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- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
“Larger companies are rarely seen as fountains of innovation,” says Harvard Business School professor Gary Pisano. Yet scale, if properly exploited, can still be an engine for transformation. In his new book Creative Construction: The DNA...
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by Martha Lagace
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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Hubert Joly : Appointed a Knight in the French Legion of Honor in 2016. Rosabeth M. Kanter : Recipient of the 2016 Journalism Award from the Boston Society of Civil Engineers for the book, MOVE: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in...
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
"It would have saved 400 lives a night." 18 He began discussions with automobile executives and engineers in 1932, including the head of General Motors research, Charles Kettering. Despite years of effort, Land ultimately failed to launch...
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
19th Annual Roundtable for Engineering Entrepreneurship Research (REER) Conference in 2019. Andy Wu : Included as one of the “Best 40 Under 40 Business Professors” by Poets & Quants in 2019. David B. Yoffie : Recognized as one of the Top...
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture , 1884–1929 . “Businesses, especially manufacturing and communications industries at the forefront of both labor activism and welfare capitalism, responded...
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- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
from those that have been traditionally employed in export-driven growth strategies? Competitiveness strategies are broadly based, recognizing the need to upgrade performance across the entire economy, not just the export-oriented sectors. Export-oriented sectors are...
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by Christian Ketels
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
encounter beyond the test,” De Freitas explains. “But we can’t just make the same assumptions about AVs because common sense is part of what’s being engineered into their systems in the first place.” "The solution is not to make AVs...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened by temporary road...
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Dan Morrell
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
ensuing ecological risks and costs. We then discuss how an operations management lens contributes to the issue and criteria to help the Sustainable Operations Management perspective endure. This article relates to a presentation delivered by Morris Cohen for Paul's...
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Anna Secino
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he purchased Beatty Brothers, a...
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- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
and not always at the forefront of sustainability practices. “It can take a while to improve these processes, and I think the industry is moving in that direction. But, during the 1960s and 70s, the palm oil cluster was a huge engine of...
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Harvard Business School
Outstanding Professor Award for the Executive Program 26 times and the MBA Lawrence Levengood Outstanding Professor of the Year award twice. Before joining the Kellogg faculty, he owned and operated two manufacturing firms and one retail...
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- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World...
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- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
manufacturing and engineering firm, before pursuing a full-time career in academia.) That all takes time, of course, but Toffel argues that it’s time well spent. “Given the substantial time we already invest...
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- 10 May 2020
- Blog Post
Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers
Industry: Oil & Gas / Reservoir Engineer Proudest Accomplishment: Starting at HBS the same week my daughter started Kindergarten Summer Internship: Biotech - FORMA Therapeutics How do you do it? Three things keep me sane: time...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
not just suppliers of advanced materials, production equipment, and components, but also R&D know-how, advanced process development and engineering skills, and manufacturing competencies. Making matters even...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
developing nations as an engine for job creation back home (see article). Innovation is also the ticket to survival for smaller manufacturers, reports Senior Associate Editor Garry Emmons, who talked with the proprietors of family-owned...
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- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Acquiring Business Skills To Advance A Career Trajectory
the next phase of his career. “I see business playing an increasingly important role in the aerospace industry, going beyond just having the engineering know-how to build a spacecraft. In the past, spacecraft were primarily built and...
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- March 1983 (Revised February 1986)
- Teaching Note
Norman Machinery Products, Inc. (A), Teaching Note
By: Henry B. Reiling