Development. The mission of the CDC is to improve the capabilities of clients' in-house legal departments, such as by making them better partners with the business units and improving their leadership skills. The CDC... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 30

sales from emerging markets. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311118-PDF-ENG Nestlé SA: Nutrition, Health and Wellness Strategy Rebecca M. Henderson and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 311-119 In 1997 Nestlé committed to a View Details