Harvard Business School
Essays

Explication of strategic frameworks, notably the balanced scorecard approach, and how the discipline of project management fits into an overall organizational strategic blueprint. Given the importance of strategic planning, how is strategy defined and what frameworks are available for Corporate America to utilize? Finally, exploring the cooperative roles of PM and strategic management in the broader context of organizations delivering their value added differentiation.

"Indeed, diversification and decentralization had been the major strategic thrusts of GEs two prior CEOs…" (Walker, General Electric Strategic Position-1981, 1993). Under decentralization, GE's departments were building…

Business Problem -- Chattanooga Ice Cream Company

This case study examined a company that needs to come up with a strategy to get there coming up and running again properly. This project is about what needs to be done to come up with a plan to help the company. It makes the point how successful the plan would be when it came to assembling a strong business-oriented staff of workers.

Technology management arrangements of developing countries vary from those of first world ones. The requirement for skill in these states is not growing from within, but somewhat cropping up from new wares imported from…

With its Kindle, Amazon is currently the leader of the electronic readers market. In the near future, competition is expected to increase, mainly from players such as Barnes and Noble, Sony or LG.

Product positioning is of immense importance for any business, and can be especially crucial in the case of a new brand or product launch, as the company is now tasked not only with making a recognizable product, but in…

The United States AID program (USAID) was launched in the immediate aftermath of World War II. It was originally presented not as USAID but rather as the Marshall Plan and the Truman Administration's Point Four Plan,…

Case Study from Harvard Business Review Silvio Napoli and Schindler India (A)

Once again, executive compensation is making headlines. This time, it is the executives at banks that received TARP funds. Bonus pools at the nation's banks totaled $18.4 billion dollars, even as these same banks…