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  • June 2024
  • Module Note

Value Creation Potential of New Business Models

By: David J. Collis
A business model is composed of three elements. These describe a generic way of creating value and identify the maximum potential value of that model for customers. The elements of a business model are the “job to be done” for the customer, the asset configuration, or... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Corporate Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation
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  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

West: Origins, Evolution and Resilience The United States in Contemporary Perspectives: Evolving Forms, Strategy, and Performance By: Collis, David J., View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

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Sustainable Business Strategy Professor Rebecca Henderson Become a purpose-driven leader by learning how to influence key stakeholders and integrate values into your work to catalyze system-level change. 3... View Details
  • 29 Oct 2019
  • News

Is This Disney’s Next CEO?

all, turned Disney’s film business into the envy of the industry. Last year, the division earned a record $3 billion profit, the most ever for a Hollywood studio.” The piece opens with a mention of Mayer’s habit of returning to HBS to speak in the first-year strategy... View Details
  • 2015
  • Article

The Corporate Headquarters in the Contemporary Corporation: Advancing a Multimarket Firm Perspective

By: Markus Menz, Sven Kunisch and David J. Collis
The corporate headquarters (CHQ) is the central organizational unit in the contemporary corporation and is critical for value creation in the overall firm. Since the early 1960s, a significant body of research on the CHQ has evolved along two separate but related... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Headquarters; Corporate Center; Corporate Parent; Corporate Strategy; Multimarket Firm; Multibusiness Firm; Multinational Corporation; Management; Organizations; Strategy
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Corporate Headquarters in the Twenty-first Century: An Organization Design Perspective

By: Sven Kunisch, Markus Menz and David J. Collis
The corporate headquarters (CHQ) of the multi-business enterprise, which emerged as the dominant organizational form for the conduct of business in the twentieth century, has attracted considerable scholarly attention. As the business environment undergoes a... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Business Headquarters
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  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

Investigation Using a Simulated Market Authors:Anita Elberse and Bharat Anand Periodical:Information Economics and Policy (forthcoming). Special... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-043.pdf An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors:Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2021 (Revised March 2024)
  • Case

Danaher Corporation (Abridged)

By: Bharat Anand, David J. Collis and Sophie Hood
Between 1985 and 2007, Danaher has been one of the best-performing industrial conglomerates in the U.S. This case examines the corporate strategy of this diversified, global corporation. It describes the firm's portfolio strategy and the Danaher Business System—a... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Competitive Strategy
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  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

characterizes the financial world. They also overlook the role of natural selection. To be sure, natural selection in the financial world is not exactly analogous to the processes first described by Darwin View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Faculty News

from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Other Promotions New Associate Professors (and the faculty units to which they belong) include Bharat Anand (Strategy), Amy C. Edmondson (Technology View Details
Keywords: reunions; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

Authors:Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract New industries sparked by technological change are characterized View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Unexpected Advice from Am Ex’s Chenault

of 2007 honored four faculty members for excellence in teaching: Professor David Moss (Business, Government, and the International Economy), Professor André Perold (Finance), Professor View Details
Keywords: commencement; speech; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • 30 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 30

Africa Project (B) David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. CrearyHarvard Business School Supplement 412-028 This case continues the story of the evolution of GE's business initiatives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2018
  • News

Pittsburgh Alumni Annual Meeting Features PPG’s McGarry

Association of Thailand Hosts Collis for Strategy Talk David J. Collis (MBA 1958), the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

quarterly bonuses tied to high demand end-of-quarter months serve as pacers to keep the sales force on track to achieve their annual sales quotas. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-041.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsThe Random House Response to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

of Peripheral Ties: Maintaining Status When Firms Lose Resources Authors:Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Bharat N. Anand Abstract This paper examines conditions under which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Steve Jobs Legacy

gave their views on a legendary life and career. Bharat Anand (Strategy) It is hard to imagine anyone who had a bigger impact on technology, media, View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Computer; Technology
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Alumni Books of 2016

Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, View Details