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Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
efficiency and prosperity. Key Concepts Productivity Competitivenss is determined by the productivity with which a location uses its human, capital, and natural endowments to create value. Microeconomic Foundations Productivity ultimately... View Details
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Video Clips - Creating Emerging Markets
brand, talks about how maintaining high quality at a fixed, open price has been the foundation of the company's success. Duration: 02:09 Merrill J. Fernando Merrill J. Fernando Building Brands Merrill Fernando, founder of Sri Lanka's... View Details
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Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship
Professor of Business Administration Lauren H. Cohen L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration Scott Duke Kominers Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration Jim Matheson Senior Lecturer of Business Administration Arthur I Segel Baker View Details
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Take Control of Your Personal Brand
questions will help you understand yourself in relation to the world and to craft the foundation of your personal brand. Honest feedback is crucial. You need to understand how others really perceive you. Because our brand is made up of... View Details
- 18 Jul 2023
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The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
What inspired you to launch Forby Entertainment Partners? I started working on film and TV shoots in New York City during college. My first boss, an executive producer, recommended Edward Jay Epstein’s book, The Hollywood Economist: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
- 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28
contains a selection of 42 foundational articles on the discipline of business history written between 1934 and the present day by scholars based in the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. A wide-ranging editorial introduction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 30, 2007
Working PapersRecognizing the New: A Multi-Agent Model of Analogy in Strategic Decision-Making Authors:Giovanni Gavetti and Massimo Warglien Abstract In novel environments, strategic decision-making is often premised on analogy, and recognition lies at its heart.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Selling your Heritage: The Challenge of Legacy Divestitures
This paper studies companies that diversify away from and later divest their historical cores, or "legacy" businesses. There are many reasons a firm might undertake this strategy, including a concentration of the legacy business in a declining... View Details
- November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
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Strategy Execution Module 14: Managing Strategic Risk
By: Robert Simons
This module reading provides an overview of the business conduct boundaries, strategic boundaries, and internal control systems used to manage risk. Boundary systems—linked to clear, enforceable sanctions—are essential whenever demanding performance goals are set and... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Strategy Execution; Boundary Systems; Innovation; Internal Controls; Fraud; Human Behavior; Staff Experts; Strategy; Risk Management; Behavior; Governance Controls; Management Practices and Processes; Boundaries; Employees; Business Strategy; Innovation and Invention
Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 14: Managing Strategic Risk." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-114, November 2016. (Revised December 2016.)
- November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
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Strategy Execution Module 7: Designing Asset Allocation Systems
By: Robert Simons
This module reading provides tools and analyses for acquiring and allocating resources. The module begins by reviewing the importance of setting strategic boundaries as a basis for asset acquisitions. Next, a distinction is made between new assets acquired to meet... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Asset Allocation Systems; Payback; Discounted Cash Flow; Internal Rate Of Return; Strategic Investments; Analyzing Acquisitions; Strategy; Capital Budgeting
Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 7: Designing Asset Allocation Systems." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-107, November 2016. (Revised December 2016.)
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Past, Present and Future Research on Multiple Identities: Toward an Intrapersonal Network Approach
Psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers have long recognized that people have multiple identities—based on attributes such as organizational membership, profession, gender, ethnicity, religion, nationality, and family role(s) and that these multiple identities... View Details
Ramarajan, Lakshmi. "Past, Present and Future Research on Multiple Identities: Toward an Intrapersonal Network Approach." Academy of Management Annals 8 (2014): 589–659.
- March 2009 (Revised August 2010)
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The Posse Foundation: Implementing a Growth Strategy
The Posse Foundation selected high-potential, non-traditional students to attend selective colleges as part of a group of 10 from the same city. The organization had developed an ambitious growth plan, but because it focused on the most selective colleges, the pool of... View Details
Keywords: Diversity; Higher Education; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Personal Development and Career; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Education Industry
Childress, Stacey M., and Andrea Michelle Alexander. "The Posse Foundation: Implementing a Growth Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 309-056, March 2009. (Revised August 2010.)
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MBA Experience - Leadership
all students pursue the same course of study: the Required Curriculum and FIELD. By studying under a common curriculum, students build a solid, broad foundation of general management concepts and skills across all the key disciplines.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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Game On
and the sinking of the Japanese fleet in Truk Lagoon, which became one of the world’s largest ship graveyards. Much later it became a scuba destination because the steel turned out to be a useful foundation for coral reefs and marine... View Details
- March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
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Tribal Councils Investment Group of Manitoba Ltd.
By: David L. Ager
In the Fall of 2014, Heather Berthelette, the recently appointed COO of Tribal Councils Investment Group of Manitoba Ltd. (TCIG), was preparing a recommendation to the Board of Directors about whether to dissolve the company and return any remaining funds to the seven... View Details
Keywords: Indigenous Communities; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Social Enterprise; Economic Growth; Investment Banking; Canada
Ager, David L. "Tribal Councils Investment Group of Manitoba Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 923-301, March 2023. (Revised May 2023.)
- 2017
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The Energizing Nature of Work Engagement: Toward a New Need-Based Theory of Work Motivation
By: Paul Green, Eli Finkel, Grainne Fitzsimons and Francesca Gino
We present theory suggesting that experiences at work that meet employees’ expectations of need fulfillment drive work engagement. Employees have needs (e.g., a desire to be authentic) and they also have expectations for how their job or their organization will fulfill... View Details
Keywords: Needs; Motivation; Work Engagement; Disengagement; Authenticity; Self-Expression; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Human Needs
Green, Paul, Eli Finkel, Grainne Fitzsimons, and Francesca Gino. "The Energizing Nature of Work Engagement: Toward a New Need-Based Theory of Work Motivation." Research in Organizational Behavior 37 (2017): 1–18.
- October 2009
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Managing Risk in the New World
Five experts gathered recently to discuss the future of enterprise risk management: Kaplan, the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, who with his colleague David Norton developed the balanced scorecard; Mikes, an assistant professor at HBS who studies... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Risk Management
Kaplan, Robert S., Anette Mikes, Robert Simons, Peter Tufano, and Michael Hofmann Jr. "Managing Risk in the New World." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 10 (October 2009): 68–75.
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By: Sunil Gupta
Thesis Chair
- Carl Mela, Columbia University, 1993; T. Austin Finch Foundation Professor, Duke University.
- Sangman Han, Columbia University, 1993; Professor, SungKyunKwan University,... View Details
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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
initial foundation of this body of work. This large body of work includes numerous theoretical and empirical papers on the concept of clusters and their impact on economic performance. He also created the Cluster Mapping Project,... View Details
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Community Values | About
that this is a collective endeavor and that we can ’ t really accomplish our mission without relying on each other. Robin J. Ely ; Baker Foundation Professor Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Emerita Curriculum As... View Details