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  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

have the market we desire.” Days 6–9: Monterrey TOM, REAL TIME: Students quiz executives at Nemak, a leading manufacturer of aluminum auto engine heads and blocks. Nemak is one of four business groups that make up ALFA, a $10 billion... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 13 Feb 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants

whether they are a sound investment. An influential study involving eBay showed that search engine ads—especially on brand keywords—were ineffective for the website. After the eBay study came out, the market saw a dip in large-businesses... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 12 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 12

transaction costs and supplier hold-up. The (A) case closes with the question of what GM should do about supplier Fisher Body. The (B) case summarizes the shift to all-steel body stamping and engine manufacturing as the core technologies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

performance are being carried down to next-generation entrepreneurs. Helping former employees is part of that legacy and culture. Senior mentor capitalists describe how Bill Hewlett encouraged them when they left HP and how HP engineers... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
  • May 2017 (Revised September 2018)
  • Supplement

Hilti Fleet Management (B): Towards a New Business Model

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Oliver Gassmann and Roman Sauer
The (B) case tackles the implementation and scaling process of fleet management over the years. Finally, the case explores current challenges facing the BMI. View Details
Keywords: Hilti; Business Model Innovation; BMI; Fleet Management; Decision-making; Implementation; Power Tools Industry; Europe; Switzerland; Business Model; Restructuring; Transformation; Transition; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Focus and Relationships; Construction; Innovation and Invention; Leasing; Strategy; Growth Management; Decision Making; Construction Industry; Switzerland; Liechtenstein; Germany; Austria; Europe; United States; Asia; Brazil; China; Latin America; Africa; Japan; Hong Kong; France; Italy; Spain
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  • 14 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 14

and also broadening the circumstances in which they arise. We discuss applications to travel reservation systems, payment card systems, marketplaces, rebate services, search engine advertising, and various types of brokers and agencies.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

sales as an engine of growth in the early 2010s, but international sales had also stagnated over the past few years. Wal-Mart's leadership had targeted the rapidly growing e-commerce arena as a strategic priority, but there it faced... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 19

companies perform sales, marketing, and product definition work, while eastern companies in Asia like his perform the engineering and manufacturing work. Confronted with commoditization pressure, Wu is presented with the opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Dean Srikant Datar’s 2022 Commencement Remarks | About

moment of great opportunity. Business has been an engine of prosperity in countries around the globe, lifting millions out of poverty and bringing vital services and products to markets and people in ways that have enhanced their lives.... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

organizations. Final approval of the deal was based on ARD's receiving $3 million in subscriptions, with at least half of that coming from institutions. ARD engineered other legal changes to boost its chance of success. The "blue... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
  • 21 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #12: Vehicle to Everything - Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002), Chief Operating Officer of Fermata Energy

environmentalists and green activist investors for being slow in electrification. For all the EV fervor, Claire noted the long shelf-life of the combustion engine vehicles that consumers are currently driving. She predicted that it could... View Details
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

organization theory. Theoretical consilience will enable the accumulation of empirical research into a cohesive body of knowledge on entrepreneurial resource mobilization. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55593 forthcoming Nature... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

called upon to play increasingly broader roles. Let me start my analysis with the barrel. I think our economic system has proven phenomenally successful at bringing growth, innovation, productivity, and a rising standard of living to millions of people. It is an View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
  • 30 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

physical proximity to communities of opportunity. The Engineering Department and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University have contributed a great deal to West Coast management, if there is such a thing. At the risk of using... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 10 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

employees on company time, with company material and/or tools. The origin of the term is unclear but probably refers to the fact that these artifacts are brought home. In the French aeronautics plant I studied, cutlery, toys, and decorative artifacts (such as View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Labs Enable Large-scale Research

multiyear agenda, and as labs complete their work, they will have the opportunity for renewal as well as reorganizing into new labs. The research conducted by HBS faculty and their colleagues from Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard John A. Paulson School... View Details
  • 06 Aug 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

form it will take is the democratizing of design—expanding access to more users who couldn’t afford to produce such high quality work before. It used to take a company with a lot of resources to do sophisticated engineering designs, but... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics
  • 05 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 5

building the largest mega-resort and casino in the Caribbean? This case examines the intricate dealmaking by which CSCEC, China's leading global engineering and construction contractor, emerged as a key market player. Having beat out... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

leadership roles at Microsoft, Kieran created a linguistic services platform for developers, introducing natural language processing capabilities to Windows developers for the first time. She also led a cross-company engineering effort... View Details
  • Profile

Matt Thurmond

my inventory." With solid math skills and a genuine attraction "to the quantitative aspects of engineering," Matt pursued an engineering degree. But in what he calls a "serendipitous moment," he picked up and read... View Details