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- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
the right times. They'd done it by implementing techniques and technologies at an unprecedented pace; among them, the lean production method introduced by W. Edwards Deming,... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
that when Americans put their talent, effort, and money behind an idea, remarkable things happen faster than anyone expected. Wind power (regardless of what you think of it) in Texas is a good example. In 1999, under then-Governor George... View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
spillover effects. In the domain of private politics, shareholder resolutions filed against a firm, and against others in its industry, increase its propensity to acquiesce to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?
then need to consider one of three strategies: Enhance the Value of the Box, Shrink and Transform the Format, or Wind Down. Sean Silverthorne:... View Details
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
two contrasting approaches to delivering digital content to users. Can Apple and the recording industry seriously compete against free? Do iTunes and p2p help each other in some ways? Professor Ramon... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
in a special issue of Management Science. Ultimately, the authors believe, neither side is likely to be forced from the battlefield—Microsoft has too much market share and OSS offers too many benefits for... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
paper estimates that the electrical efficiency of computation has doubled roughly every year and a half for more than six decades, outpacing Moore's law. The paper shows also that View Details
- 03 Apr 2006
- What Do You Think?
Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?
other disasters in one part of the world. Operating a lean organization in a global economy, the argument goes, results in more use of just-in-time inventory management and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812100-PDF-ENG Hypothesis-Driven Entrepreneurship: The Lean Startup Thomas Eisenmann, Eric Ries, and Sarah DillardHarvard Business School Note 812-095 Firms that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders
started. And during his tenure, Eisenhower leaned on “the Gang,” a group of corporate leaders who had become advisers, to bring their business skills into his administration, saying, “I must learn the value... View Details
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
dynamics, including Nepal's, they have leaned toward one of two approaches: a broad view of several different countries together, or the sharp focus of a case study. Iyer and Do's method combines View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
China's skin care market. A Chinese domestic brand, after some success in partnership with Sephora in Europe, aspires to challenge the French and U.S. brands' hold on the China market. It must decide how to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
New research from Harvard Business School shows that mass advertising is better at swaying undecided consumers while face-to-face personal selling is more suited at closing the deal for those already leaning... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
Fund: Lean Data in 2017 No abstract available. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217072-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 905-405 Brazil's WTO Cotton Case: Negotiation through Litigation Brazil has just won a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
having two buildings built with significant leaning away from vertical. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209052 Purchase this supplement:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
of the current CEO, Anders Eldrup, the company had become an energy group, present in all steps of the gas and oil value chain and particular, in View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
general. Much has been written on Japanese management. Japanese companies pioneered lean production, "total quality management," and "just-in-time manufacturing." However, these practices have been widely imitated.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
product should have been, says HBS entrepreneurial management professor Thomas R. Eisenmann. In his new MBA course, Launching Technology Ventures, Eisenmann introduces students to the idea of the View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
development—supplying energy to impoverished rural areas in India, against environmental damage-caused by the use of coal-fired power plants. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
how much to bid for the loans. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209088 The Suzlon Edge Harvard Business School Case 708-051 With prices of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace