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- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
display promotions away from smaller revenue brands toward larger ones following periods of poor financial performance. This indicates the behavior is determined by parties above brand managers in the firm.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
Evolution and Resilience Britain: Global Legacy and Domestic Persistence By: Jones, G. Abstract—This chapter explores the British experience in a volume which examines the historical evolution of business groups in developed Western... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
trucks with global positioning satellite (GPS) locators, allowing dispatchers to arrange deliveries within a twenty-minute window, versus the three hours CEMEX's competitors require. This system—which did not emerge from a central R&D... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
a sovereign default may affect the economy. 2017 Green Capitalism? Business and the Environment in the Twentieth Century Entrepreneurship, Policy, and the Geography of Wind Energy By: Jones, G. Abstract—This study examines the geography of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
must pay the cost of the marketplace, not the sellers. Sahlman: Scott, can you give us the short version of your career? Randall: After working at Procter & Gamble in brand management and in consumer packaged goods, I got into... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
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- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
firms shifting display promotions away from smaller revenue brands toward larger ones following periods of poor financial performance. This indicates the behavior is determined by parties above brand... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
218-001 Bega Cheese: Bidding to Bring Vegemite Back Home In January 2017, the leadership team of Bega Cheese—the Australian dairy company—was considering a bid for Mondelez International’s Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) grocery business, which included several leading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
to become less diversified. The paper notes that many US firms have narrowed the scope of their operations since the 1980s, in efforts to compete better in the global economy-winnowing their product portfolio and focusing on a particular... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
remains to be seen, she added. Although some sites such as Yahoo! include premium services that require fees or subscriptions, the largest business model by far is advertising: a $45 billion industry globally that has been growing about... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
in hospitals and homes to monitor millions of patients. Philips generates over one-third of its global sales from health care. Other companies like GE and Samsung are also active in health care. These brands... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
case:http://hbr.org/search/813060-PDF-ENG Microsoft Office 2007 (Abridged) Iansiti, Marco, and Bianca BuccitelliHarvard Business School Case 613-061 A discussion of the history and processes behind the development of Microsoft's Office 12 software. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
customize products and respond to customers. Regional managers take responsibility for sales, product development, distribution, and manufacturing. As a consequence, the spans of control for managers back at the head office are relatively narrow, covering only... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
career in venture capital private equity to launch a global movement that has brought together governments with service providers and has attracted private investment to pay for a variety of social programs. One such program in 2010... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
they merely added a new layer of legal obligations for governance without improving the quality of people serving on the boards or changing their behavioral dynamics. The author—formerly the president or chairman of two global financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
2018 Oxford University Press Food Citizenship: Food System Advocates in an Era of Distrust By: Goldberg, Ray A. Abstract—The global food system is the largest segment of the world's economy. As agribusiness-studies pioneer Ray Goldberg... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
Harvard Business School Case 413-096 Novartis: Leading a Global Enterprise Novartis, the world's leading health care company, was formed in 1996 out of a merger of two very different, mid-tier Switzerland-based pharma companies. The case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
to determine the importance of attributes, a willingness that extends to following explicit recommendations of online agents based on those attributes (Study 5). Cases & Course MaterialsGenzyme's CSR Dilemma: How to Play Its HAND Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- November 2017
- Teaching Note
Reinventing Best Buy
By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Teaching Note for HBS No. 716-455.
On March 1, 2017, Best Buy Company, Inc., North America’s largest retailer of consumer electronics and appliances, announced a third year of comparable-store sales increases and a 20.8% increase in domestic comparable online sales.... View Details
Keywords: Best Buy; Hubert Joly; Renew Blue; Showrooming; Webrooming; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Marketplaces; Turnaround; Consumer Electronics; Consumer Electronics Accessories; Appliances; Stores-within-stores; Store Experience; Store Size; Store Pickup; Store Management; Delivery; Delivery Models; Amazon; Amazon.com; Pricing Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Business Units; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Music Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Price; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Cost; Selection and Staffing; Reports; Technological Innovation; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Product Marketing; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Media; Distribution; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Distribution Channels; Infrastructure; Product; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Groups and Teams; Sales; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Technology; Hardware; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Search Technology; Software; Web; Web Sites; Wireless Technology; Resource Allocation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Video Game Industry; United States; Minnesota; Minneapolis; Saint Paul; St. Paul
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
LaSalle (JLL) faced at the turn of the millennium. Until then, JLL sold piecemeal commercial real estate services to its corporate clients, who maintained relationships with a variety of vendors. In 2000, JLL's large corporate clients started View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne