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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Being Shot Down by John P. Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead (Harvard Business Review Press) Professor Emeritus Kotter and his coauthor reveal how to win the support ideas need to deliver results. The key is to understand the generic... View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
shows. Innovation: A select number of companies shift to a more advanced innovative stage by integrating sustainability into the core of the business in ways that transform the company. Strategies tend to be driven by the market with an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
traditional toilets, and they’re innovative in so many other areas, like special antibacterial glazes and low water consumption. Do they really need to pursue a strategy for the Washlet?” TOTO faces a few hurdles, notes Tripsas. The first... View Details
- Student-Profile
Dafna Bearson
workforce and business performance? These are the kinds of questions that challenge and excite me,” she explains. Dafna first discovered her passion for business strategy while studying economics at UC Berkeley. She was drawn to the way... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
Disney Company expects to lose up to $190 million on its summer fiasco The Lone Ranger, another star vehicle featuring Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer. Welcome to the risky strategy of "blockbusters," practiced increasingly by... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
existing strengths and capitalize on those,” advises Duch, who is currently applying that strategy to the challenge of helping rural farmers in Haiti sell their produce directly on world markets. Since joining the World Bank in 2013, Duch... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Insider Knowledge
19fa3d517837d2a3a5724cd478d6306e Omari Bouknight (HBS ’04) turned his experience gaining admission to business school into his first book Your MBA Game Plan: Proven Strategies for Getting into the Top Business Schools (Career Press). He... View Details
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
competitors locked into a product development strategy calling for growth through product obsolescence and more and more largely unused but expensive bells and whistles. We're told that the typical user of information technology today... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
Future-proof Handling his first consulting job after years of experience in accounting and academics, Vijay “VG” Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) sat down to sketch out a strategy for his client. Literally written on the back of an... View Details
- Student-Profile
Professor Tiona Zuzul
Tiona Zuzul, assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy Unit, talks about her research on how leaders think and make decisions in uncertain settings, how the Doctoral Program at HBS helped shape her research interests,... View Details
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
Several best practices, as explained by past and current masters of judo strategy, can help you reach the top of your game. While there are no substitutes for mastering the concepts of judo strategy and carefully studying your industry... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
As economic turmoil continues, many companies are reconsidering their strategies with an eye toward going lean and slashing prices. And that might work for a few companies—but very few. Instead, companies should compete "on the basis... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
New Post for Palepu
the University’s International Strategy Working Group, and Harvard’s international strategy generally, and developing a more effective and coordinated approach to fundraising and engagement with Harvard... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- What Do You Think?
Built to Last or Bought to Sell?
like private equity fund managers, especially in terms of forming exit strategies at the time of business development; base decisions on an assumption of increasing competitive discontinuity and impermanence; avoid "cultural... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Student-Profile
Sarah Wolfolds
experience at the FED, but exploring the theory in organizational economics and the literature in Strategy has led to more specific ideas about how I could arbitrage these literatures. The HBS Experience The best thing about HBS is the... View Details
- 19 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal
worsen. The industry is now going through full-scale consolidation and reorganization in the face of competition from Internet properties. The trend begs the question: Is Murdoch overpaying for Dow Jones? Harvard Business School professor Bharat N. Anand, who teaches... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma
the mark. "Microsoft can innovate faster than your life can change," Christensen observed dryly. The only thing we know for sure is that nobody knows the right strategy as the disruption takes root.—Clayton M. Christensen When... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
numbers, industry trends, strategy considerations, shareholder interests, and several other financing options and come up with a plan to save his company. With Amazon.com's Jeff Bezos's recent acquisition of the Washington Post and sports... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
about the future of lighting. That’s not their business. But that’s a challenge, and that’s the complexity of this. It also suggests a role for public policy in terms of making sure the country is maintaining a broader set of manufacturing capabilities. You talk about... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?
What does it mean? A: There is huge variation in headquarter size basically because there is a huge variation in the underlying strategy that corporations pursue. Essentially we found that "structure follows strategy," so that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace