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- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
else comes along and someone else surges in front of them.” By contrast, industries with a few established players, such as automotive or aviation, see slower growth without a lot of change in leadership. Pisano compares that to a 10K...
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- 18 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization
(Photo source: iStock) Economic cluster theory has been used to describe the growth of many industries, including the automotive business around Detroit, high tech in Silicon Valley, and digital media in Seoul. These regions benefit by a...
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- 10 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
from the examples set by these world-class athletes, who are never satisfied, even at the top of their games and seemingly at the peak of their performance. Like Phelps and Nowitzki, two examples of organizations that excel at continuous improvement are Toyota, a...
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- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
Kaurman and Derek C.M. van Bever, also senior lecturers with prior leadership experience in the private sector. Huber recently sat down with Harvard Business School Working Knowledge to discuss how an automotive executive ended up...
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- 03 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Web Services
coding over a new solution." Using a common code base to build applications that automate repetitive tasks is key to serving the needs of various business partners. The Customer's View Representing the customer perspective, GM's CTO Tony Scott outlined transitions...
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- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
the automotive industry's growth over the next ten years," said Newman, noting that four of those countries—China, India, Thailand, and South Korea—are in Asia. Protectionism is one of GM's biggest challenges, Newman said, with...
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by Julia Hanna
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
hosting contests to find solutions to problems ranging from automotive design to cleaning up oil spills. Karim R. Lakhani has spent the past five years working with NASA, Harvard Medical School, and TopCoder to determine the most...
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- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
in formulating environmental regulations in three areas: automotive emissions for health related (criteria) pollutants, packaging waste, and global climate change. Automotive emissions are relatively...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 24
opportunity to enter the market via new automotive market entrants in China that had comparatively fewer capabilities and were willing to purchase major subsystems. Yet the company faced a dilemma—a major customer wanted Delta to transfer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
sectors, and if so, what causes such variation. In this study, we use network-based methods of analysis to define and measure the degree of hierarchy in two industry sectors in Japan: automotive and electronics. Our empirical results show...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
an advantage over European competitors. It also needs a more proactive approach to identifying and upgrading its areas of strength outside of London. The UK has strong biosciences and information technology clusters around Cambridge and Oxford, a study cluster of View Details
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by Michael Blanding
- 11 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Non-competes Push Talent Away
non-compete status in Michigan, they discovered a natural test bed, thanks to an inadvertent policy change. In 1905, during the initial automotive industry boom, Michigan passed Public Act No. 329, which prohibited "all agreements and...
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- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
and the Automotive Microcontroller Supply Chain (A) Willy Shih and Margaret PiersonHarvard Business School Case 612-071 The magnitude 9.0 earthquake that struck Japan in March 2011 caused extensive damage to Renesas Electronics wafer...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
and measure the degree of hierarchy in transactional relationships among firms and apply the methods to two large industrial sectors in Japan: automotive and electronics. We compiled the networks of firms connected by transactional...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
that was higher than consumers’ expectations. Immediately after receiving the quote, some callers queried whether the repair business would be willing to match the expected price published by the online automotive repair website...
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- 29 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 29
to deploy a system of statistical control that had been developed and applied successfully in the management of the Army Air Forces. Henry Ford II had recently assumed control of his grandfather's troubled automotive empire and was...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
were more like them, too, whose careers were similar to the careers the students were pursuing," Sucher says. So the video series includes people like Hemant Luthra, now a top executive at Mahindra CIE Automotive in Mumbai, who is a...
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- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
which transactions flow in one direction, from "upstream" to "downstream." Our empirical results show that the electronics sector exhibits a much lower degree of hierarchy than the automotive sector because of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
agencies and automotive manufacturers that try to improve automotive safety benefit from research using cadavers. It does not help that many users seek the same "good" type of cadavers. A good...
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- 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2
automotive industry executive, but a first-time entrepreneur, Canny was CEO of Think Global AS (THINK), a privately held Norwegian maker of battery-operated EVs that are rechargeable through residential electrical power outlets. With this...
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Martha Lagace