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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog
restaurant to scaling to leadership of multinational chains, and evaluate opportunities inherent in typical restaurant business models as well as those created by disruptive changes affecting and shaping the industry. Michael and Andy... View Details
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
As economic turmoil continues, many companies are reconsidering their strategies with an eye toward going lean and slashing prices. And that might work for a few companies—but very few. Instead, companies... View Details
- 08 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke
elevates that perspective to the next level,” she shared. Schoonbeek was also eager to gain more experience as an operator at a startup company to supplement her experience as a consultant working with large businesses. Specifically, she... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
multinational that employs more than 150,000 people and produces 40 percent of the world's platinum. She was the first woman and first non-South African to head the company. Addressing how to change the culture of a large and diverse... View Details
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Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online
Creating Brand Value $1,850 Next 6-week session starts June 25th Enroll Now Build strong, differentiated brands that resonate with consumers and give your company a competitive edge. 6 weeks 3-8 hours per week 5 modules Self-Paced with... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
from its main competitors such as multinational Danone in that it is a 270-person workers' cooperative with 60 percent of its membership made up of mentally disabled individuals. Since its establishment in 1982, the organization has aimed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries
"They are like personalities," whose strength is their consistency of quality and service. "They are the source of a reputation that customers can trust," added Jeanette Sarkisian Wagner (HBS AMP '90), vice chairman of the Estée Lauder View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS
Worldwide. Moore described the lengths to which Time Inc. goes to probe for insights into the ever-changing mindset of consumers. The company conducts more than 1,000 research projects a year. But insights can come from unexpected places.... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
and some 1,000 cases. By the time he became professor emeritus in 1997, he had taught some seven thousand Harvard MBA students and ten thousand Executive Education participants in programs at Soldiers Field and abroad, while advising View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
uncomfortable with the ethnic background of the proponents, who were proposing to start a pharmaceutical company in Mexico. I could never get comfortable, and missed a huge opportunity. The product was the... View Details
- July 1993 (Revised April 1999)
- Case
ABB's Relays Business: Building and Managing a Global Matrix
Describes the development and management of the relays business area (BA) in ABB's global matrix organization. Focuses on three levels of management--corporate, BA, and operating company. Highlights the roles and responsibilities of individuals at each level as ABB... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Business or Company Management; Business Strategy; Organizational Structure; Managerial Roles; Management Practices and Processes; Employees; Organizational Culture; Success; Manufacturing Industry
Bartlett, Christopher A. "ABB's Relays Business: Building and Managing a Global Matrix." Harvard Business School Case 394-016, July 1993. (Revised April 1999.)
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Group Therapy
new stock exchange, the notion that this will translate quickly into smoothly functioning financial markets, in the absence of enabling institutions and intermediaries, is unrealistic. Finally, agencies and multinational View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
care as part of their business model Executives from health care insurance companies, government entities that pay for health care, or other payor organizations Leaders from pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, or other... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
which develops and markets pharmaceutical products. Starting at age 10, Bertarelli accompanied his father on business trips. By 17, he was helping to craft the company's annual budgets. He was 29 when he became CEO, just when Fabio... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
to find their place. However, changes in the industry are also due to China's economic transformation, demographic changes due to an aging population and an economic agenda shaped by the state. As our chapter demonstrates, insurance View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
Mühlemann revitalized CSFB with new management and restored its institutional competitiveness on Wall Street. John Hess runs Amerada Hess, a Fortune 150 multinational oil and natural-gas company in the... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
part from massive outsourcing on the part of companies in developed markets. They were moving production to China in droves because labor was cheap, so the economy grew very, very fast. In the process of becoming the “factory of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
technologically innovative company away from specialty glass, television tubes, and fiberglass production into newer, faster-growing profit-making areas. At the time, the economy is plagued by recession, worker morale is flagging, and the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
warming, but they expect multinational giants like BP and Shell to do so. Similarly, people may turn a blind eye when local companies take advantage of employees, but they won't stand for transnational... View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
pharmaceutical companies, which had been flying in scientists from China and India who, like Cohly, brought knowledge of native herbs. Some pharma companies were able to earn exemptions from the H1-B limits.... View Details