• Web

HBS - The year in Review

cities such as Tulsa, OK and Columbus, OH. Smaller group sizes allowed for faster implementation of change and gave students transferrable concepts and skills to leverage throughout their careers. FIELD Immersion Press Release Synergies... View Details

• 29 Sep 2022
• Op-Ed

Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable

“yes, and” principle that lies at the heart of improv: “Yes, and we can fill it with poison before we offer it to the queen.” "Dissent is welcome, but only when there is shared respect and everyone feels they are on the same team." Some companies rely on this principle... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

• 15 Jul 2019
• Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

overconfidence. Exaggerating synergies and ignoring integration costs Synergy is the idea that once merged, the value of two companies will be greater than the sum of the values of each individual company.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

• 12 Mar 2006
• Research & Ideas

New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets

platform ecosystem by adding new sides and platform functions that might be valuable to the existing sides and therefore create positive synergies (and dominant firms!). Q: You draw a distinction between two-sided platforms and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

School that provides a forum for exploring the synergies between all sectors to address critical social issues worldwide. Consulting for Impact Club The Consulting for Impact Club (CFI) matches Harvard MBA candidates with nonprofit and... View Details

• 01 Oct 2012
• Research & Ideas

Better by the Bundle?

a model equipped with a convenience package or technology package. "Ideally you should be bundling products that have a positive synergy together," Kumar says, "but what we have shown here is that even when View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

• 01 Dec 1997
• News

Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

shareholder in our business. I think we are really showing that horizontal integration and synergies can work. I am also very proud that we are one of the first real cars on the information superhighway. People talk about it a lot, but we... View Details

• 03 Oct 2011
• Research & Ideas

Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit

It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

bank's balance sheet. Consistent with synergies in banking operations, the authors find significant correlations between a bank's productivity through these channels. The resultant measures indicate that a bank's ability to generate... View Details

• 11 Aug 2008
• Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

fourth book, Alignment, described principle #3, how to create and capture corporate synergies through vertical and horizontal alignment of business and support units. The fourth book also contained material on principle #4, aligning and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

• 01 Apr 2000
• News

New Home for External Relations

Relations, Development, the HBS Fund, Planned Giving, Alumni Records, Data Operations, and the Bulletin. "This is also the first time in many years that all of External Relations has been together under one roof, which creates important new View Details

• 17 Jun 2017
• Research & Ideas

Amazon, Whole Foods Deal a Big Win for Consumers

Source: 400tmax Editor's Note. Online retailing behemoth Amazon announced June 16 that it would acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market in a deal valued at more than $13 billion. Though the company has dabbled with the idea of a brick-and-mortar footprint in... View Details

Keywords: by Jose Alvarez and Len Schlesinger; Retail

• 02 Apr 2001
• Research & Ideas

Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters

inventing an industry and a business model based on an unproven hypothesis: that major synergies can be achieved by culling resources from existing industries whose boundaries seem to be disappearing. The challenge to management is even... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower

• 29 Aug 2005
• Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

organizations wanting to create social value. The researchers stressed the importance of synergies between Economic Value (EV) and Social Value (SV), calling them "two sides of the same coin." By aligning EV and SV, both... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

• 04 Jun 2012
• Research & Ideas

The Business of Life

of our lives, we just deprive ourselves of a very important input." Christensen explores the synergies between economic logic and personal conviction in his new book, How Will You Measure Your Life? Coauthored with James Allworth (HBS MBA... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel