Inside-out Approach To Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

ensemble for, give or take, close to 40 years, but this past summer was their final concert tour as a group. "The Medici String Quartet is one of the very best such ensembles, probably one of the very best ever. One of my favorite... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

11 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?

propositions represents a market test and signal of what consumers want. Q: Consumer marketing appears to be drifting away from mass market advertising to more targeted View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

high-priced, low-volume, luxury travel product in its existing locations; so to continue its growth, it is now trying to expand into East Africa, where the traditional safari View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

15 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

efforts have been launched in the past decade to "transplant" the venture model: to adapt the key features of the venture capital approach within large corporations,... View Details

Keywords: by Carol Elsen; Financial Services

24 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

development through individual contracts, the comprehensive platform would be free to doctors and pharma alike and financed via an aggressive fundraising strategy and through the sale of the prescription... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

and recovery to be associated with increases in orders from Hugo Boss's retailer customers Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-034.pdf A Comparative-Advantage Approach View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

Porter, Director of the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at Harvard Business School: I'd like to focus though, just to be brief here, on really some of the main... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

linkages 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... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

Detroit and concerned that there is not an unlimited bailout on the horizon, they have to make choices about what land uses to protect and amplify and what to let languish.... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

intuits a developing bottleneck in the assembly line and creates a fix before a problem occurs. It's also the CEO who draws on years of experience to solve a strategy imbroglio that has paralyzed top staff.... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

18 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 18, 2008

challenges. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=908049 PublicationsConstructivism as an Approach to International Political Economy Author:Rawi Abdelal... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

it, sell it only online? If not, what is the requisite assortment we should carry? What's the appropriate pricing in the store? They decided on a limited assortment in-store, that is mostly private label and where price comparison is not possible. Jose Alvarez: This... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

well in the future only if it holds stocks that are primarily held by historically successful managers.— Randolph B. Cohen A: The increase in precision that our method obtains compared to the standard View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

The center approached Alessi, a medium-sized tableware company in Italy, at the request of professors Youngme Moon and Gail McGovern for a case in the Consumer Marketing MBA elective. Working through Alessandro Benneton, a member of the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

20 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

question to Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang, who studies organizational theory and strategy with a focus on social inequalities and status hierarchies. He explores the issue in a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

approach thus runs counter to the idea that globalization is a homogeneity-producing process and the view that society is moving from particularism to universalism. With... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

becomes the engine of progress and reform. Improvement feeds on itself. For that process to begin, however, the locus of competition has to shift from "Who pays?" to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

businesses increasingly are conducting themselves on common ground in order to compete globally. They don't necessarily do business the same way—with identical processes, functions, and operations—while View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

06 May 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”

Summing Up Respondents to my column about the tenets of new strategic marketing by and large projected the view that new strategic marketing, as propounded by the authors of the new book, Marketing Moves: A New View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

green business profitable is an even harder journey. For society's sake, entrepreneurs must be prepared to make that journey, says Geoffrey Jones. A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology

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