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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
as its discount prices and large selection of merchandise. As Sprint and Walgreens have shown, Porter notes, companies that invest in the inner city and entrepreneurs who start businesses there are well positioned to take advantage of a growing, local labor pool; the... View Details
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
public entrepreneurship is going to work, we have to cut off the failing projects and invest in those that are working. So it’s essential for us to try new things in quick and efficient ways and move on from them, eventually, if the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
strategic and tactical planning. Many argued that the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force would be more efficient if they were unified into a single organization. As the debate raged, Philip Selznick, a sociologist, noted that the Navy... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
currency-management issues. The microeconomic reforms have to do with really getting the micro institutions and rules in the economy right. Instituting strong antitrust policy, opening up competition, improving the efficiency by which... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
back to basics," said Bruce Harreld (MBA '75), SVP of strategy at IBM. "Our goal is to increase the efficiency of organizational systems by creating software that remaps how processes work together." Steven Elterich, president of Fidelity... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
Business School Module Note 112-043 The last thirty years have seen the widespread embrace of market capitalism as not only a highly efficient form of economic organization but also as one that best meets the diversity of human... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
simple, easy-to-use tools that provide a relatively reliable, inexpensive way to confirm diagnoses of malaria. In addition to ensuring that patients' febrile illnesses are properly diagnosed and treated, confirming malaria diagnoses has broader public health benefits,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
showcase best practices in the topic, to be distributed among all participating agents. Our objective is to disseminate knowledge and facilitate implementation of the most efficient solutions for distribution of financial products.... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
and really evaluating every area of the operation to find efficiencies and ways to get more food to the communities we serve. “Knowing that our work could determine whether someone got a meal or not the next day certainly kept me up at... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
also brought about change. In 1874, Dun placed an order with E. Remington and Sons for 100 of the newfangled machines at a cost of $55 each, assuring the future of the young, struggling company. After that, a report could be typed and mailed out directly—an View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
efficient and higher quality. After I left McKinsey, I went to GE, where those two ideas came together. I saw the way that GE was doing high stakes face-to-face negotiations for materials, things like metal components, plastic components,... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
especially when they don’t have any knowledge of a subject. Designating a common enemy has always been an efficient way at uniting people. It also typically leads to scapegoating. Politicians’ role should be to educate the people and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
effect of efficiency wages on employee behavior and social norms. Working PapersSpatial Organization of Firms: Internal and External Agglomeration Economies and Location Choices Through the Value Chain Authors:Juan Alcácer and Mercedes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
board of directors for Business Executives for National Security (BENS), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that uses volunteer talent from the private sector to increase efficiency and effectiveness in the armed forces and... View Details
- February 2025
- Case
Luca de Meo at Renault Group (A)
By: Emily Truelove, Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
When Luca de Meo became CEO of Renault Group in 2020, the 122-year-old French automaker faced financial challenges and the double technological disruption of the automotive industry: the shift to electric vehicles (EVs) and the rise of software-defined vehicles (SDVs).... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Transition; Interpersonal Communication; Forms of Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Experience and Expertise; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Making; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Alternative Energy; Engineering; Global Strategy; Governance; Digital Transformation; Digital Strategy; Technology Adoption; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Innovation Leadership; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leading Change; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Management Skills; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Performance Efficiency; Transportation; Auto Industry; Battery Industry; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Transportation Industry; France; Europe; China
Truelove, Emily, Linda A. Hill, and Lydia Begag. "Luca de Meo at Renault Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 425-041, February 2025.
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
with sales and purchasing and relocated the business to a more efficient facility. She wondered if she moved too quickly. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217001-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-021... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
profit generated by different business strategies. Formulas and examples are provided to calculate the profit generated by changes in market share, revenue growth, efficiency improvements, and support costs. We illustrate how this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
auditors. Building Capacity for Change Both studies—considering factors in countries where factories are located and at the makeup of the teams that audit them—may be helpful in arriving at an accurate depiction of factory performance with the most View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract— Regulators have long been aware that differential access to information can undermine the efficiency and fairness of financial markets. In an effort to place investors on equal footing, the Securities and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
understanding the mechanisms that permit firms to capture value. Many of these imperfections are competed away when firms struggle to attain and defend competitive advantages, making markets more efficient in the process. The remaining... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne