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  • April 2006
  • Article

Competitive Advantage and the Value Network Configuration: Making Decisions at a Swedish Life Insurance Company

By: Øystein D. Fjeldstad and Christian H.M. Ketels
When the Swedish Life Insurers Förenade Liv found themselves in difficulties in a rapidly changing market, their response was to call in the consultants. And one of the consultant's first suggestions was to use the Value Network, not the Value Chain, as a new... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Fluctuation; Networks; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Value; Quality; Decision Making; Market Transactions; Performance Effectiveness; Customers; Insurance Industry; Sweden
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  • 2002
  • Book

Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

By: Rakesh Khurana
Corporate CEOs are headline news. Stock prices rise and fall at word of their hiring and firing. Business media debate their merits and defects as if individual leaders determined the health of the economy. Yet we know surprisingly little about how CEOs are selected... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Selection and Staffing; Personal Characteristics; Experience and Expertise; Investment Activism; Corporate Strategy
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    The Big Ditch

    On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened for business, forever changing the face of global trade and military power, as well as the role of the United States on the world stage. The Canal's creation is often seen as an example of U.S. triumphalism, but... View Details

    • May 2013 (Revised March 2014)
    • Case

    Gap, Inc., 2012

    By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
    Between 2000 and 2012, Gap, Inc. (Gap) ceded its world leadership position in specialty fashion retailing to Inditex of Spain and H&M of Sweden. These two companies, each less than a quarter of Gap's size in 2000, were now setting the pace in the global mass fashion... View Details
    Keywords: Strategic Change; Fashion; Multinational; Brands; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Performance Improvement; Strategy; Brands and Branding; Change Management; Retail Industry; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sweden; Spain; United States
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    • 12 Jan 2018
    • News

    The Only 3 Career Steps that Matter

    • 03 Apr 2025
    • HBS Seminar

    Ziad Obermeyer, UC Berkeley School of Public Health

    • October 2007
    • Case

    The AtekPC Project Management Office

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Mark Keil and John Hupp
    Presents one company's efforts to implement a project management organization, or PMO, and the challenges they faced in doing so. Issues brought out in the case include defining the PMO's purpose and mission, the structure and governance of the PMO, and how to... View Details
    Keywords: Projects; Goals and Objectives; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Business Strategy; Mathematical Methods; Consulting Industry
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    • Web

    Research Resources - Doctoral

    Quantitative Social Sciences The Institute for Quantitative Social Studies (IQSS) provides a wide array of data science resources to facilitate and accelerate social science research. Through their consulting services, students can... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2024
    • News

    Vital Signs

    thorough and consistent assessments but also saves precious time for the practitioner, Gresser says. The idea of deploying algorithms and AI’s processing power to this initial patient consultation had seemed so obvious to Gresser that she... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance
    • 11 Dec 2023
    • Blog Post

    Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy

    joining Teach for America or law school, and then ultimately management consulting after college graduation. In consulting, Leahy had her first exposure to the retail industry, working primarily with clients in the retail banking and... View Details
    • March 2016
    • Article

    Using Quality Improvement Methods and Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to Improve Value-Based Cancer Care Delivery at a Cancer Genetics Clinic

    By: R.Y. Tan, M. Met-Domestici, K. Zhou, A.B. Guzman, S.T. Lim, K.C. Soo, T.W. Feeley and J. Ngeow
    Purpose:
    To meet increasing demand for cancer genetic testing and improve value-based cancer care delivery, National Cancer Centre Singapore restructured the Cancer Genetics Service in 2014. Care delivery processes were redesigned. We sought to improve access by... View Details
    Keywords: Cancer Treatment; Value Based Health Care; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Quality; Performance Improvement; Activity Based Costing and Management
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    • March 2009 (Revised May 2011)
    • Case

    The Credit Suisse/Gerson Lehrman Group Alliance

    By: Robert G. Eccles and Laura Winig
    The equity research department of Credit Suisse and the expert network firm of Gerson Lehrman Group, historically competitors, have established a strategic alliance which both believe will give them a competitive advantage. Under the leadership of its head of equity... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Financial Crisis; Investment Banking; Innovation and Invention; Alliances; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competitive Advantage; Banking Industry
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    • 28 Apr 2023
    • Blog Post

    From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job

    industries. #4 - Be patient and keep your eyes on your ultimate goal I didn’t immediately land my dream job at Spotify after graduation. Instead of being disheartened, I took a short-term consulting opportunity with the music tech company... View Details
    • 14 Sep 2021
    • Blog Post

    Top 5 Myths About HBS

    consultants applying. How do I stand out?” When I'm speaking to someone who doesn't have a background in consulting, they say, “I know that a lot of consultants apply. You probably don't take anyone from my... View Details
    • 03 Jan 2023
    • Book

    Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

    data-id=_/STdeHQndptXujGr22R1f][/div] An associate professor of management at Babson College and founder of the Opie Consulting Group, Opie is Black and Christian. She collaborated with Beth Livingston, associate professor at the... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • Web

    About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

    instructors at other institutions in the United States and abroad. Services for HBS Faculty The Christensen Center supports all current Harvard Business School faculty through online resources and confidential one-on-one consulting... View Details
    • Web

    Events - Business History

    seminar, Professor Richard Whittington from University of Oxford’s Said Business School reported on findings from interviews with corporate strategists and consultants at leading firms such as General Electric and McKinsey & Co, and drew... View Details
    • Web

    Our Team - Impact Investments

    Previously, Jonah was a Team Lead at Goldman Sachs where he led contracted projects on market research, competitive intelligence, and people strategy. Before joining GS, Jonah served as a Consultant with Cognoscere on an education... View Details
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    Search Funds

    through to "all loan data", see data dictionary for available data types and descriptors.    Industry Research: Consult the list of library databases that cover industries and market research reports learn more about a... View Details
    • 05 Apr 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

    of their trustworthiness at the bargaining table. 1. Speak their language Some years ago, an airline that was seeking to go high-tech with its ticketing process invited a number of consulting firms to bid on the project. At the kickoff... View Details
    Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra