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- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
deep culture of direct sales to corporate customers, the company was slow to take advantage of a rapidly emerging consumer market—at least until founder Michael Dell returned to shake things up. "Our past is littered with firms that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
incompetence, and negligence by a corporate board. The board at Merrill Lynch was so disconnected from the company that when shareholders met in December 2008 to approve the company’s sale to Bank of America — after five straight... View Details
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
advertising strategy, and leather sourcing issues. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/514078-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-070 The Grommet The Grommet, an online product launch platform, was at the brink of scaling its business. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
operations cover food and home and personal care, and its brands include Lipton Tea, Hellmann's, Bird's Eye, Wall's, Ben and Jerry's, Surf, Domestos, Comfort, Dove, Sunsilk, Pond's, Signal, Axe, and Calvin Klein. In particular the book... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
$3.94 billion in sales from its more than 3,000 retail stores and its online auction site. Even so, Goodwill’s core mission is to provide job training and placement to people with disabilities, criminal backgrounds, and other challenges... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
eligible for a discount on the purchase price conditional on their achieving the sales targets set by the franchisor. We show that car dealers (franchisees) who exclusively deal in cars of the brand offered by the franchisor receive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
our evidence is consistent with U.S. market interactions impacting U.K. compensation practices through two mechanisms: 1) to alleviate internal and external pay disparities arising from the presence of U.S. operations and businesses... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
businesses create and post online video content. About a year later, the company shifted its focus to creating customized videos that target customers at different points in the sales cycle. Things were going quite well, Riesenfeld... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
past that are relevant for today’s discussion about which direction we want to take the country.” Titan operated only in Greece for its first 90 years, says Papalexopoulos. Both his grandfather and his great-grandfather, who founded the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507017 ConAgra Foods: The Next Chapter Harvard Business School Case 906-409 In 2005, CEO Bruce Rohde has almost completed the integration of ConAgra Foods' collection of 90 independent View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
Life Green Day Related Links What businesses can do to make a difference Takeaways: Preparing for the population boom Case study: Slum for sale Conference report: Investing in Cities of the 21st Century Making a Difference in the World -... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018
contracted their credit to all small firms throughout the United States. However, healthy banks expanded their operations and entered new banking markets. The market share gain of these banks was a standard deviation above the long-run... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
how to win? A: My advice here is simple: Think business model. Most managers tend to focus on cost management and operational efficiencies when they strategize during a downturn. While there is nothing wrong with that, I do think such... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
could save a great deal of money through this B2B exchange, and Chairman John Smith Jr. claimed that "we think e-business will have an even greater impact on the way we operate than e-commerce." 85 Besides saving money,... View Details
- 03 May 2013
- News
Looking Through Glass, Historically
today they are usually attributed to other companies. In 1921 the company president was able to boast, "We are the largest decorators of glassware in the country"—a claim that held true for the first third of the century. During that period, the key to glass View Details
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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online
key elements and learn how to formulate a customer value proposition, determine product-market fit, and distinguish between marketing- and sales-led organizations. Highlights Nicole Clay, Co-Founder and CMO, Hue Sales v. Marketing... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
volume. The distinguishing operational characteristic of by-product synergy is that quantities of the primary product and by-product are linked, with production of the primary product defining the upper bound of the quantity of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
instead for consumer attention. We model and characterize how households allocate their scarce attention in arguably the largest market for attention: the Internet. Our characterization of household attention allocation operates along... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
than 350 interviews in 20 countries to identify the leadership practices and operating methods of major companies seeking profitable growth through innovation that benefits society. For example, when the tsunami and earthquake struck... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
both the movement of capital markets and gains in the price of competitors’ stock can provide executives with unearned windfalls for uncompetitive performance and promote unwarranted overconfidence. Awarding stock grants without restricting the amount and timing of... View Details