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  • January 1997 (Revised June 1997)
  • Case

Southwire: Beyond 2000

By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
Southwire, based in Carrollton, GA, was the leading producer of aluminum and copper rod, wire, and cable for the transmission and distribution of electricity. In one decade, CEO Roy Richards, Jr. grew annual sales from $500 million in 1985 to $1.9 billion in 1995, an... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Growth Management; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
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  • February 2013 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

Elasto Therm: The Next Step

By: Jim Sharpe and James Weber
Julia and Nate Burstein were living their dream running their own business and balancing the demands between their work and family obligations while creating a company that was responsive to their employees' and their customers' needs. The Bursteins had joined a large... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; Pricing; Pricing Policies; Pricing Strategy; Pricing Structure; Sales Force Management; Acquisitions; Work/family Balance; Family-owned Business; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion; Work-Life Balance; Manufacturing Industry; Rubber Industry; United States
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  • August 2012 (Revised August 2013)
  • Background Note

Competency-Destroying Technology Transitions: Why the Transition to Digital Is Particularly Challenging

By: Willy Shih
Some technology transitions are exceedingly difficult for incumbent firms to execute. The bankruptcy filing by the Eastman Kodak Company highlighted the difficulty companies faced when their core business transitioned from an analog to a digital world. Kodak's business... View Details
Keywords: Technology Transitions; Competency-destroying; Digital; Analog; Digital Transition; Modular; Modularity; Technological Change; Radical Innovation; Incremental Innovation; Architectural Innovation; Modular Innovation; Sustaining Innovation; Competency-enhancing; Noise Propagation; Perfect Copying; Digital Music; Digital Media; Consumer Electronics; Kodak; Sony; Panasonic; Disruptive Innovation; Technology Adoption; Transition; Change Management; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • 09 Apr 2024
  • Book

Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning

of togetherness. Rituals and emotions People turn to rituals to cope with grief, boost enjoyment of a special occasion, or reduce anxiety, Norton says. Pianist Svaitoslav Richter always carried a pink plastic lobster in a little case with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • March 2024
  • Article

Investigation of Divergent Thinking among Surgeons and Surgeon Trainees in Canada (IDEAS): A Mixed-methods Study

By: Alex Thabane, Tyler McKechnie, Vikram Arora, Goran Calic, Jason W Busse, Ranil Sonnadara and Mohit Bhandari
Objective: To assess the creative potential of surgeons and surgeon trainees, as measured by divergent thinking. The secondary objectives were to identify factors associated with divergent thinking, assess confidence in creative problem-solving and the perceived effect... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Surveys; Health Industry
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  • 21 Nov 2023
  • Op-Ed

The Beauty Industry: Products for a Healthy Glow or a Compact for Harm?

In my recently published book Deeply Responsible Business, I write about business leaders since the 19th century who have acted responsibly, often by putting the welfare of their communities above the idea of maximizing profits. I make a sharp distinction between... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 12 Mar 2024
  • HBS Case

How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Electronics; Information Technology
  • 23 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Face Value: Do Certain Physical Features Help People Get Ahead?

success. The work has implications for hiring managers, business leaders, politicians, virtual influencer designers, and maybe even plastic surgeons. After all, it’s possible to use makeup to get higher cheekbones or to change hairstyles... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

the establishment of the U.S. homeland security hierarchy. Li's personal story is an amazing tale of success. After the death of his father, Li—at age twelve—went to work in a plastics factory. Within a decade he started his own View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 23 Nov 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf

cardboard shortage. We had to wait eight weeks for cardboard boxes that normally get here in two weeks’ time. The cost of plastic has also gone up about 30 percent year over year, largely because of the freight surcharges. That View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Music
  • 10 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

learning more advanced coding. Build shared platforms like the United Nations Development Programme’s Accelerator Labs. This network of small teams exchange information to combat a range of problems, from food shortages in Zimbabwe to View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 02 Aug 2022
  • Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 18 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Learning in Action

into seven steps: leading change, creating a shared need, shaping a vision, mobilizing commitment, making change last, monitoring progress, and changing systems and structures — and applying it to the problem they've brought with them. Does CAP impact the bottom line?... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
  • 29 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

product enabled customers to turn on motors and lights for different items, such as a car built out of the plastic bricks, with a remote control. However, once the entrepreneur added a feature that turns on lights automatically in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 17 Dec 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

What used to be rare is now commonplace: traveling abroad to receive medical treatment, and to a developing country at that. So-called medical tourism is on the rise for everything from cardiac care to plastic surgery to hip and knee... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 17 Mar 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

future.” Book Excerpt Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies Ranjay Gulati Chapter 2: The Art of the Tradeoff If you buy Gotham Greens’ fresh produce, you’ll notice that it comes packaged in single-use plastic... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
  • 29 May 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

divest Fiat's core automobile business; when that was rejected by creditors and shareholders, he resigned in 2003. Consider, too, John Trani, who in 1997 left a long career at GE Plastics for toolmaker and hardware manufacturer Stanley... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment
  • 22 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought

smile. ZMET, which is patented, grew out of his interests in anthropology, photography and cognitive neuroscience. It was sparked, in part, by a trip to Nepal and India ten years ago. On his travels, he presented villagers with plastic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

did something good for the environment, so you can have a cookie.” New experimental research shows that shoppers are more likely to buy virtuous organic items when they bring their own reusable bags to the store than when they opt for paper or View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 22 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: November 22

Later known as K-Dow Petrochemicals, it would be one of the largest manufacturers of chemicals and plastics in the world. Analysts widely hailed the planned joint venture as a game-changing deal for both companies. Shortly after the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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