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  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

outcomes. Instead, in most lines of business—with the exception of a few commodities in which international trade had developed—firms had an incentive to remain small and to employ as little fixed capital as possible. It was in this era... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 26 Aug 2009
  • Op-Ed

Where Cash for Clunkers Ran Off the Road

first time? Hardly likely, because auto loans still aren't readily available and many poorer people would buy a better quality used car rather than a new car. Used car prices poor people have to pay are now... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Auto
  • 1994
  • Article

Beyond TQM Programs

By: M. Beer and B. Spector
Keywords: Quality; Management; Programs
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  • 20 Aug 2024
  • Book

Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge

private-labeled digital devices at competitive prices. Yang credited Amazon for the company’s success. In addition to Amazon’s established infrastructure that helped it save on retail and logistics costs, “the key to building high View Details
Keywords: by Feng Zhu; Technology; Information Technology
  • July – August 2011
  • Article

The Paradox of Samsung's Rise

By: Tarun Khanna, Jaeyong Song and Kyungmook Lee
Twenty years ago, few people would have predicted that Samsung could transform itself from a low-cost original equipment manufacturer to a world leader in R&D, marketing, and design, with a brand more valuable than Pepsi, Nike, or American Express. Fewer still would... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Research and Development; Marketing; Business Processes; Brands and Branding; System; Globalized Markets and Industries; Transformation; Cost; Forecasting and Prediction; Production; Quality; China; India; Turkey
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  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

both the exchange and the acceptance of ideas-people really hear your message and become open to it. Cultivating warmth and trust also boosts the View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

that researchers face when demonstrating the existence and effects of resale price maintenance (RPM). We outline three approaches for finding price effects of RPM and the corresponding hurdles in data View Details
  • 09 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality? Authors:Dan Givoly, Carla Hayn, and Sharon P. Katz Publication:The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 1990 (Revised June 1995)
  • Case

Colliers International Property Consultants

By: Nitin Nohria
Describes the origins, organizational structure, management practices, and use of information technology (IT) in Colliers, a real estate network. Colliers provides local firms with a way to maintain local autonomy while gaining national and international coverage.... View Details
Keywords: Property; Organizational Structure; Information Technology; Management Practices and Processes; Partners and Partnerships; Business Model; Mission and Purpose; Business Growth and Maturation; Conflict and Resolution; Quality; Real Estate Industry
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  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

  Working PapersOpen to Negotiation: Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination (revised) Authors:Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract Phenomenological assumptions—assumptions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Oct 2012
  • News

Green Pioneer

from several different Harvard departments, as well as public officials and engineering firms. The criteria are: quality of life, leadership, resources allocation, natural world, View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
  • 25 Feb 2016
  • Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Maria (Brewer) Palma...

graduation, was actually founded by an HBS alumni a few years ahead of me who came in and presented in one of my second year classes. Another way the MBA was impactful to my career was the true quality of... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
  • 21 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

(Financial Times/Prentice Hall 2000). Edited by Subir Chowdhury, a consultant and author specializing in quality management, the book pulls together practical and accessible... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 04 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 4

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-005.pdf The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality (revised) Author:Zeynep Ton Abstract Determining staffing levels is an important decision in retail operations. While... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

beginning of the Industrial Age that the advent of mass production would mean there would be no jobs for the vast majority of the population, but we reinvested and gained productivity and expanded the... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

cultivators, especially on public lands. This reduced the costs of tenure insecurity. Political constraints prevented the government from subsidizing land reforms to a greater degree. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-023.pdf View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2011 (Revised September 2012)
  • Case

Industrial Metrology: Getting In-Line? (A)

By: Willy Shih
Metrology plays a key role in the manufacture of mechanical components. Traditionally it is used extensively in a pre-process stage where a manufacturer does process planning, design, and ramp-up, and in post-process off-line inspection to establish proof of quality.... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Machinery and Machining; Measurement and Metrics; Product Design; Planning; Quality; Opportunities; Competitive Strategy; Diversification; Segmentation; Technology Adoption; Theory; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-060.pdf Investment Incentives in Proprietary and Open-Source Two-Sided Platforms Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Gastón Llanes Abstract We study incentives to invest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks

Professors Ananth Raman and Roy Shapiro are two members of the HBS faculty team that developed the new Executive Education program, Managing the Supply Chain: The General Manager's Perspective. In this conversation with the Executive... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 09 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

differences in study methods and assumptions and resulting biomass quantities are elucidated. We differentiate between inventory studies, in which View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace