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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
The Strategy-Focused Organization by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Harvard Business School Press) Following the success of their 1996 bestseller, The Balanced Scorecard, Robert Kaplan and David Norton have published a new book... View Details
- January 2011 (Revised November 2015)
- Case
The National Geographic Society (A)
By: David A. Garvin and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Information Publishing; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Internet; Publishing Industry
Garvin, David A., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "The National Geographic Society (A)." Harvard Business School Case 311-002, January 2011. (Revised November 2015.)
- 2001
- Case
Encyclopedia Britannica (C)
By: Vijay Govindarajan and Praveen Kopalle
In October of 1999, EBI offered a new Internet service at www.britannica.com. EBI provided access to the entire text and graphics of Encyclopedia Britannica absolutely free of charge. Its revenues came from on-line advertising, sponsorships, and a percentage of goods... View Details
Keywords: Online Technology; Online Advertising; Business Strategy; Information Publishing; Web Services Industry
Govindarajan, Vijay, and Praveen Kopalle. "Encyclopedia Britannica (C)." 2001. (Case No. 2-0009.)
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
most innovative, successful biotech firm ever, Amgen led its industry in revenue and sales growth in 2007. Binder, the firm’s CEO during 1988–2000, describes Amgen’s climb to success, revealing the highs and lows in the race to develop... View Details
- August 2000 (Revised February 2003)
- Case
Borders Group, Inc.
By: Zeynep Ton and Ananth Raman
Describes Borders Group, a well-known retail chain, in late 1999 and its traditional strengths and rapid growth in the 1990s. By 1990, however, the company had fallen behind Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble in leveraging the Internet for book retailing, although it... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Distribution Channels; Service Operations; Business Growth and Maturation; Economic Growth; Industry Growth; Growth and Development; Internet; Business Model; Order Taking and Fulfillment; Supply and Industry; Retail Industry; Retail Industry
Ton, Zeynep, and Ananth Raman. "Borders Group, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 601-037, August 2000. (Revised February 2003.)
- 16 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Is MySpace.com Your Space?
Research, a leading journal publishing interdisciplinary studies of consumer behavior. Sean Silverthorne: Who is using MySpace to advertise? John Deighton: Fox created a profile page for X-Men: The Last Stand. Disney ran a contest to... View Details
- Research Summary
Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
over a thousand miles from the coastal enterprise zones most Westerners visit. Yet the province’s 32 million inhabitants are as much caught up in today’s economic miracle as those in Hong Kong or Shanghai. At one level, the breakneck View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The Next Chapter
love Cambridge, and I love Harvard Square,” he told Publishers Weekly (September 15, 2008). And speaking of corporate strategy, especially in the book publishing business, there’s one company that really... View Details
- Web
Career Timeline - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Competitive Forces Shape Strategy" article outlining Five Forces Framework in Harvard Business Review 1980 – Publishes Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors 1982 – Tenured... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
(MBA 2006) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Maier discusses how modern Russian mothers are raising their children today. She interviewed hundreds of mothers and found some common elements, placing modern Russian mothers... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A Modern-Day Classic
“Pathbreaking.” That, in one word, is how HBS professor Ranjay Gulati describes the impact of Organization and Environment. The book was published in 1967, reissued by Harvard Business Press in 1987, and won the Academy of Management’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Exotic Travel
their travels, providing “how-to” tips for families with similar interests. After Jennifer succumbed to ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) in February 2003, completing the book became a labor of love for Nichols. Exotic Travel Destinations for Families was View Details
- Career Coach
Martin November
Marty (HBS '98) is an MD/MBA and practicing OBGYN physician who has broad expertise in the healthcare sector as the former Medical Director for Patient Safety and Risk Management at Atrius Health, Harvard Medical School teaching faculty and hospital division director,... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Service with a Smile
Intentions to Quit,” was published in the December 2002 Journal of Organizational Behavior. Not surprisingly, the researchers found that workers who are asked to suppress negative or unpleasant emotions are often unhappy at work and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India is more Transparent
“Finding reliable, useful financial information is a real problem that anyone wanting to work at, sell to, buy from, or invest in a Chinese or Indian company must face. I am often asked for guidance in solving this problem and have found that the answers are different... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
Desai, who is studying the gap between book income — what companies report to shareholders — and tax income — what companies report to the IRS. In a paper titled “The Divergence between Book and Tax Income” published in the forthcoming... View Details
- 30 Jul 2010
- News
Notes from a Hammock
best-selling trilogy of mysteries. The Girl was published in 2005, but it sometimes seems Larsson is writing after the meltdown of 2008, and with the benefit of hindsight. His hero, Mikael, an investigative business journalist, speaks... View Details
- 07 Jan 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs
immensely creative, but he writes 'Rushdie' books, and his publishers have to create a market for his books, not ask him to write books that will sell more easily than literary fiction," she says. Managers in these View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Author
help of several HBS faculty members, Wademan compiled Remember Who You Are: Life Stories That Inspire the Heart and Mind, which was published by HBS Press in May. What are some of the themes addressed in this book? I think the main theme... View Details