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  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar

and institutions," noted Merton in his opening remarks. He then discussed the modern contracting technologies underlying popular new financial products that are being used in myriad ways to serve households... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair

    Melvin H. Baker

    With $100,000 in capital, Baker founded the National Gypsum Company with two colleagues in 1925. When he assumed the CEO position a few years later, he led his company from a newcomer in a highly competitive field, making one product in... View Details
    Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
    • 19 Apr 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

    diversified from there. Now, as CEO and managing director of Pantaloon Retail (India) Limited, he oversees thirty-two department stores in fifteen cities. "Ordinary people are buying what the rich can afford," he said, adding... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Consumer Products

      Forrest E. Mars, Sr.

      Under his leadership, Mars built the world’s largest candy company. After Milky Way’s and M&M’s success, he began to diversify the company’s production and introduced packaged pet foods to the British... View Details
      Keywords: Food & Tobacco
      • 10 May 2017
      • Research & Ideas

      Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

      More entrepreneurs are receiving initial funding from VCs thanks to technologies such as the cloud. Source: PeopleImages As cloud technologies allow startups to build companies faster and cheaper than ever... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information Technology; Information Technology
      • February 2013 (Revised March 2015)
      • Case

      The LEGO Group: Publish or Protect?

      By: Willy C. Shih and Sen Chai
      Senior managers at the LEGO Group are faced with a quandary: Should they patent inventions coming out of their manufacturing process development work, should they keep them as trade secrets, or should they publish them so that they would go into the public domain and... View Details
      Keywords: Plastics; Injection Molding; Toys; LEGO; LEGO Group; Tools; Additive Manufacturing; 3D Manufacturing; Toolmaking; Patenting; Spillovers; Knowledge Spillovers; Change; Trends; Engineering; Machinery and Machining; Intellectual Property; Patents; Operations; Production; Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Technology Adoption; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Europe; Denmark
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        George S. Lannom, Jr.

        Though he began his business as a tannery for the production of saddles and other equine equipment, Lannom was forced to diversify when the automobile gained popularity. To save his business, Lannom turned... View Details
        Keywords: Fabricated Goods

          Frank Phillips

          With his brother Lee, Frank Phillips built Phillips Petroleum into a diversified oil company whose businesses encompassed not only crude oil drilling, but also the operation of consumer filling stations and the View Details
          Keywords: Utilities & Energy
          • 09 Dec 2015
          • Research Event

          When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms

          In the online marketplace, oodles of retailers and developers rely on “platforms” such as Amazon.com, the Apple App Store, Facebook, and Twitter to get their products and services into the hands of users. Retailers, for example, sell... View Details
          Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Technology; Technology
          • 12 Sep 2005
          • Research & Ideas

          The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

          co-chaired the conference and co-edited the book, with the idea of capturing as much as possible of the excellent thinking that came out during this event. By "broadband explosion" we mean the coming together of real-time communication and rich media View Details
          Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Technology; Technology
          • July 2008 (Revised September 2009)
          • Case

          ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Eee PC (A)

          By: Willy C. Shih, Chintay Shih, Hung-Chang Chiu, Yi-Ching Hsieh and Ho Howard Yu
          ASUSTek Computer was the world's largest manufacture of PC motherboards, yet when it tried to launch its new sub-notebook Eee PC, the organization faced challenges in doing things outside of its established processes. Though many of the team members had worked together... View Details
          Keywords: Change Management; Disruptive Innovation; Product Launch; Groups and Teams; Information Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Industry
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          • 19 Aug 2015
          • Research & Ideas

          Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission

          users. Not only does it teach a skill set (coding) that is increasingly in demand in the job market, but its users are so loyal and engaged that they have provided the bulk of the learning content themselves at no cost. Codecademy's community, a collection of View Details
          Keywords: Re: Jeffrey J. Bussgang; Technology
          • August 2010 (Revised August 2011)
          • Case

          Developing an App for That

          By: Hanna Halaburda, Joshua Gans and Nathaniel Burbank
          At a time when ever-rising smartphone sales are driven as much by demand for devices that run must-have third-party "apps" as by the quality of traditional voice and data services, there is a myriad of challenges facing the software developer who is looking to choose... View Details
          Keywords: Product Development; Competitive Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
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            Amory Houghton

            Houghton diversified Corning Glass products and expanded, for the first time, into the field of consumer goods. He sharply reduced the prices for beakers, Pyrex ovenware, and electric light bulbs, making... View Details
            Keywords: Fabricated Goods
            • January 1993 (Revised May 2004)
            • Case

            Adventurous Computer Games, Inc.

            By: William J. Bruns Jr.
            A new company producing computer games must begin to capitalize computer software development cost. To do so requires a cost accounting system, decisions about which costs to capitalize, and how to match costs to future revenues. Teaches accounting standards for... View Details
            Keywords: Product Development; Applications and Software; Cost Accounting; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry
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            • Profile

            Tiffany Niver

            technology and pushing forward the envelope and innovation in consumer-facing technology businesses. I also think that HBS makes us think about our broader legacy and the ways we will push forward issues and... View Details
            Keywords: Technology; Technology; Technology
            • 02 Mar 2011
            • Research & Ideas

            Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision

            countries. Meanwhile the complementary costs grow in importance in wealthier nations. Remember not to confuse vertical and horizontal differentiation. As we highlighted in chapter 5, there are really two kinds of quality differences: vertical differentiation, where one... View Details
            Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Mark Schankerman; Technology
            • 10 Dec 2007
            • HBS Case

            One Laptop per Child

            agreed to manufacture the laptop. On the technological front, OLPC tackled puzzles such as creating a product both useful and fun for children of primary school age. (See CloseUp below). But despite its... View Details
            Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer
            • Career Coach

            Connie Walsh

            team for $5B Staples Brands Group at Staples, Inc. She was responsible for marketing & developing product lines and brands across retail, contract, online and catalogue businesses and for the packaging strategy and View Details
            Keywords: Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
            • 13 Aug 2014
            • Lessons from the Classroom

            Managing the Family Business: Entrepreneurs Needed for Long-Run Success

            lines of business, rejuvenate the founder's legacy, and put the enterprise on a new growth path. Entrepreneurs (typically family members) working outside the business but with family financial support can keep talented kin inside a broader "family... View Details
            Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts