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- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
changes that have revolutionized their use in practice. He contends that both serve the US economy by helping troubled companies stay viable by giving them time to find new financing, renegotiate unfavorable... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
place for the brand in the emerging counterculture, developing a "slacker allegory." Holt also described the transformation of American ideology in the early '90s. The country idolized extraordinary athletes like Michael Jordan... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
high [customer] retention can create a tremendous competitive advantage, boost employee morale, produce unexpected bonuses in productivity and growth, even reduce the cost of capital." Now comes Michael Treacy, writing in his book,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Feb 2020
- News
When It’s This Easy at the Top, It’s Harder for Everyone Else
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
1999 by chairman and CEO Michael Bronner, had all the scale anyone could ask for: to create a national customer-loyalty program (like airlines' frequent-traveler mileage points) which would pay consumers... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
into the business to the day the product departs the shipping dock. The researchers encouraged businesses to think of that order as the actual customer, and watched as they routed that person here and there among departments, perhaps ignored View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 29 Sep 2014
- Other Presentation
Reshaping Regional Economic Development: Clusters and Regional Strategy
Professor Michael Porter delivered a keynote speech at Mapping the Midwest's Future, a conference held in Minneapolis and hosted by the University of Minnesota that officially launched the new U.S. Cluster Mapping tool. His presentation focused on U.S. competitiveness... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Reshaping Regional Economic Development: Clusters and Regional Strategy." Mapping the Midwest's Future, Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness and University of Minnesota, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Minneapolis, MN, September 29, 2014.
- 1 PM – 2 PM EDT, 10 Sep 2015
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
America's Unconventional Energy Opportunity
In this session, Professor Michael Porter along with co-authors David Gee and Gregory Pope from The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) will discuss the research HBS and BCG have jointly conducted on the opportunities and challenges presented by the United States'... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
tell,” was how Michael Polanyi described it in his book Personal Knowledge in 1958. Sharing tacit knowledge is obviously harder, and that’s why it is often extremely valuable. Knowledge gets embedded in tools when machine makers distill... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
of maximizing shareholder value [originated by HBS Professor Emeritus Michael Jensen] was so quickly accepted and absorbed into how people think about corporations and boards because it's so simple? A: Yes,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 2013
- Government Testimony
American Competitiveness Worldwide: Impacts on Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs
The Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access held a hearing titled, "American Competitiveness Worldwide: Impacts on Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs." Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter spoke at the hearing,... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "American Competitiveness Worldwide: Impacts on Small Businesses and Entrepreneurs." Government Testimony, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Economic Growth, Tax and Capital Access, Washington, DC, July 2013.
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
entity is controlled by a fluid disaggregated group of public shareholders. Thus, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that a proposed merger of Time Incorporated and Warner Communications did not effect a change of control of Time even... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 22 Jun 2013
- News
Money and happiness: Buy buy love
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
authors The I's Have It From Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations By Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind Organizational conversation, in our use of the term, applies to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- March 1999 (Revised January 2000)
- Case
Hundred-Year War, A: Coke vs. Pepsi, 1890s-1990s
By: Chiaki Moriguchi and David Lane
Through their competitive battle, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have created a stable and highly profitable duopoly in the U.S. soft drink industry. As the domestic industry matured and the cola wars moved to international markets, Coke and Pepsi tried to redesign their... View Details
Moriguchi, Chiaki, and David Lane. "Hundred-Year War, A: Coke vs. Pepsi, 1890s-1990s." Harvard Business School Case 799-117, March 1999. (Revised January 2000.)
- 06 Nov 2019
- News
It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
however, as interesting as the phenomenon described by Annabelle Gawer and Michael Cusumano in their book, Platform Leadership. They include: Did platform leaders set out to create vehicles View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 May 2013
- News