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- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
literature when it comes to linking sales efforts with strategy. Part 1 of this book provides data indicating how and why sales remain (by far) the biggest part of strategy implementation in most firms, the issues involved in linking selling investments with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
really like niche products much. Elberse outlines the implications of her research for producers and retailers, and offers strategic advice to both groups. Can Research Committees Add Value for Investors? An Analysis of Lehman Brothers'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis
back on CSR programs—quite the opposite, says HBS professor V. Kasturi "Kash" Rangan. As a marketing scholar, Rangan is optimistic about strategic CSR efforts that provide value in communities and society. Key concepts include: Companies... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 28 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Entrepreneurship
Initially, I worked for three years at the Nike World Headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon, as a rotational operations analyst. Following this, I relocated to Los Angeles, California, to serve as a program manager. In this role, I helped build inclusion View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
described as "American icons" by moderator Tom Davenport, director of the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change. Jack Duffy, SVP of corporate strategy at UPS, noted that the process of integrating technology into the company's... View Details
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
species' survival by triggering learning and adaptation; it can have the same effect on organizations. Businesses and the people inside them don't learn to change unless they have the courage to confront difficult truths. Because most View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- Web
Figuring Out Her Mission | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
assumed leadership responsibilities in three areas: 1) project management of institutional strategic priorities, including revamping the Boston Ballet website, an effort coordinated among staff and executive leaders across the... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
leather that is produced through sustainable, non-polluting practices. Many years later, it’s gratifying to see the positive results of that project.” As CEO of Competitiveness.com until 2012, Duch personally led more than 120 of the nearly 200 View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
of developing a formal model). What we had missed is that Microsoft's initial advantage (larger installed base) together with its pricing power allow the company to price strategically to control Linux's... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel
10 days, our group gathered to reflect on the trip. The closing remarks from our professors resonated deeply with us. Throughout most of our lives, we've often heard the adage that life can be split into three distinct phases: the initial... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
resourcing, establishing targets and measurements and incentives that you would attach to any other strategic initiative that mattered. Third, I would say don't demand perfection of yourself. I make... View Details
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
performance. That initially led managers inside both companies to resist devoting scarce resources to developing those technologies because their lead customers were saying they wanted additional performance features, not fewer. But... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
technologies and partners. Focuses on the partnership tensions between global firms and local family-dominated conglomerates. Addresses new venture financing in an asset-intensive business through the assembly of strategic contracts. More... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Strategic Leadership Development. The mission of the CDC is to improve the capabilities of clients' in-house legal departments, such as by making them better partners with the business units and improving their leadership skills. The CDC... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise, which focuses its teaching, research, and collaborative efforts on nonprofit organizations, other private social-purpose enterprises, and the role of business leadership in the social sector. In... View Details
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
Padraic Kelly became the firm's new managing director (MD). One of his first initiatives was "Aim for Growth," which was intended to help the firm grow beyond its current size, wherein it was constrained by a structure of having... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Tales of the Newly-minted MBA
Anderson, who is currently the senior vice president of strategic planning at Fleet Boston's credit card division. Begin with the end in mind, and remember that faith is power —you have to believe in something, whether it's fruit flies or... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
Part of that effort was the creation of a strategic corporate social responsibility program called Our World, Our Family. The case tracks Western Union's earlier CSR initiatives and how they resulted in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Case Writing & Industry | Baker Library
company, preparation of materials, and writing of the case. In order to collect information relating to a company for use in a case study, researchers, or field agents as they were initially known, were knowledgeable in the art of gaining... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
with significant rewards," says Stacey M. Childress (MBA '00), director of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), which coordinates the fellowship program. Childress, herself a former fellow who worked with the Boys and Girls... View Details