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    Gary P. Pisano

    Gary Pisano is the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School where he has been on the faculty since 1988. From 2018-2023, Pisano was Harvard Business School’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotion and... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; electronics; health care; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals
    • June 1973 (Revised July 1982)
    • Case

    Textron, Inc.

    By: Norman A. Berg
    Covers the historical development, current business, management philosophies, corporate strategy, and the nature and role of the corporate headquarters in managing the highly diversified operations. Based on Textron, Inc. (A). View Details
    Keywords: History; Management Style; Business or Company Management; Corporate Strategy; Business Headquarters; Operations
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    • July 23, 2019
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    Is the U.S. on Its Way to Becoming a Cashless Society?

    By: Shelle Santana
    The rise of digital payments, including credit cards, debit cards, and mobile payments systems, have contributed to the steady shift in payment practices among consumers. According to the FDIC, cash represented just 30% of all payments in 2017, and the percentage of... View Details
    Keywords: Payment Methods; Cash; Credit Cards; Consumer Behavior; Change; United States
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    • September 1998 (Revised May 1999)
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    Strategic Services at Andersen Consulting

    By: Thomas J. DeLong, Catherine M. Conneely and Abby J. Hansen PHD
    Bill Copacino, Andersen Consulting's managing partner of Strategic Services Americas, needed to submit his recommendation to Peter Fuchs, Strategic Services worldwide director, for the operating plan for Strategic Services Americas for fiscal year 1999. Strategic... View Details
    Keywords: Strategic Planning; Recruitment; Organizational Culture; Expansion; Business Units; Consulting Industry
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    The Value Chain - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Business Strategy Business Strategy The Five Forces Strategic Positioning The Value Chain View Details
    • 01 May 2025
    • HBS Seminar

    Dan Iancu, Stanford Graduate School of Business

    • August 2005 (Revised January 2012)
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    McKinsey and the Globalization of Consultancy

    By: Geoffrey G. Jones and Alexis Lefort
    Considers McKinsey's strategy during the first stage of the globalization of the management consultancy industry between the 1950s and 1973. Briefly reviews the history of management consulting before considering the factors that led McKinsey to open its first... View Details
    Keywords: History; Demand and Consumers; Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Service Operations; Consulting Industry
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    Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

    Part of the fear and misunderstanding of state capitalism in the post-Berlin Wall era stems from the fact that most observers see state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as inefficient soviet companies. In Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and... View Details

    Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Development Banks; State Ownership; Development Economics; Management; Energy Industry; Banking Industry; Brazil; China; Europe; Latin America; Asia
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    Adelina Pak

    and can speak to the differences. With her career journey spanning teaching, management consulting, and tech, Adelina understands firsthand both the opportunities and challenges of career pivots and is deeply passionate about supporting... View Details
    • Summer 2016
    • Article

    The Real Lessons From Kodak's Decline

    By: Willy C. Shih
    Eastman Kodak is often mischaracterized as a company whose managers didn't recognize soon enough that digital technology would decimate its traditional business. However, what really happened at Kodak is much more complicated—and instructive. Kodak suffered from a... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Change; Disruption; Ecosystem; Semiconductors; Photography; Scaling-up; Scaling; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Product; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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    • 17 Oct 2018
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Quantile Forecasts of Product Life Cycles Using Exponential Smoothing

    Keywords: by Xiaojia Guo, Kenneth C. Lichtendahl Jr., and Yael Grushka-Cockayne
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    "Creating Competitive Advantage Through Knowledge Management" (with Elie Ofek)

    This project explores how the concept of Knowledge Management (KM) is likely to impact competition among professional services firms (e.g. Consultants, Accounting Firms and Advertising Agencies). Assuming that the "KM technology" exhibits economies of scale, first we... View Details
    • December 2020 (Revised January 2025)
    • Case

    Responsive Working at PepsiCo UK (A): Designing a Turnaround

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Nancy Boghossian Staples
    Facing a significant decline in revenues in 2016, David Gwilliam, Head of Transformation at PepsiCo UK introduced a new way of working (“Responsive Working”), which encompasses a set of work practices and some new team structures. The work practices comprise a set of 9... View Details
    Keywords: SLAM Teams; Turnaround; Groups and Teams; Employees; Training; Decision Making; Planning; Performance Improvement; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United Kingdom; Europe
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    • October 2019 (Revised February 2020)
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    Brightview Senior Living

    By: Lynda M. Applegate and James Weber
    Marilynn Duker, CEO, was exploring how to grow the company while maintaining the culture that made it a leader in the field of senior housing. Brightview constructed and operated senior living apartment communities that offered independent living, assisted living, and... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Employee Relationship Management; Real Estate Industry; United States
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    • February 2018
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    Montes Calcados: A Step Ahead

    By: James L. Heskett and James T. Kindley
    Montes Calçados (MC) is a well-known "fast-fashion" Brazilian manufacturer of casual, but fashionable, shoes for women aged 18–35 in major cities worldwide. To boost its declining revenues, MC must evaluate two growth options: whether to expand distribution online (at... View Details
    Keywords: Brands and Branding; Distribution Channels; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Global Range; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry
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    • 06 Nov 2023
    • News

    Did You Hear What I Said? How to Listen Better

    • April 2009
    • Case

    Supply Chain Optimization at Hugo Boss (A)

    By: Ananth Raman, Nicole DeHoratius and Zahra Kanji
    We evaluate the impact of a supply chain pilot implemented at Hugo Boss. This pilot entailed altering the way in which Hugo Boss orders from its suppliers. We explore the challenge of assessing the impact of supply chain change, the link between operational performance... View Details
    Keywords: Order Taking and Fulfillment; Logistics; Supply Chain Management; Performance Evaluation; Sales; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; Europe
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    • September 2004 (Revised June 2005)
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    Otis Elevator: Accelerating Business Transformation with IT

    By: F. Warren McFarlan and Brian DeLacey
    Focuses on a major transformation of Otis Elevator's infrastructure. Led by the CEO, this transformation represents a remarkable long-term reengineering of all the processes of the firm to drive its operating costs down and service image up. The transformation is the... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Cost Management; Infrastructure; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology
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    • November 1996
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    Diamond Walnut Growers

    By: Ray A. Goldberg and Mollie H. Carter
    Diamond Walnut Growers is the largest walnut marketer in the world. As a grower-owned cooperative, it is under pressure to operate as efficiently as independent handlers. Diamond is evaluating its high-margin consumer branded business, which has experienced little to... View Details
    Keywords: Plant-Based Agribusiness; Change Management; Marketing Strategy; Operations; Cooperative Ownership; Corporate Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    Public Policy and Markets

    By: Willis M. Emmons
    William (Willis) M. Emmons III is investigating the interaction of public policy, markets, business strategy, and performance at the levels of firm, industry, and society. Emmons' approach draws heavily on economic theories of industrial organization, market failure,... View Details