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  • August 2018 (Revised August 2018)
  • Case

The De Beers Group: Launching Lightbox Jewelry for Lab-Grown Diamonds

By: Benjamin C. Esty
In May 2018, the De Beers Group shocked the diamond industry when it announced it was launching a new fashion jewelry brand of laboratory-grown (synthetic) diamonds. The reaction was swift as people sought to understand the company’s motivations: was it a “huge gamble”... View Details
Keywords: Diamonds; Differentiation; New Business; Strategy Development; Strategy Execution; Scope; Adjacency; Core; Commoditization; New Product Launch; Mining; Retail; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Disruption; Value Creation; Product Launch; Segmentation; Expansion; Competitive Advantage; United States; United Kingdom
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    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • 09 Jun 2024
    • Blog Post

    The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

    industry?I took Strategy and Value Creation with Professor Benjamin Esty. The course is seen as a capstone that utilizes multiple Required Curriculum (RC), or first year, courses to help understand how to... View Details
    • 02 Jun 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: June 2, 2009

      Working PapersTruth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor Authors:Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 27 Feb 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

    sometimes quite negative events, take the high road, do the right thing, and develop a reputation as a result. They almost always found that building reputation created returns, as in talented people appreciating the creation of the... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 11 Jan 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

    product used in econometrics, is a good example of this. “Our research plainly shows that value creation doesn't necessarily lead to value capture.” In cases where View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services
    • August 2020 (Revised March 2021)
    • Case

    Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations (A)

    By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu
    The case opens in November 2019 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are contemplating what the best fulfillment format and... View Details
    Keywords: Retail; Grocery; Business Model; Emerging Markets; For-Profit Firms; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Turkey
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    2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

    customers are partitioned away from the operation, they are less likely to fully appreciate the work going on behind the scenes, causing them to place a lower value on the product or service being offered. To address this problem, leaders... View Details
    • November 2007
    • Article

    If Private Equity Sized Up Your Business

    By: Robert C. Pozen
    This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. As the dust settles on the recent frenzy of private equity deals (including... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Capital Structure; Private Equity; Investment Return; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry
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    • 21 Aug 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

    it is no longer enough for firms to be better or cheaper to gain competitive advantage. These new rules make it essential for companies to reexamine four fundamental aspects of their business to thrive in the digital era—their strategy, View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • Blog

    Is AI Coming for Your Job?

    ask for images of "a man," it is very likely to create an image of a white man, likely because of the data on which it was trained. This issue of perpetuating biases raises a lot of interesting policy questions about who should be monitoring the outcomes and what rules... View Details
    • Web

    John H. McArthur | About

    Initiative has grown significantly and continues to serve as a catalyst for building social value through teaching, research, and programs related to social enterprise. Beginning in the mid 1980s, McArthur also placed increasing emphasis... View Details
    • 26 Oct 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: October 26, 2010

    sequencing, and coalition building certainly find application in multi-deal situations. Yet beyond such concepts, negotiation analysts can find special value in thinking in terms of campaigns, with multiple interdependent fronts, that... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 Feb 2022
    • Blog Post

    Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student

    glorified) life of an entrepreneur. Here are three of my favorite lessons from these conversations: When speaking with Katia Beauchamp, I learned about the importance of value systems within teams. She explained how vital it is for... View Details
    • Web

    Debora L. Spar | About

    of Barnard College from 2008 to 2017, and as President and CEO of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts from 2017 to 2018. During her tenure at Barnard, Spar led initiatives to highlight women’s leadership and advancement, including the View Details
    • 06 Dec 2017
    • What Do You Think?

    Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

    1969, a move generally credited as enabling creation of a software industry in the US. More recently, the Sherman Act has been invoked most frequently to deny mergers, especially those of the “horizontal” variety, that unduly increase... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services
    • 25 Mar 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: March 25

    ambiguity of profits and power, as well as the often-jealous interactions between different solutions to the problem of empire. The book presents a powerful mosaic of imperial theories and practices contributing to the creation of the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • December 2022
    • Case

    To Feed the Planet: Juan Luciano at ADM

    By: Joshua D. Margolis, David E. Bell, Damien McLoughlin, Stacy Straaberg and James Weber
    In December 2022, Juan Luciano, Chairman and CEO of agribusiness and nutrition giant ADM, considered the next phase of the historic company’s future. Beginning in 2011 when he joined as COO and moving into his tenure as CEO in 2015, Luciano led a transformation of ADM... View Details
    Keywords: Agriculture; Leadership; Agribusiness; Acquisition; Business Units; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Forecasting and Prediction; Capital; Cash; Cost of Capital; Cost Management; Profit; Food; Global Range; Innovation Strategy; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Risk Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Strategic Planning; Risk and Uncertainty; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Vertical Integration; Value Creation; Transformation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Energy Industry; United States; Chicago
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    Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

    Incentive.” Josh Lerner : Appointed Vice Chair, Global Agenda Council on Future of Investing, World Economic Forum, 2014-2016. Kristin W. Mugford : Received the 2015 Apgar Award for Innovation in Teaching at HBS with Stephen Kaufman for the View Details
    • January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
    • Case

    Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth

    By: William W. George, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Amram Migdal
    Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM’s global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company’s... View Details
    Keywords: Organic Growth; Organizational Change; M＆A; Mergers And Acquisitions; Divestment; Business Ventures; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Restructuring; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Transition; Engineering; Chemicals; Mining; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Capital Markets; Financial Markets; Food; Globalization; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health; Nutrition; History; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Ownership; Public Ownership; Performance; Strategy; Adaptation; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Value; Value Creation; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Mining Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Europe; Netherlands
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