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  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

India Arrives

Mahindra (MBA ’81), vice chairman and managing director of Mahindra & Mahindra, a $3.2 billion manufacturer of cars and farm equipment with divisions in IT, infrastructure, auto components, and finance. He cites a confluence of factors... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

primary goals are to (a) develop and validate an interdisciplinary multidimensional model, which focuses on the complex interrelationships among requirements workflow related risk factors, individual, team and organizational competencies,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Africa's Way

contribution to this emerging tapestry. Globalization is increasingly tying the fortunes of national economies to one another,"observes South African manufacturing executive Ewald J.H. Wessels (MBA '71), one of the key organizers of the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/510071-PDF-ENG DR Corporation Roy D. ShapiroHarvard Business School Case 610-049 DR Corporation is a manufacturer of major appliances. The traffic manager is facing a decision of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Harvard Business School's Intensive Seminar on Value-Based Health Care and Partner's HealthCare's Residents and Fellows course and is a member of the senior advisory board for InciteHealth at Harvard Medical School's Center for Primary... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

consumption fluctuations faced by individuals, households, and firms. Yet much of this promise remains unrealized. In this paper, we study the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product designed to compensate low-income Indian farmers in case of deficient... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jul 2021
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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 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

Stick to the Strategy or Make the Sale? A Manufacturer of High-tech Streetlights Considers an Exception to Its New Subscription Model By: Weiss, Mitchell Abstract—A manufacturer of high-tech streetlights... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

entrepreneurial thinking has become a primary goal throughout the world. Surprisingly, there has been little systematic research or comparative analysis to show how the growth of entrepreneurship differs among countries in various stages... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15

for six years in a row; but leadership saw CHOP as more than the large main campus in western Philadelphia. Beginning in the 1990s, CHOP had created a large network of Primary Care Providers, Specialty Care Centers, Ambulatory Surgery... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008

assessment and development. The (A) case describes the firm's strategic position as the "manufacturer" of three primary product lines—annuities, insurance, and mutual funds—which they sell to banks, broker/dealers, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 14

Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517059-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-042 Lenovo to Buy IBM PC: Integration Challenges In December 2004, Chinese computer manufacturer Lenovo announced its purchase of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

perspectives of marketing strategies, store operations, and relationships between customers and store clerks. However, the significance of the development of cellophane as a new packaging material, and the role of packaging manufacturers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

Management Journal Monitoring Global Supply Chains By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Firms reliant on supply chains to manufacture their goods risk reputational harm if the working conditions in those... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 14

Christopher L. Magee Abstract Many products are manufactured in networks of firms linked by transactions, but comparatively little is known about how or why such transaction networks differ. This paper investigates the transaction... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

914-014 Ford Asia Pacific & Africa: The E-coating Facility Decision in Gujarat, India (A) In April 2013, Ford Asia Pacific & Africa (FAPA) was examining its options for e-coating service metal parts for the Ford Customer Service... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Sep 2016
  • News

How We Make It Work

impossible for primary breadwinners; the kids learned independence early on. So here we are, 25 years after graduation. We’ve lived in Ecuador, Costa Rica, Sweden, Brazil, and now Malaysia (our sons are grown). My conclusion is that it is... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

guardians as holding opposing views of institutional change, we reveal how the complementarity and ongoing interactions between each set of actors served as a valuable resource for industry resilience and adaptation. Our primary data... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

Prize in Literature, by appointment of Alfred Nobel. The Swedish Academy consists of 18 members appointed for life. Its primary responsibility is to preserve the purity, vigor, and majesty of the Swedish language. In 2017-18, The Swedish... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2011
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First Look: Dec. 6

billion in worldwide sales and had just been named the leading refrigerator manufacturer worldwide. Describes Haier's rise over three decades from a defunct refrigerator factory in China's Qingdao province to an international player with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne