Productivity Growth - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2012
News

What’s the Big Idea?

institutions in order to increase farmers’ efficiency, yields, product quality, and sustainability. This leads to a bigger revenue pie for farmers and the companies that do business with them. The time has come for a new conception of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Dec 2011
News

Li & Fung's Global Footprint

minimum wages to go up 13.5 percent a year. That’s an 82 percent increase in wages over five years. Higher wages will cause China’s growth engine to transition from low-cost exports to domestic consumption. My prediction is that over the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

police to protect the citizens. Olstrom dubbed the phenomenon "co-production." Since then, it has become common for organizations to treat consumers as production partners. Many high-tech firms hire existing customers to beta-test early... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

01 Oct 2001
News

Q&A: Orin Smith

work was under way to repair damage done by February's 6.8 magnitude earthquake. Despite this activity — to say nothing of the high-octane pace of Starbucks' growth — Smith was calm and seemingly unflappable, quite the opposite of the... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Apr 2002
News

Q&A - Mark Fields

have confidence. If you perform the appropriate due diligence up front, then you can be confident that you’ll make the right decisions, no matter where you are. What are some of the business issues you’ve dealt with? Cost issues, an oversized workforce, overcapacity in... View Details

Keywords: auto; Mazda; Ford; Mark Fields; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

October 2014
Case

Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference

By: Clayton Rose, Jerome Lenhardt and Daniela Beyersdorfer

For Kai Teckentrup, the owner and co-CEO of the German "Mittelstand" door manufacturer Teckentrup, balancing competitive pressures, demographic realities and values were at the heart of the diversity program that he had started and championed at the company. Beyond... View Details

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01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture

entrepreneurial activity, which drew people away from large companies and encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity... View Details

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

Editor's note: Now 10 years old, Facebook's growth is starting to slow. That's one reason it purchased What'sApp last month in a jaw-dropping deal valued at $19 billion. What might the next decade be like? Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Europe

the world, I'm not surprised that we in entrepreneurship are benefiting," he said. "The climate for entrepreneurship has never been better." Resource mobility, said Stevenson, is evident in product markets, where... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

01 Feb 1997
News

Doing It Your Way

right out of business school," Sahlman says. "They don't yet know enough about hiring and firing or managing. They don't know enough about selling and marketing or production and operations." He advises freshly minted MBAs with... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

17 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

accepted advice is that wealth and growth will come to countries that open their borders to foreign direct investment. "The historical evidence shows clearly that this is an article of faith rather than proven by the historical... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

workplace interactions. Building on West and Zimmerman's (1987) now classic articulation of gender as "the product of social doings," we describe this organizationally induced behavior as "undoing" gender. We use this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

absent from the largest retail markets. Moreover, every retailer that has ventured overseas has failed as often as it has succeeded. On average, the extent of internationalization doesn't have a significant effect on either retailers' revenue View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-049.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAbsolute Return for Kids Harvard Business School Case 309-036 Absolute Return for Kids [ARK] is a charity with strong financial support—what are the constraints on its View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

produce a machine based on the recently developed process named xerography. Invented by the patent lawyer Chester Carlson, xerography involved a process by which images were transferred from one piece of paper to another by means of static electricity. Rapid View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

13 Jun 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

Three. Should it focus its business on a single sector such as structured products or attack multiple sectors? How could enough skilled analysts be recruited quickly? How would the firm acquire status as a Nationally Recognized... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

Abstract—We build a tractable growth model where multi-product incumbents invest in internal innovations to improve their existing products, while new entrants and incumbents invest in external innovations to acquire new View Details

08 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

up just 3 percent of the US armed services but have accounted for over half of combat casualties in recent conflicts. Most of those occur in close, urban combat, as service members go building by building in search of hidden threats. “We hear things like, ‘This View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

17 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

In 2007, Sony Pictures became the first multinational studio to enter the India film business known as Bollywood with its $7 million film Saawariya. The movie grossed only $9 million. That same year, Walt Disney Pictures collaborated with Yash Raj Studios, one of... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

13 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 13, 2010

fishing, paddling, rock climbing, surfing, kayaking, and mountain biking. There was a tradeoff between alienating its core customers and achieving growth via entry into new product markets. Purchase this... View Details