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- October 2013
- Article
Ferguson's Formula
By: Anita Elberse and Sir Alex Ferguson
When Alex Ferguson took over as manager of the English football team Manchester United, the club was in dire straits: It hadn't won a league title in nearly 20 years and faced a very real threat of being relegated to a lower division. In 26 seasons under Ferguson,... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Business or Company Management; Management Style; Success; Sports; Sports Industry; England
Elberse, Anita, and Sir Alex Ferguson. "Ferguson's Formula." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 10 (October 2013): 116–125.
- Web
Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
Concepts Develop a robust set of vital and forward-looking business skills to grow as a leader Engage with a global cohort of like-minded peers and build a network that lasts far beyond the program Practice effective teamwork and implement View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- Book
Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed
professor at Stanford University. The book examines how the best corporate explorers create new enterprises inside large corporations. The authors explain the challenges explorers face, along with the strategies they need to gather... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
investors with longer-term horizons and incentives that are more consistent with the long-term strategy of the company. The managers of most companies take their investor base as a "given" that cannot be changed through their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
Srikant M. Datar, and Madhav Rajan Publication:14th ed. Prentice Hall, forthcoming (2012) Abstract Emphasizing the "different costs for different purposes," this text focuses on strategy and the decision-making process.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
tomorrow are going to be of the unsavory variety, 30 years of experience dealing with Iran shows that neglect and isolation are ineffective strategies for managing conflict. Second, diplomacy is about identifying what makes this situation... View Details
- September 2020 (Revised October 2020)
- Case
Briscola—Pizza Society: Scaling Affordable Luxury
By: Gary P. Pisano and Federica Gabrieli
Riccardo Cortese and Federico Pinna were the CEOs of Briscola—Pizza Society, a restaurant chain they had founded in 2014 with a clear ambition: create a distinctive international pizza chain that would combine a fast-casual format with the devotion to quality that... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Geographic Location; Business Model; Ownership Type; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe; Italy
Pisano, Gary P., and Federica Gabrieli. "Briscola—Pizza Society: Scaling Affordable Luxury." Harvard Business School Case 621-031, September 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni
maintenance, and repair of electric vehicle charging equipment. Ellis’s previous experience with the US Department of Labor’s Job Corps, where she served as a career transition and outreach specialist, has given her both an internal and... View Details
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Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis
firms Key members of the management team Investment bank league tables Bloomberg
Current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, and futures for bothView Details
Current and historical financial information on individual equities, stock market indices, fixed-income securities, currencies, commodities, and futures for both
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Conversational Leadership
of which applies to a particular attribute of an organization. "Intimacy is about leadership," Groysberg explains. "Interactivity is about channels. Inclusion is about content. And intentionality is about goals, vision, and the strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
rates. That is why Dave Norton and I argue in our book that a low-cost strategy is unsustainable for the support units of most organizations. The Strategic Differentiation Of Support Units We argue instead that an View Details
- July 2022
- Case
Yinglan Tan: Scaling a Venture Capital Firm in Southeast Asia
By: Josh Lerner and Richard Zhu
Yinglan Tan considered the future of his young Singapore-based venture capital firm. On the one hand, the intuition that was behind the initial creation of Insignia in 2017 had been proven correct. The venture capital market in Southeast Asia had grown rapidly, driven... View Details
Keywords: E-commerce; Scalability; Globalized Markets and Industries; Venture Capital; International Finance; Growth and Development; Expansion
Lerner, Josh, and Richard Zhu. "Yinglan Tan: Scaling a Venture Capital Firm in Southeast Asia." Harvard Business School Case 823-025, July 2022.
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
operating system companies need both end-users and application developers. Increasingly, thanks in large part to technology and the Internet, multi-sided markets are becoming more common. But how do they work? What are effective View Details
- 16 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 16, 2008
Strategy Harvard Business School Case 705-477 The Turkish home appliances firm Arcelik is revisiting its growth strategy. Options for growth include continuing to promote currently owned brands in View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
Internal Problems By: Sebenius, James K. Abstract—Many negotiators have constituencies that must formally or informally approve an agreement. Traditionally, it is the responsibility of each negotiator to manage the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
both host and home governments, and the international legal framework. The second was the market and resources of the host country. The third factor was competition from local firms. The impact of these factors on corporate View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
Among those who pursued residency training, the most common specialties were internal medicine (39.3%), emergency medicine (10.4%), orthopedic surgery (9.2%), and general surgery (8.6%). Physician-MBAs trained in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
Using an MBA for a Career Change
BrooklynSummer associate in International Strategy The company culture was everything it was hyped up to be. Quilts for curtains. Employee-led classes on how to watercolor greeting cards. But I missed... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Clark needed to decide whether to pursue patents, copyrights, and/or trademarks for various aspects of the new product. The case focuses on the interplay between marketing strategies and intellectual property issues in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 24, 2008
taxonomy that assembles the field's knowledge about these decision-making bounds and organizes efforts toward deepening this knowledge and developing strategies for improvement. Specifically, we group five identified decision-making... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace