Publications

25 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 25

Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy By: Simons, Robert Abstract—This study focuses on the relationship between business strategy, organization structure, and diagnostic control systems. The project analyzes... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

March 2021
Case

P.F. Chang's

By: Ashish Nanda, Nitin Nohria and Margaret Cross

Excited yet apprehensive after being named CEO of P.F. Chang’s beginning July 1st, 2020, Damola Adamolekun was well aware of the extraordinary challenges facing the firm. The closure of businesses deemed “nonessential” owing to the COVID-19 pandemic had devastated the... View Details

Keywords: Restaurants; COVID-19 Pandemic; Scenario Planning; Scenarios; Health Pandemics; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy

03 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

Business School Case 307-077 Describes the opportunities and strategy facing one of the most innovative global supply-chain companies, and the strategy it has chosen to deal with the expanding demand for its... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

scholars (such as “p-hacking” and confounding local effects with global effects) pertinent to the norms of empirical research in the fields of strategy and management. We provide a step-by-step roadmap that illustrates how to use four ML... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

March 2015
Case

Unilever: Combatting Global Food Waste

By: David F. Drake, Janice H. Hammond and Matthew G. Preble

The global consumer goods company Unilever was on pace to hit a number of aggressive targets by 2020 as part of the Unilever Sustainable Living Project, including a goal to halve the waste associated with the disposal of its products. Unilever's chief supply chain... View Details

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

meanwhile, managed a startling recovery from its five-year slump. The company’s third-quarter sales increased by more than 5 percent over last year, and in August online revenue showed especially high growth of a whopping 41 percent—the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

11 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 11

Sustainable Evaluation System Strategy By: Eccles, Robert G., and Peijun Duan Abstract—China's sustainable development faces three challenges: first, the follow-up momentum of sustainable economic growth and economic transformation is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
Case

Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy

By: Tarun Khanna, Raffaella Sadun and Susie L. Ma

In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the... View Details

2007
Other Unpublished Work

Effects of Inventory on Demand for Rentals in the Home Video Market

By: Ioannis Ioannou, Julie Mortimer and Richard Mortimer

Retailer inventory decisions can greatly influence observed demand for a product by affecting, among other things, product availability (stock-outs) and product visibility in the store. These inventory decisions are affected by numerous factors including vertical... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain Management; Competition; Contracts; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States

07 Jul 2019
HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

detailing the scope of Walmart’s operations and current strategies in the case “Walmart’s Workforce of the Future.” Published in April, it offers an overview of the considerable investments the retail giant is making in its e-commerce... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

07 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

externalities. We arrived at Billund, Denmark eager to better understand the company’s strategy to leverage bioplastics and recycling technologies to decarbonize their supply chain. Brick-themed light fixture in the central atrium of LEGO... View Details

July 2020
Supplement

PeopleAnswers (B): The Infor Acquisition

By: Daniel P. Gross

In the fall of 2009, founder and CEO Gab Goncalves has turned PeopleAnswers, Inc. from a fledgling startup to a steadily growing company of nearly 50 employees and $10 million recurring revenue. PeopleAnswers provides people analytics software which its clients use to... View Details

Keywords: People Analytics; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Growth and Development; Human Resources; Selection and Staffing; Mergers and Acquisitions

08 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?

Media outlets large and small have adopted digital paywalls to augment dramatic declines in print revenues, but given their negative effect on website traffic (and, in turn, online advertising), are paywalls an effective sales strategy? A... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting

01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Asia-Pacific operations. Earlier, while at Carlyle, he oversaw the purchase of KorAm Bank in 2000 and its sale four years later to Citigroup, in a deal that more than doubled Carlyle’s original investment. That outcome caught the eye of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

06 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52723 forthcoming Management Science A Formal Theory of Strategy By: Van den Steen, Eric J. Abstract—What makes a decision strategic? When is strategy most... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

midst of a deep crisis, having lost a third of its market share over the previous three years. Bill Kozek, the new president of Navistar North America Truck and Sales division needs to develop his division’s View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

(2011), idiosyncratic shocks to the sales growth of large firms are positively and significantly correlated with GDP growth in our emerging markets sample. Relatedly, the negative impact of exchange rate shocks has a more acute impact on... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

2010
Case

Playa Dorado

By: W. Earl Sasser

Playa Dorada Beach & Resort in Boca Raton, Florida, faces a growing seasonal demand for tennis services. The number of guests is expected to double in the next few years, and while the tennis facilities are a popular and well-promoted amenity at the resort, court space... View Details

Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Expansion; Planning; Mathematical Methods; Price; Profit; Sales; Operations; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Performance Capacity; Accommodations Industry; Florida