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- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
to ensure that environmental resources are replenished for future generations - as there are people discussing the issue. But with increased pressure on businesses to consider the costs of their actions to society and the environment along with the corporate bottom...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
partnered with us. What do you mean by competitiveness? Porter: There’s widespread confusion about what competitiveness actually means, so our definition is a vital component of our work. When we talk about US competitiveness, we mean the...
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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
common issues most Latin American countries are dealing with. It's a factor that constrains business strategy across the region." Latin America's equity markets are thin and capital is scarce, Ghemawat says, with the result that companies...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Toy Story
bucked the odds, winning the company accolades in the press, shelf space at major (and minor) retailers, and the Game of the Year awards at the American International Toy Fair, the industry’s annual trade show, in 2001 and 2002. Like LEGO, Cranium is not a product that...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
economic. - Michael Porter "Many approaches to revitalizing the inner city have focused on the social problems, but the more fundamental issues are often economic," notes HBS professor Michael E. Porter, a world-renowned strategy and...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
professional and personal opportunities it has given me. I also adore my kids, who are now ten and six; guiding them and watching them grow is important. I'm still committed to making it all work!" Part of Middlebrooks's strategy has...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Dare to be Different
deeply ingrained fidelity to certain brands — the kind of loyalty that our parents’ generation felt toward even mundane brands like Tide detergent or Miracle Whip or Sony televisions — is definitely in peril, at least in my opinion. Why...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
according to Karim R. Lakhani, is that thanks to the Internet, crowdsourcing has moved into new and unexpected industries and organizations, establishing itself as a mainstream strategy for innovating and gaining a competitive edge....
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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
transactions—the metrics Karavites tracks most closely—are up at all his locations. Formulating a turnaround strategy required Kempczinski and his team—which included Kristy Cunningham—to get to the heart of what exactly had happened to...
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- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
Basketball Association was a recently launched, little-known organization, and Gelman had accepted a promising post-college job as a strategy consultant with the Mitchell Madison Group in New York. But her decision to defer the consulting...
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Deborah Blagg
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
A Diversified Portfolio
says Dorsen, "including several of whom had not even been formally invited." While there was a lot of interest in the idea, the principal concern among the group was whether there were enough good companies in the pipeline to generate quality deal flow. More research...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
entrepreneurs is Mary Kay Ash, a legend as a glass-ceiling breaker and a woman who built a very successful business with a go-to-market strategy of direct selling. Unlike Mary Kay Ash, however, not all aspiring business owners are willing...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Stanford Lets Students Customize
getting students to think across disciplines and functions. “The front-end perspectives courses and the capstone Synthesis Seminar definitely focus on the integrated nature of management issues,” Joss explains in an e-mail. “But most of...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
feeling like, 'So what?'" someone else comments. * Note: The term "international" in this article refers to individuals who were born outside the United States and are not permanent U.S. residents. According to HBS officials, only those who match this View Details
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
Whether or not game theory has applications for business strategy remains unclear - to date, empirical studies have been too limited to yield any definitive conclusions. In Games Businesses Play: Cases and...
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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
covers all aspects of the energy business. "One idea that I believe will be discredited is the mega-merger theory — that Texaco was too small to be relevant." "Fortunately, there are still strategies that allow a smaller operator to be...
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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
goal for his organization that is both ambitious and achievable, a strategy to get the organization there, and the ability to communicate this strategy clearly, simply, and repeatedly. CEOs also need to pick...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
1965) Have a Long-Term Strategy — Jose M. Faustino (MBA 1963) Beware of Bias — Donald J. Chiofaro (MBA 1972) Exceed Expectations — Bill Bogardus (MBA 1972) See Every Side — Jacqueline Beato (MBA 2009) Take a Chance — Michael Kubin (MBA...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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The School of Life
a definitive way to identify the difference between the good and the great. Underlying this is a belief that top candidates achieved what they did because of innate talent. Recruiters search for those candidates who have gone from success...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
and Fortune ranked her among the 50 most powerful women in American business. Business Week said you had "worked magic" at Banana Republic. What has your strategy been? I would love to take the credit for it, but I can't. The changes at...
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