Productivity Growth - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

transformation. In accordance with the shift in strategy, Microsoft needed to come up with a viable go-to-market plan that would align its new commercial strategy with sales, partners, products and services, and customers to drive... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2017
News

Lego Stays on Script

marketing, Michael Moynihan (MBA 1993), has been with the company since 1996, long enough to remember its missteps in attempting to broaden Lego’s customer base by expanding into product categories such as action figures, arts and crafts,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 1999
News

A Message from Dean Clark

facilities to support research and case-writing on cutting-edge topics - such as e-commerce and hypergrowth companies - that are of great interest to so many of our students and alumni. Our faculty must stay close to best practice in this entrepreneurial mecca, and we... View Details

01 Jan 2008
News

Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

with Renault to manufacture the French carmaker’s low-cost sedan, the Logan, is now exploring ways to expand the boundaries of the alliance to include new products and markets. “Going global is terribly complex and challenging,” Mahindra... View Details

22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

her husband. In the former case, the reason for the production of that thought is clear ("I thought of him because I looked at his picture while reminiscing about the past"). In the latter case, she lacks both control over the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007

growth without undermining the progress achieved in reducing inequality and poverty. Can the Brazilian government reverse inequality and grow at the same time? What development strategy should Lula follow in his second term? Does Brazil... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2009
News

Read All About It!

manufactured consumer goods first used the union label as a way to show solidarity through their purchases. One hundred years later, men and women, and even teenagers, organized to protest sweatshop production in various countries around... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

interview with HBS Working Knowledge's Martha Lagace, he discusses what companies should bear in mind going forward.Lagace: People often equate globalization with the idea that globally standardized products are displacing local ones. In... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Profile

Ann Chao

Ann sees the growth as a natural progression. "One of our engineers decided to join us because, in his own words: 'You're one of the rare companies that designs products the way musicians would want... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Devtosh Khare

a business plan to solicit venture capital and helped with strategic planning for a new Web-based product launch. To further expand his knowledge of India's thriving entrepreneurial landscape, Khare also did some work as a summer... View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell

19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016

the prevalence of cov-lite rises. Time patterns in cov-lite issuance closely match inflows to institutional lenders, and at a given time, cov-lite loans are, overwhelmingly, those with the highest ownership by structured products and/or... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

middle managers and line employees attempt to execute the explicit strategy. Unfortunately, these strategies often diverge. They are not aligned. And so the potential of the enterprise becomes unrealized. "Strategy therefore becomes the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

01 Jun 2010
News

MBAs on a Mission

“Multinationals understand that there is significant growth potential for their products in developing markets.” Full Circle Growing up in South Africa, Roshini Moodley Naidoo (MBA ’07) witnessed the... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

management practice has evolved since the "benevolent, high-growth environment" following World War II. That era provided fertile ground for the growth of Alfred Sloan's "strategy, structure, systems" model of the divisional corporation... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

April 1990 (Revised November 1992)
Case

Population Services International: The Social Marketing Project in Bangladesh (Abridged)

By: James E. Austin

Population Services International (PSI) was a not-for-profit agency founded to disseminate family planning information and to market birth control products, primarily in less developed countries seeking to curb their population explosions. In 1976, PSI concluded an... View Details

Keywords: Conferences; Developing Countries and Economies; Information Publishing; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Agreements and Arrangements; Product; Nonprofit Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Bangladesh; Washington (state, US)

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07 Oct 2015
What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

to represent the best insurance against old-age poverty, even though at a macro level they lead to an economy with more consumption than income, no resulting capital for investment, and so much risk aversion that little innovation and improvement in View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

if nothing else, has fostered a sense of entrepreneurship and opportunity in the renewable energy sectors." And Chip Levy suggests that "This is a great time to leap into a growth industry ...We developed the petroleum industry... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

nurturing of businesses as a business—to feed capital to entrepreneurs to foster rapid growth for our society and the new firm's products for consumers," investment analyst and author Kenneth L. Fisher... View Details

02 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

Bekkers. Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date Knowing how to keep a conversation going can improve your career as well as your social life, according to research by Alison Wood Brooks and colleagues. Why Productivity... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 May 2011
News

Race to the Finish?

Carlos Ghosn, who touted to an HBS student audience the virtues of his company’s zero-emissions all-electric car, the Leaf. The CEO, his company, and its star product all embody the concepts of “global” and “thoroughly modern” to an... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

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