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19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

1st full-scale manufacturing plant overseas? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818116-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-414 Pebble: Wearables Pioneer In the summer of 2016, wearables “wunderkind” and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018

vehicles that are not privately owned to provide cheaper, safer, and "greener" travel to more consumers, more often. The potential economy-wide disruptions caused by this transportation system are enormous. How will car View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

in Somerville, Massachusetts, Formlabs manufactures 3D printers used to print everything from prototypes and models to jewelry, dental, and sculpture molds. As Formlabs prepares to ship its latest model, the Form 2, Head of Customer... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Feb 2004
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Where Does Apple Go From Here?

Walkman? That's the unknown. The challenge is that Sony drove the Walkman into a mass audience by drastically bringing down the price. We don't know whether Apple will be able to do this successfully. They've never been very good at very high volume View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

selection for treatment—now allow manufacturers to target smaller populations. Taken together, these changes raise doubts about whether the ODA encourages the development of products that otherwise would not have been brought to market—or... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

03 Sep 2013
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new product (curled metal pile driver pads) that, in field tests, delivers customer benefits that are many times SML's manufacturing costs. Jonathan Lee and Alex Tan of SML's Engineered Products Division are responsible for formulating a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2012
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product design important, or is manufacturing the key locus of learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications for theory and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

firmsare more likely to adopt processinnovations and why. The empirical context is the adoption of e-business practices among U.S. manufacturing plants in early 2000. Based on detailed data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures, the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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General Management: Processes and Action

General Management: Processes and Action (GMPA) focuses on implementation and the way that general managers get things done. Typically, they work through processes—sequences of tasks and activities that unfold over time, like strategic planning,... View Details

25 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 25

operating in manufacturing and electronics. The increasing impact of digital technologies on all of its business units had prompted CEO Joe Kaeser and his team to put digitalization at the core of the new corporate strategy, alongside... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Nov 2009
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A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

agencies and automotive manufacturers that try to improve automotive safety benefit from research using cadavers. It does not help that many users seek the same "good" type of cadavers. A good specimen, in this context, means a... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009

manufacturing plant in West Bengal state, in the face of widespread farmer protests over land acquisition issues. This meant abandoning a project in which the company had invested $300 million and delaying the launch of the Nano, the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Nov 2007
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Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

the future. It's well known that in the developed world—the United States, Europe, and other mature economies—we have already moved from blue-collar to white-collar economies with the dominance of services over manufacturing. Even the View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Oct 2006
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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

22 Aug 2011
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Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

in which enthusiasts used the specialized watercraft to perform zany stunts. Traditional kayakers began modifying their own equipment on the fly, and eventually these user-innovators began producing kayaks for others. Established kayak View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=907025 NatuRi Corporation Harvard Business School Case 807-027 NatuRi Corporation was a start up, founded in 2005, aiming to manufacture a cholesterol-lowering drug made from... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2011
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school's leaders were closely involved in progressive reforms and presided over the development of the empirical social sciences to address questions of labor regulation and control within manufacturing industries. Next, we look at the... View Details

03 Mar 2009
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against these collateral pools. As a result of the prioritization scheme used in structuring claims, many of the manufactured tranches are far safer than the average asset in the underlying pool. This ability of structured finance to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008

literature that suggests firms reduce marketing expenditures in order to boost reported earnings, we find that soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency of all marketing promotions (price discounts, feature advertisements, and aisle... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Strategy and Technology

By: Andy Wu

The Strategy and Technology elective course explores the unique aspects of creating effective strategies for technology-intensive businesses.

What strategies win in markets with network effects?
How can technology be... View Details

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