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- January 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Digital Transformation at Tata Steel
By: Krishna Palepu, Das Narayandas, Radhika Kak and Rachna Tahilyani
T.V. Narendran, CEO of Tata Steel, India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm, had taken concrete business and cultural transformation steps to future-ready the firm since taking over in 2013. He had deleveraged and instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses,...
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Keywords:
Digital Transformation;
Digital Strategy;
Change Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
E-commerce;
Steel Industry;
Asia;
India
Palepu, Krishna, Das Narayandas, Radhika Kak, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Digital Transformation at Tata Steel." Harvard Business School Case 323-053, January 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- December 2023
- Case
Raízen: Helping to Decarbonize the World?
By: Gunnar Trumbull, Pedro Levindo, Daniel Tong and Rafaella Mazza
Raízen, the world’s largest sugar and ethanol producer, strived to find ways to expand the second-generation ethanol (E2G) market, which it pioneered. The company planned to invest R$24 billion (around $4.6 billion) in 20 production plants, with a total capacity to...
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- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
macro components. The micro component comes from the selection of low beta stocks. The macro component comes from the selection of low beta countries or industries. The two parts both contribute to the low beta anomaly, with important implications for the construction...
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Sean Silverthorne
Derek C. M. van Bever
Derek van Bever is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches courses in both years of the MBA program (“Leadership and Corporate Accountability” in the first-year required curriculum and “Building and Sustaining a... View Details
- April 2021
- Case
Coca-Cola: Preparing for the Next 100 Years
By: Cynthia A. Montgomery and James Weber
In early 2020, James Quincey, the 14th chair of the 133-year old The Coca-Cola Company, was in the midst of a years-long transformation of Coca-Cola from being the leading carbonated soft drink (CSD) beverage company into a total beverage company. The company’s...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Diversification;
Change Management;
Organizational Culture;
Environmental Sustainability;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Montgomery, Cynthia A., and James Weber. "Coca-Cola: Preparing for the Next 100 Years." Harvard Business School Case 721-359, April 2021.
- April 2008 (Revised July 2011)
- Background Note
Strategic Decline
By: David J. Collis and Jan W. Rivkin
This note first documents the facts around the sustainability of competitive advantage. It then observes that the demise of a previously successful strategy, in the first instance, often comes from some change in the external environment. It, therefore, characterizes...
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Keywords:
Competitive Advantage;
Strategy;
Situation or Environment;
Organizational Change and Adaptation
Collis, David J., and Jan W. Rivkin. "Strategic Decline." Harvard Business School Background Note 708-497, April 2008. (Revised July 2011.)
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Oct 2014
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Can China Lead?
Can China sustain its remarkable emergence of the past 35 years? Surely No, for multiple reasons. China will be a leader, but not the leader. Professor McFarlan will talk about both the challenges and opportunities for those seeking to do business with and within China...
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- 2015
- Article
The Nobel Prize: The Identity of a Corporate Heritage Brand
By: Mats Urde and Stephen A. Greyser
Purpose—The purpose of this study is to understand the identity of the Nobel Prize as a corporate heritage brand and its management challenges.
Design/methodology/approach—An in-depth case study analysed within a heritage brand model and a corporate... View Details
Design/methodology/approach—An in-depth case study analysed within a heritage brand model and a corporate... View Details
Keywords:
Nobel Prize;
Brand Stewardship;
Corporate Brand Identity;
Corporate Heritage Brand;
Heritage Brand Identity Process;
Networked Brand;
Organizations;
Brands and Branding
Urde, Mats, and Stephen A. Greyser. "The Nobel Prize: The Identity of a Corporate Heritage Brand." Journal of Product & Brand Management 24, no. 4 (2015): 318–332.
- 2012
- Book
The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment
By: Pratima Bansal and Andrew J. Hoffman
Environmental issues now loom large on the social, political, and business agenda. Over the past four decades, "corporate environmentalism" has emerged and been constantly redefined, from regulatory compliance to more recent management conceptions such as pollution...
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Bansal, Pratima, and Andrew J. Hoffman, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment. Oxford University Press, 2012.
- March 2013 (Revised May 2013)
- Case
Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Sydney Ribot and Mary Saunders
Describes Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm, and its approach for creating integrative, systematic solutions to green-building conundrums through consulting, research, and policy-related activities. Emphasis is placed on the...
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Keywords:
Integrated Design;
Entrepreneurs;
Creative Industries;
CONSULTING Firms;
Energy;
Design;
Governance;
Growth and Development;
Innovation and Invention;
Knowledge;
Labor;
Organizations;
Problems and Challenges;
Research;
Strategy;
Value;
Consulting Industry;
New York (city, NY)
Edmondson, Amy C., Sydney Ribot, and Mary Saunders. "Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green." Harvard Business School Case 613-053, March 2013. (Revised May 2013.)
The Transparency Paradox
2013 Winner of Academy of Management Awards for Outstanding Publication in Organizational Behavior and Best Published Paper in Organization and Management Theory
Using data from embedded participant-observers and a field experiment at the second... View Details
- 26 Jan 2018
- HBS Seminar
John Helveston, Boston University
- December 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
Kerry Group: Inspiring Food, Nourishing Life
By: Forest L. Reinhardt, José B. Alvarez, Damien McLoughlin, Tonia Labruyere and Tonia Junker
The Irish company Kerry Group, one of the leading global players in the taste and nutrition industry, wants to ensure its future growth in developing and developed markets. Founded in 1972 as a dairy cooperative, it had grown into a provider of taste and nutrition...
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Keywords:
Agribusiness;
Environmental Sustainability;
Food;
Nutrition;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Global Range;
Market Entry and Exit;
Customer Relationship Management;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Reinhardt, Forest L., José B. Alvarez, Damien McLoughlin, and Tonia Labruyere. "Kerry Group: Inspiring Food, Nourishing Life." Harvard Business School Case 721-019, December 2020. (Revised February 2021.)
- May 2001 (Revised December 2001)
- Case
Cisco Systems: Building Leading Internet Capabilities
By: Richard L. Nolan and Christina L. Darwall
Cisco has invested in building a leading IT, Internet-based infrastructure. This case describes Cisco's latest efforts to broaden Internet capabilities in the company from 30% to 60% penetration. The strategy is intended to sustain Cisco's double-digit revenue growth...
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Keywords:
Internet and the Web;
Information Technology;
Technological Innovation;
Revenue;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Information Technology Industry
Nolan, Richard L., and Christina L. Darwall. "Cisco Systems: Building Leading Internet Capabilities." Harvard Business School Case 301-133, May 2001. (Revised December 2001.)
- 23 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 23, 2016
of principles for responsible investment, a standard that falls well short of integrating ESG considerations into their investment decisions. Myth Number 3: Companies cannot influence the kind of shareholders that buy their shares, and corporate View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
strategic change. The framework contributes by adding a meso lens to research on dynamic capabilities to help scholars better understand how learning that occurs in teams may support entrepreneurial managers in enacting their cognitive...
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Dina Gerdeman
- August 2021
- Article
(Un)sustainability and Organization Studies: Towards a Radical Engagement
By: Seray Ergane, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee and Andrew J. Hoffman
In this essay, we trace the evolution of the field of sustainability in management and organization studies and narrate its epistemological twists and turns. Concerned by the current trajectory that tends to diminish a focus on political concerns, we propose a new...
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Keywords:
Environmental Sustainability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Perspective;
Organizational Change and Adaptation
Ergane, Seray, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "(Un)sustainability and Organization Studies: Towards a Radical Engagement." Organization Studies 42, no. 8 (August 2021): 1319–1335.
- 04 Sep 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Wellsprings of Creation: Perturbation and the Paradox of the Highly Disciplined Organization
- February 2018 (Revised June 2021)
- Case
New Constructs: Disrupting Fundamental Analysis with Robo-Analysts
By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Kyle Thomas
This case highlights the business challenges associated with a financial technology firm, New Constructs, that created a technology that can quickly parse complicated public firm financials to paint a clearer economic picture of firms, remove accounting distortions,...
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Keywords:
Fundamental Analysis;
Machine Learning;
Robo-analysts;
Financial Statements;
Financial Reporting;
Analysis;
Information Technology;
Accounting Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
North America;
Tennessee
Wang, Charles C.Y., and Kyle Thomas. "New Constructs: Disrupting Fundamental Analysis with Robo-Analysts." Harvard Business School Case 118-068, February 2018. (Revised June 2021.)
- 2023
- Article
Comparison of COVID-19 Hospitalization Costs across Care Pathways: A Patient-level Time-driven Activity-based Costing Analysis in a Brazilian Hospital
By: Ricardo Bertoglio Cardoso, Miriam Allein Zago Marcolino, Milena Soriano Marcolino, Camila Felix Fortis, Leila Beltrami Moreira, Ana Paula Coutinho, Nadine Oliveira Clausell, Junaid Nabi, Robert S. Kaplan, Ana Paula Beck da Silva Etges and Carisi Anne Polanczyk
The COVID-19 pandemic raised awareness of the need to better understand where and how patient-level costs are incurred in health care organizations. This study used time-driven activity-based costing to estimate COVID-19 patient-level hospital costs in a Brazilian...
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Cardoso, Ricardo Bertoglio, Miriam Allein Zago Marcolino, Milena Soriano Marcolino, Camila Felix Fortis, Leila Beltrami Moreira, Ana Paula Coutinho, Nadine Oliveira Clausell, Junaid Nabi, Robert S. Kaplan, Ana Paula Beck da Silva Etges, and Carisi Anne Polanczyk. "Comparison of COVID-19 Hospitalization Costs across Care Pathways: A Patient-level Time-driven Activity-based Costing Analysis in a Brazilian Hospital." BMC Health Services Research 23, no. 198 (2023).