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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
"Profitability Optimization Model" (PROM) in the first half of the 1960s that appeared to explain a significant fraction of the variation in the return on investment afforded by its various businesses.20 Over time, like many other companies, View Details
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 14 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team
presented in the Harvard Business Review article "Are Leaders Portable?" co-written with Andrew N. McLean and Nitin Nohria. The records of former GE general managers demonstrate that even skills widely perceived as generalizable...
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by Martha Lagace
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
someone who doesn't know a lot about the business. Is that another problem? A: Well, there are two different approaches. What's interesting is sometimes people go for great CEOs who come from what are called CEO factories, like GE or...
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- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
short-term and long-term thinking, and craft emotionally engaging visions while staying focused on execution. In this article, we analyze how one organization, GE Money Bank in Switzerland, successfully created a new growth business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
outsourcing operation of General Electric and was the largest outsourcing operation in India. In 2005 GE decided to partially divest this subsidiary to a number of private equity players. By 2007, the firm was named Genpact and was...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
variety of industries use this approach. Bush Boake Allen (BBA), a global supplier of specialty flavors to companies like Nestlé, has built a tool kit that enables its customers to develop their own flavors, which BBA then manufactures. In the materials field, View Details
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by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
performance is Jack Welch. But that would mean the future of American corporations is in cloning. Rather, people should ask: What are the systems by which a company like GE has, for more than a century, produced good managers? Systems...
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
for the launch by an unknown start-up, considering the wisdom of taking a B2C rather than B2B approach with a novel technology, and using analogous products to forecast demand and sales for a new technology. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
which is typically the method used for financial statements. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112051-PDF-ENG Ken Langone: Member, GE Compensation Committee Suraj Srinivasan and Lizzie GomezHarvard Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
even generate sufficient high quality capital-budget projects to use the available resources—and therefore go on merger-and-acquisition expeditions. The stock market is telling managers what the scarce strategic resource is. When it values a mature, capital-intensive...
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- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
billion in sales, many believed that a more disciplined approach to operations would be important for future growth. As a result, the company hired Bob Nardelli, a former GE executive, to lead the change. When Bob Nardelli became the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
decide which segments to focus on. In fact, the customer is too important to follow the practice of calling everyone a customer. As managers at GE have stated, "Customers are seen for what they are—the lifeblood of a company....
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by Robert Simons
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
enough to get better; you have to "get different" — for example, in the way that GE went from manufacturing to services or Charles Schwab went from bricks and mortar to online services. But what happens when we ask senior...
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by Staff
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
projects, for example, don’t generate enough water bill revenue to pay for themselves. But, rather than go without water for lack of current funds or skills, municipalities like Algiers, Algeria, have contracted for water with GE on an...
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- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
less than 1 percent of U.S. GDP. Some U.S. multinationals might be exposed to a fall in their overseas earnings. GE stock was down 20 percent for a time on Black Monday, though Apple, for example, recently said that business in China...
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- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review GE's Global Growth Experiment: The Company Pushed Cross-Business Collaboration By: Gulati, Ranjay Abstract—Like many other companies, GE under Immelt had to figure out how to balance serving...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
merely a replay of the past, specifically for companies like Kodak, Xerox, and GM that have failed before at transforming themselves. These companies are in a precarious position. They must find ways, as only GE has successfully done, to...
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- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Immelt: The Voyage from MBA to CEO Harvard Business School Case 307-056 GE believes its ability to develop management talent is a core competency that represents a source of sustainable competitive advantage. Traces the development of a...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
2000 respectively, GE Capital and Citi Financial both acquired Japanese consumer-lending companies. In 2006, when the Japanese Supreme Court rules that one of the big Japanese consumer lenders must repay a borrower for "excess...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
difficult. At least two American corporations, GE and Microsoft, have effectively combined their China and India strategies, allowing them to stay ahead of global rivals. Purchase the article:...
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Martha Lagace