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Don't Integrate Your Acquisitions, Partner with Them
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleA takeover usually signals the demise of one of the two corporations involved in the tussle - no prizes for guessing which one. Breaking with this practice,... -
Executive Incentives vs. Corporate Growth
Boards Magazine ArticleBonuses and other forms of incentive compensation are an effective motivator of executives to achieve ever higher earnings per share. The drive to produce short-term results, however, often influences management to forgo investment in capital equipment and R&D that would benefit the corporation several years hence even more than improved earnings next year would. The […] -
Diversification via Acquisition: Creating Value
Mergers and acquisitions Magazine ArticleDuring the past 25 years an increasing proportion of U.S. companies have seen wisdom in pursuing a strategy of diversification. Between 1950 and 1970, for example, single-business companies comprising the Fortune “500” declined from 30% to 8% of the total. Acquisition has become a standard approach to diversification. In recent years the productivity of capital […] -
Lessons from Costco on Sustainable Growth
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleGrowing sustainably means doing the right thing for all your stakeholders. -
Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleA nonprofit that supports emerging-market entrepreneurs considers expanding to the U.S. -
Go Downstream: The New Profit Imperative in Manufacturing
Business models Magazine ArticleNow that providing services is more lucrative than making products, the old foundations for success in manufacturing are crumbling. Smart manufacturers are creating new business models to capture profits at the customer’s end of the value chain. -
Inside Mount Sinai's Hospital-at-Home Program
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleIt led to fewer readmissions and complications. -
The Missing Ingredient in Kraft Heinz’s Restructuring
Mergers and acquisitions Digital ArticleAs the company cut costs, its ability to innovate suffered. -
Coronavirus Is Widening the Corporate Digital Divide
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleDigital transformation has become a necessity-and it's separating the organizational haves from the have-nots. -
What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleA look inside an unlikely partnership. -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Business and society Magazine ArticleA data-driven approach to design, measurement, and implementation -
How to Compete in Stagnant Industries
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe need for the effective management of stagnant industries will grow as more and more industries decline or increase only modestly. A study investigating... -
Stock or Cash?: The Trade-Offs for Buyers and Sellers in Mergers and Acquisitions
Accounting Magazine ArticleCompanies are increasingly paying for acquisitions with stock rather than cash. But both they and the companies they acquire need to understand just how big a difference that decision can make to the value shareholders will get from a deal. -
How Legacy Companies Can Pivot to a Platform Model
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleLessons from several firms who have made the switch. -
Managing Hypergrowth
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleEarly in their lives most markets go through a short period of dizzying growth that defines the competitive landscape. Heed the advice of a person who has survived the ride: If you don’t make the right moves then, you won’t get a second chance. -
Break Your Industry’s Bottlenecks
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Is the LinkedIn Acquisition Microsoft's Attempt to Build Its Own Alphabet?
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleUnderstanding the three types of acquisitions. -
Rethinking Negotiation
Communication Magazine ArticleFor decades, negotiators have been working out agreements by focusing on interests, not positions. But the messy problem of how to share the gains created... -
6 Strategic Concepts That Set High-Performing Companies Apart
Strategy Digital ArticleLessons from Microsoft, NVIDIA, Netflix, Tesla, and others. -
Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs.
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Fairfield Inn (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The Fairfield Inn, an economy hotel venture by the Marriott Corp., has developed a novel method for selecting and measuring the performance of its hotel... -
Revamping the Drug Testing System in Punjab: Public Management Challenges in a Multi-Level Governance Framework
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case is about the various management challenges faced by Ali Jan, the Secretary of the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department (P&SHD) of the... -
Raffles Holdings Limited - Valuation of a Divestiture
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In 2005, CapitaLand announced the sale of the hotel business under its subsidiary Raffles Holdings Limited for US$1.45 billion. This included the sale... -
ING Direct: Redefining Direct Banking
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details ING Direct's strategy of focusing on simple products, low cost operations, aggressive pricing and advertising, has enabled it to be highly successful... -
Avatar: Product Development in Creative Industries
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In 2007, Twentieth Century Fox faced a number of issues in the production of Avatar-a movie that was widely anticipated but had raised concerns in the... -
Transforming Tommy Hilfiger (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplement for Transforming Tommy Hilfiger (A), 714451. -
David Dunwood
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The protagonist,David Dunwood, is a second-time search fund entrepreneur who in mid-2004 purchased Mountain Auto, a leading auto parts retailer in the... -
Findasense (B): A New Path for Scaling Up
Management Case Study5.00View Details Global digital and omnichannel customer experience company headquartered in Spain with revenues of 17.4 million euros. An ever-expanding company for the... -
Multifactor Models
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Students evaluate the performance of four mutual funds and compute the cost of capital for two companies using fixed benchmarks, the CAPM, and a multifactor... -
Bain Capital: Outback Steakhouse
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Bain Capital had purchased Outback Steakhouse in 2007 and despite the myriad initiatives to improve operations, the financial collapse in 2008 threatened... -
Turbulent Times for TikTok's Platform Strategy
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details At the beginning of 2021, TikTok was facing multiple market threats and had to decide what strategies to implement to manage them. TikTok was the world's... -
Ben & Jerry's - Japan
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The CEO of Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc. needed to give sales and profits a serious boost; despite the company's excellent brand equity, it was losing... -
Climate Change and the Napa Valley Wine Industry
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Jon-Mark Chappellet, Director of Operations at Clos Du Val Winery in Napa Valley, is developing a 50-year plan. The effects of climate change are forcing... -
Kwame Owusu-Kesse at the Harlem Children's Zone
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Do you-as leader, an individual within an organization, or running your own business-know when to say yes and when to say no? How do you make decisions... -
Sustainable Investing at J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case features Monica Issar, then Global Head of J.P. Morgan Endowments & Foundations Group in the Private Bank. In just five years, she and J.P.... -
Hubble Contact Lenses: Data Driven Direct-to-Consumer Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details As its Series A extension round approaches, the founders of Hubble, a subscription-based, social-media fueled, direct-to-consumer (DTC) brand of contact... -
Carousell: Growing a Peer-to-Peer Mobile App Business by Building a Community
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details It was end-2019 and seven years into the founding of Carousell, a Singapore-headquartered peer-to-peer online classified advertisements marketplace started... -
AM FRESH in 2020
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Deutsche Telekom in 2023: Building the World's Leading Digital Telco
Management Case Study11.95View Details CEO Tim Höttges had successfully led Deutsche Telekom (DT) on an ambitious mission to become Europe's leading telecommunications service provider. All...
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Don't Integrate Your Acquisitions, Partner with Them
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleA takeover usually signals the demise of one of the two corporations involved in the tussle - no prizes for guessing which one. Breaking with this practice,... -
Executive Incentives vs. Corporate Growth
Boards Magazine ArticleBonuses and other forms of incentive compensation are an effective motivator of executives to achieve ever higher earnings per share. The drive to produce short-term results, however, often influences management to forgo investment in capital equipment and R&D that would benefit the corporation several years hence even more than improved earnings next year would. The […] -
Fairfield Inn (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The Fairfield Inn, an economy hotel venture by the Marriott Corp., has developed a novel method for selecting and measuring the performance of its hotel... -
Diversification via Acquisition: Creating Value
Mergers and acquisitions Magazine ArticleDuring the past 25 years an increasing proportion of U.S. companies have seen wisdom in pursuing a strategy of diversification. Between 1950 and 1970, for example, single-business companies comprising the Fortune “500” declined from 30% to 8% of the total. Acquisition has become a standard approach to diversification. In recent years the productivity of capital […] -
Lessons from Costco on Sustainable Growth
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleGrowing sustainably means doing the right thing for all your stakeholders. -
Revamping the Drug Testing System in Punjab: Public Management Challenges in a Multi-Level Governance Framework
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case is about the various management challenges faced by Ali Jan, the Secretary of the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department (P&SHD) of the... -
Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleA nonprofit that supports emerging-market entrepreneurs considers expanding to the U.S. -
Go Downstream: The New Profit Imperative in Manufacturing
Business models Magazine ArticleNow that providing services is more lucrative than making products, the old foundations for success in manufacturing are crumbling. Smart manufacturers are creating new business models to capture profits at the customer’s end of the value chain. -
Raffles Holdings Limited - Valuation of a Divestiture
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In 2005, CapitaLand announced the sale of the hotel business under its subsidiary Raffles Holdings Limited for US$1.45 billion. This included the sale...