duboff (robert.duboff@hawkpartners.com) on January 12‚ 2012 Bent on improving its ecocredentials‚ a company debates the need for a chief sustainability officer. HBR CASE STUDY Should the C-Suite Have a “Green” Seat? COPYRIGHT © 2010 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. by Eric J. McNulty and Rupert Davis Jennifer Brown‚ CEO of Narinex‚ an electronic components manufacturer based in Michigan‚ re-read the news alert on her screen. The company had
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Mcafee‚ A.‚ Dessain‚ V. and Sjoman‚ A. (2004). ZARA: IT for Fast Fashion. Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing. Motiwalla‚ L.‚ and Thompson‚ J. (2009). Enterprise Systems for Management‚ Dorling Kindersley (India) Pvt. Ltd. Porter‚ M.‚ and Miller‚ V. (1985). “How Information Gives You Competitive Advantage”‚ Harvard Business Review. Prahalad‚ C. and Hamel‚ G. (2003). “The Core Competence of the Corporation”‚ Harvard Business Review ----------------------- 1
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References: Clarkson Lumber Company. (1996). Harvard Business School. HBSP Case Number: 9-297-028 Surecut Shears‚ Inc. (1999). Harvard Business School. HBSP Case Number: 9-297-013. Target Corporation. (2010). Darden School of Business. HBSP Case Number: UV1057. Toy World‚ Inc. (1996). Harvard Business School. HBSP Case Number: 9-295-073.
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Cited: (Exhibit 1) Geert Hofstede. http://geert-hofstede.com/italy.html (Exhibit 2) “Silvio Napoli at Schindler India.” Harvard Business School. Harvard Business School‚ 6 November 2006.
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Failure Understand It HBR.ORG Amy C. Edmondson is the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management and co-head of the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard Business School. We are programmed at an early age to think that failure is bad. That belief prevents organizations from effectively learning from their missteps. by Amy C. Edmondson ILLUSTRATION: GUY BILLOUT T THE WISDOM OF LEARNING from failure is incontrovertible. Yet organizations that do it well are extraordinarily
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the manager is complicated and confusing. Making sense of it requires not a knack for simplification but the ability to synthesize insights from different mind-sets into a comprehensible whole. The Five Minds of a Manager COPYRIGHT © 2003 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. by Jonathan Gosling and Henry Mintzberg The chief executive of a major Canadian company complained recently that he can’t get his engineers to think like managers. It’s a common complaint
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Harvard Business Review Reflection Course name: Introduction to International Business Subject matter: HBR Reflection Details article Title: Have You Restructered for Global Success? Author: Nirmalya Kumar and Phanish Puranam Journal: Harvard Busniss Review Date of publication: October 2011 BHM Have You Restructured for Global Success? Introduction The article at hand ‘Have You Restructured For Global Success?’ written by Nirmalya Kumar‚ professor of marketing and Phanish
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executives use analogies to make strategic choices. The best strategists know both the power and peril of such comparisons. How Strategists Really Think Tapping the Power of Analogy by Giovanni Gavetti and Jan W. Rivkin COPYRIGHT © 2005 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. Strategy is about choice. The heart of a company’s strategy is what it chooses to do and not do. The quality of the thinking that goes into such choices is a key driver of the quality
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computer technology (Haigh‚ 2011). In fact‚ the great majority of references to information technology have always been concerned with computer‚ although the exact meaning has shifted over time. The phrase received its first prominent usage in a Harvard Business Review article intended to promote a technocratic vision for the future of business management (Haigh‚ Leavitt & Whisler‚ 1958). Humans have been storing‚ retrieving‚ manipulating and communicating information since the Sumerians in Mesopotamia
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advertising‚ and branding plan for the next Fire Force Five film; her presentation to the company’s CEO‚ its head of distribution‚ and other unit leaders was planned for Friday. Two more days—many more hours‚ many No Do COPYRIGHT © 2009 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. by Tamara J. Erickson more stats to go over before I sleep‚ the 23-yearold marketing associate estimated. He plunked himself back down in his chair. A recent graduate of the University
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