CORe - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

winners and losers into consideration. Both groups need to be encouraged and included in the implementation process, and reassured of their value and worth to the company, Neeley says. For the favored group specifically, Neeley suggests getting those employees more... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

06 Nov 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

be due to an increasing emphasis on innovation. Making a similar argument, Gerald Nanninga said, "Much of the new growth will come from new ventures which reapply core skills in new ways. These usually fall in the cracks between the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

the horizontal model, smaller competitors are sustaining themselves on discrete pieces of the business. RAMBUS offers the core technology, NVidia specializes in design, and TSMC offers fabrication services. "The key strategic... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Becoming an Ethical Negotiator

or the matter of taking advantage of an unsophisticated seller. Examining cases like this exposes the core principles from which people reason and act. Q: The two books Getting to Yes and You Can Negotiate Anything tend to be the popular... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

communications." It's difficult enough to usher in a new set of attitudes when they're consistent with the core of the culture, notes John P. Kotter, Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership at Harvard Business School, in Leading... View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

mass customization. In the midst of all this added complexity, he said, the large, vertically integrated organization, involved with everything from Research and Development to customer delivery, is passing from the business landscape. "Companies need to focus on... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought

models to develop new goals and destinations with respect to loyalty." Core questions asked in a ZMET interview will vary greatly from use to use, Zaltman says. "Some companies want to understand the anatomy of the experiences consumers... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

what we call 'organizational architecture.' From the perspective of managing change, it encompasses not only organizational structure, but perhaps more importantly, core competencies, processes, and organizational culture. It is the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

the constraints of its and the company's mission and values. Leonard and Swap identify several ways to facilitate this task. Working with a physical prototype of a new product, they suggest, provides a tangible focus. In addition, identifying the organization's View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

that take place there are what we call the instructional core. Strategy is the coherent set of actions that the entire organization commits to in order to improve the core dramatically and rapidly. Most other organizational decisions,... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

09 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

success in a broad array of projects, such as managing 10 brands and 26 shops across different categories, he also felt the need to reinvent his core confectionery business since not all stores of all his brands were thriving as he had... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 19

the PC market was becoming less lucrative due to overseas competition, longer turnover rates on PCs, and the rise of tablets and smartphones. Michael Dell hoped to respond by shifting the company from its core to a "new Dell"... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

colossal tumble. A recapitalization of the company led to a fairy-tale rebound as the group returned to selling its core building sets. LEGO earned $1.0 billion as sales approached $3.5 billion in 2011, and in 2012, it overtook Hasbro as... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

24 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

already occupies. Share customer lists and credit cards with the new businesses. Share the company's competency in product purchasing. Share key management skills with the new LOBS. Financially, SMI had dual objectives: Maintain market share in its View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?

likely to be much lower. How many consumers will pay a dollar for song number thirteen? Clearly, there is a profit-enhancing role for some type of bundling even with digital distribution. For example, consumers might be willing to pay full price for the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

using extremely precise readings over the past five decades and data from Antarctic ice cores going back hundreds of thousands of years. The data suggests that CO2 levels began rising after the Industrial Revolution and continue rising... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 26

assets as part of a bank's core capital. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111076-PDF-ENG Sherritt Goes to Cuba (A): Political Risk in Unchartered Territory Aldo Musacchio and Jonathan SchleferHarvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 20

School Supplement 310-077 After its successful new U.K. venture, the Hospital for Special Surgery wants to do more of the same, without decimating its core New York City facility. The case provides considerable details about the different... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

practices designed to promulgate a particular culture, commitment to diversity, strategy for corporate involvement, and other core elements of City Year's theory of social change. It is expanding geographically through branches, in part,... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

27 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

company can operate. At the core of the business environment is the cluster, or the group of interconnected firms, industries, and institutions present in a particular field. Examples of clusters include Silicon Valley, Boston in asset... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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