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- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
for other world regions. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708421 General Mills (A) Harvard Business School Case 608-004 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- July – August 2011
- Article
The Paradox of Samsung's Rise
By: Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song and Kyungmook Lee
Twenty years ago, few people would have predicted that Samsung could transform itself from a low-cost original equipment manufacturer to a world leader in R&D, marketing, and design, with a brand more valuable than Pepsi, Nike, or American Express. Fewer still would... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Research and Development; Marketing; Business Processes; Brands and Branding; System; Globalized Markets and Industries; Transformation; Cost; Forecasting and Prediction; Production; Quality; China; India; Turkey
Khanna, Tarun, Jaeyong Song, and Kyungmook Lee. "The Paradox of Samsung's Rise." Harvard Business Review 89, nos. 7-8 (July–August 2011): 142–147.
- 2021
- Working Paper
Trade and the Single Car Market: The EC-Japan Elements of Consensus, 1985–1999
By: Grace Ballor
In 1991, in the midst of the program to create a liberal Single European Market and in the context of a new Joint Declaration for cooperation with Japan, the European Commission brokered a private deal to restrict Japanese imports into the European Community for nearly... View Details
Keywords: Market; Protectionism; Liberalization; Trade; Markets; International Relations; Auto Industry; Europe; European Union; Japan
Ballor, Grace. "Trade and the Single Car Market: The EC-Japan Elements of Consensus, 1985–1999." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-145, June 2021.
- Program
Strategic Negotiations
provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend Senior executives who face complex and challenging negotiations, such as CEOs, entrepreneurs, board members, View Details
- December 1986 (Revised December 1993)
- Case
Johnsonville Sausage Co. (A)
Describes the evolution of Johnsonville Sausage through a generation of management and from a small operation to a large concern of over 500 employees. Describes how each of the functional areas in the firm has evolved, and how its structure and systems have changed... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business or Company Management; Transformation; Growth and Development; Food and Beverage Industry
Roberts, Michael J. "Johnsonville Sausage Co. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 387-103, December 1986. (Revised December 1993.)
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
and the availability of limited liability to raise finance for the new business opportunities which appeared at this time. They functioned in part as venture capitalists identifying opportunities and placing potential British investors in... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- June 2025
- Exercise
Full-Funnel Advertising on TikTok: An Experiment (Solution)
By: Jeremy Yang and Ayelet Israeli
TikTok’s Marketing Science team developed a new type of advertising strategy beyond branding and performance advertising, called full-funnel advertising. Branding ads focused on brand building at the top of the funnel by generating consumer awareness, while performance... View Details
- June 2025
- Supplement
Full-Funnel Advertising on TikTok: An Experiment
By: Jeremy Yang and Ayelet Israeli
TikTok’s Marketing Science team developed a new type of advertising strategy beyond branding and performance advertising, called full-funnel advertising. Branding ads focused on brand building at the top of the funnel by generating consumer awareness, while performance... View Details
- Article
Capture New Value from Your Existing Tech Infrastructure
By: Stefan Thomke and Anthony Rodrigo
When senior managers think about how to respond to the threats and opportunities of technological change, they often dream of the same thing: If they just could start a new company or division that isn’t held back by conventional thinking or outdated business models.... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Technology; Ecosystem; Incubators; Technological Innovation; Telecommunications Industry; South Asia; Malaysia
Thomke, Stefan, and Anthony Rodrigo. "Capture New Value from Your Existing Tech Infrastructure." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (May 5, 2022).
- 13 Dec 2014
- News
The openness revolution
- Person Page
Disclosure of potential conflict of interests
By: William R. Kerr
This is a voluntary disclosure of potential conflicts of interest. This is recommended but not currently required of faculty members at Harvard Business School.
During the past three years, I have worked with the following organizations in advisory, board of... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
PublicationsUncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business Authors:Frances Frei and Anne Morriss Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming An abstract is not... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Mixed Source
- July 2004 (Revised December 2004)
- Case
Timberland: Commerce and Justice
By: James E. Austin, Herman B. Leonard and James Quinn
When Jeffrey Swartz became the third generation in his family to lead the Timberland Co., he pursued a strategy in which commerce and justice were "inextricably linked." Community involvement, environmental management, and global labor standards became not addenda to... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Innovation and Invention; Leadership Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Programs; Opportunities; Alignment; Business Strategy; Value
Austin, James E., Herman B. Leonard, and James Quinn. "Timberland: Commerce and Justice." Harvard Business School Case 305-002, July 2004. (Revised December 2004.)
- February 1976 (Revised November 1983)
- Case
EG&G, Inc. (B)
Raises the dilemmas of making strategic decisions within an organizational construct. The divestment of a division of the company raises not only strategic issues but organizational and interpersonal ones as well. The decision is framed through the strategic planning... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Decisions; Business or Company Management; Organizations; Strategic Planning; Strategy; Service Industry
Porter, Michael E. "EG&G, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 376-188, February 1976. (Revised November 1983.)
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
4 Ways the MS/MBA is Preparing Me for a Career in Health Care and the Life Sciences
understood that it was critical to gain practical experience outside of academia. I decided to join McKinsey & Company, motivated to attain the best possible position to provide me with the essential business experience I lacked. That... View Details
- April 2008 (Revised May 2009)
- Case
Robert Wessman and Actavis' "Winning Formula"
Robert Wessman took over Actavis in 1999 when it was a failing 90-person domestic generic pharmaceutical maker in Iceland. Within 7 years he had brought Actavis to number 5 worldwide, with 11,000 people, active in 40 countries, global manufacturing, and $1.6 billion.... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Success; Transformation; Business Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Iceland
Isenberg, Daniel J. Robert Wessman and Actavis' "Winning Formula". Harvard Business School Case 808-127, April 2008. (Revised May 2009.)
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
emergence of stage 2 will have fallen into place. The first will be robust platforms that facilitate the creation of user-generated content. The second will be the emergence of a user network, whose analogues in other industries include eBay and YouTube. A user network... View Details
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
generalized toolkits to business users or get bogged down in custom software consulting engagements that solve nonrepeatable use cases. There are more opportunities today for entrepreneurs to focus on... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- Teaching Interest
Managing Corporate Entrepreneurship
Professors Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
To stay on top, corporations must learn to continuously create, grow, and profit from completely new ways of doing business. They must simultaneously pursue both excellence in their existing business and... View Details