Strategic analysis

Companies in developing countries are often so focused on chasing growth that they fail to invest in improving their innovation, operations, and brand...

Increasingly, companies are measuring customer loyalty, employee satisfaction, and other nonfinancial areas of performance that they believe affect profitability....

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

Throughout most of modern business history, corporations have attempted to unlock value by matching their structures to their strategies: Centralization...

If you were a military general on the march, you'd want your troops to have plenty of maps--detailed information about the mission they were on, the roads...

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...

First: Is there a problem to be solved?

Fully half of all joint ventures are a failure. That's worrying, given that partnerships and alliances are central to many companies' business models....

Companies and leaders don't succeed or fail in a vacuum. When it comes to long-term success, the ability to understand and adapt to changing business...

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...

Most firms aren’t, and that undermines their innovation efforts.

What you measure is what you get. Senior executives understand that their organization’s measurement system strongly affects the behavior of managers and employees. Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous improvement and innovation—activities today’s competitive environment demands. The traditional financial performance measures worked well […]

Deliberate, emergent, and analogical approaches to finding the best strategy all have their advan-tages, depending on where an industry is in its life...

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.

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...

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

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

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 U.S. defense industry has seen more than 50% of its market disappear, and the companies that make up the industry have faced the need for the equivalent...

Executives know that a company's measurement systems strongly affect employee behaviors. But the traditional financial performance measures that worked...

Illustrates how nonfinancial performance measures can be used to manage a business and evaluate the success of a strategy.

Provides the background on Cumberland Metal Industries' entry into the automotive components market as a supplier of emission control equipment parts....

Be confident in your strategy success. Strategy work can be a frustrating, stressful process that doesn't always lead to actionable results. This time...

First Community Bank, a bank-within-a-bank at Bank of Boston, was established in 1990 as a unique venture to serve urban communities. By 1995 it has achieved...

Nintendo faced huge difficulties in July 2011. Sony's PlayStation and Microsoft's Xbox had caught up with the innovative motion-sensing controllers of...

On July 30, 2015, Procter & Gamble (P&G) announced headline double digit earnings per share growth for the year ended June 30. A closer look at the numbers...

This case series describes the decision of King's Flair International (KFI) on whether to venture into the nanofiber business. KFI grew from an original...

The case puts the students in the role of a member of a management team trying to create a strategy map and balanced scorecard, in an attempt to ensure...

This note develops a variety of approaches to sensitivity analysis within the context of a promotional decision regarding a consumer product. Analyses...

In the fall of 2018, Serbia found itself at a crossroads yet again. Following the Balkan Wars of the 1990s and the collapse of Yugoslavia, the country...

A summer intern is asked to perform a financial value analysis of a company's financial report for the period 1987-1994.

Innovation may be the hottest discipline around today--in business circles and beyond. And for good reason. Innovation transforms companies and markets....

Second of a two-part case on the development and use of a Balanced Scorecard (BSC) at Mobil's US Marketing and Refining Division. This case describes...

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

Good morning Mr. Teichner, After having arrived well in China on May 9 and some intense experiences, observations, and conversations, I see the urgent...

Supplements the (B) case.

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Supplements the (B) case. A rewritten version of an earlier supplement.

Companies in developing countries are often so focused on chasing growth that they fail to invest in improving their innovation, operations, and brand...

Illustrates how nonfinancial performance measures can be used to manage a business and evaluate the success of a strategy.

Provides the background on Cumberland Metal Industries' entry into the automotive components market as a supplier of emission control equipment parts....

Be confident in your strategy success. Strategy work can be a frustrating, stressful process that doesn't always lead to actionable results. This time...

Increasingly, companies are measuring customer loyalty, employee satisfaction, and other nonfinancial areas of performance that they believe affect profitability....

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

Throughout most of modern business history, corporations have attempted to unlock value by matching their structures to their strategies: Centralization...

If you were a military general on the march, you'd want your troops to have plenty of maps--detailed information about the mission they were on, the roads...

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...