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  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books

“read-write” era, corporate networks democratized publishing. We are now in the midst of the “read-write-own” era, sometimes called web3, in which blockchain networks are granting power and economic benefits to View Details
  • 28 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

couple of years could top what we saw during the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis, when there were more than 100,000 business bankruptcies. Some analysts are forecasting that by the end of 2021 up to 20 percent of high-yield corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

competitive strategy? Renowned for the cutting-edge websites that it developed to market major Hollywood movies and leading consumer brands, the firm had won numerous awards and garnered considerable attention within the advertising... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2016 (Revised May 2018)
  • Case

ASOS PLC

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
Launched in 2000, ASOS was one of the world’s largest online fashion specialists in 2018. Focusing on young consumers aged 16–25 years, the company offered over 85,000 items on its websites, many times more than the largest fashion stores, and added several thousand... View Details
Keywords: ASOS; AsSeenOnScreen; Online Fashion; Online Apparel; Nick Beighton; Nick Robertson; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Online Retail; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Social Media; Marketplaces; Shipping; Advertising; Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; For-Profit Firms; Customer Focus and Relationships; Age; Gender; Currency Exchange Rate; Profit; Revenue; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business History; Selection and Staffing; Journals and Magazines; Human Capital; Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Succession; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning; Social Marketing; Media; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Infrastructure; Logistics; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Vertical Integration; Segmentation; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; United Kingdom; England; London
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  • 10 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

According to Danaher, the DBS engine “drives the company through a never-ending cycle of change and improvement: exceptional people develop outstanding plans and execute them using world-class tools to construct sustainable processes,... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

compensation and incentives, performance reviews, and measuring sales effectiveness. Part 4 examines broader organizational requirements for effective selling and strategy implementation: developing sales managers who can manage and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

grounded in the competitive dynamics that may otherwise drive a race-to-the-bottom. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50203 forthcoming Journal of Business Ethics Corporate Governance and Executive... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • January 2008 (Revised March 2011)
  • Case

Henry J. Kaiser and the Art of the Possible

By: Anthony J. Mayo, Mark Benson and David Chen
From his humble beginnings as a local salesman in New York, Henry J. Kaiser rose to become one of the leading industrialists of 20th century America. Though he had no technical engineering training, Kaiser mastered the management and execution of plans for several... View Details
Keywords: History; Mission and Purpose; Transition; Management Practices and Processes; Construction; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Business History; Business Growth and Maturation; Civil Society or Community; Business Strategy; Planning; Construction Industry; Shipping Industry; United States
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  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53307 Harvard Business School Case 518-031 MannKind Corporation: Take a Deep Breath, This Time Afrezza Will Work In June 2014, MannKind Corporation announced that after years of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

as customer acquisition, on-time delivery, developing new services and products, and running efficiently. But operating performance is also a result; it is derivative of human performance. Human performance involves many things but is... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

City of Dreams

more concrete (sometimes literally) world of doing that affected a great many more people in far more fundamental ways. For the next seven years, he served as an urban development specialist for the Asian... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

associated movement, and examines the motives of the actors involved. The book posits integrated reporting as a key mechanism by which companies can ensure their own long-term sustainability by contributing to a sustainable society. Although integrated reporting has... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

line? The case highlights the role of Cummins' long-term effort at community development as a key element of its corporate strategy. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

structure the background against which business operates. The aim is to develop a plausible framework for managerial decision-making that respects the fact of value pluralism in a global economy and that fosters meaningful criticism of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

diversified business groups in contemporary developed economies of Western Europe, North America, and Oceania. It aims to come up with a new theoretical understanding of diversified business groups and other comparable models of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

to cofound and lead the Drawdown Fund. A Q&A with the audience will follow the interview. Career Check-up Jonathan Shepherd, Director of Corporate Relations, Career and Professional Development 10:00–11:15... View Details
  • 05 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

sustainability efforts at Novozymes, the world's largest and oldest producer of industrial enzymes. In 2015, the Danish company became the world’s first company known to have crafted a new corporate strategy based on the United Nations... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 12, 2016

practitioners often exhibit confusion about whether the terms "integrative" and "distributive" refer to behavior or to underlying issue structure (or both). Third, the authors develop the "Distributive Bargaining... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 6, 2016

countries, WWF works with governments, businesses, other NGOs, and communities to set up conservation programs to preserve natural habitat. In contrast, Greenpeace works to campaign for environmental change against governments and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities