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- 13 Jun 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
That Costs HOW Much?
for a product, shoppers typically have no idea what it costs to produce that item. But it turns out that consumers reward efforts to lay out these figures—to deconstruct the price tag. Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases How marketers... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That's been the experience of Harvard Business School professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced... View Details
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Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project | Information Technology
future? The multimedia case was produced in partnership with Professor Rick Ruback for the EC Course Market Perspectives. Vinalhaven: The Downtown Project was honored with a 2024 Gold Telly Award in the Education & Discovery category and... View Details
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
F-16 HARM targeting system; chief of the Astronaut Office Robotics Branch; and, currently, the commander of the International Space Station (ISS), where he has lived since November 23, 2014. “If you have a team like this, you let them View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
when you look at the Internet, the thing you see is Facebook. But for it to flourish, it depends on branches. The real surprising growth was in those branches, in the firms that used the data that was produced by the consumer-facing... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- What Do You Think?
Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?
views as possible ... and then get the buy in for the execution process." Anshu Vats expressed this view a bit differently when he said, "Groupthink is heavily discouraged in the companies where the leaders lead from behind. ... This style does View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
saving, accumulation of capital or resulting improvement in income. Without capital, innovation is not rewarded. In fact, it is regarded as risky. Failure can produce starvation. Therefore, labor-intensive practices do not change. What... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge
Himabindu Lakkaraju, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. The study is one of the first to explore the ethics of repositioning content to influence query results produced by LLM applications such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini,... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind
electricity. One of the companies operating at the port had a huge number of nacelles lined up in the port waiting to be assembled into new turbines. The nacelle we went inside was the size of a small apartment and capable of producing 8... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
1968 at the age of 30. In this environment, the company, now the world's fourth-largest maker of motorized scooters, three-wheel vehicles, and motorcycles—India's most common forms of transportation—was limited to producing just 20,000... View Details
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
environmental record is actually quite mixed. But you wouldn't know it from environmental ratings and rankings that claim to highlight the most environmentally proactive companies. News Corporation was awarded the highest rating of "AAA" in the Global... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
with new EV models from VW and General Motors. “They are superior to internal combustion engine cars,” she said. And, there are efforts to make EVs more affordable. In early April of 2022, GM CEO Mary Barra announced a partnership with Honda to View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
The so-called chicken-and-egg problem is arguably the most discussed and most obvious business dilemma in the sharing economy. Platform providers–like Uber, Airbnb, or Etsy–rely on both consumers and producers to create and sustain a... View Details
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Bringing the Next Pandemic Vaccine to Your Doorstep with MIMIX - Blog: Health Supplement
complex. No other company produces patch-based vaccines, so the process is completely new. Patch production combines elements of roll-based manufacturing (think Band-Aids) with a unique fill-finish process involving computer-vision guided... View Details
- Profile
Jaime Mendez
could be exposed to broader issues," says Jaime. "I knew HBS had a reputation for producing general managers. Here, I could brush up on hard skills while rounding out my leadership skill set." Seven teams, seven minutes,... View Details
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Investment analyst reports (equity research reports) | Baker Library
Help Center Investment analyst reports (equity research reports) How do I find investment analysts' reports on companies, industries and geographies? Analyst Reports contain advice on whether to buy or sell the securities of specific companies or industries. They are... View Details
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Hacking AI with HBS IT | Information Technology
to see the innovations the organization could implement going forward. A huge thank you to the HBS IT staff who participated and AWS for their services, but even bigger thanks to the Business Relationship Managers for planning and View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Developing Insightful Global Leaders
serve as embassies, enabling pathbreaking research (approximately half of all HBS cases produced today are globally oriented), facilitating immersions for students and faculty members, and assisting with admissions and career development... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Martin V. Marshall Remembered
Professor of Business Administration, joined the HBS faculty in 1949. He produced some 200 cases and teaching notes as well as several books, including Automatic Merchandising and Advertising Management. Although he taught in almost every... View Details