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  • 15 Dec 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

should be involved. You must have at the table the global business managers who can represent the need for an integrated worldwide strategy and more efficient standardized products. They can then argue with country managers who say,... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

capital sector. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-114.pdf Multi-Sided Platforms: From Microfoundations to Design and Expansion Strategies Author:Andrei Hagiu Abstract Multi-sided platforms (MSPs), which bring together... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping

more than fivefold over 2021 and 2022. Graph showing forty-foot equivalent (FEU) container prices on various routes increasing in 2021 and falling in late 2022. Source: Freightos Maersk’s decarbonization strategy While many consumers and... View Details
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

results suggest that language use by corporations is a key cultural variable that is a strong predictor of CSR and sustainability. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2403878 Financing Risk and Innovation By: Nanda, Ramana,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • Blog Post

What is the HBS FIELD Program?

realized how different brand perceptions could be across various cultures and countries. Through multiple customer interactions, we synthesized our findings to develop real short term and long-term View Details
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

leadership strategy at Harvard Business School is based on this assumption: It is that a discussion leader should avoid calling on students whose hands have been in the air for several minutes. The assumption, which is nearly always borne... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Singing to the Corn

layoffs. Even so, I remember someone pointing at me in a bar, and we hustled out of there. It certainly left a taste in my mouth of the power of strategy and thought, but I felt really bad about it.” The tension between straight-ahead... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture
  • 12 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

widespread and so toxic in Enron." Salter, a specialist in corporate strategy and corporate governance who is also writing a book on Enron, said he is trying to operate as a sort of forensic analyst. Forensic scientists usually fill... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2019
  • Book

Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation

By: Gary P. Pisano
Creative Construction tackles the myth that larger enterprises are inherently incapable of transformative innovation and are doomed to be disrupted by nimble start-ups. If larger enterprises seem incapable of transformative innovation, it is due to how we design... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Business Growth and Maturation; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Culture; Management Systems; Creativity; Leading Change
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  • April 2011 (Revised July 2014)
  • Case

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd.: Driving Change Through Internal Communication

By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
Hindustan Petroleum (HPCL), confronted in 2003 with an urgent need to change how it operated externally, adopted a highly innovative approach to communicating internally. This case, set in 2010, presents an overview of the new, more interactive model of employee... View Details
Keywords: Communication Strategy; Interpersonal Communication; Employee Relationship Management; Innovation and Management; Leading Change; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Corporate Strategy; India
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  • 02 May 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage. Your feedback to last month’s column As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding ‘Don’t Say Gay’? By the time cases are discussed at HBS and elsewhere, we... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 07 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

marketing communications for the first and second quarter of the year. What’s the right strategy for a CMO during a crisis such as the COVID-19 pandemic? During the week of March 23, 2020, Edelman, a global communications firm, conducted... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

People Express Airlines Thomas R. Eisenmann and Lauren BarleyHarvard Business School Case 812-134 Recounts the history of People Express Airlines, which grew rapidly after its inception in 1980 then failed spectacularly in 1986. Profiles People's aggressive View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

quickly as possible in order to maintain market leadership. CEO Eduardo Padilla had to define his strategy and decide whether to focus on improving culture and operations or on relentlessly beating his... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • April 2022 (Revised August 2022)
  • Case

Restaurant Brands International: Version 2.0

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
In 2010, 3G Capital acquired Burger King, the second largest burger chain globally. 3G expanded Burger King’s operations via acquisitions into a multi-brand business, renamed Restaurant Brands International. The acquisition had been a financial success story for 3G.... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Growth and Development; Performance Evaluation; Private Equity; Franchise Ownership; Culture; Change Management; Strategy; Human Resources; Information Technology; Competition; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 13 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

Pike Place Roast, which emphasizes the brand's humble Seattle coffee culture beginnings. Adidas's "Impossible Is Nothing" campaign emphasized the underdog stories of famous athletes. Q: How did you notice this trend? How did you... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • News

GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit

economic growth, enhances our global visibility, informs policy decisions, and promotes cultural exchange—all contributing to positive development across sectors” he says. “At the same time, all the main stakeholders—government, the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 16 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

are deliberately using a network strategy and discovering its potential to serve more people more effectively. "I'm interested in high performance networks and understanding how those networks were created and are managed," says... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

companies, the researchers found that rich opportunities for mutual learning exist between the business world and nonprofits. They found that no matter what type of organization they were looking at, strategy and leadership were the two... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 21 Aug 2019
  • Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

in the Strategy Unit at HBS; Columbia Business School professor Dan Wang; and doctoral student Natalie Carlson. The skills that a CEO needs to command a company are varied, but the ability to communicate effectively is near the top. “The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding