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- May 2012
- Case
Evergreen Natural Markets 2012
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Paul S. Myers
Evergreen Natural Markets is a successful food retailer located in the Rocky Mountain region of the U.S. Having grown through acquisition, it has a reputation for improving the companies it purchases while retaining previous management. This strategy has succeeded due...
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United States;
Operating Systems;
Acquisitions;
Strategy;
Human Resource Management;
Consolidations;
Retail Trade;
Food;
Growth Management;
Organizational Culture;
Consolidation;
Acquisition;
Business Processes;
Retail Industry;
Retail Industry;
Las Vegas;
Western United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Paul S. Myers. "Evergreen Natural Markets 2012." Harvard Business School Brief Case 124-450, May 2012.
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
eye-opening glimpse under the hood of an industry I love. Coupled with my time on movie sets and in production offices, I saw the industry’s huge potential for innovation. During business school, I also noted that some entertainment had a...
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Robert Bochnak
- 2016
- Teaching Note
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Shelly London and Ethics Education
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Teaching Note for Case 313-028. Following a successful career as a Senior Vice President, Vice President, and Chief Communications Officer at two large corporate companies, Shelly London became a Harvard Advanced Leadership Fellow. During her fellowship she set out to...
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Keywords:
Ethics;
Education;
Moral Sensibility;
Behavior;
Decision Making;
Leadership;
Innovation and Management;
Change Management;
Social Enterprise;
Education Industry;
Education Industry;
North and Central America
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Tessa Natanay Hamilton, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Shelly London and Ethics Education." Harvard Business Publishing Teaching Note, 2016. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
- March 2012
- Article
Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990
By: Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski
This article is concerned with business strategies of political risk management during the twentieth century. It focuses especially on Beiersdorf, a pharmaceutical and skin care company in Germany. During World War I, the expropriation of its brands and trademarks...
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Keywords:
Business Strategy;
Government and Politics;
Risk Management;
Brands and Branding;
Problems and Challenges;
Communication Technology;
Cost;
Trademarks;
Strategy;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Germany
Jones, Geoffrey, and Christina Lubinski. "Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990." Enterprise & Society 13, no. 1 (March 2012): 85–119.
- June 2017
- Case
Obesity Management at Kaiser Permanente: A New Mindset for Healthcare Delivery?
By: Kevin Schulman, Gregory Leya and Christina Beveridge
Kaiser Permanente (KP) is the largest managed care organization in the United States with over 10 million members. KP evolved from a prepayment or capitation model that focuses the organization around the efficiency of care and the health of the population it serves....
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Keywords:
Operations;
Health Care and Treatment;
Business Model;
Strategy;
Health Industry;
United States
Schulman, Kevin, Gregory Leya, and Christina Beveridge. "Obesity Management at Kaiser Permanente: A New Mindset for Healthcare Delivery?" Harvard Business School Case 317-106, June 2017.
- April 2017
- Case
Planetary Resources Inc., Property Rights, and the Regulation of the Space Economy
By: Matthew Weinzierl and Angela Acocella
Planetary Resources, Inc. (PRI) had a bold, some said crazy, vision: to mine asteroids. One might have assumed that developing the right technology would be the greatest challenge facing PRI. But even if the fledgling company could develop and deploy the sophisticated...
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Property;
Rights;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Aerospace Industry;
Aerospace Industry
Weinzierl, Matthew, and Angela Acocella. "Planetary Resources Inc., Property Rights, and the Regulation of the Space Economy." Harvard Business School Case 717-053, April 2017.
- 15 Feb 2022
- Book
When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
for my previous work. I am still alive, but professionally, I am no one. I lose the ability to communicate my thoughts and ideas to those around me. I am dead, and I am no longer remembered at all for my accomplishments. Evaluate and...
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by Avery Forman
- Web
Research - Global
July 2023, the Linde plc board of directors' sustainaibility committee convened in London to review the company's environmental performance, with a focus on decarbonization and clean energy. Linde was the world's largest industrial gas...
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- 17 Jan 2024
- HBS Case
Psychological Pricing Tactics to Fight the Inflation Blues
steep discounts offered by rivals. “There’s value in communicating and explaining what parts of your inputs, such as labor or material costs, have gone up in an effort to maintain high quality, and that's why you're raising these prices,”...
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- 14 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis
began selling iron ore and coal to Germany and Great Britain in the early 1800s. When Sweden industrialized in the mid-1800s, Spar says, “it did so quickly and methodically,” adopting the most successful practices from established...
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by Lane Lambert
- Web
Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
Technology & Innovation Technology & Innovation December 2014 Article The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization By: Nicholas Bloom, Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen...
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- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
UnileverA Case Study
lower financial returns than their domestic equivalents in the United States. 9 One explanation for this phenomenon might be transfer pricing, but this has proved hard to verify empirically. The industry mix is another possibility, but...
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- 07 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success
its leaders distribute authority and delegate decision-making. Too often, leaders only communicate how digital transformation will improve the company’s performance. Instead, they must develop a narrative—a human-centric story—for how...
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- 26 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
The Road Untraveled: VC Perspectives on COVID-19
COVID-19" – a project he hopes will provide insights directly from the VC industry to founders and investors on how to manage their business and financial expectations through these unprecedented times. These are some key...
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- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
they can adapt and adopt institutional practices already legitimized by counterpart industries in other parts of the world. The paper builds on existing community ecology and social movement perspectives on...
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Martha Lagace
- Teaching Interest
Strategy and Technology
By: Andy Wu
The Strategy and Technology elective course explores the unique aspects of creating effective strategies for technology-intensive businesses.
- What strategies win in markets with network effects?
- How can technology be... View Details
Keywords:
Innovation and Management;
Innovation Leadership;
Innovation Strategy;
Technological Innovation;
Patents;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Competitive Strategy;
Hardware;
Information Technology;
Internet;
Mobile Technology;
Online Technology;
Search Technology;
Software;
Technology Adoption;
Technology Networks;
Technology Platform;
Communications Industry;
Communications Industry;
Communications Industry;
Communications Industry;
Communications Industry;
Communications Industry;
Communications Industry;
Communications Industry;
Communications Industry
- Web
Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Business Offices (3) Business Plan (2) Business Processes (4) Business Startups (32) Business Strategy (30) Business Units (1) Business Ventures (141) Business and Community Relations (8) Business and Government Relations (43) Business...
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- August 2016 (Revised October 2016)
- Case
Nirvana Vihar Rehabilitation Homes
By: Shawn Cole, Andreas Rotenberg and Thomas van den Aarssen
Kumar Builders (KUL) was finally nearing completion on the four luxury condominium towers that comprised the first phase of its bold vision for the redevelopment of more than 70 acres of prime real estate in downtown Pune, India. The Nirvana Hills development also...
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Real Estate;
Slum Redevelopment;
Double Bottom Line;
Economic Development;
Partnerships;
Partners and Partnerships;
Development Economics;
Urban Development;
Business and Community Relations;
Real Estate Industry;
India
Cole, Shawn, Andreas Rotenberg, and Thomas van den Aarssen. "Nirvana Vihar Rehabilitation Homes." Harvard Business School Case 217-013, August 2016. (Revised October 2016.)
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets...
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by Avery Forman
- Web
Blending Heritage and Innovation: Lisa Yan (MBA 2025) - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st...
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