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- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
vacation days we normally let go unused. Video: Managers, respect your workers’ time by setting the right toneView Video “In the moment, these decisions may seem inconsequential or easy to reverse, but... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- July 2024
- Case
RMZ 4.0: 'How Fast Do We Want to Run?'
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
In 2023, RMZ Corporation (“RMZ”) a large family-owned real estate firm based in Bengaluru, India, announced plans to transform from a commercial real estate developer to a diversified alternative asset owner. Over the next 5 years, RMZ looked to grow its real estate... View Details
Keywords: International Expansion; Growth Management; Family Business; Talent and Talent Management; Goals and Objectives; Transformation; Growth and Development Strategy; Diversification; Change Management; Global Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Real Estate Industry; India
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "RMZ 4.0: 'How Fast Do We Want to Run?'." Harvard Business School Case 425-010, July 2024.
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
successfully market an innovative product? The idea that we rail against in class is that product development just throws a new product over the wall to marketing and expects... View Details
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
wisdom, rather than my influence about their admission decision, I’m probably more useful to them after schools have made their decisions,” he notes. While Bazerman knew his actions weren’t going View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Oct 2015
- Blog Post
What to Expect Your First Year at HBS
cases per day, each 10-60 pages in length. Not only do you have to read the case, but you also need to prepare answers for discussion group questions. In parallel, you will be working on your consulting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Fast Lane to Country Lane
furniture, it worked out perfectly,” says Lackley. “Mark’s the idea guy, and I’m the businessperson.” Lackley left Open Market before her wedding and began to help Mark with selling commissioned pieces of... View Details
- December 2006 (Revised September 2007)
- Case
Ponsse: From Finland to Global
By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
Finland-based Ponsse Oyj, with 2005 turnover of $250 million, is the only dedicated forest equipment company of size that remained in a consolidating industry. Competitors included global giants such as John Deere and Komatsu. Since his arrival at Ponsse in 2004, CEO... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Capacity; Expansion; Forest Products Industry; Forestry Industry; Russia; Finland; United States; Brazil
Bell, David E., and Mary L. Shelman. "Ponsse: From Finland to Global." Harvard Business School Case 507-002, December 2006. (Revised September 2007.)
- 22 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Agreeing to Disagree Is a Good Beginning
in recent years, Minson added. “Arguments have become more accusatory and more emotional,” she said. She blames social media. “It’s become so much easier to surround yourself with people who agree with you. Now you can View Details
Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
activity in Europe and Asia and how managers can use restructuring techniques to help the stock market more accurately value their companies. Gilson, who was previously on the finance faculty at the... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
he developed a fascination with market transformation—how to change a market, create demand, decrease prices, and increase industry's capabilities. "It was the mindset I took View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
and eventually the inevitable happens. I realize that if I don't fire Bob, I'm going to lose all my star performers because they're fed up with having to redo his work, having... View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
but it's not going to create the kind of value that ultimately gets translated into financial success. Kost: In the first line of your book, you say that strategy is simple.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
basic needs, we're all going to be instead just building armor plates for our Teslas. We're going to be living in a society we don't want View Details
- March 2000 (Revised February 2005)
- Case
Hewlett Packard--Computer Systems Organization: Selling to Enterprise Customers
By: Das Narayandas and Robert C. Dudley
In late 1996, Manuel Diaz, head of Worldwide Sales for Hewlett-Packard's (HP) Computer Systems Organization (CSO), is reviewing the results of an audit of HP's enterprise customer management approach with the objective of identifying market and organizational... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Transformation; Customer Relationship Management; Cost vs Benefits; Marketing Strategy; Sales; Computer Industry
Narayandas, Das, and Robert C. Dudley. "Hewlett Packard--Computer Systems Organization: Selling to Enterprise Customers." Harvard Business School Case 500-064, March 2000. (Revised February 2005.)
- August 2008
- Article
From Clusters to Cluster-Based Economic Development
By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Olga Memedovic
Over the last decades, changes in the global economy and the emergence of Global Value Chains (GVCs) have raised the interest in understanding the specific conditions and cross-company interactions within and across locations. For companies, the need to choose the... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Economy; Value; Business Strategy; Competition; Performance Productivity; Cost; Natural Environment; Policy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Framework; Industry Clusters
Ketels, Christian H.M., and Olga Memedovic. "From Clusters to Cluster-Based Economic Development." Special Issue on Global Value Chains and Innovation Networks: Prospects for Industrial Upgrading in Developing Countries. Part 1. International Journal of Technological Learning, Innovation, and Development 1, no. 3 (August 2008).
- 10 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself
John, the charismatic chief marketing officer of Netflix (once described by Buzzfeed as the “coolest” person to ever go onstage at an Apple event). Research shows being true... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
Quotes, published in the February issue of Journal of Marketing Research. The large-scale field experiment investigated whether price expectations of consumers--male or female--can influence the final price. The answer: yes. The... View Details
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
Cashing in on the $60 billion global luxury goods market has never been tougher—or more rewarding. Competition is keen. And consumer preferences are constantly shifting, causing the concept of luxury itself View Details
- March 2014
- Article
Search Diversion and Platform Competition
By: Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien
Platforms use search diversion in order to trade off total consumer traffic for higher revenues derived by exposing consumers to unsolicited products (e.g., advertising). We show that competition between platforms leads to lower equilibrium levels of search diversion... View Details
Keywords: Market Intermediation; Search; Two-Sided Markets; Platform Design; Platform Competition; Competition; Two-Sided Platforms
Hagiu, Andrei, and Bruno Jullien. "Search Diversion and Platform Competition." International Journal of Industrial Organization 33 (March 2014): 48–60.
- 2021
- Article
How Top Managers Use the Entrepreneurial Gap to Drive Strategic Change
By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
Prior research provides strong evidence for the association between business strategy and the design and use of management control systems. We complement this research by examining the role of management control systems in situations of strategic change. We report the... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Accountability; Strategic Change; Organization Change And Adaptation; Organizational Performance; Management Systems; Organizational Structure; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance
Simons, Robert L., and Antonio Davila. "How Top Managers Use the Entrepreneurial Gap to Drive Strategic Change." European Accounting Review 30, no. 4 (2021): 583–609.