Technological And Scientific Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 8

http://hbr.org/search/114007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-011 TaKaDu In December 2012, Amir Peleg, founder and CEO of TaKaDu, reflected on how to position his young firm for the next fiscal year View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

an association, its structure presents many limitations and hurdles to overcome involving investing in technology platform updates and generating ideas View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture Author:Laura Alfaro Publication:World Scientific Publishing Company, in press Abstract All managers face a business environment in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 18

business contribution. The case uses interviews with Winfrey and her team to analyze how the business model and strategy of the company has changed—in the context of a dynamic marketplace, rapid View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

sales force on track to achieve their annual sales quotas. The paper also introduces two main methodological innovations to the marketing literature: first, we implement empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2024 (Revised March 2024)
Teaching Note

X: The Foghorn Decision

By: Kyle Myers and Walter Frick

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 618-060. View Details

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25 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

Affect Job Performance, which was published in January. The costs of homesickness To better understand how moving away from home affects work, Choudhury and co-author HBS doctoral student Ochan Kwon first interviewed 30 employees of an... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

Get What You Pay Them Case: Lincoln Electric Company Written: 1975 Copies Sold: 284,826 With a tradition of innovation and technological leadership, the Lincoln Electric... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

essentials for economic development have long been, in Galbraith's words: "savings over current consumption to purchase capital; a progressive technology to embody or make use of the capital; a political View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 3, 2007

realize liquidity from its successful investment in American Seafoods Corp., Inc. An apparently innovative solution is developed, which calls for issuing Income Deposit Securities. Does this innovation make... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Mar 2001
What Do You Think?

Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?

that can be mixed and matched in many combinations, depending on customers' needs. For example, General Motors designs and produces several transmissions, engines, and chassis... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

role (himself MBA '75, PhD '82, he is D'Arbeloff MBA Class of 1955 professor of business administration and cochair of the school's entrepreneurship and service management unit), he pointed out that none of... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

01 Feb 2017
What Do You Think?

Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?

innovation and national security. But while we are concentrating our attention on manufacturing jobs, what is the likelihood that cross-border competition and the introduction... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

differences in their forecasts of future events (such as the profitability of a business being sold), attitudes toward risk and time, tax and regulatory status, market and... View Details

Keywords: by Anita M. Harris

August 2002 (Revised June 2006)
Case

Great Dakota Bank: Online Banking

By: Frances X. Frei, Youngme E. Moon and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar

In 2002, Great Dakota Bank's retail division is considering how heavily it should be promoting the company's online banking service. A recent promotional campaign appears to have significantly increased enrollments in online banking, but it is unclear whether the bank... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Internet and the Web; Customer Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior; Demand and Consumers; Technological Innovation; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Satisfaction; Management; Service Operations; Banking Industry

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28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

customer’s money is safe. Operators also need to think of themselves as more than technology companies and take responsibility for their agents’ actions. “Imagine what kind of trust is needed between the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

06 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy

07 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark

Information technology was one. Part of that was upgrading and establishing HBS as a leader in the use of technology for education. Now we're poised to go further, using View Details

Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

is still by far the leading academic research center in Europe in terms of science and technology. ls. A focus on attracting more technologically intensive industries and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding