Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2011

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The previous year it had operated at a loss of $1.7 Now it was a huge growth market. The East Coast distribution center, or ECDC, had been weighing on her mind lately.

Case Study 11

Case Study Retail Transportation Niche Marketing 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

He was the head of operations at Parivar, a midsize Chennai-based IT services company. Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. It’s the Indian labor market. “How long is this list of escapees?” Vikram asked.

Case Study 8

Case Study Cost Proposal Attrition 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Editor''s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Fred, Roy, and Bill never rose as high in the company as Ricky, who is now the chief operating officer. Our markets have taken a beating. And I appreciate his ideas.

Case Study 8

Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

In The Essential Advantage : How to Win with a Capabilities-Driven Strategy , Booz & Company’s Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi maintain that success in any market accrues to firms with a coherence premium – a tight match between their strategic direction and the capabilities that make them unique. Let’s go after it.”

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Resources Industry System Strategy 52

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

It's great to see students get their shoes dusty with real-world forays, but I fear they are losing the ability to read a balance sheet or parse the kind of complex data they'd get in case-study coursework. And teaching methods have changed. Too many students are distracted and disengaged. Other fields do this.

Education 16

Education Organizational Behavior Case Study Learning-by-Doing 16

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

An impatient marketing or finance manager would, on the sly, secure some extra budget money and hire a contractor to build a little database that tracked mailing addresses or top-line financials. Slowly but surely, as the little database grew bigger and bigger, the manager would wedge the cost into her operating budget. The result?

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain CIO Budgeting Project 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

Do your research by talking with the people you’re trying to win over, and others in the know, well in advance of making your proposal. Case Study #1: Develop an understanding of your customer’s needs, and show empathic concern. ” says Edinger. Think about what information you need to uncover.

Skills 22

Skills How To Brainstorming Case Study 22

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2018

” As a team, your collective goal is to come up with “agreed-upon norms that you’ll all operate within,” says Burkus. Case Study #1: Be positive, and distance yourself from distractions when necessary. Case Study #2: Develop ground rules and find a way to quiet your brain. Can you help?”

Open-book 14

Open-book Conference Brainstorming Public Relations 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2018

Ultimately, though, the goal is for your employee to operate more autonomously, says Burris. Case Study #1: Help your employee feel comfortable and emphasize the importance of learning. ” When Anand proposed this, Peter was unsure. ” Give specific feedback. Be a martyr.

Management 12

Management How To McCombs Project 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2011

A large division of this company had recognized the need to dramatically change its business model to survive and succeed in a changing market. Two years later the company was the poster child for reengineering success — the subject of speeches, a Harvard Business School case study, articles, and book references.

Process 15

Process Six Sigma Finance Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. For two years the subsidiary had recorded revenue from the proposed € 650 million mega-resort. The Russia office had contracted to build it but hadn’t done so.

Case Study 8

Case Study Decentralization CFO Construction 8

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 29, 2016

Sales force transformation can be the key to driving market-leading profits and top-line growth. A sales transformation is not a tweak, such as changing your sales training curriculum or implementing a new proposal generation application; it’s more like a “rewiring” of the company “house.” must include other functions).

Metrics 50

Metrics Marketing Strategy Case Study 50

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Editors' Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Palma Cay is Alegre's newest flagship hotel, and I think I can make it work with lower prices to the key travel agencies, tour operators, and online portals. I need help.".

Case Study 11

Case Study Hotels Price Decentralization 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 12, 2016

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. “What we need in the long run is a real water market, like Israel’s or Australia’s. Wait—didn’t you have a solar proposal to show us, Pete?”

Case Study 8

Case Study Parcell Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

” Instead, she said, “their proposal was to build another factory to make window washer motors.” Managers coded their operations green at the first couple of meetings to show how well they were doing, but Mulally called them on it. No one asked, ‘Why are they failing?’”

Root Cause Analysis 8

Root Cause Analysis Edmondson Industry CEO 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. First one and then two companies took aim at each unit’s market, aggressively selling products at lower prices. There seemed little point. But all patents expire.

Case Study 10

Case Study Price Chemicals Strategy 10

Strategy Driven

MARCH 2, 2012

Niche consultants place emphasis in the areas where they have training, expertise and staff support for implementation… and will market their services accordingly. Marketers might contend that the latest advertising campaign is equivalent to re-engineering the client company (though the two concepts are light years apart).

Consultative 60

Consultative Short-term Budgeting Strategic Planning 60

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2017

A colleague who doesn’t listen can also “have very negative consequences from an operational standpoint — there are often a lot of mistakes because projects don’t get executed correctly.” Propose a social contract. ” Case Study #1: Underscore the importance of your message and follow up in writing.

How To 14

How To Follow-up Norton Case Study 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

Case study #1: Proactively build your skills. As a marketing and special events coordinator for an outdoor sports company in the Bay Area, she’d worked hard for months to prove herself worthy of a promotion. Eight months later, she landed an executive administrator role that expanded her duties outside of marketing.

Short-term 8

Short-term Career Long-term Case Study 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It proposes that the best teachers are also leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers. He explains why this is so by dissecting and analyzing his own experiences—using himself as a case study. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. DeLong takes the reader inside his own head and heart.

Books 449

Books Leadership Simon Learning-by-Doing 449

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Editor’s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. A loan to a gun manufacturer would announce to the world that we really have no principles and that the green thing is just a marketing gimmick.

Case Study 8

Case Study Banking Ethics Guidelines 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2018

These gold coasts are home to nine of the top 10, and 18 of the top 20, internet companies, as measured by market capitalization. and China that were able to take advantage of large domestic markets to achieve scale and to surround themselves with rich ecosystems of startups, suppliers, complements, and customers.

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Company Venture Capitalist GDP Retail 8