Publications

11 Dec 2017
News

Growing from Within

Photo courtesy of Paulo Pena Photo courtesy of Paulo Pena The great majority of McDonald’s U.S. restaurants are run by external owner/operators. Paulo Pena (MBA 2004) is responsible for the rest. As vice president and managing director of McDonald’s USA, Pena manages... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Mar 2014
News

Book Review: The Old West

growth—choosing instead to align with passive CEOs looking for short-term gains. What's more, the East is succeeding by using the very model the West forfeited, looking to men and women who seek to build empires with bold—and yes, occasionally risky—business View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

15 Sep 2016

Amsterdam MBA Fair

Meet HBS alumni and Admissions staff at this event brought to you by Ivy Circle Netherlands (with the support of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants). The event will feature top MBA programs in the United States and Europe. View Details

15 Sep 2015
First Look

September 15, 2015

downside market risks. Required rates of return in such an equilibrium can dramatically exceed those suggested by traditional models, affecting inference about the attractiveness of these investments. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2012 (Revised October 2012)
Case

Yum! Brands

By: Jordan Siegel and Christopher Poliquin

Yum!, the owner of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, asks what might be the lessons from its success in China for currently contemplated expansion into India and Africa. Also, the company contemplates whether Taco Bell can succeed abroad as part of a new expansion push.... View Details

Keywords: International Business; International Marketing; Global Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Europe; Australia; Africa; Asia

Career Coach

Maude Hoffman

Maude is happy to help fellow students talk through career decisions and strategies to pivot to investing, sustainability, and energy. She studied chemical engineering undergrad, but has worked in non-engineering roles at SunPower... View Details

Career Coach

Claire D'Silva

Claire led Strategic Business Development at Klarna before HBS and has previous experience in Strategy at Chase in New York. She led hiring for groups at both organizations and can provide insight into what they’re looking for in a... View Details

20 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)

initiative, with over a hundred area corporations, from Fortune 500 companies to mid-sized businesses, pledging to expand Black and Brown talent in their management roles by 25% and overall staff by 15% by 2025. Over the course of the last three months, I led a View Details

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Chapter

Competitive Policy Shocks and Strategic Management

By: P. Ghemawat, R. E. Kennedy and Tarun Khanna

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; System Shocks; Globalization

22 Jul 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Business Model Innovation and Competitive Imitation

Keywords: by Ramon Casadesus-Masanell & Feng Zhu

March 2015 (Revised August 2016)
Case

Coffee Wars in India: Starbucks 2015

By: David Yoffie and Rachna Tahilyani

This case examines the progress made by Starbucks in its first two years of operation in India. View Details

Keywords: Competitors; Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; India

January 2012
Case

Li & Fung 2012

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Keith Chi-ho Wong

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Growth and Development; Strategy

January 2015 (Revised September 2017)
Case

Project Titan at Northrop Grumman

By: C. Fritz Foley and Kevin Sharer

In March of 2011, Northrop Grumman divested shipbuilding assets through the spin-off of Huntington Ingalls Industries. This case reviews many of the key questions faced by Northrop's CEO, CFO, and top management team during this process, including questions concerning... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Reorganization; Spin Off; Asset Sales; Managing Portfolios Of Businesses; Managing Change; Diversification; Change Management; Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Financial Strategy; Manufacturing Industry

February 2016 (Revised May 2016)
Case

Community Health

By: John A. Quelch and Emily C. Boudreau

Keywords: Community Impact; Social Development; Wellness; Health; Corporate Strategy; Management; North America; Europe; Africa

April 2011 (Revised October 2012)
Case

Fast Retailing Group

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi

On January 1, 2011, Tadashi Yanai, the CEO of Fast Retailing Group (FR), sent his annual New Year's message to everyone in the company. The message, entitled "Change or Die," declared that FR - which included UNIQLO, Theory, Comptoir des Cotonniers, Princesse tam.tam... View Details

Keywords: Expansion; Global Strategy; Retail Industry

June 2003
Case

A Brief History of the Browser Wars

Recounts the history of the evolution of browser market shares from 1994 forward. Netscape's Navigator establishes a huge early lead, but is then displaced by an equally dominant offering from Microsoft. Highlights the role of Microsoft's dominance in desktop operating... View Details

Keywords: Competition; Marketing Strategy; Software; Web Services Industry

September 2001 (Revised April 2002)
Case

Documentum, Inc

By: Rajiv Lal and Sean Lanagan

Describes Jeff Miller's attempt to implement Geoffrey Moore's crossing the chasm ideas at enterprise software vendor, Documentum. View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Segmentation; Software

October 1986 (Revised November 2003)
Case

Pinnacle Mutual Life Insurance Company

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

Pinnacle Mutual is one of the largest mutual life insurance companies in the world. Offering a full range of financial services, it competes with a broad group of financial service providers. In an effort to compete more effectively, Pinnacle adopted GAAP accounting... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry