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Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online

Certificate Courses (6) Disruptive Strategy Professors Rory McDonald & Clayton Christensen Strengthen your capacity to create winning strategies and bring innovations to market by discovering customer jobs... View Details

April 22, 2015
Editorial

One Way To Help Greece Recover: Help Greek Companies Obtain Financing

By: George Serafeim

Keywords: Europe; European Union; Eurozone; Politics; Government; Government And Business; Competitiveness; Country Analysis; Country Strategy; Finance; Competition; Financing and Loans; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; European Union; Greece

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About Michael Porter - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

earth. Now, he and an all-star team aim to rescue the U.S. economy.” — Geoff Colvin, Senior Editor-at-large Fortune magazine, 2012 Read More About Michael Porter Michael Porter Biography Michael Porter is the founder of the modern View Details

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U.S. Healthcare Strategy - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog U.S. Healthcare Strategy Course Number 2157 Professor Leemore S. Dafny Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits Weekly seminar Exam Overview This course examines the strategic challenges facing businesses in the U.S. healthcare... View Details

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Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts The Health Care Crisis In spite of countless health care reform efforts over many decades, uneven outcomes and quality, frequent errors, and high and rising costs continue to plague... View Details

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Data - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

regional economic development initiatives. Visit the U.S. Cluster Mapping website Other Cluster Mapping Projects The Institute has worked with partner institutes in many countries around the world to develop cluster mapping projects based... View Details

25 Apr 2014
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Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good

on social and environmental returns, in addition to financial returns." It became a blueprint for her career. Seegull was vice president of business development at Novica, an e-commerce company connecting artisans in developing countries... View Details

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

Harvard Business School professor Pankaj Ghemawat has long argued that the best international strategy also includes recognition of differences in local markets. In the December 2005 issue of Harvard Business Review, Ghemawat highlights... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

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Research Areas - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

nations, regions and cities; and solutions to social problems. Our mission is to help leaders in business, government and nonprofit organizations make measurable, lasting improvements based on Harvard professor and Institute director Michael Porter’s pioneering work.... View Details

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VBHCD Intensive Seminars - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Health Care Health Care Value-Based Health Care Health Care Courses Fast Facts Health Care Courses Health Care Courses Executive Education Courses Health Care Curriculum Residents & Fellows Course Strategy for Health Care Delivery... View Details

January 2018
Technical Note

The Scope of Business at the Base of the Pyramid: Middle and Lower Income Countries

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg

Using World Bank data, the note defines the Base of the Pyramid population as the 4.76 billion people living on less than $10/day. It briefly reviews the perspectives of key business articles that address this market, notably C.K. Prahalad’s work on Bottom of the... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Poverty; Social Issues; Human Needs; Segmentation

22 Apr 2020
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Covid-19 in Africa: Navigating Short and Long Term Strategies

Winning in Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Strategy and Execution

Most books thus far on emerging markets are either investing-oriented (Mobius, Pereiro), or country - or market-specific (Farrell, Lindahl), or descriptive (Friedman, van Agtmael). No book has definitively targeted the corporate strategists who need a practical... View Details

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Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Strategy Drivers of Competitiveness Drivers of Competitiveness Achieving real and sustainable competitive advantage requires a clear understanding of what “competitiveness” means and how to analyze it effectively. Such clarity is the key... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy

written numerous cases on other companies that have forged a new path for workforce management, such as Honeywell, which chose to institute furloughs during the 2008 recession instead of layoffs, and Nokia, which built its Bridge program to help 18,000 employees in 13... View Details

Keywords: April White; Telecommunications; Information

August 1996 (Revised August 1997)
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TNT Limited's Logistics Services in Asia (A): The Strategy

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Meredith Hellicar's mission as general manager of corporate development is to make TNT Ltd. one of the biggest and most diverse transport and logistic companies in the world, with approximately $5 billion in turnover in 1993, a leading provider of logistics services in... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Managerial Roles; Distribution; Logistics; Mission and Purpose; Partners and Partnerships; Strategy; Diversification; Transportation Industry; Asia; China; Indonesia; Thailand

January 2014
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Entrepreneurial Finance Lab: Scaling an Innovative Start-up Financing Venture

By: Joan Farre-Mensa, William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell

EFL provides credit-scoring services in developing countries using psychometric assessment, but the potential loss of a large customer makes them reconsider their scaling narrative. View Details

Keywords: Finance; Developing Countries; Lending; Psychometrics; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Credit; Developing Countries and Economies; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Africa; Latin America