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

29 May 2006
Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

strategic focus if it was to improve margins and top-line growth. They wanted someone who could continue to build the 4,000 employee, $1 billion company and who could execute. In addition View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

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

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

possibilities for an effective resolution. Instead, she urges managers to look beyond differences in practice to underlying principles. In many instances, this approach can... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

range of adaptation, however. As markets and technologies undergo historic change, so too must the current model of capitalism. Each new episode of capitalism emerges from the complex interplay of three forces: (1) New human yearnings that create a new View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

on," says Harvard Business School marketing professor Gerald Zaltman. A more strategic approach to data mining can provide the foundation for that decision-making architecture. Below, advice on how... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

across is that "one size fits all." This strategy effectively sacrifices many opportunities due to an unwillingness to explore how differences in regulatory... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

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

01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

point out possible misconceptions about job creation by small businesses off the mark? Do they miss the point? What do you think? Original Article In the late 1990s, a group of faculty at the Harvard Business School proposed a new View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

customers rather than the best customers. Q: Should retailers change their approach to big spenders? A: The first issue here is that you do want to reward your best customers.... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Retail

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

Business.” How have religion, politics and business intertwined during this period to shape development? Jones: My HBS colleague Kristin Fabbe and her co-authors show that in Turkey Islamic actors have used a pragmatic political and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

precious to me, because it is the one season in which I can show my wife that I'm actually reading books at a rate that approaches that with which I buy them. Therefore, I tackle long books only after... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

relationship between strong exposure to belief structures during impressionable periods in one's career and future decision making? A: Looking at the examples of Henri Termeer and Jim Vincent, what we see are very different leadership... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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