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Confronting Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities

mobilizing the $100 trillion bond market for climate change solutions.  Climate Policy Initiative - An independent non-profit organization whose mission is to help governments, businesses, and financial institutions drive View Details
  • February 2005 (Revised May 2005)
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Nordstrom: The Turnaround

By: Rajiv Lal and Arar Han
After a period of turbulence, the fourth generation of Nordstroms are in control of the $7.1 billion apparel retailer. They have instituted a number of changes in buying and IT that have turned the business around. What can they do to ensure future growth? View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Crisis Management; Growth Management; Organizational Structure; Information Technology; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry
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  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

technologies, demographic shifts, and consumption trends. They can't develop truly global organizations that operate effortlessly across borders. And they find it tough to ensure that their people adhere to values and ethics. The world... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008

  Working PapersWellsprings of Creation: Perturbation and the Paradox of the Highly Disciplined Organization Authors:David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman, and David M. Upton Abstract View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2013 (Revised November 2013)
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Growing Financial Services in India: Aditya Birla Financial Services Group

By: Paul M. Healy and Rachna Tahilyani
Aditya Birla Financial Services Group is a large, broad-based, Indian financial services institution offering products ranging from life insurance and mutual funds to private equity. The company has witnessed a turnaround in recent years and regained lost market share.... View Details
Keywords: Regulatory Environment; Finance; Asset Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Transformation; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Segmentation; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; India
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Luc Sirois

way: a project leader pinpoints problem areas and organizes a hackathon that is attended by an audience of 200 to 300 participants. Doctors and nurses on the front line engage with software developers who are eager to break through the... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Technology; Nonprofit / Government
  • 08 May 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018

Harvard Business School Case 818-039 Cumplo.com In August 2017, Cumplo’s Founder Shea and CEO Kirberg meet to discuss growth and strategy issues faced by this Chilean fintech startup. What sales and marketing strategy will best foster the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

case describes a critical inflection point in the growth of an international development "mentor capitalist" nonprofit, Endeavor. As Endeavor aims to scale its high-impact entrepreneurship model globally, founder Linda... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2012
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A Winning Formula

that says a lot about what drives his company: “Life is too short to work in a dysfunctional organization.” Dashboard specializes in analyzing why an organization’s growth may have slowed, and then works with management to institute... View Details
Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

delegation, but there is less empirical evidence, especially across countries. This has limited the ability to understand the phenomenon of decentralization. To address the empirical lacuna we have developed a research program to measure the internal View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

  Working PapersAccountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China Authors:Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky, and Yu Zheng Abstract Over the past two decades, no two economies have averaged more rapid economic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

creative destruction following U.S. banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. U.S. banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. The vast majority of closures, however, were the new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 5, 2007

roots to the present day, and examines the growth of Whole Foods Market in the context of the broader growth of the organic industry. Also investigates John Mackey's role as a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2000
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Books

today's top executives must build organizations in which the new can constructively displace the old and where talented employees are encouraged to help formulate company strategy. "Successful e-leaders focus on two things: a new approach... View Details
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses Authors:Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz Abstract We consider market rules for the transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Excessive fragmentation of IP... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

When Open Architecture Beats Closed: The Entrepreneurial Use of Architectural Knowledge

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
This paper describes how entrepreneurial firms can use superior architectural knowledge to open up a technical system to gain strategic advantage. The strategy involves, first, identifying "bottlenecks" in the existing system, and then creating a new open architecture... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Investment Return; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Design; Organizational Design; Competitive Advantage; Technology Industry
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  • October 2020
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The Supply Chain Economy: A New Industry Categorization for Understanding Innovation in Services

By: Mercedes Delgado and Karen G. Mills
An active debate has centered on the importance of manufacturing for driving innovation in the U.S. economy. This paper offers an alternative framework that focuses on the role of suppliers of goods and services (the “supply chain economy”) in national performance. We... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Industries; Business-to-consumer Industries; Services; Innovation; Economy; Framework; Supply Chain; Service Operations; Innovation and Invention; Economic Growth; United States
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  • October 2008 (Revised September 2009)
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Procter & Gamble in the 21st Century (A): Becoming Truly Global

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird
Since the 1980s, Procter & Gamble had leveraged its purpose, values, and principles (PVP) to create a global company. When P&G faced difficult times in 2000, the new CEO, A.G. Lafley, leveraged the PVP to drive P&G's turnaround, integrate global operations, and guide... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Values and Beliefs; Globalized Firms and Management; Leading Change; Growth Management; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog

https://courseware.hbs.edu/video/?v=0_cteitfd6 Course Content and Organization The course first focuses on how to buy a small business. We begin with the case of two HBS MBAs who chose to purchase a small business using a search fund... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2015
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Faculty Q&A: The Working World

policymakers in a way that leads to improved choices and decisions. The more analysis informs this debate, the better, so that we can more easily understand and model the outcome. When we make changes to immigration policy, what is the impact on GDP View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna