Publications

16 Jan 2023
News

40 Ideas to Shake Up Your Hiring Process

14 Oct 2015
News

How Ford CEO Mark Fields Is Channeling Henry Ford To Solve Society's Mobility Problems

Keywords: Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

09 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Career Advancement Without Experience

manage and advance their careers in the less predictable world of contract labor. But how do you land those kinds of jobs? In "Stretchwork: Managing the Career Progression Paradox in External Labor... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Motion Pictures & Video; Technology

Profile

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 set beyond finance. The focus on... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Extractive Minerals; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2015
News

Leading Boston and Beyond

Koh’s fifth floor office, cooking up a communications strategy ahead of the looming Boston winter. “We want to avoid what happened last year,” warns Koh, Chief of Staff to Mayor Marty Walsh. Last winter, the Hub’s snowiest on record, left... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era

before beginning a new venture: What am I betting on? Do I know my economic model? Will I be able to formulate a sound strategy that seizes opportunity and combats threat? Will management be able to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Patrick Chun

Patrick Chun's interest in both entrepreneurship and Asia, partially satisfied by his roles as managing editor of the Harvard Asia Pacific Review and President of the Korean Association at Harvard College, was further stimulated by a... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Wanted: Leaders for the New Millennium

attract and enroll outstanding students, we also know that many future leaders don't think of HBS as one of their options," says Jill H. Fadule, managing director of MBA Admissions. "We need to reach people who may not realize the... View Details

Keywords: Cindy Olnick

01 Dec 2013
News

Plugged In

When the 2014 Cadillac ELR—the carmaker's new electric luxury vehicle—rolled onstage at the Detroit auto show earlier this year, Juan Camargo (MBA 2012) sat in the fourth row, beaming. And it wasn't just because, as assistant marketing View Details

Keywords: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2008
News

Entrepreneurship Program in Fourth Year

Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning (EECPCL) immerses participants in an eight-day program that focuses on fine-tuning teaching techniques, developing courses, and honing strategies to engage students in discussion. Since its... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

June 2022
Case

The SAH Group: The Time is Right

By: Juan Alcacer and Alpana Thapar

In January 2021, Jalila Mezni, cofounder and CEO of the SAH Group, was preparing to present the company’s future growth plans to its board of directors. The Tunisian company was a leading producer and distributor of personal care and packaged hygiene products. In 2019,... View Details

Keywords: Growth Management; Expansion; Business Divisions; Product Positioning; Brands and Branding; Competition; Presentations; Consumer Products Industry; Tunisia; Kenya

June 2007
Case

AARP Foundation (A)

By: Srikant M. Datar, Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Thomas Goodwin

AARP Foundation--a leading non-profit corporation--must create a new "Dashboard" performance measurement tool to track the effectiveness of its new strategic plan. View Details

Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation; Strategic Planning; Nonprofit Organizations; Welfare; Business Strategy

2013
Working Paper

What Do We Know About Corporate Headquarters? A Review, Integration, and Research Agenda

By: Markus Menz, Sven Kunisch and David J. Collis

During the past five decades, scholars have studied the corporate headquarters (CHQ)—the multidivisional firm's central organizational unit. The purpose of this article is to review the diverse and fragmented literature on the CHQ and to identify the variables of... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Headquarters; Corporate Parent; Corporate Center; Multidivisional Firm; Multibusiness Firm; Multinational Corporation; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Business Divisions; Business Headquarters

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December 2007 (Revised July 2008)
Case

General Mills (A)

By: Raymond V. Gilmartin, Marco Iansiti and Bianca Buccitelli

General Mills is an 80-year-old company that specializes in consumer foods such as cereal, snacks, baking, and dinner products. Although General Mills is, on the whole, a very successful company, they have, in the recent past, had to face challenges as a result the... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Change Management; Cost Management; Problems and Challenges; Inflation and Deflation; Price; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry

February 2014 (Revised August 2014)
Case

3D Systems

By: Karim R. Lakhani and David Lane

In late 2013, Rajeev Kulkarni needed to decide how best to facilitate the emergence of a broad base of users and content to promote the sale of 3D Systems' consumer-focused 3D printers. As yet, neither the company nor users had identified an indispensable application... View Details

Keywords: 3D Printing; Business Ecosystems; 3D Systems; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Copyright; Two-Sided Platforms; Product Development; Customization and Personalization; Manufacturing Industry

January 2008 (Revised December 2011)
Case

Inner Mongolia Yili Group: China's Pioneering Dairy Brand

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Yuen Manty

Setting up the goal to become one of the top 20 enterprises in the world dairy industry by 2010, the Inner Mongolia Yili Group had ambitious plans. As one of China's biggest national dairy companies, its main challenge was competing as a local company against... View Details

Keywords: Global Strategy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Competition; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; China

December 2010 (Revised January 2012)
Case

Todovino: Can Your Rival be Your Friend?

Todovino sells Spanish wines through wine clubs and web sites. Founder-CEO Gonzalo Verdera has partnered with many companies to create cobranded wine clubs, but now he is pondering a joint venture with one of his rivals, a brick-and-mortar wine chain, where Todovino... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Growth and Development Strategy; Agreements and Arrangements; Partners and Partnerships; Competition; Cooperation; Online Technology; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry

2024
Working Paper

Charting (and Updating) the Path: A Bayesian Perspective on Entrepreneurial Learning

By: Joshua L. Krieger

This chapter explores two distinct modes of entrepreneurial learning: assessing venture viability and choosing between alternative development paths. It introduces a framework for decomposing venture viability into technological feasibility, commercial potential and... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Learning

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Article

Surgeons and Administrators Co-Creating Value

By: Michael Nurok, Thoralf Sundt, Robert S. Kaplan and Bruce Gewertz

Most hospitals have arms-length relationships with physicians, viewing them as people they must ‘‘manage,’’ not as potentially valuable strategic partners. But surgeons make clinical decisions every day that have great influence on both patient outcomes and hospital... View Details

Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Collaboration; Healthcare Administration; Health Care and Treatment; Management; Strategy; Value Creation