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IT Strategy: Building and Fostering Our Community and Culture | Information Technology
IT Strategy: Building and Fostering Our Community and Culture Strategic Initiative: 5.01 Build and Foster Community and Culture Across HBS IT By Kellyn Eaddy on April 30, 2024 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email... View Details
- 30 Apr 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management
Marketing executives value entertainment-related endorsements because of the difficulty of reaching a wide group of consumers using traditional advertising. Companies look to hire athletes whose image mirrors their own corporate brand. Sports agents and agencies must... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children
Department of Justice for more than eight years, prosecuting child exploitation and human-trafficking crimes. "The UN is in a position to coordinate and incentivize countries to work together to develop laws and practices that are... View Details
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Claire Freidman
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Prior to business school, I spent five years working in finance. My clients were entertainment companies and I knew I wanted to switch careers and work on the operations or strategic side... View Details
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Dave Vitello
with a five-year-old.” Although his professional intention is to move from accounting to a more strategic leadership role, HBS is very much a family affair. “It’s important that this be a full family experience,” says Dave. Brita has... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
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Kamen Bliznashki
Why is getting a HBS MBA important to you? Coming from an investment banking background, I lacked deep understanding of the larger strategic challenges of clients. I see my HBS experience as an opportunity to broaden and deepen my skill... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Côme Laguë (MBA 1993)
world-changing. They might not be appreciated right now, but that could change in a few years when the markets are right.” Zetta Research helps patent holders—who may be founders, inventors, investors, or lenders—to stabilize, hold, develop, and sell IP assets. Zetta... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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A Decade of Change
LEADING CHANGE: With support from the HBS Leadership Fellows program, nine Class of 2012 MBAs will spend the coming year working in management positions with nonprofit and public-sector organizations. This year’s Leadership Fellows are... View Details
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About Us | Information Technology
About Us Harvard Business School (HBS) IT is a nimble, innovative, strategic partner who crafts, delivers, and supports the pioneering technology solutions that connect, enable, and inspire the HBS community to educate leaders who make a... View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
understanding. A focus on time allows us to synthesize and extend the evolutionary and positioning models of strategic search. Toward this end, we couple induction and deduction. The inductive part of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Improving the service experience requires excellence—but not in everything
involves making strategic tradeoffs: choosing to overperform in highly valued services means underperforming in others. But the rewards are great, “So we work on helping organizations identify the net View Details
- 29 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services
corporations, the CEO is selected by a higher authority (the board of directors) acting on behalf of the shareholders, which gives him strong positional power to shape the company's direction, strategically... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
blended identity; thus, limiting the extent to which such organizations can truly "re-direct" future career choices. Strategic Orientations in a Competitive Context: The Role of Strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
demonstrates the mutual interconnectivity among the three key facets of management: strategic positioning, organizational design, and individual leadership. The authors highlight both the manner in which strategy informs leadership and... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
too, says Groysberg. "Managers might want to think strategically about what positions they can hire a top-notch outsider for, and which ones they're better off developing talent for inside the organization."... View Details
- March 2020 (Revised July 2022)
- Case
Levi Strauss (A): A Pioneer Lost in the Wilderness
By: Joshua Margolis, Ashish Nanda, Margaret Cross, Imran Manji and Bismah Rahmat
In 2011, newly appointed CEO Chip Bergh needed to urgently turn around the iconic but floundering denim apparel firm, Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) Famous for its blue jeans, LS&Co. had suffered a decline in revenue of 29% from $6.8 billion in 1997 to $4.8 billion in... View Details
- April 2002
- Background Note
Local Institutions and Global Strategy
By: Tarun Khanna
Explores how location affects a firm's strategy and identifies the different ways location affects industry structure, choice of a firm's position, and the sustainability of that position. The intellectual foundations lie in an appreciation of institutional economics.... View Details
Keywords: Global Range; Global Strategy; Product Positioning; Market Transactions; Industry Structures; Negotiation Deal; Organizational Design; Outcome or Result; Strategic Planning
Khanna, Tarun. "Local Institutions and Global Strategy." Harvard Business School Background Note 702-475, April 2002.
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
resources department from a paper-pushing backwater to an entity that is strategically incorporated into the district’s overall mission. “One observation that we made early in PELP is that school systems have essentially not changed their... View Details
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IT Strategy: IT Modernization Drives Academic Library Innovation | Information Technology
IT Strategy: IT Modernization Drives Academic Library Innovation Strategic Initiative: 2.01 Baker Architecture Modernization Program By Annie Harrison on April 23, 2024 Share via Facebook Share via LinkedIn Print Share via email The... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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MBAs mobilize to assist small business owners
by getting the best resources to entrepreneurs who are poised for growth and making positive social impacts in their communities,” Baker says. The team traveled to Detroit, New Orleans, Albuquerque, and other cities that have been... View Details