Strategic Alignment - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2009 (Revised December 2010)
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Western Union: Our World, Our Family®

By: Christopher Marquis

In 2006, Western Union spun-off from its former parent, First Data Corporation, and began the process of defining itself as a stand-alone organization. Part of that effort was the creation of a strategic corporate social responsibility program called Our World, Our... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Programs; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Alignment; Value

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CSV Explained - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

at the core of their business. The three levels of CSV The new competitive advantage: Creating Shared Value Some of today’s most successful companies are aligning their strategic positioning with shared... View Details

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Transforming Customer Experiences

approach to service design, execution, and transformation, this customer experience management program prepares you to create an exceptional service culture that supports employees, delights customers, and drives organizational performance. You will return with the... View Details

18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

scientifically grounded way to align our speech and nonverbal behavior with our beliefs, abilities, and values to produce a synchronized inner state that resonates and connects with others. In this way, we can capture the inner strength... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Outcomes and cost are measured for every patient. Aligning Reimbursement with Value Reimbursement models that reward both better outcomes and efficiency of care, such as bundled payments. Systems... View Details

12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

emergent machine of the sovereign state. Yet such strategic interaction rarely yielded a decisive victory for either the secular state or for religion. By tracing how state-builders engaged religious institutions, elites, and attachments,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Business, Government & the International Economy - Faculty & Research

several empirical facts: (i) rhetorical alignment is prevalent but not universal; (ii) it has increased significantly over time; (iii) it is more pronounced in state-owned and strategic sectors; and (iv) it... View Details

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Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance

you will learn how to move your company beyond a compliance mentality toward strategic financial reporting and effective risk management. Details Enable the audit committee to play a more strategic role... View Details

03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

Strategic Interactions in Two-Sided Market Oligopolies (revised) Authors:Emmanuel Farhi and Andrei Hagiu Abstract Strategic interactions between two-sided platforms depend not only on whether their decision... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual

strategic and organizational challenges inherent in evolving your health care delivery approach. Details Align your organization around a value-based strategy Build a firm foundation for exploring and... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

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Managing the Future of Work

skills jobs is evolving much faster than educators’ abilities to change curriculum. Podcast Cisco's alignment strategy: Coordinating workforce and operations 16 JUL 2025 | MANAGING THE FUTURE OF WORK The benefits of cross-function... View Details

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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... View Details

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Asia Pacific - Global

strategic sectors; and (iv) it is negatively correlated with profitability and positively correlated with performance on political and social objectives. Exploiting two natural experiments, we further show that (v) rhetorically View Details

23 Nov 2021
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What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins

led a renewal of the company by discarding performance metrics that discouraged risk-taking, aligning employees behind a mission to empower customers, and proclaiming that the “C” in his title stood for culture. The book, forthcoming in... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Take Control of Your Personal Brand

is about. Instead, your goal is to help others understand the real you and the unique value you can deliver. Developing your personal brand requires some honest self-reflection about your values and your purpose. Thinking strategically... View Details

August 2002
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Trilogy University

By: Thomas J. DeLong and Michael Paley

In early 2001, Trilogy Software faced a slowdown in its business, a large number of unsuccessful customer deployments, and an overall weakening in the enterprise software market. In response, the company revamped its business model and restructured the organization.... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Alignment; Restructuring; Organizational Structure; Change Management; Business Strategy; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Information Technology Industry

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31 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

but also themselves. Everything is changing and technology is a key driver When we asked executives to join our roundtable conversations about “digital leadership,” they warned us that the term was too narrow: “leadership in the digital age” better describes the View Details

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

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Online Business Courses & Certifications | HBS Online

Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business . Entrepreneurship & Innovation Learn what it takes to harness innovation and transform a disruptive idea into a viable venture. Explore Subject New Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy Build the skill set and... View Details

20 Jun 2005
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Creating a Positive Professional Image

often experience a significant incongruence between their desired professional image and their perceived professional image. In short, they are not perceived in the manner they desire; instead, their undesired professional image may be more closely View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

23 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 23

importance of organizational governance, and the role of governing boards in particular, in prioritizing and aligning potentially conflicting objectives and interests in order to avoid mission drift and to maintain organizational... View Details