Strategic analysis

Strategic dreams often turn into nightmares if companies start engaging in expensive and distracting restructurings. It’s far more effective to choose a design that works reasonably well, then develop a strategic system to tune the structure to the strategy.

What do companies like Rockwater, Apple Computer, and Advanced Micro Devices have in common? They’re using the scorecard to measure performance and set strategy.

Scott Anthony, managing director of Innosight Asia-Pacific and author of "The Little Black Book of Innovation," explains how to become more creative.

CEOs often complain that the financial markets simply don't understand their companies' strategy. The author's recent findings show that they may well...

It's well known that stock markets react more favorably if a company is bought with cash rather than with stock. But the opposite holds true for just...

I didn't anticipate that I would leave the country of Iceland with a renewed awareness of the different governance challenges faced by private and public...

Results from an experiment that pitted a team of MBAs against MBAs plus AI.

There is a disconnect in most companies between strategy formulation and strategy execution. On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of,...

How do some entrepreneurs, corporate innovators, and investors turn adverse conditions to competitive advantage? Chakravorti, of McKinsey and Harvard...

Studies that examine high-performing companies to unearth the secrets of their success have a critical flaw: Very few of those companies are truly remarkable....

Theory often gets a bum rap among managers because it's associated with the word "theoretical," which connotes "impractical." But it shouldn't. Because...

The crisis in financial institutions and the imminent failure of the US-based automobile producers have raised the issue about whether use of the Balanced...

Thanks to social media, the most important influences on your business often happen when you aren't in the room. When people connect peer-to-peer, there...

First: Is there a problem to be solved?

The main goal of any international strategy should be to manage the large differences that arise at the borders of markets. Yet executives often fail...

No plan survives contact with reality.

Tracking things like customer satisfaction and employee turnover can powerfully supplement traditional bookkeeping. Unfortunately, most companies botch the job.

In recent decades an infusion of economics has lent the study of strategy much needed theory and empirical evidence. Strategy consultants, armed with...

Why is it that effective business start-ups frequently grow into corporate giants, but effective new nonprofits rarely reach national scale? Because,...

Fifty percent of corporate alliances fail. But you can increase your partnership’s odds of success by applying these techniques.

Most companies have massive amounts of data at their disposal, yet fail to utilize it in any meaningful way. Big data and the analytics based on it promise...

This case make the analysis of potential markets for the internationalization of the company Saurios and, especially, to the selection and entry modes...

In 2004, U.S.-based China Sourcing Group, which specialises in premium and gift products, established a sourcing office in Shanghai. The Shanghai office...

Revlon India was founded as a joint venture in 1995, pairing the industrial conglomerate UMG with the global beauty brand Revlon, Inc. to bring international...

AARP Foundation--a leading non-profit corporation--must create a new "Dashboard" performance measurement tool to track the effectiveness of its new strategic...

"MDCM, Inc. (B): Strategic IT Portfolio Management" examines the steps involved in developing a portfolio of IT projects aligned with a company's strategic...

The case describes the launch of a newly designed Apple Watch, a smartwatch, and the market for wearable technology at the time of the launch. Apple Watch...

It is impossible to predict the future, but this is a task policymakers are effectively expected to do when deciding how to deploy scarce resources to...

This 16-volume, specially priced boxed set makes a perfect gift for aspiring leaders looking for trusted advice on such diverse topics as data analytics,...

Organized Steel retailing was not a very popular concept among steel manufacturers in India. There were very few initiatives undertaken by the Indian...

Supplements the (A) case.

On 30 May 2017, Amazon shares traded at a record high - above $1,000 - surpassing the share price of Google parent Alphabet. Started as an online bookstore...

The case illustrates the role of performance measurement and analytics in translating TD-Canada Trust's service model of "comfortable banking" into operational...

Supplement to IS0007

Is your company spending enormous time and energy on strategy development, with little to show for your efforts? We've combed through hundreds of Harvard...

Supplements the (A) case.

Master the art of effective delegation. You know you need to delegate some of your work so that you have time to focus on the things that require your...

Transworld Auto Parts had to implement its new strategy flawlessly to survive the auto industry upheaval. The new CEO asked her leadership team to craft...

In 2002, Worldclass Lighting launched an initiative to introduce the balanced scorecard into the Asia Pacific and Greater China regions, in order to provide...

Most companies have massive amounts of data at their disposal, yet fail to utilize it in any meaningful way. Big data and the analytics based on it promise...

This case make the analysis of potential markets for the internationalization of the company Saurios and, especially, to the selection and entry modes...

In 2004, U.S.-based China Sourcing Group, which specialises in premium and gift products, established a sourcing office in Shanghai. The Shanghai office...

Revlon India was founded as a joint venture in 1995, pairing the industrial conglomerate UMG with the global beauty brand Revlon, Inc. to bring international...

AARP Foundation--a leading non-profit corporation--must create a new "Dashboard" performance measurement tool to track the effectiveness of its new strategic...

"MDCM, Inc. (B): Strategic IT Portfolio Management" examines the steps involved in developing a portfolio of IT projects aligned with a company's strategic...

The case describes the launch of a newly designed Apple Watch, a smartwatch, and the market for wearable technology at the time of the launch. Apple Watch...

It is impossible to predict the future, but this is a task policymakers are effectively expected to do when deciding how to deploy scarce resources to...

Many managers have adopted a balanced scorecard approach to measuring performance. But "balance" implies that all measures are equally important in all...

Strategic dreams often turn into nightmares if companies start engaging in expensive and distracting restructurings. It’s far more effective to choose a design that works reasonably well, then develop a strategic system to tune the structure to the strategy.