Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2017
News

Inbox: From Das’s Desk

strategy of continuous education and continuous engagement to serve you through the many different phases of your career and life. How will we do that? By evolving the toolkit of programs, activities, and resources we provide as well as... View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas; HBX; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2015
News

Case Study: Golden Ticket

long-term “strategy” is fun to talk about but rarely works out the way you planned it. I would focus on proving out the revenue (and profit) model and trying to get to cash flow breakeven by delighting the 200 customers. After executing on this first step, the right... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

The Next Chapter

OLSON: After publishing, turning over a new leaf. Former Random House chairman and CEO Peter Olson (MBA ’76) has donned a new hat and will begin teaching corporate strategy at HBS next month. Olson is no stranger to Harvard, having... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2015
News

Complements to the Case Method

bringing it to market, and devising a competitive advantage. The exercise, incorporated into the required Strategy course, was introduced in March to all 900-plus first-year students during a two-day event in the Batten Hall hive... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

A Club for the Cosmos

remain engaged with the HBS community,” says Ezzeddine, whose company has helped aerospace companies develop growth strategies for more than a decade. “I was looking for a Harvard club to join, and I realized there wasn’t an aerospace... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Jun 2004
News

How Nonprofits Dilute Their Efforts

“Most of the nonprofits operating today make program decisions based on a mission rather than on a strategy,” writes HBS professor V. Kasturi Rangan in Harvard Business Review. “In fact,” he notes, “many nonprofits don’t have a strategy... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity

pharmaceutical firms that rely on creativity," she says. "Today's fast-changing global markets place increased pressure on companies of every kind to continuously create new products, services, and competitive strategies if they... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

14 Oct 2014
News

When it comes to climate change, companies must prepare now

conservation efforts, but through strategy and innovation. Now is the time to learn about options, before greenhouse gas emissions get costlier. “Climate change is about decision-making under uncertainty. The firms that come out ahead... View Details

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

prevent you from actually being good at anything. Dafny: Right, success in either strategy or implementation requires making trade-offs. In the absence of those trade-offs, you have a lot of mediocrity. Sadun: I would also tell the CEO... View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

01 Dec 2016
News

Takeaways

make additional efforts to infuse scaling into the DNA of their business models, and institute appropriate strategies for recruiting and retaining talent, leveraging financing and partnerships for scaling impact.” —Ndidi Okonkwo Nwuneli... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Ideas: Books

the best location to start a business, assemble the necessary resources, adapt to local environments, and execute for success. Creating Value through International Strategy edited by Africa Arino, Pankaj Ghemawat, and Joan E. Ricart... View Details

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

19 Nov 2014
News

The Power of Yes

communities globally at GE Money; at IBM he helped to develop the company’s corporate citizenship strategy and launched a leadership program for school administrators in partnership with HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. “I’ve always... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

06 May 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”

boundaries and fuses various functions of a firm together (as well as a firm with its customers, suppliers, and partners) may suggest that marketing as we knew it has become so identified with the development and implementation of Internet-fueled View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2008
News

Classroom Legend

Christensen is the first of four HBS “legends” to be profiled during the School’s Centennial year. Christensen and several colleagues conducted seminal research in corporate strategy and business planning that made the Business Policy... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Roland Christensen; George Albert Smith; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Richard Meriam; Edmund P. Learned; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

17 Nov 2016
News

Rent the Runway Sets Up Shop at Neiman Marcus

110-year-old department store, which will see new Rent the Runway shops open inside of existing Neiman Marcus locations. (Rent the Runway opened its first physical store in New York City in 2014, and now has a total of seven locations.) The Journal offers some insight... View Details

19 Nov 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?

brick-and-mortar shops: Shove your best deals to the back of the store. Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores? For multichannel retailers, pricing strategy can be difficult to execute and confusing to shoppers. Can... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

05 May 2003
What Do You Think?

Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?

management. That is, for example, roughly 20 percent of employees experience 80 percent of accidents on the job. And roughly 20 percent of customers provide 80 percent of sales. Focused strategies can be based on this kind of information.... View Details