Produce - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Oct 2012
What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

Summing Up Where Is the Leadership Necessary to Regenerate the "Industrial Commons" In their book Producing Prosperity, Gary Pisano and Willy Shih pointed to the lack of long-term thinking and investment as well as education... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

twelve member companies of the Alabama Mining Institute. Desk stand, 1892. AT&T Bell Laboratories Mss: 583 1931 A512 1 album, 34 photographs This album contains close-up views of telephone equipment produced by Bell Telephone... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008

The business of business education produced another year of strong results for HBS during fiscal 2008, which ended last June. Applications for the core MBA Program reached a five-year high of 8,661, and the percentage of admitted students... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

08 Apr 2015
What Do You Think?

Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

prescription for more commoditized products that can have little value-added and need to be produced in the countries with the lowest costs." Does Parker have something here? What's the downside to disruption in high tech? What do... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

05 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

others to buy into your perspective? Is a digital camera a substitute for an analog camera? Is it a PC peripheral? Is it something like a camcorder? And how do consumers make sense of it? What features do they value? Ideally, producers... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

Engineering Task Force (IETF), which defines the protocols of the Internet, is a nonprofit professional society. What is different from professional nonprofits or nonprofits focused on charitable causes is that open source foundations View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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

Transistors had begun to replace vacuum tubes and represented what was known as the "second generation" of computers able to hold thousands of binary logic circuits within a compact design. Olsen and Anderson joined forces to create a company that would View Details

10 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice

of the study. "Already we’re seeing how generative AI can change people's lives." Businesses that were already financially stable used the AI-generated advice to produce measurable improvements, while struggling businesses ran into... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

22 Nov 2013
News

A Passion for Film

Eric d'Arbeloff by Jill Radsken All of Eric d'Arbeloff's (MBA 1993) movies have heart. But the film producer and copresident of Roadside Attractions, a distribution company that counts Super Size Me, Winter's Bone, and Biutiful among its... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Mar 2005
News

Facing Ambiguity

find out the threat is harmless, but that’s OK — you learned, built capabilities, and understand the system better.” The case, which is dedicated to the memory of Columbia’s flight crew, includes a fifteen-minute documentary, produced by... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Space Research and Technology; Government

01 Dec 2005
News

One-on-One with Peter Cuneo

and current vice chairman of Marvel Entertainment, Inc. Home to some 5,000 characters including Spider-Man, the Fantastic 4, the X-Men, and the Incredible Hulk, Marvel employs about 200 people worldwide, not including the small army of freelance writers and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; comic books; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

05 Dec 2023
Blog Post

Taking Learning Beyond the Classroom

with a low-carbon substitute called Pozzotive®, a ground-glass material made with post-consumer recycled glass developed and produced by Urban Mining Industries. The case protagonists shared that they see themselves as a disruptor of the... View Details

25 Jul 2018
News

HBS Alumni Leader, Benefactor Dies at 86

Gypsum, founded in Buffalo in 1925 and now one of the largest gypsum board producers in the world. With a lifelong interest in education, Spangler also oversaw the schooling of more than a million students as head of North Carolina’s... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Flight Path

remote-controlled quadcopter,” hitting 163.5 mph. September 2017 DRL High Voltage, a drone pilot simulator, graduates from beta testing. The video game hones skills in preparation for flying an actual drone. DRL drones cost between $500 and $1,000; Nikko Air, a model... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

25 Apr 2014
News

To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method

"Conventional strategic planning is not actually scientific," argues Jan W. Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. "To produce novel strategies, teams need to adopt a step-by-step process in which creative... View Details

30 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Compensation Game

negotiating with an athlete can be expected to be guided by the club's interests, while the player's agent is looking out for the client's demands. When independent buyers and sellers hammer out a transaction this way, the market's invisible hand is commonly expected... View Details

Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana

26 May 2016
News

Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971

President and COO, 20th Century Fox 1987 Cofounds Castle Rock Entertainment; named Chairman and CEO 1989 Castle Rock produces When Harry Met Sally and Seinfeld 1999 Named President and COO, Warner Bros. 2004 Awarded Pioneer of the Year,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2003
News

Stealth Mogul

York Times (September 14, 2003). Nelson cofounded the Providence, Rhode Island, firm in 1991 and has quietly grown it into a $5 billion juggernaut. The company reports that it has produced average annual returns above 70 percent from year... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information

01 Mar 2003
News

California Research Center Marks Fifth Year

subsequent offices in Hong Kong, Buenos Aires, Paris, and Tokyo. Since its inception in 1997, the CRC has produced 109 cases and 29 additional teaching materials. It has also worked on a variety of research projects and often acts as the... View Details