Business Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

discusses how the United States can reformulate some of these ideas from China to foster much-needed change at home. Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy by Joan Magretta (MBA 1983) (Harvard View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

April 1993 (Revised November 1995)
Case

San Miguel Corporation: Facing the 1990s

By: James E. Austin and Francisco Roman

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Corporate Strategy

Citation

Find at Harvard

19 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Podcast: Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal

worsen. The industry is now going through full-scale consolidation and reorganization in the face of competition from Internet properties. The trend begs the question: Is Murdoch overpaying for Dow Jones? Harvard Business School professor... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing

10 Jan 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

Strategy Failures? What Really Drives Your Strategy? Why do so many companies veer off their strategic plan? Look for a disconnect between corporate strategy and how resources are allocated, say Harvard... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Steve Schwarzman

Schwarzman Illustration by Roberto Parada Last year the U.S. private-equity business set a number of impressive records: most money raised at $375 billion, most deals closed at 654, and biggest buyout ever at $38.9 billion. Of all the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

October 2022
Supplement

Beam Dental (A): Pitch Deck Supplement 1

By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani

Early pitch deck (one of two). This case is a supplement to Beam Dental (A) 723-355. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Business Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Insurance Industry; United States; Kentucky; Ohio

Citation

Purchase

February 2022
Case

Corporate Divestitures and Spinoffs

By: David J. Collis, Ashley Hartman and Terrence Shu

Increasingly in the 2010s, corporations turned to divestitures and spinoffs to streamline their operations. Over the course of one week in November 2021, conglomerates General Electric, Johnson & Johnson, and Toshiba announced plans for separation. The news reflected... View Details

Keywords: Divestiture; Divestment; Spin Off; Spinoffs; Business Conglomerates; Restructuring; Corporate Strategy

Citation

Educators

Purchase

24 Apr 2014
News

Leaders must be strategists first

Cynthia Montgomery believes strategy should be a habit of mind, not a document; a continuous process, not a destination. Leaders need to use strategy as a dynamic tool for guiding the development of a View Details

14 Oct 2014
News

When it comes to climate change, companies must prepare now

Climate change is a fact of life, and it’s playing an increasing role in business competition. Forest L. Reinhardt, the John D. Black Professor of Business Administration, advises companies to adjust and... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts

“Most of the nonprofits operating today make program decisions based on a mission rather than on a strategy,” writes HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan in Harvard Business Review. “In fact,” he notes, “many nonprofits don’t have a View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

of risk. It emphasizes practical strategies for understanding and managing these hazards of new ventures in light of recent research. Reverse Innovation: Create Far from Home, Win Everywhere by Vijay Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) and... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

01 Jun 2014
News

School Ties

from a cross-section of society. The group issued a plan that became the foundation for Delaware's winning entry for the Race to the Top program. Strategy implementation. Local business executives are... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

nonprofit consultancy of its type. Its staff offers strategy consulting, executive search, and advice on developing funding models. Bridgespan today is far different from the organization laid out in the original View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

08 May 2019
News

Lessons from the Ashes

play, that somehow with my dad dying, others might take it over. And the other thing from my perspective was I felt the company wasn't really being as well run as it could be. I think it could have been more profitable. So here am I, like 26 at the time of my last year... View Details

June 2003 (Revised May 2004)
Exercise

The Pacific Sentinel: Role for Alex Martinez

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Dina R. Pradel

A new publishing company has just purchased the Pacific Sentinel, a fictional West Coast newspaper. The new publisher is willing to invest $1 million in the future success of the paper and has asked the executive editor and advertising manager to develop a joint plan... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Acquisition; Business Strategy; Publishing Industry; Western United States

Citation

Purchase

01 Dec 2016
News

Takeaways

make additional efforts to infuse scaling into the DNA of their business models, and institute appropriate strategies for recruiting and retaining talent, leveraging financing and partnerships for scaling... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences

Data’s Double Duty: Research and the Real World As Raffaella Sadun was wrapping up her Corporate Strategy course last fall, one of her students sent her a four-page analysis of the private equity industry in India, a topic the class had... View Details

Student-Profile

Sarah Wolfolds

experience at the FED, but exploring the theory in organizational economics and the literature in Strategy has led to more specific ideas about how I could arbitrage these literatures. The HBS Experience The best thing about HBS is the... View Details

Article

Does Management Matter in Schools?

By: Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes. The UK, Sweden,... View Details