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- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
this period, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) delivered some important technologies for the corporation. One of the most critical inventions was laser printing for Xerox's printers and copiers, an effort that led to new Xerox...
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by Henry Chesbrough
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
Through the Generations Rodolfo, Marco, and Edoardo De Benedetti had received from their father his controlling shares in COFIDE, a publicly listed holding company that held 45.8% of CIR Group, another publicly listed holding. The latter held majority shares in GEDI,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
not just relying on the printed word—why can we not do research by referring to video, sound, and the like? There is so much mathematics devoted today to extraction of quantitative data from all sorts of data sources that a move in this...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
life so that they could print expiration dates on the packages. It turned out the greens lasted only a few days in fiber-based packaging as compared with two weeks or longer in plastic. The fiber acted as a desiccant, drying out the...
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
couldn't do anything about it until the next harvest," she says. "What they have is already there in a printed can, so they have to sell it in the market it was packed for." “The system builds in quality by making mistakes more costly”...
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- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
inventory without the need to step foot in a bookstore; and then Amazon launched the Kindle e-book service in 2007, challenging the very idea of a physical book. “Not only had the traditional buying channels fundamentally shifted, but the core product—the View Details
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
Shippo, prepares her pitch for a Series A funding round following a successful seed round. Customer adoption of Shippo’s e-commerce dashboard application, which allows small and medium retailers to compare delivery rates between shipping providers and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social...
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- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
venture capital firms, offering to invest Rs 200 million in return for an equity stake in the company. His dream of transforming Getit from a regional print company into a digital company with broad geographical reach was within grasp....
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Anna Secino
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
described, along with efforts to professionalize sourcing/pricing and product management functions. The case closes with questions about how Chegg should respond to the pending transition from printed textbooks to electronic textbooks....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
recently, and the cafes had menus printed in five languages," says Underhill. "But in South Florida, an area heavily populated by Hispanics, there are restaurants that don't have menus printed in...
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- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
process analysis—a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management—in a setting that didn't involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting cranberries. Students got to see the design of a system, linked together in a...
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by Garry Emmons
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
editing in biotech, 3D printing has allowed for rapid prototyping for hardware startups, and reusable rockets have brought down the cost to build and launch a small satellite to under a million dollars. “And we often see advances in one...
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- 30 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers
much speculation lately about the trend of well-heeled investors making bets on the future of print media. Yet Esty says the power of this case rests more in its richness as a teaching tool than in its topical appeal. "When asset...
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- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
e-books eroded publishers' profitable print formats. E-readers like Kindle, as well as Apple's iPad, that invigorated the digital book market are discussed. Also includes a general overview of book publishing including the K-12 and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
compensate him. The song was called "United Breaks Guitars." Within one week it received 3 million views and mainstream news coverage followed, with CNN, The Wall Street Journal, BBC, the CBS Morning Show, and many other print...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
converted from hot-to cold-type printing technologies, and captured the labor cost savings afforded by new techniques. Nieva de Figueiredo, in her study of the post-war U.S. newspaper industry, explains that the demands of managing...
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- 09 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)
prototypes, artists made jewelry, and developers punched out low-cost housing. Machines that had cost upwards of $50,000 now cost a few thousand and could fit on a desktop. Formlabs brings 3-D printing home Formlabs developed a...
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- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
the Times’ revenue had previously come from advertising, in recent years the numbers had flipped so now nearly two-thirds of revenue came from print and digital subscriptions. This, he felt, pointed to a willingness among some people to...
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- 09 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements
world through television and print publications, as they had for decades. There was, however, one big media game changer: the Fox News Channel (FNC). Founded in 1996 by Australian media magnate Rupert Murdoch, FNC was an unusual newcomer...
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