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Lourdes Long

International development, economic progress, global security, environmental integrity – the very baseline of human prosperity. Nothing is more challenging than the complex and evolving realities of the energy sector, and I will... View Details

08 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

creation of a new business ecosystem. That's what we need in health care. Right now, only 5 percent of health care in America is provided by integrated institutions such as Kaiser, Intermountain, and Geisinger, but 95 percent of health... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health

27 Mar 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Driving India's EV Future: Insights from Ather Scooter and Exponent Energy

the need for battery swapping or extended downtimes, allowing fleet operators to maximize operational efficiency. This approach aligns with the needs of densely populated Indian cities, where commercial vehicles are integral to... View Details

21 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The New Math of Customer Relationships

to have packaged and measured the relationships in a way that made sense to a lot of people. Q: Many companies approach creating a good customer experience as a discrete action: a customer satisfaction program, for example. But your books detail an View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 1998
News

A Community Investment

philanthropy is not only good social policy but also good business. Do you agree that while 25 years ago most companies dismissed social enterprise as irrelevant to their mandate, many now view it as integral to their operations? Schell:... View Details

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The Field Method | MBA

or service challenge to be addressed. Designed to integrate learnings from across the Required Curriculum, the course develops skills in cultural awareness, team building, customer-driven innovation, and culminates in a one-week immersion... View Details

Chandler’s Legacies

had integrating the U.S. economy, creating out of necessity new organizational forms, financial instruments and accounting techniques. For my Ph.D. thesis, I decided to study transportation technologies in my home country of Colombia. I... View Details

August 2009 (Revised August 2009)
Case

Intel NBI: Radio-Frequency Identification

By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston

The Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) group was a start-up that was part of Intel's New Business Initiatives. It sought initially to develop and sell a high performance Rf fast read rate module targeted at fixed position readers that might be found in loading docks... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Organizational Structure; Failure; Diversification; Integration; Semiconductor Industry

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23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407028 Embrapa Harvard Business School Case 507-019 Brazil's national agricultural research corporation, Embrapa, has developed an integrated crop and livestock production... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Kanter, 2009; Porter & Kramer, 2011). Particularly striking is the marked growth of social enterprises, which adopt a social mission as their principal objective but sustain themselves through commercial activities (Battilana and Lee, 2014; Battilana, 2015). This... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

These changes did not—as often assumed—result in the decline of family businesses but instead gave rise to a different kind of competitive and internationally oriented "Mittelstand." The study integrates approaches from new... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

ambidexterity, the ability of a firm to simultaneously explore and exploit, enables a firm to adapt over time. In this paper we review and integrate these comparatively new research streams and identify a set of propositions that suggest... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 2010 (Revised December 2011)
Case

Ricoh Company, Ltd.

By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, Marco Iansiti and Akiko Kanno

Ricoh, the Japanese copier manufacturer, is committed to reducing its environmental impact to one-eighth of its 2000 levels by 2050. It has already introduced three stages of environmental awareness to its operations, and its recycled copier business broke even in... View Details

Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Financial Reporting; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Investment; Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan

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19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

suitable for use in courses or modules in pricing, entrepreneurial management, strategy, or marketing. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811016-PDF-ENG Integrating Around the Job to Be Done Clayton M.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, a specialist in strategy and the dynamics of globalization, says that while market integration has made deep inroads in the last few decades, according to the evidence, it's still far short of what economic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

traditional alternatives: vertically integrated firms, resellers, or input suppliers. These tradeoffs lead to a comprehensive discussion of the defining features of MSPs. The formal model we develop focuses on the MSP vs. vertical View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Profile

Olujimi Williams

answers from people working together. Knowing how to integrate a team is more important than knowing how to run a financial model.” Extending the African connection Ultimately, Olujimi would like to return to Africa in a high-level... View Details

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Bei Guo

provide her first job in China — as a consultant with McKinsey in Shanghai. "The position," Bei says, "will help me integrate what I've learned at HBS, in strategy, operations, and marketing." Once Bei completes her... View Details

17 Dec 2015
News

Addressing Gender Equity In Business And Society

findings are integrated into the MBA curriculum through an expanded pool of case studies with female protagonists—an effort led by Boris Groysberg (DBA 2002), Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration—as well as through the... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money

distribution that is not so skewed as to leave basically half the world out of any ability to purchase the normal products of the free-market system. The system is enhanced when more people are brought into that process. In the book, you celebrate your father’s View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Finance

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