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Strategy and Technology
Overview
This course explores the unique aspects of creating effective management and investment strategies for technology-intensive businesses. What are effective strategies for winning in markets with strong network effects? How should... View Details
- April 2012 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Social Strategy at Harvard Business Review
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and David Chen
The Harvard Business Review (HBR) Group was an early adopter of social media, boasting a robust presence on Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Now the company is seeking to evolve the Group's efforts from social media to social strategy—and start moving both revenue...
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Keywords:
Competitive Advantage;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Web;
Publishing Industry;
United States
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan, and David Chen. "Social Strategy at Harvard Business Review." Harvard Business School Case 712-481, April 2012. (Revised March 2013.)
- December 1994
- Article
Benefits of Narrow Business Strategies
By: J. J. Rotemberg and Garth Saloner
Keywords:
Business Strategy
Rotemberg, J. J., and Garth Saloner. "Benefits of Narrow Business Strategies." American Economic Review 84, no. 5 (December 1994): 1330–1349.
- Editorial
United States: Where's the Strategy?
By: A. Zelleke and Justin Talbot Zorn
Keywords:
Barack Obama;
National Strategy;
White House;
Strategy;
National Security;
Government Administration;
United States
Zelleke, A., and Justin Talbot Zorn. "United States: Where's the Strategy?" The Diplomat (February 5, 2014).
- March 2015
- Article
Can One Business Unit Have Two Revenue Models?
By: Marco Bertini and Nader Tavassoli
Bertini, Marco, and Nader Tavassoli. "Can One Business Unit Have Two Revenue Models?" Harvard Business Review 93, no. 3 (March 2015): 121–123.
- 05 Nov 2018
- News
Best Business Books 2018: Strategy
- November 2011
- Article
Social Strategies That Work
By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
Although most companies have collected lots of friends and followers on social platforms such as Facebook, few have succeeded in generating profits there. That's because they merely port their digital strategies into social environments by broadcasting their commercial...
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Keywords:
Social Platforms;
Social Strategies;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Customers;
Relationships;
Business Strategy;
Profit
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan. "Social Strategies That Work." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 11 (November 2011): 116–122.
- 23 Sep 2022
- News
Eight Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
- April 2010
- Article
From Strategy to Business Models and onto Tactics
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan Enric Ricart
The notion of business model has been used by strategy scholars to refer to "the logic of the firm, the way it operates and how it creates value for its stakeholders." On the surface, this notion appears to be similar to that of strategy. We present a conceptual...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Competitive Strategy;
Value Creation;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Framework;
Negotiation Tactics;
Competition
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Joan Enric Ricart. "From Strategy to Business Models and onto Tactics." Special Issue on Business Models Long Range Planning 43, no. 2 (April 2010): 195–215.
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
Lost sales. Friction. Inefficiency. These are dirty words in the world of business, and they are inevitabilities for companies that don't watch their language, so to speak. Harvard Business School Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley...
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Keywords:
Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 2009
- Working Paper
From Strategy to Business Models and to Tactics
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan Enric Ricart
The notion of business model has been used by strategy scholars to refer to "the logic of the firm, the way it operates and how it creates value for its stakeholders." On the surface, this notion appears to be similar to that of strategy. We present a conceptual...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Framework;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Value Creation
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Joan Enric Ricart. "From Strategy to Business Models and to Tactics." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-036, November 2009.
- 2019
- Book
The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power
By: Michael A. Cusumano, Annabelle Gawer and David B. Yoffie
The Business of Platforms explores the strategic, economic, and technology management challenges of digital platform businesses. We have five major themes in the book: 1) The world’s most valuable companies are all platforms, in part because platforms have...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Technology;
Platform;
Internet and the Web;
Management;
Competitive Strategy;
Digital Platforms
Cusumano, Michael A., Annabelle Gawer, and David B. Yoffie. The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power. Harper Business, 2019.
- 2016
- Chapter
The Organization of Non-market Strategy
By: Dylan B. Minor
The purpose of this paper is to explore how firms organize to engage in non-market strategy. To achieve this end, we explore the organization of non-market strategy via a formal model of the firm. The model is motivated by a qualitative study of the organization of...
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Keywords:
Non-market Strategy;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Strategy;
Organizational Design;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Minor, Dylan B. "The Organization of Non-market Strategy." In Strategy Beyond Markets. Vol. 34, edited by John de Figueiredo, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, and Rick Vanden Bergh, 413–436. Advances in Strategic Management. Emerald Group Publishing, 2016.
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
The following article is the tenth in a series on the activities and research taking place in each academic unit at HBS. The powerful ideas that come under the umbrella of the School's Competition and View Details
Keywords:
Susan Young
- March 2011
- Case
United Cereal: Lora Brill's Eurobrand Challenge
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Carole Carlson
The case, set within the European organization of a giant multinational breakfast foods company, describes a launch decision for a new cereal product. As the case evolves, the decision has major strategic and organizational implications for Lora Brill, European VP. The...
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Keywords:
Subsidiaries;
Market Entry;
Multinational Corporations;
Strategy;
Business Subsidiaries;
Managerial Roles;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Marketing Strategy;
Market Entry and Exit;
Product Launch;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Retail Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Europe
Bartlett, Christopher A., and Carole Carlson. "United Cereal: Lora Brill's Eurobrand Challenge." Harvard Business School Brief Case 114-269, March 2011.
- 21 Jan 2011 - 2011
- Conference Presentation
Bottleneck Strategies for Business Ecosystems
- 10 May 2021
- News
Q&A: Are Businesses Doing Digital Strategy Wrong?
- 2016
- Case
Africa Strategy of China Nonferrous Metal Mining Group
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Jie Jiao, Dayong Yang and Shanshan Cao
Founded in 1983, China Nonferrous Metal Mining (Group) Co., Ltd. ("CNMC") is one of the earliest and largest global Chinese nonferrous metal industrial enterprises. It has investments and projects in 27 countries and trade networks in nearly 100 countries with a...
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Keywords:
Cross-cultural Management;
Global Strategy;
Globalization;
International Business;
Strategy Management;
Africa;
China
McFarlan, F. Warren, Jie Jiao, Dayong Yang, and Shanshan Cao. "Africa Strategy of China Nonferrous Metal Mining Group." Tsinghua University Case, 2016.
- September 2016 (Revised July 2018)
- Case
United Airlines: More Out-and-Back Flying?
This case looks at United Airlines when it is facing a decision on whether to shift its aircraft routing to more "out-and-back" routing in order to try to improve its on-time performance. As one of the world's largest airlines, United had a very large fleet and...
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Keywords:
Service Excellence;
Service Management;
Service Quality;
Service Quality Competition;
Services;
Airline Industry;
Airlines;
Operational Complexity;
Operational Disruptions;
Operational Effectiveness;
Operations Improvement;
Operations Management;
Operations Strategy;
Air Transportation;
Operations;
Service Operations;
Service Delivery;
Performance Effectiveness;
Performance Improvement;
Complexity;
Air Transportation Industry;
United States
Buell, Ryan W., Willy Shih, and Mike Toffel. "United Airlines: More Out-and-Back Flying?" Harvard Business School Case 617-010, September 2016. (Revised July 2018.)
- December 2016 (Revised May 2018)
- Module Note
Strategy Execution Module 15: Using the Levers of Control to Implement Strategy
By: Robert Simons
This module reading pulls together key concepts and techniques from the Strategy Execution series into an integrated model—the levers of control. The four levers are: (1) belief systems, (2) boundary systems, (3) diagnostic control systems, and (4) interactive control...
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Keywords:
Management Control Systems;
Implementing Strategy;
Execution;
Levers Of Control;
Balancing Innovation And Control;
Managing Growing Businesses;
Turn Around Management;
Human Behavior;
Organizational Life Cycle;
Strategy;
Management Systems;
Performance;
Measurement and Metrics;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Behavior
Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 15: Using the Levers of Control to Implement Strategy." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-115, December 2016. (Revised May 2018.)