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  • 15 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

business is simplistic, said Reinhardt. Companies always operate based on imperfect information about their competitive arena. To succeed as a viable concern with an environmental conscience, "you have to look deeper. View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • February 2006 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

GE's Growth Strategy: The Immelt Initiative

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
Follows the actions of GE CEO, Jeff Immelt, as he implements a growth strategy for the $150 billion company in a tough business environment. In four years, he reinvigorates GE's technology, expands its services, develops a commercial focus, pushes developing countries,... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Judgments; Global Strategy; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure
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Bartlett, Christopher A. "GE's Growth Strategy: The Immelt Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 306-087, February 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
  • September–October 2024
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Should a Family Business Accept a Returning Daughter’s Radical Proposal?

By: John D. Macomber
A family-owned and controlled conglomerate in Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa, has to decide what titles and authority to give to a daughter who is being courted to leave a promising career in Europe to come back and join the business. The choices of role range from an... View Details
Keywords: Succession Planning; Power Grid; Family Business; Management Succession; Emerging Markets; Business Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Côte d'Ivoire
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Macomber, John D. "Should a Family Business Accept a Returning Daughter’s Radical Proposal?" R2045M. Harvard Business Review (September–October 2024): 156–161.
  • 01 May 2020
  • Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

Social Enterprise Club’s conference, are on the leading edge of new technologies and exploring the purpose of business today as we know it.... View Details
  • 21 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Common Strategy Mistakes

to understanding everything from the free enterprise system to the individual motivations of managers. Why are some companies more profitable than others? In this excerpt from... View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Dynamic Personalization with Multiple Customer Signals: Multi-Response State Representation in Reinforcement Learning

By: Liangzong Ma, Ta-Wei Huang, Eva Ascarza and Ayelet Israeli
Reinforcement learning (RL) offers potential for optimizing sequences of customer interactions by modeling the relationships between customer states, company actions, and long-term value. However, its practical implementation often faces significant challenges.... View Details
Keywords: Dynamic Policy; Deep Reinforcement Learning; Representation Learning; Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment; Latent Variable Models; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Foreign Direct Investment; Analytics and Data Science
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Ma, Liangzong, Ta-Wei Huang, Eva Ascarza, and Ayelet Israeli. "Dynamic Personalization with Multiple Customer Signals: Multi-Response State Representation in Reinforcement Learning." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-037, February 2025.
  • February 2003 (Revised May 2003)
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Bombardier: Canada versus Brazil at the WTO

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Laura Alfaro and Brett Laschinger
In less than a decade, Bombardier had grown from a medium-size Canadian company to a highly profitable global player largely on the strength of the introduction of a new generation of regional jet and successfully marketing its product to airlines around the world.... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Global Strategy; Five Forces Framework; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Business and Government Relations; Situation or Environment; Competition; Air Transportation Industry; Canada; Brazil
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Abdelal, Rawi E., Laura Alfaro, and Brett Laschinger. "Bombardier: Canada versus Brazil at the WTO." Harvard Business School Case 703-022, February 2003. (Revised May 2003.)
  • 25 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 25

Cracker Barrel In the fall of 2011, activist investor, Sardar Biglari, has acquired nearly 10% ownership in the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain. He believes that the board and senior View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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HBS - The year in Review

unique challenges of companies commercializing breakthrough technology. This year, 295 teams entered the virtual competition—117 in the Student Business Track, 48 in the Student Social View Details
  • September 2007 (Revised April 2009)
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Norway Sells Wal-Mart

By: Robert C. Pozen and Aldo Sesia
In June 2006, Norway's Pension Fund decided to divest its position in Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. after an investigation by the Fund's Ethics Council. According to a spokesperson of Norway's Finance Ministry, "The recommendation to exclude Wal-Mart cites serious and... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Ethics; Insurance; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Government and Politics; Rights; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Power and Influence; Retail Industry; Norway
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Pozen, Robert C., and Aldo Sesia. "Norway Sells Wal-Mart." Harvard Business School Case 308-019, September 2007. (Revised April 2009.)

    The Big Ditch

    On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of U.S. triumphalism, but... View Details

    • November 2019
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    Scaling at Chief

    By: Katherine B. Coffman, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Kathleen L. McGinn, Julia Kelley and Katherine Chen
    Chief is a New York-based peer network that provides mentorship, support, networking opportunities, and a sense of community to women executives. Co-founders Carolyn Childers and Lindsay Kaplan launched the company in January 2019, and just two months later, Chief has... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Leadership Development; Expansion; Growth Management; Customer Satisfaction; North and Central America; United States; New York (state, US); New York (city, NY)
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    Coffman, Katherine B., Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Kathleen L. McGinn, Julia Kelley, and Katherine Chen. "Scaling at Chief." Harvard Business School Case 920-021, November 2019.
    • 19 Mar 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Unlocking Your Investment Capital

    Many companies can double or even triple their capacity to invest in strategic assets and competencies by properly managing their "risk balance sheet," argues Harvard... View Details
    Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
    • 28 Nov 2018
    • HBS Case

    On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

    fruitful streak came to an abrupt halt with the United States financial crash in the fall of 2008. Target was hit hard—much harder, in fact, than Walmart. Five years later the company was still struggling.... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
    • 15 Jul 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care

    Business Administration at HBS and a member of the Forum's faculty steering committee. Other committee members include William W. Chin, Executive Dean for Research at HMS; Richard G. Hamermesh, MBA Class... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
    • 02 Apr 2020
    • What Do You Think?

    What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

    unprepared boards and CEOs from responsibility so their companies won’t be sued.” “In the corporate sector, the continuing effort to brand the COVID-19 pandemic as a Black Swan is a retroactive attempt to... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 04 Apr 2011
    • HBS Case

    Reinventing the National Geographic Society

    emerging. Various units operated as independent fiefdoms. In 1998, Fahey was named CEO, and the task was clear: build an organization to thrive for the next 100 years. To do so, he "assembled a View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing
    • 03 Nov 2015
    • First Look

    November 3, 2015

    integral component of management control systems and play a significant role in achieving desirable performance outcomes. We focus on a key environmental performance... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • March 2003 (Revised March 2004)
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    P&G Japan: The SK-II Globalization Project

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett
    Traces changes in P&G's international strategy and structure, culminating in Organization 2005, a reorganization that places strategic emphasis on product innovation rather than geographic expansion and shifts power from local subsidiary to global business management.... View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Trade; Globalization; Global Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Business or Company Management; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Hong Kong; Japan; Taiwan; Europe
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    Bartlett, Christopher A. "P&G Japan: The SK-II Globalization Project." Harvard Business School Case 303-003, March 2003. (Revised March 2004.)
    • May 2021
    • Teaching Note

    From Globalization to Dual Digital Transformation: CEO Thierry Breton Leading Atos Into 'Digital Shockwaves'

    By: Tsedal Neeley
    Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 419-027 and 419-046. Thierry Breton, chairman and CEO of IT company Atos, faces a pivotal juncture. After spending eight intense years scaling the company globally to over 100,000 employees in 70 countries, he sees digital shockwaves... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Transformation; Strategy; Disruption; Employees; Competency and Skills; Training; Organizational Culture; Digital Transformation; Information Technology Industry
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    Neeley, Tsedal. "From Globalization to Dual Digital Transformation: CEO Thierry Breton Leading Atos Into 'Digital Shockwaves'." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 421-096, May 2021.
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