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- 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
it's supposed to." Bower continues: "Theoretically, when an industry has excess capacity, prices fall and the least efficient producers can't survive." But, Bower adds, that doesn't always happen. "In many countries, for all sorts of...
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Garry Emmons
- 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case
the facts as they were known a week after the incident occurred and raises a wide range of questions regarding consumer behavior, corporate responsibility, and competitive reaction. I recall only two cases that we spent more than one...
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- 12 Feb 2021
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How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
brother-in-law, who was a CPA; my dad was an 8th grade-educated entrepreneur. And my uncle began taking the money from the partnership that broke up in 1955 and started a competitive chain called Mr. Donut. My dad was so upset at the fact...
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operations;
career;
Food and Beverage Stores;
Retail Trade
- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
around the causes and implications of climate change among business leaders. I also see an unwillingness to take the hard decisions for the long-term, for fear of hurting the stock price in the short-term. As “leaders,” they need to be...
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- 29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
proposition and pricing because the Wellthy solution is so much more robust? The Answers: Like many startups, Wellthy is trying to change the conversation and the basis of competition in its market—with its...
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- 01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community
of their own significant involvement with those programs. Robert Haas (MBA '68) of Levi Strauss: ending racial discrimination in the community is a business imperative. (photograph by Jamie Tanaka) Robert Haas (MBA '68) of Levi Strauss:...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2015
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Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
So I would think the Fed might adjust the timing depending on how strong the economy is in the next several months. Many commentators in the media seem to think that by lowering interest rates, the Fed will necessarily cause inflation. I think that if low-cost foreign...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Family Recipe
products has kept prices down by leveraging advances in technology and automation. “The key is to keep the recipe the same and to invest in processes that reduce the potential for worker injury and allow you to remain View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
employer would be interested. —Harry McCracken (AMP 114, 1994) A highly competitive market with one-year sales cycles on the one hand; a pilot customer in a less-competitive niche with a massive opportunity to create value for insurers on...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Aug 2013
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A Cure for Cold Storage
percent of the children are vaccinated against the virus. And the price of the vaccine is negligible, says Schrader—around 5 or 10 cents. "It's not cost that limits it," he says, but rather infrastructure: Vaccines rely on a complex and...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
it seems that if you work hard and keep your nose clean, they'll get rid of your division." Stevenson believes that many of the remedies prescribed today for enhancing competitiveness - organizational innovations such as restructuring,...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
entrepreneurial graduates, and to create a mechanism to connect alumni with HBS faculty and the global HBS network of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and angel investors. More than seventy teams entered the March regional competitions...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way
by Andy Goodwin However, when it comes to building certain tools, such as progressive dies for metal stampings, which is labor-intensive and takes up to three months, China often has a competitive price...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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Ideas in Action
project reveals that anxiety reduces self-confidence and tends to increase a reliance on others’ advice. Unfortunately, anxiety also reduces the ability to discriminate between good and bad counsel. So it’s best to take a deep breath,...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Dot Vertigo
In Dot Vertigo: Doing Business in a Permeable World, HBS professor Richard Nolan shows how the next shift in Internet technology - the I-Net - is helping both bricks-and-mortar and first-generation Web companies stave off the competition...
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- 01 Apr 1999
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Short Takes
technology over the past forty years, Nolan offers managers who are seeking a competitive advantage the opportunity to gain insights from leaders in the IT industry who have adapted in remarkably innovative ways during their fierce...
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Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way
well: the small, dynamic, stable economies of Mauritius, Tunisia, and Botswana were recently lauded in the Africa Competitiveness Report compiled by the World Economic Forum and the Harvard Institute for International Development. The...
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2018
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Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
to last-mile business from FedEx, UPS, and Amazon. Unfortunately, the online retailer is piloting its own delivery service that would put it in direct competition with the Postal Service. And Amazon isn’t alone in the search for last-mile...
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Jen McFarland Flint