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  • 15 Nov 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

coordinated and aligned to focus on one or more specific diseases or conditions, such as cancer or heart disease. The organizational structure and staffing, work processes, and facilities will evolve to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 22 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

warned. "Business cannot sit this one out" and ignore reality, he said. Yet the nature of any given industry today presents business with unique challenges. One session of the conference focused specifically on supply chains,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • July 2007 (Revised March 2009)
  • Case

Berkshire Partners: Purchase of Rival Company (A)

Berkshire Partners, a private equity firm in Boston, was pleased with their recent investment in the Holmes Group, a home comfort consumer electronics company. The portfolio company was exceeding key financial targets and Berkshire Partners was confident that it would... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Capital Structure; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Acquisition; Financial Services Industry; Boston
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  • 06 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 6

coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information technology investments, I find that a high net value of adaptation is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 1998 (Revised April 1998)
  • Case

Egon Zehnder International: Implementing Practice Groups

By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
Since its creation in 1964, executive search firm Egon Zehnder International (EZI) marketed its consultants as "generalists." As searches became more global and industry-specific in the 1990s, CEO Daniel Meiland decided the firm needed to offer specialized services. By... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Global Strategy; Leadership; Brands and Branding; Service Operations; Organizational Structure; Consulting Industry; Consulting Industry
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  • October 2010
  • Case

innocent

By: William A. Sahlman and Harry Wake
This case describes a set of issues confronting the founders of innocent, a 10-year old beverage company that dominated the UK smoothie market. The team must decide how to proceed with expansion of the product line and outside the UK and Ireland. They must also decide... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Expansion; Capital Structure; Corporate Finance; Growth and Development Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

homeowner—equity extraction is sufficiently widespread-as it was during the years leading up to the peak of the U.S. residential real-estate market-the inadvertent coordination of leverage during a market rise implies higher correlation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

corporate synergies should be defined at the top and realized in the business units. Just as the CFO coordinates the budgeting process, a senior executive should coordinate the alignment process—a... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail
  • October 2022 (Revised December 2022)
  • Case

Reimagining Enel: Enabling Sustainable Progress

By: Michael L. Tushman and Kerry Herman
CEO Francesco Starace is considering what is next for Enel SpA, one of world's largest energy companies. From 2014 to 2022, he has wrought a dramatic transformation at Enel, restructuring the company's business units; redeploying senior talent across functions and... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Leadership And Change Management; Leadership Style; Leadership Succession; Renewables; Energy; Transformation; Renewable Energy; Business Divisions; Digital Transformation; Restructuring; Organizational Structure; Energy Industry; Europe; Latin America; North America; Spain; Italy
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  • 25 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Can China Lead?’

nurtured in different educational and institutional settings. The question, then, is this: does China have a good institutional framework for innovation? Our answer at present is no: the governance structures of Chinese state-owned... View Details
Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby & F. Warren McFarlan; Education; Technology
  • First Quarter 2013
  • Article

Big Data in the Age of the Telegraph

By: Caitlin C. Rosenthal
Daniel McCallum's 1854 organizational chart for the New York and Erie Railroad resembled a tree rather than a pyramid. It empowered frontline managers by clarifying data flows. View Details
Keywords: Big Data; Telegraph; Organizational Charts; History; Data and Data Sets; Business History; Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Rail Industry
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  • 16 Aug 2024
  • In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

policy, resulting in even stricter immigration restrictions—with potential negative consequences for the economy. The US government and business leaders should instead seek a coordinated approach to design an open, but flexible... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 09 Sep 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

of these two factors helps stop and reverse long-term declines in overall inventor agglomeration evident in the 1970s and 1980s. The heightened ethnic agglomeration is particularly evident in industry patents for high-tech sectors, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Deconstructing the Price Tag

cost transparency caveats for retailers. A firm may not want to share production costs if the cost structure provides a competitive advantage. In addition, contracts with suppliers may prevent making certain information public. And it... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

experience and performance fails to find a consistent effect of diversity in experience on performance. The problem is that diversity in experience improves a team's information processing capacity and knowledge base but also creates View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

industrial and energy services—and was close to defaulting on its financial obligations. Some managers felt the company was also bankrupt in terms of ideas. There was insufficient communication across the company, including few common... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

relationship between changes in the structure of the executive team, firm diversification, and IT investments-which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through corporate-wide coordination by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

divisions. Our two studies allow us to demonstrate that spontaneous within-game dialogue and manipulated pre-game talk lead to the same results. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-039.pdf   PublicationsCost Structure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

people but are often blind to the need for radical change. Outsiders see the need for a new approach but can't make the necessary changes because they don't know the organization or industry sector well enough. What companies must do,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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