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- 06 Mar 2006
- What Do You Think?
The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?
General Motors and others during apartheid. For General Motors, the issues had to do with employment policies and whether or not to sell autos in a repressive society. For companies like Cisco Systems and Microsoft, the question has...
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- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
selection. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53870 Harvard Business School Case 713-024 Doing Business in South Africa No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/713024-PDF-ENG Harvard...
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- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Politics and Economics of Accounting for Goodwill at Cisco Systems (A) Harvard Business School Case 109-002 Studies the role of Cisco in setting current U.S. accounting standards for acquisitions and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside
said. "If you look at companies like Cisco and others that depend less on R&D, you'll see they have taken a different model in the new economy. They essentially said, 'We will use the innovation in the marketplace, and we will...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
traditional elements of energy transmission and delivery with information technology-heralds a new era in the power industry. Many new business opportunities will be created as the smart grid gets developed. What strategies should Cisco...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
to 10 years and what skills they needed to compete, they decided to skip a generation” in selecting a new CEO, Groysberg says. Cisco minimized the disruption by setting up a rigorous and transparent process laying out what the board...
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by Michael Blanding
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
management with Summa, build purpose-driven high performance organizations, and introduce greater clarity in the management processes. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/118028 Harvard Business School Case 718-489 View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
Burroughs. "Now who are they? IBM is still there, but Cisco and Microsoft did not exist in the '70s. So if we just listen to the voices of the [major players], the policy implemented is out of date." Loyalty, concern for the...
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by Hilah Geer
- 09 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
How to Revive Health-Care Innovation
application by application, customer by customer, disease by disease. [ ] Nucor cut its teeth on concrete reinforcing bars, not the sheet steel that fed Ford. Cisco deployed its switches to route data, not voice—because data didn't care...
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- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
http://hbr.org/product/decision-making-at-the-top-the-all-star-sports-ebusiness-division/an/314010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-027 Cisco Systems and Offshore Cash No abstract available. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
player] has created—and then do things they can't," he says. For example, Cisco essentially created the market for Internet routers that help enterprise customers "link together different types of computers," writes Yoffie...
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by David Stauffer
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
comfort and privacy of your own home, and enjoy. And that's just the start, as the "anywhere, anytime" push to view movies and other content on mobile devices continues to grow. According to one Cisco report, smartphone video viewing will...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the landscape. “People often say, ‘Oh, we need more Harvard PhDs,’ and while that might be great, that’s not really the problem. The problem is we need more individuals entering the security profession.” A 2015 report by Cisco estimated...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
wrong here? In Sony’s case, the malware was in the routers. I’ve never met a single person in the cyber world who thought the malware would ever be in the routers. But it was. That’s the first time. What if Sony kept that a secret? Then View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
emphasize and vice versa, an effect we label compensatory fit. We illustrate the concept of compensatory fit by drawing upon qualitative data from a re-organization at Cisco Systems. We also derive formal boundary conditions for...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
etiquette to Chinese women. But when she received an email from a Cisco executive seeking instruction in Chinese etiquette, Ho thought it was a joke. She hadn’t considered that Westerners were as unschooled in the intricacies of a Chinese...
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- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
host country on knowledge inflows to the subsidiary depends on subsidiary knowledge stock. Our findings show that as knowledge stock at the subsidiary grows, it absorbs more knowledge from the host country compared to the HQ. We additionally provide a stylized case...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
research in a variety of industries, and filled with examples from companies including Cisco Systems, La Farge, Starbucks, Best Buy, and Jones Lang LaSalle, Gulati explores the five levers of resilience: 1) Coordination: connect,...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
But the hardest part about it is, how do you explain the taxonomy of skills, and how do we help be a market maker for what employers are looking for? And a great example of this, if you look to the future, is Cisco. Cisco produces a...
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of roles dedicated to impact measurement and management at some of the world's largest companies. Fortune 500 companies like McDonald's, IBM, and Salesforce have invited impact into the C-suite through Chief Impact Officer roles. Similarly, companies such as Deloitte,...
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