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- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-064.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsPerformance Management at Vitality Health Enterprises, Inc. John B. Bingham and Michael BeerHarvard Business School Case 913-501 Vitality Health Enterprises, a medium-sized firm that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
sustainable building. According to the United Nations, buildings and their construction account for 39 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. It was the measurable impact of the work that attracted her. “I had used a lot of analytical tools... View Details
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
As one of the largest toy makers in the world, the LEGO Group has been riding high in America and Western Europe. To grow, however, LEGO recently faced a decision familiar to many other multinationals: should the company shift from View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
PublicationsLocal Industrial Structures and Female Entrepreneurship in India Authors:Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Stephen D. O'Connell Publication:Journal of Economic Geography Abstract We analyze the spatial determinants of female entrepreneurship in India in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
out the waste, and focus on how to differentiate yourself from your competitors in meaningful ways. But the tools available to—and the challenges facing—companies are so much greater now than before, that managers have to rethink many of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
and 2000, the global generating capacity of wind power grew from 13 megawatts to 17,400 megawatts, but two-thirds of that capacity was in Denmark, Germany, Spain, and the United States. Wind turbine manufacture was clustered in Denmark... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806201 Vignette: Bombay Tyre Manufacturing Ltd Harvard Business School Case 806-207 Presents a U.S.-based investor who had taken a minority position in a publicly owned View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
management in the construction industry by the premium power tools manufacturer Hilti in 2000. Following its customers’ needs, Hilti moved from selling power tools to leasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/218039-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School 213-013 MC Tool Two partners acquired MC Tool in October 2007 for $5 million. The company was a machine shop that View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
Ambelang treated NatureSweet more like a consumer-packaged goods manufacturer than an agricultural producer, with a focus on consistency, branding, margin, and price stability, and a frontline-worker-centric production model inspired by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
performance. In this paper, I conduct one of the first evaluations to determine whether a voluntary management program that features an independent verification mechanism is achieving its ultimate objectives. Using a sample of thousands of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Customer Loyalty Programs That Work
president and CEO of grocery chain Stop & Shop. In 2007, certain brands of pet food manufactured in China and sold at several locations were found to be contaminated with melamine. Many pets became sick, and some even died. Through it... View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
is in the container. Likewise, responsible manufacturers don't have to worry about competitors cheating by putting bogus ingredients into their products. So the agency's work for consumer protection also acts as a protection for ethical... View Details
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
product is being put together, it has been possible for manufacturers to leave those identification markers in the product. So later on when the same customer calls with an inquiry or a complaint, it is now so easy to go back to the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
technical variation that, over time, gets resolved, and we tend to see what has been called a "dominant design." I am interested in the interplay between that technical variation and cognitive variation as both manufacturers and... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
interactions and non-linear effects, relative to traditional methods. In summary, ML methods could act as a complementary tool to both existing inductive theory-creating methods such as multiple case inductive studies and traditional... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
ability to act on ideas using zero-cost trading tools like Robinhood. On the positive side, Cohen notes, meme stocks signal levels of engagement with the stock market that haven’t been seen in decades. But the valuation of meme stocks is... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
operations, remotely disinfecting public buildings and hospitals. "The White Knight drones were in R&D for the last two years; we developed and manufactured them in the last two months in readiness to execute aerial delivery of emergency... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
strength in high precision coordinate measuring machines, a universal measuring tool that had been widely used since its introduction in the mid-1970s. The market faced a complex diversification of competition as metrology View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
political cartoons ever sketched, by George Grosz, David Levine, Herblock, Honoré Daumier, Thomas Nast, and Ralph Steadman, among others. Be a Better Dad Today: 10 Tools Every Father Needs by Gregory W. Slayton (MBA 1990) (Regal) This is... View Details