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  • 04 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

average wait for a primary care visit in Massachusetts, world renowned for its medical facilities, is a whopping 50 days. Only 3 percent of American physicians regularly e-mail their patients, less, he said, than the percentage of priests... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 07 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

metrics. Unfortunately, the effects of different types of coupling are somewhat hard to distinguish. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52349 Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity in India: Implementing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century

Laboratories had been dismantled, and only remnants of Philips's once great electronics laboratories at Eindhoven remained. Of the three primary builders of the technological foundations of the consumer electronics industry, only Sony... View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler, Takashi Hikino & Andrew Von Nordenflycht; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 01 Jun 2025
  • News

For the Records

Kelleher in Gold Rush Vinyl’s listening room In the first days of 2025, when Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) went from owning one small business to two, she entered an alternating reality. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, she’s still the founder and CEO of Gold Rush Vinyl;... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photos by Jeff Wilson; Arts, Entertainment
  • 05 Jun 2013
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change

energy use and waste, and many have integrated sustainability into strategic planning. What's not to like? Well, for starters, these actions don't meaningfully address the primary barrier to sustainability, climate change. According to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

manufacturer (ODM)? Tung Lung Metal Industries Co. Ltd. is a Taiwanese maker of door lock hardware that is faced with the question of whether to continue to focus on its ODM business or start placing more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 14

participation in OS arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (2) OS and P firms may (or may not) coexist in equilibrium. Firms decide their type and investment in R&D and sell packages composed of a primary good... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Faculty & Advisors | MBA

20 years of experience successfully commercializing new technology from research labs, currently as CEO of Xtalic, a company that engineers stable metal alloys at the Nano-scale. Tom was also CEO of Z Corporation, a leading pioneer in 3D... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

regarding manufacturing activity, exports, and imports. When China made a currency adjustment, market participants took fright, fearing a much bigger slowdown than they expected. The wheels came off an over-exuberant Chinese stock market,... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • 11 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

Limited was facing significant pricing pressure in their cash cow business, that primarily consisted of manufacturing Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs). To combat this commoditization, Biocon's leadership had chosen an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Sep 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

and complicated than it is today. So I would say the primary impact of the FDA over the past century has been to make predictable the safety of food, drugs, cosmetics, and other products regulated by the agency. As consumers we don't have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health
  • Web

Class Profile | MBA

2026 Enrollment 9,856 Applications received in the 2023–2024 Academic Year 45 % Women 35 % International Primary Citizenship Africa 2% Asia 13% Canada 3% Europe 8% Mexico, Central & South America 5% Middle East 3% Oceania < 1% United... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

current strategy or change its approach? Includes color exhibits. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=805067 New Balance Athletic Shoe, Inc. Harvard Business School Case 606-094 Considers whether New Balance, one of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Toy Story

not manufacture any militaryrelated toys. For years LEGO considered its primary competition to be the other two big U.S. toy manufacturers, Hasbro and Mattel, neither of which has been a major player within... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 10 Dec 2007
  • HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

agreed to manufacture the laptop. On the technological front, OLPC tackled puzzles such as creating a product both useful and fun for children of primary school age. (See CloseUp below). But despite its... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer
  • 12 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 12

technological shifts to closed-body designs and metal stamping technology, as well as the marketing-led idea of the annual model change. The case offers a setting to examine several frameworks: exploration versus exploitation, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

manufacturer of metal parts for the telecommunications industry, is being pushed by its large equipment vendor customers to establish a manufacturing operation in China. CEO... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jan 2005
  • News

Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992

impact on how they dealt with me during and after my illness." Today, Haberkorn is on the boards of three companies-Armstrong World Industries, a leader in the design and manufacture of floors, ceilings, and cabinets; the Enesco Group, a... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Cynthia Carroll

petroleum geologist at Amoco. Later, she joined the Canadian company Alcan, rising through the ranks and eventually becoming CEO of its Primary Metal Group, a position she held until taking over at Anglo.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Mining
  • 08 Jan 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

social inequality." Romuald Kepa added: "The invention of the steam engine and resulting shifts in the society are great providers of insight… Luckily, (the) world did not collapse " Others were not so sure that productivity is the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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