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- 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...
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The Hawthorne Plant – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
brigade, laundry facilities, and a greenhouse. Employees were assigned to precisely measured tasks in highly specialized departments, from switchboard wiring to punch-and-die tool making. The manufacture of...
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- 16 May 2023
- HBS Case
How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’
flags a couple important considerations for executives looking to model KKR’s success, which the private-equity firm is now using broadly. In addition, a non-profit Stavros founded called Ownership Works is developing the tools to help...
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by Avery Forman
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
technology side, they also have to think about the organizational side," she says. "Traditionally, technology is thought of as a tool that enables empowerment, but that's not always the case." Sadun discusses the issue in...
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by Carmen Nobel
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Women’s health is more than female anatomy and our reproductive system—it’s about unraveling centuries of inequities due to living in a patriarchal healthcare system. - Blog: Health Supplement
the victims in nearly two-thirds of the workplace injuries resulting from assaults. And female healthcare providers are put at higher risk due to ill-fitting personal protective equipment (PPE), which is manufactured for the “standard”...
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- 07 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success
the emotional side of digital transformation Digital transformation can be bewildering and exhausting for leaders and employees alike. Emerging digital technologies are disrupting everything from supply chains and manufacturing to selling...
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- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Stephan Heblich, and William R. Kerr Abstract We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool...
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Martha Lagace
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
variation in value across banks. Variation in productivity is driven by differences across banks in technology, customer demographics, and market power. Their findings suggest that there is significant heterogeneity in banks’ ability to capture value by View Details
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
simultaneously reduce their domestic activity? This paper analyzes the relationship between the domestic and foreign operations of American manufacturing firms between 1982 and 2004 by instrumenting for changes in foreign operations with...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
smartphones for them to easily report anomalies or concerns. Reports from the app are embedded in a new real-time crisis management platform used by several Swiss companies, federal authorities, and the Swiss Army. Despite a full array of risk management View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers
becoming more important at all levels of the labor force as we move from a more mechanical engineering, manufacturing economy to a post-industrial society. Retaining and cultivating those skills as part of learning on the job is becoming...
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California - Global
topics such as scaling startups, angel and venture investing, acquisition-related manufacturing integration processes, the commercialization of technology, capacity issues at biotech companies, and growth challenges for clean-tech...
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MOC Network reaches 20 year milestone - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
practical efforts that raise competitiveness and, ultimately, citizens’ standard of living. The MOC course provides an integrative framework to understand and analyze the drivers of competitiveness. MOC faculty and their students become local experts in applying these...
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Bridging Science and Business: My Summer Internship at Eli Lilly - MBA
Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+ Military Socioeconomic Inclusion...
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
expanded his luxury development business from Argentina to the United States. The son of Syrian-Jewish textile manufacturers in Argentina, Faena transformed a blighted area of Buenos Aires into a vibrant arts district in the early 2000s....
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Returning to the Roots
worked for Maison Latour for generations. “In Beaune, you need to think beyond compensation to the tools that align and attract workers. People stay with us because it’s a family business, because we take care of them in a way that is...
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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
technology into a commercially viable, enterprise-grade tool that will be exponentially more powerful than today’s digital computers. Levy’s goal: Turn quantum computers from an experimental technology into a commercially viable tool....
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- 25 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?
by harnessing a new business model. The bold approach worked. Gilead, one of the world’s leading antiviral makers, would sell its branded Hepatitis C medicines while offering local manufacturers voluntary licenses to produce generics,...
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Propose an Independent Project - MBA
interactive media as a tool for educating clients Independent Project Proposal Form MBA Independent Project Proposal Description of Project (limit 150 words) Faculty Supervisor (if applicable) Term Fall Winter/Spring Company Information...
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- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
2015 Research Handbook on Shareholder Power Thirty Years of Evolution in the Roles of Institutional Investors in Corporate Governance By: Coates, John C. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48729 forthcoming...
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Sean Silverthorne