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- July 2008
- Case
Leading from the Side
By: Thomas J. DeLong
Harriet Cornwall, a partner at the law firm of Kensington Palmer, LLP, is made lead over a fellow group of attorneys. Put in charge of guiding her colleagues in their annual goal-setting initiative, she notices four that need special attention. Cornwall must address...
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DeLong, Thomas J. "Leading from the Side." Harvard Business School Case 409-023, July 2008.
- January 1990 (Revised February 1993)
- Case
Selling Durable Goods
Examines the pricing policy for a firm that is a monopoly supplier of a durable good. Lowering price over time in an attempt to increase market penetration seems desirable. But doing so may also cause some buyers to postpone their purchases. Describes these...
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Brandenburger, Adam M., and Vijay Krishna. "Selling Durable Goods." Harvard Business School Case 190-110, January 1990. (Revised February 1993.)
- September 2000 (Revised April 2001)
- Case
Kana Communications
Kana is a young Internet software company wondering how it should react to the rapid emergence of Application Service Providers (ASPs), firms that host software applications for customers who can reach those via the Internet. ASPs may be a new channel of distribution...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Internet and the Web;
Applications and Software;
Distribution Channels;
Web Services Industry
Sarvary, Miklos. "Kana Communications." Harvard Business School Case 501-003, September 2000. (Revised April 2001.)
- May 1993 (Revised December 1997)
- Background Note
Internationalization of Services, Module Note, The
Many industry-leading service providers are expanding internationally, with varying degrees of success. This note presents a framework for understanding the managerial challenges facing service firms as they enter foreign markets. In particular, focuses on key...
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Loveman, Gary W. "Internationalization of Services, Module Note, The." Harvard Business School Background Note 693-103, May 1993. (Revised December 1997.)
- 31 Mar 2015
- News
Get More from Your Event Spending
- 04 Jun 2012
- News
Why Not Venture-Capital Philanthropy?
- 15 Feb 2013
- News
Younger Workers Need a Career Narrative
- 11 Jan 2011
- News
Clean Energy Sector Hit by Financing Crunch
- 14 Dec 2021
- News
The Four Principles Of Change Management
- 08 Mar 2021
- News
The Long Road Ahead for Women in Corporate India
- 17 Nov 2011
- News
Migration and business: Weaving the world together
- 17 Jan 2013
- News
Reshoring manufacturing: Coming home
- 26 Apr 2016
- News
How Companies Escape the Traps of the Past
- 28 Jul 2020
- Video
Sizwe Nxasana
Sizwe Nxasana, the founding partner of SizweNtsalubaGobodo, the largest Black accounting firm in South Africa, as well as the former CEO of Telkom and FirstRand Group, recounts how the... View Details
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Governments as Owners: State-Owned Multinational Companies
By: Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Andrew Inkpen, Aldo Musacchio and Kannan Ramaswamy
The globalization of state-owned multinational companies (SOMNCs) has become an important phenomenon in international business (IB), yet it has received scant attention in the literature. We explain how the analysis of SOMNCs can help advance the literature by...
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Keywords:
Multinational Corporation;
State-owned Enterprises;
State Capitalism;
FDI;
Internationalization;
Government And Business;
National Oil Companies;
State Ownership;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Business Subsidiaries;
Acquisition;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Energy Industry;
China;
India;
Europe
Cuervo-Cazurra, Alvaro, Andrew Inkpen, Aldo Musacchio, and Kannan Ramaswamy. "Governments as Owners: State-Owned Multinational Companies." Special Issue on Governments as Owners: Globalizing State-Owned Enterprises edited by Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra, Andrew Inkpen, Aldo Musacchio and Kannan Ramaswamy. Journal of International Business Studies 45, no. 8 (October–November 2014): 919–942.
- September 2013
- Exercise
An Exercise in Designing a Travel Coffee Mug
By: Elie Ofek and Michael Norris
In recent years design has emerged as a critical factor in the success of many new products. This case exercise provides a hands-on way to experience the design process and offers a structured approach for incorporating key considerations that can aid in effective...
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Keywords:
New Product Development;
Innovation;
Market Research;
Competitive Positioning;
Design;
Product Development;
Consumer Products Industry
Ofek, Elie, and Michael Norris. "An Exercise in Designing a Travel Coffee Mug." Harvard Business School Exercise 514-042, September 2013.
- 8:30 AM – 6:45 PM EDT, 15 Sep 2020
- Virtual Programming
Competing in the Age of AI and Digital Transformation
How are companies today using artificial intelligence (AI) to respond to business challenges? During this session, professors Karim Lakhani and Macro Iansiti, coauthors of the book Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the...
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- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
emergence or change. Yet the question of identity endurance is equally puzzling. Relying primarily on the analysis of 309 internal bulletins produced at a French aeronautics firm over almost fifty years, we theorize a link between...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2009
- Chapter
Self-regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature
By: Andrew A. King and Michael W. Toffel
Scholars of management have long considered how institutions can help resolve market imperfections and thereby improve human welfare. Most previous research has emphasized the use of for-profit firms. Such institutions cannot effectively address many environmental...
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Keywords:
For-Profit Firms;
Investment;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Competitive Advantage
King, Andrew A., and Michael W. Toffel. "Self-regulatory Institutions for Solving Environmental Problems: Perspectives and Contributions from the Management Literature." Chap. 4 in Governance for the Environment: New Perspectives, edited by Magali Delmas and Oran Young, 98–115. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Working Paper
Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry
By: Dominika Kinga Randle and Gary P. Pisano
An enduring trait of modern corporations is their propensity to diversify into multiple lines of business. Penrosian theories conceptualize diversification as a strategy to exploit a firm’s fungible, yet “untradeable,” resources and point to redeployment of...
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Keywords:
Growth and Development Strategy;
Technology Adoption;
Diversification;
Market Entry and Exit;
Transformation
Randle, Dominika Kinga, and Gary P. Pisano. "Diversification as an Adaptive Learning Process: An Empirical Study of General-Purpose and Market-Specific Technological Know-How in New Market Entry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-032, December 2022.