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Managing International Trade and Investment

Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details

03 Jan 2011
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Most Popular Articles of 2010

to Make Careful Decisions? Summing up reader responses, Professor Jim Heskett finds compelling arguments for a process involving intuition based on analysis and experience. Should people also make their own decision-making process more... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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Should You Pursue the Certificate of Management Excellence?

UPDATED 04 OCT 2022 We are thrilled to announce that the Certificate of Management Excellence (CME) has expanded to include more programs and increased flexibility to fit your... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Full Court Press

impact in a way he hadn’t in his last job. He likes to tell the story of being at a social event not long ago when a young child, maybe 10 years old, approached him. “He reached out View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

13 Oct 2009
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7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

crisis—much like the one we're in now—is where a principled approach to leadership and decision-making is most needed. The leaders who successfully navigate their organizations through crises are ones who... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

firm fading toward irrelevance, plagued by internal fights and inertia. A key element of his leadership approach was to redefine the company’s purpose (the “why?”) and culture (the “how?”), and View Details

12 Oct 1999
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Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

with the local economy. Another approach to cluster development is to attract multinationals that will become demanding customers of local suppliers. After that, it's essential... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

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Harvard Business School

Independent Beauty Consultants, and has been instrumental in developing a product portfolio strategy generating innovative skin care, coloring, and fragrance products. She has also driven the development of digital marketing and social... View Details

16 Sep 2019
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Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

with busy film executives, however. Indeed, says Luo part of what makes the Black List interesting in the first place is the “light-touch” approach that surveys executives about scripts they are already coming across in the course of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video

12 Oct 2017
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Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time

neighborhood-development strategy of mixed-income housing, a cradle-to-college education pipeline, and community wellness programs that have helped to revitalize Atlanta’s troubled East Lake neighborhood.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

15 Jun 2007
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Remembering Alfred Chandler

managerial practices. Chandlerian analysis suddenly went from a "fashion" to becoming the mainstream approach to business and economic history. Young scholars back... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2020
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Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

investors, sometimes called “vultures,” have raised vast sums of money for the purpose of investing in distressed companies. As I write about in my book Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring, they employ a variety of strategies... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

29 Oct 2006
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The History and Influence of Andy Grove

so interested in strategy and the intricacies of running a business? A: Grove made the transition from technologist to technologist/manager because he had no choice. When Intel was founded in July of 1968,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

18 Oct 2017
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How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

around long before they had a name, showing up in the development of colonial-era industries and earlier. In her working paper A Historical Approach to Clustering in Emerging Economies, Giacomin takes... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

23 Jul 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action

Scorecard approach to help boards work smarter, not harder. Key concepts include: Reforms such as Sarbanes-Oxley have increased the amount of work that boards need to do. A... View Details

31 Oct 2007
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Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs

What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In "UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action?" Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest Reinhardt present the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

07 Apr 2003
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XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

because they were built with proprietary components, a manifestation of Xerox's approach to systems design. The development costs of these proprietary components had to be... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

21 Jul 2008
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Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

allocation such as heuristics, decision rules, and "bottom up" approaches still effective in today's complex marketing environment? To help practicioners answer this question, Harvard Business School... View Details