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- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509012 Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail Harvard Business School Case 709-409 The case looks at the two dominant Finnish retailers: S Group and Kesko. S Group is a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- September 2021 (Revised June 2023)
- Case
Serving Bud Moore (A)
By: David G. Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti
In only his third year at a Leading Strategy Consulting Firm (LSC), Gregory Davis has been assigned to a select group tasked with advising General Motors (GM), one of the largest companies in the world by revenue, on how to reorganize their entire North American...
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Groups and Teams;
Decisions;
Relationships;
Cooperation;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Outcome or Result;
Restructuring
Fubini, David G., and Patrick Sanguineti. "Serving Bud Moore (A)." Harvard Business School Case 422-015, September 2021. (Revised June 2023.)
- September 2006 (Revised November 2013)
- Case
Airbus vs. Boeing (A)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Erich Alexander Voigt and Jordan Mitchell
Looks at the development of the competitive actions between Airbus and Boeing from 1992 to 2006. Begins with the question of whether Airbus and Boeing should collaborate on the development of a VLCT (Very Large Commercial Transport) or whether Airbus should develop...
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Business Model;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Competition;
Cooperation;
Air Transportation Industry
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Erich Alexander Voigt, and Jordan Mitchell. "Airbus vs. Boeing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 707-447, September 2006. (Revised November 2013.)
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2280370 A Formal Theory of Strategy By: Van den Steen, Eric Abstract—What makes a decision strategic? When is strategy most important? This paper studies the structure and value of...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 2007
- Book
America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again
This book draws on the author's multiple research projects and field observations to analyze problems facing the United States in recent years and to create an agenda for renewing American strengths through returning to core American principles—but in new ways suitable...
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Values and Beliefs;
Policy;
Leadership;
Civil Society or Community;
Cooperation;
United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M. America the Principled: 6 Opportunities for Becoming a Can-Do Nation Once Again. New York: Crown, 2007.
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
quality when networks of schools cooperate with each other. When school districts work well, they create these scale advantages; when they do not work well, they are cumbersome bureaucracies. Because of the number of independent charter...
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The Ecosystem of Shared Value
By: Mark R. Kramer and Marc W. Pfitzer
Governments, NGOs, companies, and community members must all be involved in programs to create shared value, yet they work more often in opposition than in alignment. A movement known as collective impact has facilitated successful collaborations in the social sector,...
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Kramer, Mark R., and Marc W. Pfitzer. "The Ecosystem of Shared Value." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 10 (October 2016): 80–89.
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
underlying principles: Businesses try to learn from noisy signals and quickly adapt their activities to newly emerging information. They actively cooperate with external stakeholders (including, in some instances, their competitors) to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- June 2012
- Article
Leadership Is a Conversation
By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
Globalization and new technologies have sharply reduced the efficacy of command-and-control management and its accompanying forms of corporate communication. In the course of a recent research project, the authors concluded that by talking with employees, rather than...
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Employees;
Management Style;
Interpersonal Communication;
Leadership;
Cooperation;
Partners and Partnerships
Groysberg, Boris, and Michael Slind. "Leadership Is a Conversation." Harvard Business Review 90, no. 6 (June 2012).
- 2020
- Case
Building Transparency within the Sustainable Apparel Coalition: The Road to Successful Pre-Competitive Collaboration
The Sustainable Apparel Coalition (SAC) was founded in 2010 to develop a common set of sustainability standards for the apparel, footwear, and home textile industries. The organization was an example of pre-competitive collaboration, a strategy in which companies...
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Environmental Sustainability;
Cooperation;
Social Issues;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Performance Evaluation;
Apparel and Accessories Industry
Hoffman, Andrew J. "Building Transparency within the Sustainable Apparel Coalition: The Road to Successful Pre-Competitive Collaboration." William Davidson Institute Case 8-059-399, 2020.
- 28 Mar 2012
- What Do You Think?
Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?
in his recent book, some are less fungible than others. Germany was cited by Peter Sebregondi as a country that has pursued an enlightened strategy toward manufacturing, through its continued support of an apprentice system that provides...
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- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
Mistake Number 3: Passively sitting and waiting for a crisis (which many never come). A major problem with passive strategies is that nature may not cooperate by providing the right amount of lightning in...
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by John P. Kotter
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
information is delivered." One possible line would include information about a company's strategy. Brad Keller commented that "It takes more than just sharing financials or performance review data It is really a matter of being open about an organization's...
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by James Heskett
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Alibaba Group's transition from a startup to a multibusiness firm with over 15,000 employees in just over a decade. They analyze the evolving dynamics of internal competition and cooperation among Alibaba Group's subsidiaries. Students...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Feb 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
leadership strategy at Harvard Business School is based on this assumption: It is that a discussion leader should avoid calling on students whose hands have been in the air for several minutes. The assumption, which is nearly always borne...
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by James Heskett
- Web
Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Graduate Award in 2016. Elisabeth Kempf: Winner of the Cubist Systematic Strategies PhD Candidate Award for Outstanding Research from the Western Finance Association in 2016. Elisabeth Kempf: Winner of the 2016 Finanzforum Vordenken Young...
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- April 2012
- Article
How Many Direct Reports?
By: Gary L. Neilson and Julie Wulf
If senior executives are feeling ever more pressed for time, why would they add more to their plates? It might sound counterintuitive, but research by Booz & Company's Gary L. Neilson and me shows that over the past 20 years the CEO's average span of control, measured...
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Leadership;
Governance Controls;
Managerial Roles;
Adaptation;
Personal Development and Career;
Cooperation;
Management Teams
Neilson, Gary L., and Julie Wulf. "How Many Direct Reports?" Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012).
- 17 Sep 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills
business talks, our other career skills won't do us much good. Many of us, however, approach these critical conversations woefully unprepared. Fortunately, a large number of Harvard Business School faculty research this area constantly, and their tips and View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Award for the best article in Harvard Business Review for "The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures" (January–February 2019). Gary P. Pisano: Creative Construction: The DNA of Sustained Innovation was selected by Strategy+Business as one of the Best Business Books on...
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- 04 May 2017
- Cold Call Podcast
Leading a Team to the Top of Mount Everest
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Re: Amy C. Edmondson