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The Dark Side of Strategic Alliances: Lessons from Volvo-Renault
By: Robert Bruner and Robert Spekman
This article explores sources of failure in strategic alliances drawing on field research into one of the most prominent alliance collapses in recent years. The alliance of Volvo and Renault married the two largest enterprises in their respective countries for economic... View Details
Bruner, Robert, and Robert Spekman. "The Dark Side of Strategic Alliances: Lessons from Volvo-Renault." European Management Journal 16, no. 2 (April 1998): 136–150.
- Research Summary
Strategic Human Capital
My research focuses on the links between managerial background, job attributes, organizational/firm characteristics, and firm performance. Broadly speaking, I am interested in how a manager's skills, knowledge, connections, experiences, and other attributes... View Details
- 2001
- Book
Cases in Strategic Marketing Management: Business Strategies in Muslim Countries
By: John A. Quelch
Quelch, John A. Cases in Strategic Marketing Management: Business Strategies in Muslim Countries. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.
- January 2008 (Revised August 2009)
- Module Note
Competing through Business Models (C): Interdependence, Tactical & Strategic Interaction
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Joan E. Ricart. "Competing through Business Models (C): Interdependence, Tactical & Strategic Interaction." Harvard Business School Module Note 708-476, January 2008. (Revised August 2009.)
- April 2001 (Revised August 2001)
- Case
Strategic Planning at Sun Life
Describes the firm's strategic planning activities and focuses on the challenge of developing processes that enable the firm to improve the core business as well as processes that foster the creation of promising new business opportunities. View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning
Roberto, Michael. "Strategic Planning at Sun Life." Harvard Business School Case 301-084, April 2001. (Revised August 2001.)
- October 1988
- Case
Swedish Match Lighter Division: Strategic Review of the Lighter Business
Buzzell, Robert D. "Swedish Match Lighter Division: Strategic Review of the Lighter Business." Harvard Business School Case 589-048, October 1988.
- August 2024
- Case
Pioneering Pain Management: CWC Alliance Combats the Opioid Epidemic
By: Susanna Gallani, Karen L. Sedatole and Sarah Mehta
Set in March 2024, this case is about CWC Alliance (CWC), a nonprofit working to prevent opioid addiction in the U.S. Founder Cammie Wolf Rice launched CWC in 2018 after her son, Christopher Wolf, died of a heroin overdose. Wolf’s dependence on opioids stemmed from a... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Delivery; Mission and Purpose; Health Industry; United States; Georgia (state, US); Atlanta
Gallani, Susanna, Karen L. Sedatole, and Sarah Mehta. "Pioneering Pain Management: CWC Alliance Combats the Opioid Epidemic." Harvard Business School Case 125-012, August 2024.
- July 2011
- Teaching Note
The Credit Suisse/Gerson Lehrman Group Alliance (TN)
By: Robert G. Eccles and Penelope Rossano
Teaching Note for 409046. View Details
- Article
Exclusivity, Contingent Control Rights, and the Design of Internet Portal Alliances
By: Josh Lerner and Dan Elfenbein
We explore the relationship between exclusivity and state-contingent control rights using a sample of over 100 Internet portal alliance contracts. We find that stronger exclusivity arrangements are associated with more frequent usage of contingent control rights. For... View Details
Lerner, Josh, and Dan Elfenbein. "Exclusivity, Contingent Control Rights, and the Design of Internet Portal Alliances." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 28, no. 1 (April 2012): 45–76.
- 2021
- Article
How Top Managers Use the Entrepreneurial Gap to Drive Strategic Change
By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
Prior research provides strong evidence for the association between business strategy and the design and use of management control systems. We complement this research by examining the role of management control systems in situations of strategic change. We report the... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Accountability; Strategic Change; Organization Change And Adaptation; Organizational Performance; Management Systems; Organizational Structure; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance
Simons, Robert L., and Antonio Davila. "How Top Managers Use the Entrepreneurial Gap to Drive Strategic Change." European Accounting Review 30, no. 4 (2021): 583–609.
- November 2006 (Revised August 2012)
- Background Note
A Strategic Perspective on Bankruptcy
By: Bill George, Jim Sharpe and Andrew N. McLean
An overview of bankruptcy procedures in U.S. courts, recent filing data and a framework for evaluating a reorganization with creditors or considering opening a court-supervised reorganization under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy; Financial Distress; Turnarounds; Legal Aspects Of Business; Liquidation; Boards Of Directors; Hedge Funds; Strategy; Law; Governing and Advisory Boards; Negotiation; Crisis Management; Policy; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Credit; Financial Crisis; United States
George, Bill, Jim Sharpe, and Andrew N. McLean. "A Strategic Perspective on Bankruptcy." Harvard Business School Background Note 407-035, November 2006. (Revised August 2012.)
- July 1979
- Supplement
Norton Co. (A): Strategic Planning for Diversified Business Operations, Appendixes
By: Francis Aguilar
Keywords: Strategy
Aguilar, Francis. "Norton Co. (A): Strategic Planning for Diversified Business Operations, Appendixes." Harvard Business School Supplement 380-004, July 1979.
- 2004
- Class Lecture
Strategic Alliances: The Power of Partnering Between Nonprofits and Businesses
By: James Austin
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships
Austin, James. "Strategic Alliances: The Power of Partnering Between Nonprofits and Businesses." Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing Class Lecture, 2004. Electronic. (Faculty Lecture: HBSP Product Number 9-830-4C.)
- 1979
- Chapter
Strategic Management: A New View of Business Policy and Planning
By: Joseph L. Bower and Yves L. Doz
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
costs, and enabled businesses to form mutually beneficial alliances.Once two or more companies agree to do business with each other on activities beyond simple procurement, they again face a challenge in... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
strategic inertia. What did it do wrong? A: In the 1980s Circuit City discovered a good business model and started rolling it out across the United States. The company was growing very, very fast-20 to 30... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 2001
- Book
Cases in Strategic Marketing Management: Business Strategies in Latin America
By: Guillermo D'Andrea and John A. Quelch
D'Andrea, Guillermo, and John A. Quelch. Cases in Strategic Marketing Management: Business Strategies in Latin America. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2001.
The Strategic Context
An interview with Michael E. Porter, Lawrence University Professor and Jan W. Rivkin, Rauner Professor of Business Administration and Senior Associate Dean for Research. View Details
- June 2008
- Journal Article
Strategic Alliances: Bridges Between 'Islands of Conscious Power'
By: George P. Baker, Robert Gibbons and Kevin J. Murphy
Strategic alliances range from unstructured collaborations, through consortia and joint ventures that superimpose new governance structures on existing firms, to transactions that restructure firm boundaries and asset ownership. In this paper, we draw on detailed... View Details
Baker, George P., Robert Gibbons, and Kevin J. Murphy. "Strategic Alliances: Bridges Between 'Islands of Conscious Power'." Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 22, no. 2 (June 2008): 146–163.