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  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

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... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • February 2013
  • Case

LEGO (A): The Crisis

By: Jan W. Rivkin, Stefan H. Thomke and Daniela Beyersdorfer
As this case opens, iconic toymaker LEGO stands on the brink of bankruptcy. Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, LEGO's young and newly appointed CEO, must size up changes in the toy industry, learn from the company's recent moves, and craft a strategy that will put LEGO back on... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Competitive Strategy; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 12 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

2019 Cambridge University Press Disciples of the State?: Religion and State-Building in the Former Ottoman World By: Fabbe, Kristin Abstract—As the Ottoman Empire crumbled, the Middle East and Balkans became the site View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • March 2001 (Revised August 2003)
  • Case

Wilkerson Company

By: Robert S. Kaplan
The president of Wilkerson, faced with declining profits, is struggling to understand why the company is encountering severe price competition on one product line while able to raise prices without competitive response on another product line. The controller proposes... View Details
Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Competition; Profit; Product; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 2000
  • Book

Competitive Environmental Strategy: A Guide to the Changing Business Landscape

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Environmental concerns can greatly affect business success, regardless of whether a business person or corporation shares those concerns. Today's corporate managers must understand the power of environmental issues, and shift their mindset from one focused on... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Environmental Management; Social Issues; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • 30 Jul 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

no opposition. But if instead of an exchange, we asked a potential donor ‘How about we pay you $25,000?' that would be against the law. "That's what caught my interest in repugnance: Here are two things... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2022
  • Blog Post

Meet the HBS Women's Student Association

co-president of the WSA. I am originally from Birmingham in the United Kingdom, but moved to London when I was 18 to study (at the London School of Economics) and work (first in View Details
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

employer. Would-be entrepreneurs should first go to their current employer and either resign or tell them what they're doing and ask them if they'd be interested in investing. Amazingly, that's often a very smooth way View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • Web

Domestic Students - MBA

Student Loans 101 Domestic Students Tuition Assistance Additional Harvard Funding External Funding Student Loans 101 Domestic Students International Students Evaluating Sponsorships Annual Cost of Attendance Summer Fellowships Career... View Details
  • Web

How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Matthew Young - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2023
  • News

Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details

    ShotSpotter

    SST offered a subscription-based gunfire detection service, ShotSpotter Flex, to cities across the United States, and a few abroad. Over its 20-year history, SST had mostly honed a reliable business to government sales model, and the company had been focused on... View Details
    • 18 Mar 2016
    • Blog Post

    What is an IFC?

    An IFC (Immersive Field Course) is a class for second year students where the vast majority of content consists of an on-the-ground assignment to learn about and advise on real problems. I enrolled in an IFC... View Details
    • June 2014
    • Article

    The Capitalist's Dilemma

    By: Clayton M. Christensen and Derek C. M. van Bever
    Sixty months after the 2008 recession ended, the economy was still sputtering, producing disappointing growth and job numbers. Corporations seemed stuck: Despite low interest rates, they were sitting on massive piles of cash and failing to invest in new initiatives. In... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Investments; Creating Markets; Evaluating Business Investments; Innovation; Emerging Markets; Investment; Economic Growth; Capital; Innovation and Invention
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    The U.S. Job Search for International Students - MBA

    Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering... View Details
    • 17 Jan 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

    the issue because the US Securities and Exchange Commission in September 2017 adopted a rule stemming from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. The rule mandates that companies disclose the ratio View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • Web

    Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

    Carnegie Mellon University and the Distinguished Teaching Award at Stanford University. He is a co-author (with Professors Charles T. Horngren and George Foster) of the leading cost accounting textbook,Cost Accounting: A Managerial... View Details
    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set forth in previous chapters to theories of firm boundaries from economics and management. Complementary goods have more value when used together than separately. Complementarity may... View Details
    Keywords: Complementarity
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    • January 2016 (Revised May 2016)
    • Case

    IKEA in Saudi Arabia (A)

    By: Karthik Ramanna, Jérôme Lenhardt and Marc Homsy
    A Swedish newspaper reveals that IKEA has erased all images of women from its catalog for Saudi Arabia. The article sparks criticism of IKEA from the Swedish government and its customers in the West. Critics contend that IKEA is not living up to its own commitments to... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Values; Islam; Multinationals; Globalization; Leadership; Equality and Inequality; Multinational Firms and Management; Religion; Organizational Culture; Gender; Consumer Products Industry; Saudi Arabia; Sweden
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    • 27 May 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: May 27

    drove the rise in importance and prestige of American beauty brands. In the more recent past, L'Oréal has fostered a new pluralism in beauty by acquiring American and other international brands and offering global View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne