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- 13 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Summer Snapshot: Interning in the Sports Industry
HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) asked students to describe their career interests and what they are up to this summer. Name: Matt Duarte, MBA 2018 Current Position: Corporate Development and... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 20 Oct 2014
- Blog Post
Create Buzzworthy Industry Education Events at HBS
people who MBA students can relate to and who want to connect with HBS students. Best of luck with your Industry Education Events. And be in touch with our office if we can help your marketing and recruiting efforts at HBS in any way.... View Details
- December 2007 (Revised January 2008)
- Teaching Note
Eli Lilly: Developing Cymbalta (TN)
By: Elie Ofek
Teaching Note for 507-044 View Details
- February 2007 (Revised May 2008)
- Supplement
Bancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (B)
In 1996, CEO Fernando Garcia Checa wanted to make customer analytics a part of Bancaja's new strategy. Bancaja, a savings bank based in Valencia, Spain, was expanding and wanted to exploit customer information to increase commercial effectiveness. At the same time, it... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Credit Cards; Analytics and Data Science; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Marketing Strategy; Banking Industry; Spain
Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis, and Katherine Miller. "Bancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 107-066, February 2007. (Revised May 2008.)
- 2003
- Article
Developing a Management Systems Approach to Sustainability at BMW Group
By: Michael W. Toffel, Natalie Hill and Kellie McElhaney
This article describes how Designworks/USA, a subsidiary of BMW Group, developed a Sustainability Management System (SMS) by integrating the management of environmental, social, and traditional business issues. After several months of deploying the SMS throughout its... View Details
Toffel, Michael W., Natalie Hill, and Kellie McElhaney. "Developing a Management Systems Approach to Sustainability at BMW Group." Corporate Environmental Strategy 10, no. 2 (2003).
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Training managers in the developing world
Through the Southern African Development Community Business School Network he established with the University of Botswana and the University of Pretoria, Richard America (MBA 1965) is on a mission to help train first-rate managers in the... View Details
- March 2015 (Revised April 2015)
- Case
The Heat Is On: Emerging Ecosystems in the Thermostat Industry
By: David Collis and Ashley Hartman
Beth Wozniak, President of Honeywell Environmental and Combustion Controls (ECC) at Honeywell International Inc., spun around in her office chair, reflecting about how the classic, mature thermostat industry was rapidly evolving. In February 2014, Google paid $3.2... View Details
Keywords: Honeywell; Thermostats; Internet Of Things; Smart Thermostats; Google; Nest; Apple; HomeKit; SmartThings; Partnerships; Platforms And Ecosystems; Linkages; Communication Protocols; Strategy; Technology; Home Automation; Connected Home; Buildings and Facilities; Energy; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Partners and Partnerships; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
Collis, David, and Ashley Hartman. "The Heat Is On: Emerging Ecosytems in the Thermostat Industry." Harvard Business School Case 715-455, March 2015. (Revised April 2015.)
- 2014
- Article
Executive Compensation and Human Capital Investments Through Industry Selection
By: Boris Groysberg and Eric Lin
We use proprietary data capturing compensation levels of executives placed by a global search firm to investigate how executives evaluate rewards and risks of human capital investment choices. Our findings suggest that more isolated industries with lower opportunity to... View Details
Groysberg, Boris, and Eric Lin. "Executive Compensation and Human Capital Investments Through Industry Selection." Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2014).
- November – December 2009
- Article
Learning by Design: Developing an Engine for Transforming Your Company
By: Michael Beer and Magnus Finnstrom
Traditional leadership development programs often fail to achieve the desired results because they don't focus on learning linked to the company's business strategy and the real day-to-day challenges facing managers. The experience of Sweden-based industrial... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Programs; Learning; Failure; Business Strategy; Organizations; Transformation; Problems and Challenges; Design; Sweden
Beer, Michael, and Magnus Finnstrom. "Learning by Design: Developing an Engine for Transforming Your Company." Leadership in Action (November–December 2009).
- July 2015 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias and Natalie Bartlett
Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank details the development of the bank's new Office of Outreach Partnerships to sustain a culture of innovation through maintaining and generating partnerships in order to fulfill the bank's greater... View Details
Keywords: Business Organization; Business And Community; Well-being; Wealth and Poverty; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Technology Adoption; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Change Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Partners and Partnerships; Restructuring; Welfare or Wellbeing; Business and Community Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Banking Industry; Latin America
Edmondson, Amy C., Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias, and Natalie Bartlett. "Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank." Harvard Business School Case 616-004, July 2015. (Revised October 2015.)
- 04 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Career & Professional Development Responds to COVID-19
Kristen Fitzpatrick (HBS '03) is the Managing Director of HBS Career and Professional Development (CPD). In this role, she also coaches alumni and MBA students. Through her interactions with recruiters over the past decade, Kristen is... View Details
- December 2005
- Article
Understanding Firm, Physician and Consumer Choice Behavior in the Pharmaceutical Industry
This paper argues that the pharmaceutical industry represents an exciting opportunity to carry out academic research. The nature of the industry allows researchers to answer new questions, develop new methodologies for answering these questions as well as to apply... View Details
Manchanda, Puneet, Dick R. Wittink, Andrew Ching, Paris Cleanthous, Min Ding, Xiaojing J. Dong, Peter S. H. Leeflang, Sanjog Misra, Natalie Mizik, Sridhar Narayanan, Thomas J. Steenburgh, Jaap E. Wieringa, Marta Wosinska, and Ying Xie. "Understanding Firm, Physician and Consumer Choice Behavior in the Pharmaceutical Industry." Marketing Letters 16, nos. 3/4 (December 2005): 293 – 308.
- 03 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry
Conference, led by the HBS Health Industry Alumni Association, presented two days of provocative lectures, panel discussions, and case studies surrounding questions like: What's next for healthcare? And how should smart businesses... View Details
- November 2023
- Case
From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (Abridged)
By: Willy Shih and Nancy Dai
Like other small shops based in Chongqing, China, Zongshen Industrial Group started by assembling motorcycles from "standard" parts. The quality of its early products was good enough for rural Chinese buyers, though wealthier consumers usually purchased premium... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Supply Chain; Product Positioning; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; China
Shih, Willy, and Nancy Dai. "From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 624-056, November 2023.
- 1996
- Chapter
Product Development at Dell Computer Corporation
By: S. Thomke, V. Krishnan and A. Nimgade
- 2009
- Working Paper
Industry Equilibrium with Open Source and Proprietary Firms
By: Gaston Llanes and Ramiro de Elejalde
We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of Open Source (OS) and Proprietary (P) firms. Two novel aspects of the model are: (1) participation in OS arises as the optimal decision of profit-maximizing firms, and (2) OS and P firms may (or may... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Sharing; Industry Structures; Open Source Distribution; Research and Development
Llanes, Gaston, and Ramiro de Elejalde. "Industry Equilibrium with Open Source and Proprietary Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-149, June 2009.
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
Creating solutions for the oil industry
Retired high-tech entrepreneur Thomas Scambos (MBA 1954) started a company that developed additives to make oil flow more efficiently and also help deal with oil spills. (Published November 2014) View Details
- Fall 2015
- Article
Doing Well by Doing Good? Community Development Venture Capital
By: Josh Lerner and Anna Kovner
This paper examines the investments and performance of community development venture capital (CDVC). We find substantial differences between CDVC and traditional venture capital (VC) investments: CDVC investments are far more likely to be in nonmetropolitan regions and... View Details
Lerner, Josh, and Anna Kovner. "Doing Well by Doing Good? Community Development Venture Capital." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 24, no. 3 (Fall 2015): 643–663.
- 28 Aug 2019
- Working Paper Summaries