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- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying and building technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is involvement in View Details
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Anna Secino
- 31 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast
Officer at 3Degrees (How Harvard is Going Fossil Fuel Free): “Rather than saying, I want to get into climate change and therefore, what should I do? I would think of it the other way around, which is, What really excites me and how can I...
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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981
everyone's life." Dubinsky found Apple's casual atmosphere—where smart people thrived—a good fit and accepted a position as a support specialist. "Apple had real energy. I loved the notion that we were changing the world. To me that was a...
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- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
The Roman god Janus had two sets of eyes—one pair focusing on what lay behind, the other on what lay ahead. General managers and corporate executives should be able to relate. They, too, must constantly look backward, attending to the View Details
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Kasia Biezychudek
have choices. I don't want to get discouraged. I want to help. I want to make that difference. A phrase by Grace Hansen inspires me: "Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin." I don't know how my role will View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
total consumer traffic for higher revenues derived by exposing consumers to unsolicited products (e.g., advertising). We show that competition between platforms leads to lower equilibrium levels of search diversion relative to a monopoly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
once-classified national security documents, and other sources to show how far we have traveled from the time of our founders, who tried to constrain presidential power, to the present day, when a single leader has the potential to launch nuclear weapons and destroy...
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- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
and Dan Ariely Publication:Psychological Science 21 (2010) Abstract Although people buy counterfeit products to signal positive traits, we show that wearing counterfeit products makes individuals feel less...
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
networks or manufacturers to procure goods across complex global supply chains. These standards-shaped by standard-setting organizations (SSOs) and participating engineers, academics, lawyers, and executives-in turn shape how new technologies evolve, specifying rules...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
time had a socialistic leaning. Advertising and marketing were not considered good things. You had so many poor people in the country who couldn’t even put a meal on their table and here you were trying to sell Coca-Cola or fancy products...
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- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
Kanter, an authority on organizational change who advises major corporations and governments on these very issues, lays out a blueprint to help readers get a handle on work, and life, in an increasingly connected world. Here, in the first...
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- 27 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID
whereas South Korea has 216 cases per million. "South Korea created a vast number of testing sites, which included not only big hospitals but local clinics and public health care facilities." What South Korea teaches us is that proactive testing and tracing, along with...
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- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
focuses on scaling a venture's sales process and provides a methodology for identifying core customers and some implications for governance criteria and potential product changes as well as sales management....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
efficiently as possible. Increasing the company's product line was a potentially quick, inexpensive way to shape a nascent market for processed food. It was also a means, Heinz reasoned, of building the brand. In the 1870s, branding was a...
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by Nancy F. Koehn
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
of goods and services. Progress is slow, and estimates are that it will be years before any substantive change is seen. Some even fear that India’s escalating population will overwhelm any improvements. “India has very good software in...
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Julia Hanna
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
themselves and new industries will grow. The number-one priority is to change the competition laws and the whole approach to regulating competition. Without competitive pressures, sick industries will never restructure. Until Japan stops...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
for two completely different reasons. The first is a change in technology that reduces the value of co-location (stickiness). This tends to lead to the decoupling of design and production activities and to a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
presumably based on its distinctive competence, rather than consciously serving the customer. Levitt thus argued that when companies fail, "it usually means that the product fails to adapt to the constantly View Details
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
They focused on utility patents, or new or improved useful products that grant the inventor exclusive commercial rights for up to 20 years. To qualify, patents needed to list at least one US inventor. What they found was a huge spike in...
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by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories
corporate practices in his country, championing modern concepts of production and manufacturing as well as adherence to the highest standards of governance. Nancy M. Barry (MBA ’75) For fifteen years, Nancy Barry has been president of...
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