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- 14 Dec 2016
- HBS Seminar
Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 05 Dec 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns
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by William R. Kerr
- April 2012
- Case
Renesas Electronics and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain (A)
By: Willy Shih and Margaret Pierson
The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011 caused extensive damage to Renesas Electronics wafer fabrication facility, a critical link in the global automotive supply chain. Many OEMs sole-sourced customized microprocessors from the fab, so its...
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Natural Disasters;
Crisis Management;
Supply Chain Management;
Production;
Strategy;
Semiconductor Industry;
Auto Industry;
Japan
Shih, Willy, and Margaret Pierson. "Renesas Electronics and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain (A)." Harvard Business School Case 612-071, April 2012.
- February 2019 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
KangaTech
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Patrick J. Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin Hyun Paik and Steven Randazzo
On a warm January afternoon in 2019, Steve Saunders, Dave Scerri, Carl Dilena, and Nick Haslam (see Exhibit 1 for biographies), co-founders of KangaTech, wrapped up the latest round of discussions about the future direction of their sports-technology start-up. Focused...
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Startup;
Technology Commercialization;
Prototype;
Business Startups;
Technological Innovation;
Sports;
Health;
Commercialization;
Research and Development;
Decision Making;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Technology Industry;
Sports Industry;
Health Industry;
Australia
Lakhani, Karim R., Patrick J. Ferguson, Sarah Fleischer, Jin Hyun Paik, and Steven Randazzo. "KangaTech." Harvard Business School Case 619-049, February 2019. (Revised August 2019.)
- February 1999
- Case
Volant Skis
By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Matt Verlinden
Volant brought innovation to the ski equipment industry in 1989 by developing a stainless steel ski. He claimed the skis could turn more easily, could hold an edge in icy conditions, and were more stable than aluminum or fiberglass skis. The company's "soft-flex"...
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Change Management;
Technological Innovation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Operations;
Product Development;
Performance Improvement;
Quality;
Corporate Strategy;
Value Creation
Wheelwright, Steven C., and Matt Verlinden. "Volant Skis." Harvard Business School Case 699-129, February 1999.
- 13 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?
immediate." “The fact that this car seemed to be targeted toward women was highly problematic for many in the brand community” In the eyes of Porsche brand community members, those headlines were View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
percent of the US workforce works in sales (versus 6 percent in manufacturing), and this underestimates the number. Lots of people who do business development for a living are called “partners” or...
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by Kristen Senz
- Web
Online Business Strategy Courses | HBS Online
economy. 4 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Enroll by October 17 $1,850 Certificate Economics for Managers Professor Bharat Anand See the world through the lens of economics and gain the knowledge and skills to craft successful business strategy. 8...
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- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
underinvestment in behaviors like handwashing with soap that we see. If they are rational, it can affect the design of interventions and incentives that policymakers can offer to encourage positive habit...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.
than recent economic crises and recessions such as the Great Recession of 2008 and the Mideast oil crisis, whose causes were financially driven. The fundamental driver of the pandemic is health and safety...
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- 11 Feb 2015
- HBS Seminar
EVENT POSTPONED - Ohad Barzilay, Tel Aviv University
- Web
Tata Hall | About
for Executive Education participants. As designed by William Rawn Associates, Tata Hall has two floors with glass walls, providing panoramic views of the Charles River. The 150,000-square-foot building is...
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- 2007
- Working Paper
Competition in Modular Clusters
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard
The last twenty years have witnessed the rise of disaggregated "clusters," "networks," or "ecosystems" of firms. In these clusters the activities of R&D, product design, production, distribution, and system integration may be split up among hundreds or even thousands...
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Price;
Profit;
Digital Platforms;
Industry Clusters;
Competition;
Horizontal Integration;
Vertical Integration
Baldwin, Carliss Y., and C. Jason Woodard. "Competition in Modular Clusters." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-042, December 2007.
- 25 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Stuck? Getting Past Impasse
Unstuck I have a number of exercises that are designed to enable the reader to shift to this more metaphorical way of apprehending life. One exercise is called the 100 Jobs...
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by Martha Lagace
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Our Team - Impact Investments
Our Team Our Team Principal Investigators Shawn Cole John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration Shawn Cole is a professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on financial...
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research
financial performance of corporations, the design of incentive and control systems to guide strategy execution, corporate reporting, and the role View Details
- April 2019 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
From Globalization to Dual Digital Transformation: CEO Thierry Breton Leading Atos Into 'Digital Shockwaves' (A)
By: Tsedal Neeley, JT Keller and James Barnett
Thierry Breton, chairman and CEO of IT company Atos, faced a pivotal juncture. After spending eight intense years scaling the company globally to over 100,000 employees in 70 countries, he was ready to take the next crucial step. Breton was convinced that rapid digital...
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Dual Digital Transformation;
Transformation;
Disruption;
Employees;
Competency and Skills;
Training;
Decision Making;
Digital Transformation
Neeley, Tsedal, JT Keller, and James Barnett. "From Globalization to Dual Digital Transformation: CEO Thierry Breton Leading Atos Into 'Digital Shockwaves' (A)." Harvard Business School Case 419-027, April 2019. (Revised June 2019.)
- November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
- Module Note
Strategy Execution Module 12: Aligning Performance Goals and Incentives
By: Robert Simons
This module reading explains how managers use performance goals and incentives to ensure that employee actions align with the overall business strategy of the organization. The module begins by discussing how managers use goals to communicate business strategy, the...
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Management Control Systems;
Implementing Strategy;
Execution;
Performance Goals;
Performance Measures;
Incentives;
Benchmarks;
Motivation;
Compensation;
Bonuses;
Strategy
Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 12: Aligning Performance Goals and Incentives." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-112, November 2016. (Revised December 2016.)
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Regional Winners - Alumni
eco-friendly personal care brand focusing on children and teenagers who have their own age-specific needs and preference. Tingting Zhong, MBA 2006, Co-founder & Co-CEO Region: Asia/Pacific Deeper Pulse Deeper Pulse runs platform that generates innovative View Details