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- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
changing competitive environment. By the mid-1960s, however, U.S. tire companies began to feel the first tremors of the competitive earthquake that would ultimately reshape the industry. In 1966, Michelin struck a deal with Sears to manufacture radial tires for View Details
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Harvard Business School
spans more than thirty years. Upon earning an MBA from HBS, Simons joined CBS New York, where he held several managerial positions. He concluded his 13-year run with the network as vice president of Sales and Marketing for the CBS... View Details
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
saw Lin as a natural for a job commanding a much larger budget than any other Hollywood studio. Come to this live recording of the Skydeck podcast to get the inside scoop on Lin’s plans at Netflix and a chance to ask your own questions.... View Details
- Research Summary
Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
clear-cut. “A problem with megatrend predictions is that, even if they turn out to be generally accurate, they’re not managerially useful.” In the first month of social distancing in the United States, online sales at Walmart and Target... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
also worries that a company is at risk if sales depend too much on one or two megabrands that could run into lawsuits from generic competitors or regulatory challenges. On the other hand, the president of Warner Bros. (think Batman) aims... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
School’s Financial Picture Brighter than Expected
HBS finished fiscal year 2011 with a stronger financial performance than expected despite the lingering effects of the recent recession. Revenue for the year July 1, 2010, to June 30, 2011, exceeded the budget by nearly 9 percent,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Customizing Couture Online
flash-sale site Gilt Groupe. Today, luxury shoppers, once uncertain about the Internet, see it as a way of “accessing special things,” Magnúsdóttir says. More Retail Revolutions Sparking the Flash Sale Gilt Groupe founders Alexis Maybank... View Details
- February 2011 (Revised November 2013)
- Case
The Cheezburger Network
By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
Cheezburger Network was a Web publisher of humorous, user-contributed content, using social media for dissemination, and selling advertising against the traffic of 1 billion page views per quarter. In January 2011, it raised $30 million in venture capital for the... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Digital Marketing; Customer Relationship Management; Venture Capital; Emerging Markets; Strategic Planning; Sales; Internet and the Web; Publishing Industry; Web Services Industry
Deighton, John, and Leora Kornfeld. "The Cheezburger Network." Harvard Business School Case 511-091, February 2011. (Revised November 2013.) (request a courtesy copy.)
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
hell of a good thing," Corzine said. Now that Congress has doubled the SEC's budget under Sarbanes-Oxley, "the SEC can now compete more effectively in the marketplace." Confidence that was lost on all levels during the... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
- Profile
Minal Mehta
solid budget at Amazon to work with agencies to execute marketing campaigns, with BollyX, I find myself doing everything from social media posts, website copywriting, event planning, and cold calling, to strategic planning and project... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Is the Auction House of the Future Online?
of the new art collector, someone who looks a lot like Julka and Khan: new to collecting, with a budget north of eBay but south of Sotheby’s, and a comfort with technology. This long overlooked middle market—pieces from about $1,000 to... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
Gilbert Gilbert: The same problem exists today. We have just talked to a large financial services firm that has spent millions of dollars building a formal resource allocation system, yet all their efforts have been at the very senior levels of management. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
numbers, many of those responsible for social engagement online reached out to key decision makers in the company to try to obtain an ever-larger budget for such efforts. Invariably, however, they are met with the same question: "How much... View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
customers notorious for labyrinthine procurement processes and glacial sales cycles. At the same time, Weiss reasons, if approached in the right way, selling to the public sector can amount to a huge opportunity for the right business.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
go-to-market strategies in parallel: The students represent an audience that is familiar with Confi, so market acceptance and credibility is already there. The universities are able to roll out the program, so Confi will achieve critical mass, but it is a longer View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
corporate synergies should be defined at the top and realized in the business units. Just as the CFO coordinates the budgeting process, a senior executive should coordinate the alignment process—a responsibility for the Office of Strategy... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
operating budget of $200 million, finds the challenge of functioning with a break-even bottom line to be considerable. Deborah M. Winshel (MBA 1985) spent thirteen years at J.P. Morgan before putting her skills to work as SVP and CFO at... View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
Schreger Abstract—Government forecasts of GDP growth and budget balances are generally more over optimistic than private sector forecasts. When official forecasts are especially optimistic relative to private forecasts ex ante, they are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
victim to California’s statewide budget cuts. “Susan’s group came up with a new model of distributing funds district-wide instead of school-by-school,” Scheel explains. “Because of that, PiE appeals not just to individual donors, but also... View Details