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Dominic Mensah
Coming to HBS is like... Entering a journey of self-reflection on and immersion in your purpose. It is a courageous leap of faith—a deliberate choice to forgo a “safer” path and confront passion head-on. Before HBS, I balanced a role in... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
dozens of companies have been using the strategies of co-opetition not only to create "wins" for themselves, but to make it possible for their industry as a whole to grow. Wise Choices edited by Richard J.... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
We know the symptoms all too well. We wait months to see a doctor. Office visits end, it seems, just moments after they begin. Managed care firms hold sway over doctors' treatment plans, and health insurance premiums are heading for the... View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
Harvard Business School Case 707-497 When Jim Weddle took over as Managing Partner of Edward Jones in January 2006, the brokerage firm was at a critical juncture. The firm's distinctive strategy had enabled View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
manner of Dell and Cisco. Because the majority of these transformations are ongoing, the ultimate success or failure of these undertakings is difficult to evaluate. General Motors, for example, is attempting to rehaul its business in four... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
it is typically context-specific and severed from strategic goals. One result is that, like clockwork every few years, someone publishes a study finding that relatively few—some research indicates less than 10 percent—of even effectively... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
the entire IRS database of almost 700,000 nonprofits. Its leaders believe this strategy helps “democratize” the giving process. Others, such as Working Assets, include a much smaller number of organizations.... View Details
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
For restaurateurs, receiving a Michelin star can be a mixed blessing. Certainly it's a rare and celebrated honor—the French company bestows its one-, two-, and three-star ratings only to a select few restaurants worldwide. However, a star... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
experimenting with teaching courses open to undergraduates. Perhaps the best example of collaboration, though, is the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-lab) that HBS launched in 2011. It has become a magnet for students, faculty, and alumni from... View Details
- 07 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India
contexts. This means that Log9 has a unique and well-differentiated CVP to offer OEMs as it seeks to gain new customers and grow. Go-To-Market: One striking revelation was Log 9's strategy for targeting a... View Details
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
work, foregoing a lengthy commute, and the turnover remains significantly lower than it was in Lenexa. We can't expect government to be on the front line. We have to step up and demonstrate the power of the market system.—Michael Porter... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
must be “thick,” meaning there are enough participants for the market to thrive. “Pet finding is definitely a thick market,” Exley says. “About 23 million people each year are looking for a new pet. The majority of those individuals are open to several options when... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
aspires to develop commitment from employees? If the company strategy calls for rapid growth, can this be done without diluting the higher-ambition culture? If you are trying to develop such a culture, rapid growth makes View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
structures, whereas the relevant problem is how it creates and destroys them.” Creative destruction constantly sweeps out old products, old enterprises, and old organizational forms, replacing them with new ones. “Every piece of business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Ink
hold. Wrong measure. That’s all about inputs. What really matters is the output, and one output in particular: how well managers throughout the organization understand what the strategy is and what it means... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
folks aren’t without blame. Because of their need to be on-the-ground, in-the-moment thinkers, it can be difficult to get them to look beyond the next handshake and sealed deal. To combat this, Cespedes has written Aligning View Details
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Sarah Zia
Coming to HBS is... An adjustment, and it takes a bit to settle in. But once you get the hang of it, time starts to fly by. The first 6 weeks of the first semester felt like 6 years and the second 6 weeks felt like 6 minutes. What is your... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
practices designed to promulgate a particular culture, commitment to diversity, strategy for corporate involvement, and other core elements of City Year's theory of social change. It is expanding... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
a path. Take the case of Tricon, the owner-franchiser of the KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell fast-food chains. Tricon's international strategy explicitly targets markets in which McDonald's has already established a significant presence,... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
need to design a financial strategy that supports your business strategy. Media General is a real-life example of topics that we cover in our finance curriculum such as valuation, financing, and risk management, and View Details