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- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
view. This stand-alone book tells the inspiring story of a new generation of mice who begin to reexamine what others have taken for granted and to ask the important questions. Rather than simply accepting their fate and dutifully chasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
dominant means of communication within companies. Our particular interest is in how organizations coordinate across their many internal divisions (e.g., functions, business units, geographic offices, pay grades, job ranks). Studying electronic communication networks... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
law aims to encourage. In the process, these liquidations ultimately shortchange creditors by billions of dollars a year, according to new research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Samuel B. Antill, who studied three decades... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
of the Year by New Statesman . Caroline M. Elkins : Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire (Alfred A. Knopf, 2022) was included in The New York Times ' 100 Notable Books of 2022. Mattias E.... View Details
- 10 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum
Brewton-Johnson (a Black woman from Atlanta, Georgia) and Austin Boral (a white man from Jericho, New York) share their thoughts on the course. Why was the course so important? Morgan: The course was essential because racism and... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Stalberg, set out to create a bundled payment system for hip and knee replacements in the County. The new model, called OrthoChoice, was set to go into operation on January 1, 2009. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do
Paul Bradbury American workers are usually a pretty busy bunch, yet their time spent idle costs employers an estimated $100 billion per year, according to a new study from Harvard Business School. “We suspected idle time might be more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories
of the shoppers asked to evaluate their purchase the next day were more likely to cite the importance of frugal behavior. To The Mall! Then the participants actually went shopping. On the bus ride home, they were asked to list what they... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- May 2009
- Case
Tokyo Electron Ltd.
By: Willy C. Shih and Andrew A. King
Tokyo Electron Ltd. operates in a constrained innovation environment, defined by modular boundaries that are long standing in the industry that it serves, the global semiconductor manufacturing industry. While the original motivation for these boundaries was division... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance Controls; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Boundaries; Manufacturing Industry; Semiconductor Industry
Shih, Willy C., and Andrew A. King. "Tokyo Electron Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 609-096, May 2009.
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Join the MOC Affiliate Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Courses Join the MOC Affiliate N... Join the MOC Network The MOC Affiliate Network is a group of educational institutions that teach the... View Details
- 06 Jan 2016
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Leaders Get Their Timing Wrong?
strategy or culture? What do you think? Original Column Two pieces of news that hit the business press in recent weeks illustrate situations in which leadership timing has been called into question. The first concerns Volkswagen’s... View Details
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Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
London, and as various companies subsumed these and other lines, they came to dominate a geographic area. Companies competing for territory would sometimes build duplicate tracks, resulting in an inefficient system of surplus lines. By... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
The contributions made by immigrant scientists and engineers for developing new U.S. technologies have been formidable—but not always well described. What we do know: While the foreign-born account for just over 10 percent of the U.S.... View Details
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
distribution of sales and profits across products. By enabling an analysis of the book acquisition, development, and marketing process from the perspective of the publisher, author, and agent, serves as a vehicle for contrasting different approaches to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams
new type of oil into their system. System thinking and collaborations: Lastly, we saw how systems-level thinking can make these business models more feasible. For example, their first facility (Empyro) was... View Details
- 2016
- Working Paper
Big History, Global Corporations, Virtual Capitalism
By: Richard L. Nolan
Homo sapiens has mastered its environment so thoroughly that, for the first time in history, a small minority of the population is capable of creating enough food and fuels to support not only itself, but also a growing majority of the 6 billion people now living on... View Details
Nolan, Richard L. "Big History, Global Corporations, Virtual Capitalism." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-116, March 2016. (Revised October 2016.)
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
Competition Policy International Whither Uber? Competitive Dynamics in Transportation Networks By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Transportation Network Companies offer notable service advances—but do they comply with the law? And if not, how should the legal View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
use oil price fluctuations to construct a new instrument to test the impact of transfers from wealthy OPEC nations to their poorer Muslim allies. The instrument identifies plausibly exogenous variation in foreign aid. We investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
"Radial Age" advertising campaign in 1968. 2 The August 1968 Consumer Reports awarded its top two spots to radials and documented the new technology's longer life, increased safety, handling and economy relative to even... View Details
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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement
evaluating and launching new solutions in Subscription SaaS, Marketplace and Consumer spaces. She has passion for building zero to one, having also incubated a couple companies over the years – a real estate... View Details