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- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
of its top customers to nontraditional competitors-IBM and SAP on the one hand, big data start-ups on the other-offering data-intensive, analytics-based services that could connect to any industrial device. So GE launched a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
Harvard Business School Case 819-079 CalSTRS Takes on Gun Violence No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/819079-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 319-044 Haier in the U.S.: Transforming GE... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria
or #2 or else fix, sell, or close. Yet, they reinforced a strong bond between the company and its employees as in the H-P Way or GE as the "boundaryless company." They celebrated and promoted innovation—encouraging employees... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
partners, to enable its employees to work only on high value-added activities that yield more than $600,000 in revenues for each of its more than 25,000 employees. (The phenomenon is described in a case, "Cisco Systems: Are You Ready?", that I coauthored... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
company was planning to develop business in Africa. After Welch invited the group to conduct due diligence, it was concluded that the timing was not right for GE to make a significant investment in Africa. Yet, when Jeffrey Immelt began... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
partners. Competition for funds among groups may inspire applicants to perform at a higher level: When announcing it was accepting proposals for its Youth Programming Wellness Grant, Target encouraged organizations to “think big.” GE, through the View Details
- 17 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Brands Work
appeal. Think Coca-Cola and Disney. 2. A focus on a single product category. Think Nokia and Intel. 3. The company name is the brand name. All marketing dollars are concentrated on that one brand. Think GE and IBM. 4. Access to the global... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
Urquhart, GE Commercial Finance Stanford Graduate School of Business professor Charles A. O'Reilly III and Harvard Business School professor Michael L. Tushman outline one approach in their Harvard Business Review article, "The... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
tackled the identity issue when he helped General Electric revamp its marketing department, a process described in the October 2010 Harvard Business Review article Unleashing the Power of Marketing, in which Gulati and two GE marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
efficient and higher quality. After I left McKinsey, I went to GE, where those two ideas came together. I saw the way that GE was doing high stakes face-to-face negotiations for materials, things like metal components, plastic components,... View Details
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=108012 GE's Imagination Breakthroughs: The Evo Project Harvard Business School Case 907-048 In September 2003, Jeff Immelt challenged the business leaders at GE to come up... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
top biotech managers, companies leave an imprint of their worldview on young executives through such things as the firm's structure, strategy, and culture. There is a GE imprint, an IBM imprint, a Bain imprint—all of which influence... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review GE's Global Growth Experiment: The Company Pushed Cross-Business Collaboration By: Gulati, Ranjay Abstract—Like many other companies, GE under Immelt had to figure out how to balance serving... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
in hospitals and homes to monitor millions of patients. Philips generates over one-third of its global sales from health care. Other companies like GE and Samsung are also active in health care. These brands enjoy some consumer... View Details
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
little of the policy issues, product discussions, and even general news coming out of the tech world. That's my problem. I need to fix it by doing what Jack Welch asked all of his senior colleagues at GE to do: find a mentor no older than... View Details
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
two reasons. First, they are systematically lower than the returns of American outbound FDI. By way of example, the data indicate that GE earns a much higher return on overseas activities than Siemens does in the United States. Indeed,... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 28 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
B2B Branding: Does it Work?
Dreamliner (as a differentiating ingredient for early adopter airlines). GE and Microsoft are hybrid brands with some direct-to-consumer sales that have helped to build the reputations of what are primarily B2B firms. But these... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
and then re-engaged to keep change moving. The practical model shows how spokes are related and reinforce one another and also presents a logical order for connecting them. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/312083-PDF-ENG Healthymagination at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team
presented in the Harvard Business Review article "Are Leaders Portable?" co-written with Andrew N. McLean and Nitin Nohria. The records of former GE general managers demonstrate that even skills widely perceived as generalizable... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
"Profitability Optimization Model" (PROM) in the first half of the 1960s that appeared to explain a significant fraction of the variation in the return on investment afforded by its various businesses.20 Over time, like many other companies, View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat