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- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
the practice of business strategy for 30 years. The problem lies instead in what strategic leaders are not trained to do. In caricature, Porter's view casts strategists as practitioner economists who expertly analyze and manage market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract—This paper documents a set of stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility in the nonfinancial corporate sector in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
Abstract—The Food and Drug Administration approves new medical devices after in-depth reviews of safety and effectiveness data. Some have advocated for shorter review times to encourage innovation. We evaluated whether regulatory review... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
present day. The chapter focuses on the role of business enterprises as powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism after 1848 and up the present day. It shows how multinational firms have created and co-created markets and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
The company could also revisit the previous two applications, tracking and tracing processed meat and tracking employee safety practices. At the other extreme, after seven years of R&D and marketing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right
Harvard Business School professor John Quelch is debuting a blog on marketing issues at Harvard Business Online. HBS Working Knowledge is reprinting his first entry, which looks at the Mattel toy recall.Mattel has been criticized heavily... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
were to decide you’re comfortable sharing data with US government authorities, how comfortable are you sharing the data with the government in China? That’s a huge market for you. How can you say yes to the United States and no to China?... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
success.” There were several nuanced responses that prompt the question in the title above. Arie Goldshlager commented that, “for every similar (example to that of the Commonwealth Bank) candor marketing example, I see many more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- February 1987 (Revised January 1989)
- Case
SmithKline Consumer Products: The Contac Relaunch
In March 1986, a tamperer contaminated CONTAC Cold Capsules, SmithKline Consumer Product's most popular product. To relaunch CONTAC after withdrawing it from the market, the management team had to present a plan of action to the corporation board. They knew CONTAC's 25... View Details
Kosnik, Thomas J. "SmithKline Consumer Products: The Contac Relaunch." Harvard Business School Case 588-046, February 1987. (Revised January 1989.)
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
product safety expert, and we have a shared interest in what keeps safer products from reaching the market and what keeps less safe products on store shelves. In 2002 she wrote: As the world's largest... View Details
Leroy A. Lincoln
Under Lincoln’s leadership, Metropolitan became an ardent supporter and provider of public health education while his company achieved record levels of profitability. For many years, the company promoted health and safety through... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- Web
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rpassias@hbs.edu , Director of Digital Media & Marketing Projects. Harvard Business School reserves the right to refuse to grant permission for any reason, including the potential disruption of academic, research, business or student... View Details
William P. Lear
the eight-track stereo cartridge. Lear’s most impressive inventions were in the field of aviation where he virtually established the market for small executive jets. His development of the autopilot function for both small and large jets... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
Sports Marketing Lifetime Award from the American Marketing Association. I recently asked Greyser what he thinks of the concussion issue. “I believe current concerns are less likely to lead to a massive... View Details
- 17 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Goes Back To School
community,” says Andrew Falzone, director of campus and food services. AUGUST 6 This chronicle of the HBS’s Re-entry Pilot Day by Marketing and Communications writer Shona Simkin offers an inside look at how the School has instituted... View Details
- Web
Mental Health Awareness Month | Baker Library
Wellbeing" report. Read " Employers Can Do More to Advance Health Equity " in Harvard Business Review . Use Health Business Fulltext Elite to find magazines, trade publications, and academic research related to mental health Review Capital IQ Pro 's View Details
- 19 Dec 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
New Year, New Habits
number of actions that build society. The following studies reveal proven methods of encouraging healthy eating and exercise. A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety Basic tweaks to the schedules of food View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
intrusive, and negative." That wariness is costly, because feedback from the front lines is often vital to improving business practices and safety measures. With that in mind, Edmondson discussed how to foster a workplace culture of open... View Details
- March 2023
- Case
Woven Planet - Designing Software for the Car of the Future
By: Gary P. Pisano and Catherine Piner
Founded in 2021, Woven Planet Holdings—a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation—was developing Arene, an automotive software platform consisting of an operating system, development and simulation tools, and a cloud-based service that could store and analyze vehicle... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Automated Driving; Innovation; Organizational Culture; Applications and Software; Safety; Product Launch; Product; Auto Industry; Technology Industry
Pisano, Gary P., and Catherine Piner. "Woven Planet - Designing Software for the Car of the Future." Harvard Business School Case 623-064, March 2023.
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
comparative advantages of intermediate versus final disclosure policies in fostering innovation. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2288746 October 2014 The Compass (Newsletter of the American Society of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne