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Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
What Is Strategy?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleToday's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,... -
The Five Stages of Small-Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleNo researcher has explored the earliest period of a business’s development in detail—until now. -
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
Why Conflicting Ideas Can Make Your Strategy Stronger
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIn a volatile world, think of your strategy as a portfolio of options, not a roadmap. -
Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive... -
Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleBy aligning executives' financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard... -
How to Design a Winning Business Model
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMost executives believe that competing through business models is critical for success, but few have come to grips with how best to do so. One common... -
Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore. -
The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleIn health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality,... -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Business and society Magazine ArticleA data-driven approach to design, measurement, and implementation -
Radical Optionality
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe next era of competition is at hand. To succeed in an environment of high uncertainty, greater short-term pressure, and tighter resource constraints,... -
Kodak's Downfall Wasn't About Technology
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
Office of Strategy Management
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThere is a disconnect in most companies between strategy formulation and strategy execution. On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of,... -
What Is a Business Model?
Business models Digital ArticleA history, from Drucker to Christensen. -
The Circular Business Model
Business models Magazine ArticlePick a strategy that fits your resources and capabilities. -
Social-Impact Efforts That Create Real Value
Organizational Development SpotlightCompanies don't win over investors just by issuing sustainability reports and engaging in other standard ESG practices. What they need to do, says Harvard... -
One Number You Need to Grow
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleCompanies spend lots of time and money on complex tools to assess customer satisfaction. But they're measuring the wrong thing. The best predictor of... -
First, Let's Fire All the Managers
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleExecutives don't realize it, but a hierarchy of managers exacts a hefty tax on any organization: Managers are expensive, increase the risk of bad decisions,...
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The Effects of Debt Equity Policy on Shareholder Return Requirements and Beta
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This technical note outlines the link between shareholder-return requirements and a firm's use of debt. It explores the theoretical arguments concerning... -
Hostile Takeovers: A Primer for the Decision Maker
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This note introduces the student to the dynamics of the hostile takeover setting and characterizes the decision problem as a "game." In this context,... -
Valuing Companies: An Overview of Analytical Approaches
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This technical note provides an overview of a valuation network: multiples, options pricing, specific-asset valuation, and present value. The strengths... -
Globalization of CEMEX
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details CEMEX is a Mexican company that has become a major international competitor in cement while maintaining a higher level of profitability than other, longer-established... -
Wells Fargo: Setting the Stagecoach Thundering Again
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case raises contemporary issues pertaining to strategy and leadership. It helps to demonstrate that (a) sound economic rationale is a necessary but... -
Airbus A3XX: Developing the World's Largest Commercial Jet (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Diversifying P&G's Supplier Base (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details In February 2003, P&G hosted two meetings-one with its largest woman- and minority-owned suppliers and one with its largest non-minority-owned suppliers.... -
Grupo Garantia (C) Lojas Americanas SA: The Retail Chain
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Fluidigm's Survival Battle: Turnaround in the Midst of a Genomics Revolution
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2016, new CEO Chris Linthwaite had been brought in to turn around Fluidigm Corporation (Fluidigm), a biotechnology company based in San Francisco.... -
Grupo Garantia (D) Cervejaria Brahma SA: Beer Brewing and Marketing
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Whirlpool Corp.: Structuring the Deal to Acquire Hefei Rongshida Sanyo Electric Company
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Ian Lee, Whirlpool's VP for North Asia, had been negotiating a possible acquisition with Jackie Jin, the chairman of a leading Chinese appliance manufacturer... -
Whither the Weather (Company): Forecasting 2016
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details CEO David Kenny led the transformation of the Weather Company from a television business to a Big Data technology company from 2012 until 2016, when IBM... -
citizenM: Radical innovation in the hotel industry
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2008, a group of five entrepreneurs and executives teamed up to launch an innovative hotel chain into what seemed like a highly competitive industry.... -
Adani Agri Logistics Limited: Blocking the Grain Drain
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Adani Agri Logistics Limited (AALL) was established to execute a national project for the bulk handling of food grains through a public-private partnership... -
A Sweet Dilemma: Sourcing Palm Oil with Ferrero SpA and Nestlé
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case focuses on Ferrero SpA's sustainable palm oil sourcing strategy in light of its acquisition of Nestlé's U.S. confectionery brands, which in... -
Keyssa: Unraveling the Laws of Physics
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details "Keyssa: Unraveling the Laws of Physics" explores the challenges associated with growing a start-up around a brand new technology. In October 2012, Eric... -
Global Healthcare Exchange
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Founded in March 2000 at the height of the dot-com bubble, Global Healthcare Exchange (GHX) was one of 90 online marketplaces in the health care industry.... -
Chengwei Ventures and the hdt Investment
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Bo Feng, cofounder and principal in Chengwei Ventures, one of the first sovereign venture capital firms in China, is trying to decide on the proper business... -
Uber in Hong Kong: A Regulator's Dilemma
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In Hong Kong as elsewhere in the world, Uber operates in a grey area. Thousands of passengers are using Uber service in the crowded city on a regular...
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Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
What Is Strategy?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleToday's dynamic markets and technologies have called into question the sustainability of competitive advantage. Under pressure to improve productivity,... -
The Five Stages of Small-Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleNo researcher has explored the earliest period of a business’s development in detail—until now. -
What Is Disruptive Innovation?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor the past 20 years, the theory of disruptive innovation has been enormously influential in business circles and a powerful tool for predicting which... -
Why Conflicting Ideas Can Make Your Strategy Stronger
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIn a volatile world, think of your strategy as a portfolio of options, not a roadmap. -
Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive... -
Compensation Packages That Actually Drive Performance
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleBy aligning executives' financial incentives with company strategy, a firm can inspire its management to deliver superior results. But it can be hard... -
How to Design a Winning Business Model
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMost executives believe that competing through business models is critical for success, but few have come to grips with how best to do so. One common... -
Understanding China
Global Business SpotlightThis package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:... -
Company Culture Is Everyone's Responsibility
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA top-down approach doesn't work anymore.