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Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HOW, NOT WHAT It is not what a location competes in that determines its prosperity, but how productively it competes. What Determines Competitiveness? Microeconomics Competitiveness Quality of the Business Environment State of Cluster... View Details

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Alumni - Global

Administration); Dante Roscini (MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice of Business Administration); Arthur I Segel (Retired Professor of Management Practice);... View Details

05 Dec 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

Original Article There is a body of research that seeks to relate economics to human biology. It's usually associated with the notion that the life cycles of businesses parallel stages of biological life: birth, rapid growth, maturity,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

December 2008 (Revised March 2009)
Case

The World Food Programme during the Global Food Crisis (A)

By: Anette Mikes, Peter Tufano, Eric D. Werker and Jan-Emmanuel De Neve

Rising food prices threatened an unprecedented number of people around the world with malnutrition or starvation in 2008. The new Executive Director of the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP)—the world's largest food relief agency—must not only address this... View Details

Keywords: Food; Globalized Firms and Management; Nutrition; Crisis Management; Business and Government Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Welfare

16 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

Strategy Harvard Business School Case 705-477 The Turkish home appliances firm Arcelik is revisiting its growth strategy. Options for growth include continuing to promote currently owned brands in international markets, acquiring new... View Details

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

her and women's golf as a whole. She had achieved just enough for now. Instead of defeat, she got energy. Maximization Does Not Work as a Measure of Success What is the right measure of success in your eyes? What is it for your company... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

14 Jan 2014
First Look

First Look: January 14

help-friendly organization has to be actively nurtured, however, because helpfulness among colleagues does not arise automatically: competition, pride, or distrust may get in the way. The trickiness of this View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

of character...we want [the student] to start thinking about issues...to think about the ethics of someone in a company making 10 million dollars and someone making three thousand dollars a year...about how he View Details

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

of technology business that have an impact on strategy formulation?" he asks. "What makes technology-intensive businesses different from other businesses?" Why Tech View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

the layoffs one by one? What rationale did they provide to the employees? What kinds of benefits did they offer them? What kind of reactions did people have, and how did the managers handle those reactions? What happened inside the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

22 Dec 2015
First Look

December 22, 2015

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-026 Shonda Rhimes' ShondaLand In January 2015, superstar television creator Shonda Rhimes, whose production company... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2014
News

Generation Next

group's majority stake in the rural retailer was sold, and the poultry business was placed in a joint venture with US-based Tyson Foods. The most significant changes came at the top. In August 2007, the View Details

Keywords: Mark Bergen; Godrej Group; Management

March 1986 (Revised November 1990)
Case

Valerie Morgan

By: Howard H. Stevenson

Presents interviews and conversations with a woman who recently started a publishing house. Primarily concerns her immediate future regarding harvesting options: IPO, sell out, step up to chairman, venture capital, etc. Also deals with the excitement and thrill of... View Details

Keywords: Interactive Communication; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Cash; Initial Public Offering; Business or Company Management; Strategic Planning; Publishing Industry

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

the money, or the need for more big science.) Solutions involving gray (built) or green (natural) infrastructure rely on the human infrastructure – the infrastructure for collaboration. View Details

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

Desan look to how scholars in history, law, and political science are redefining capitalism in light of the American experience. Essayists write on such diverse subjects as markets, selling of slave clothing, the Gilded Age, women’s rights, money and finance, risk... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

22 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

current strategy or change its approach? Includes color exhibits. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=805067 New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2008 (Revised March 2009)
Case

The Home Depot, Inc.

For its first 20 years, Home Depot was known for its entrepreneurial spirit and focus on customer service. Merchandising, purchasing, and store operations were all decentralized. When the company hit $45 billion in sales, many believed that a more disciplined approach... View Details

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Profit; Leading Change; Six Sigma; Service Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Retail Industry