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- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
reflecting upon the company’s “agile” transformation, a reorganization of work that had been critical to respond to and exceed rapidly changing customer expectations. Launched in 2015 at the head office, agile had spread to the rest of...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
I approached him, and he picked up the telephone and called a former student at General Foods who agreed to hire me for the summer. That resulted in my eventually working there full-time, and it launched my marketing career. The other time was when I was working in...
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- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
lawsuits alleging that its products contained asbestos and had caused hundreds of thousands of people to contract asbestos-related diseases, such as mesothelioma and lung cancer. Nine years later, Grace is poised to emerge from bankruptcy with a plan of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
Case 208-069 Delphi Corporation, operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, has filed a plan of reorganization with the court, under which a consortium of hedge funds led by Appaloosa Management will invest up to $2.6 billion in...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
clearinghouse: it coordinated the timing of the market in a way that increased its thickness and scope. The clearinghouse does not seem to have had an effect on wages. As this became known among gastroenterologists, an opportunity arose to View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
going through major reorganization or collapse were probably headed there in five to ten years anyway. It’s a difficult transition, but it’s exciting in the sense that this economic recession is forcing transitions faster, quickly...
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- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
facilitate innovation among its diverse subsidiaries. But when news reports surfaced revealing struggles within Alphabet companies including Nest, the smart thermostat maker, observers began to wonder if the reorganization made sense...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
the idea of a radical space reduction strikes him. The case follows Lachman, working closely with Country HR Manager Jane Lewis, from idea inception to the eve of the company-wide transition to a dramatically scaled-down and reorganized...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509032 Offering the Right Service in the Right Place: Growing Orthopedics at the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner (BW/F) Hospitals Harvard Business School Case 108-016 After the merger of two local hospitals, hospital leaders much decide...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
sell its products, Neurosmith decided it needed to reorient its strategy toward mass-market accounts in order to survive. “This isn’t a change you make overnight,” notes Abercrombie wryly. In addition to needing to design toys to hit much lower retail price points, the...
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- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
system. It's complicated, takes a long time, and is very expensive. Should FasterCures reorganize to better understand this issue and make a high-level push to improve it? Or perhaps the company should look at drug reimbursement...
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
major effort to reorganize the Business Policy course around the concept of corporate strategy, which offered an analytical framework for examining decision-making within organizations. The redesigned course showed how organizational...
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- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
company Ericsson, has to reorganize the recovering company in late 2003 after a major industry downturn. He is convinced that only a more market-orientated and customer-focused organization will be able to remain competitive in this...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
included Jane Drabble, director of education for the British Broadcasting Corporation. "Jane talked about the night Princess Diana was killed," recalls Bourneuf, "and how different parts of the BBC, which has lately gone through a major View Details
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
about companies in terms of ‘distinctive competencies,’ charting a path that diverged from the thinking of their intellectual forebears — who resisted theoretical thinking — toward a more systematic approach.” By the mid-1960s, Christensen and Andrews embarked on a...
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- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
overstaffed, corrupt, rife with subsidies, and losing money. Finally, in 2012, President Enrique Peña Nieto announced his intent to drastically reform both. Over the next two years, the Mexican constitution was amended, and a dozen implementing laws were passed to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
value for patients, where value is the health outcomes achieved relative to the money spent. While his initial work focused on reorganizing care and measuring outcomes, he began to understand that appropriate cost information was missing....
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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
changed, and people now realize he is a credible threat. There has been a strong push to reorganize the sector and trim the incredible fat that was everywhere. There is no magic to it—you have to find ways to lower your costs, or you...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
http://harvardbusiness.org/search/510030/ Eddie Bauer (A) Harvard Business School Case 110-008 In June 2005, Eddie Bauer, the specialty apparel retailer, emerged from bankruptcy. Under the plan of reorganization former creditors converted...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
businesses, each of which was not performing up to its full potential, it was uncompetitive. The chairman of the group, Ratan Tata, creatively reorganized the business to make it survive in the new open global economy, and then challenged...
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by Martha Lagace