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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

a fictional elevator company, invest a lot of money in reskilling its entire staff? The industry is moving from hardware to software in the form of smart, connected elevators. But instead of laying off legacy hardware staff and hiring new... View Details

23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

market, namely, limited exit and new investment opportunities. As Enfoca faced an aging fund, its leadership team began considering alternatives to the traditional private... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
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WeightWatchers: Promoting Weight Health

By: Ranjay Gulati, Cynthia A. Montgomery, Ashley Whillans, Allison Ciechanover and Emily Grandjean

In December 2023, the 60-year-old weight management industry stalwart WeightWatchers announced the launch of WeightWatchers Clinic, which incorporated GLP-1s , a new class of prescription weight-loss medications, into the company’s portfolio of products and mobile app... View Details

Keywords: Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; Health Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; New York (city, NY)

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

prioritization. Using BMC’s experience as an illustrative case, the article outlines six strategic choices healthcare leaders must make to translate intention into impact.... View Details

01 Apr 2024
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Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes

businesses need to know in 2024. Alexander MacKay: Focus on finding balance Since 2021, as companies faced supply shocks and changes to demand in an inflationary period, executives have increasingly focused... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Consumer Products

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The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

who had been encouraged to see that they had a stake in industry success.” 13 U.S. Steel would find that investment in PR provided multiple benefits including interest from current and future investors, employees, and customers, View Details

28 May 2024
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Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

realignment, to name but a few. As an applicant, you need to be able to articulate how your background and experience will help the firms fulfill specific client needs. Be flexible. You’re going to have to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

22 Jan 2013
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public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, and private firms are an established policy tool around the world for the delivery of social or public services, and their use View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Harvard Business School Online Courses & Learning Platforms

hrs/week Pay by July 31 $1,850 Certificate New Strategic Financial Analysis Professor Suraj Srinivasan Explore the intersection of accounting, strategy, and finance, and learn how to evaluate a business’s performance, prospects, and value to make strategic View Details

01 Dec 2023
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The Imposter Among Us

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Peter Arkle It was their rst day at Harvard and like the rest of his cohort, Edgar Wallner (PMD 22, 1971) will never forget meeting Robert Gaines-Cooper. Frankly, it would have been difficult to miss the Englishman, who... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

Kong and listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. In 2012, Noble shifted its business strategy towards an asset-light model. Under this model, Noble did not own mines or farms to produce commodities but built commodity sourcing capacity by... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Apr 2009
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Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

more, inflation-adjusted wages stalled for many, even as consumer spending increased. Where did the money for all this spending come from? Companies borrowed, governments borrowed, and families borrowed. Savings rates approached zero.... View Details

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Reverse Innovation

VG and Chris Trimble reveal a bold discovery with far-reaching implications in REVERSE INNOVATION: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere (Harvard Business Review Press; April 10, 2012;... View Details

May 2008 (Revised August 2010)
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ScriptLogic®: Point, Click, Done!™

ScriptLogic is a software company that has built a product portfolio that fits under a 'Point, Click, Done!' umbrella; its products are easy to download, easy to install, and easy to use. The company's online marketing program and inside sales force have been very... View Details

Keywords: Investment Return; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Development; Salesforce Management; Software; Information Technology Industry

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07 Feb 2022
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Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

end-to-end customer experiences in an unforgiving dynamic economy. As one executive put it, in a hyperconnected world, competitors can "pop up from anywhere and everywhere." With rising expectations of... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

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Latin America - Global

Case From oneworld to a New World? LATAM’s High-Stakes Alliance Dilemma By: Juan Alcacer and Valentina Tarzijan As global alliances evolve and regulatory barriers mount, LATAM Airlines must reassess the strategic logic of partnerships. In... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed, and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro level, experimentation by new firms underlies the Schumpeterian notion of creative destruction.... View Details

05 Jun 2012
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"reliability" and increase "relevance," partly due to their tendency to propose fair-value methods. We find opposite results for FASB members affiliated with the Democratic Party, although only when excluding a financial-services background View Details

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October 2007 (Revised November 2007)
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Barclays Global Investors and Exchange Traded Funds

By: Luis M. Viceira and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

Provides an overview of the Exchange Traded Funds (EFT) industry and highlights the leadership role that Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has played in this developing asset class. BGI launched its first ETFs under the iShares brand name in 2000, and by mid-2007 BGI was... View Details

Keywords: History; Venture Capital; Asset Management; Stocks; Investment Funds; Leading Change; Expansion; Competitive Strategy; Capital Markets; Global Strategy; Financial Strategy; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Asia; Europe

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Saevig Corporation

By: Henry B. Reiling and Mark Pollard

The taxpayer purchased land and later transferred it to a family controlled corporation in return for an earn out. When funds were eventually received, the IRS treated them as dividends, whereas the individual and corporate taxpayers contended they were sums paid on... View Details

Keywords: Investment Return; Debt Securities; Taxation; Outcome or Result; Financial Reporting; Family Business; Assets; Business and Stakeholder Relations

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