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    Alan D. MacCormack

    Alan MacCormack is the MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, a member of The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member... View Details

    Keywords: automotive; communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; high technology; information technology industry; internet; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; venture capital industry
    • July–August 2018
    • Article

    When Technology Gets Ahead of Society

    By: Tarun Khanna
    New technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don’t yet exist. Interestingly, businesspeople in emerging economies face similar challenges: The rules are unclear and... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Society; Situation or Environment; Infrastructure; Entrepreneurship; Performance Effectiveness; Cooperation
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    • 13 Sep 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions

    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage
    • 20 Nov 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation

    innovation and product development strategies. His latest research analyzes how open source norms of transparency, permeable access, and collaboration might work with scientists. What he and his coauthors discovered:... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Faculty & Research

    OSS, the source code is freely available for use, modification, and redistribution under open licenses, while OSH makes hardware designs publicly accessible. Early skepticism about the viability of “free” products gave way to creative... View Details
    • 05 May 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: May 5, 2009

    http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-127.pdf Feeling the Heat: The Effects of Performance Pressure on Teams' Knowledge Use and Performance Author:Heidi K. Gardner Abstract Why do some teams fail to use their members' View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This working paper examines the creation of the global natural food and beauty categories before 2000. This is shown to have been a lengthy process of new category creation involving the exercise of entrepreneurial imagination. Pioneering entrepreneurs faced little... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing; Consumer Goods; Entrepreneurs; Environment; Food; Globalization; Business History; Agribusiness; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America
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    • 03 Oct 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Yanbo Wang, Boston University

    • May 2010
    • Case

    CEIBS: A Global Business School Made in China

    By: John A. Quelch
    In 2009, just 15 years after it was founded, the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) has achieved the remarkable 8th position in the Financial Times Global MBA rankings. The case describes the short history of the school and the reasons for its success.... View Details
    Keywords: Product Positioning; Quality; Business History; Competitive Advantage; Business Education; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Education Industry; China
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    • 24 Jan 2024
    • Op-Ed

    Why Boeing’s Problems with the 737 MAX Began More Than 25 Years Ago

    in design and production with its newest jumbo jet, the 787 Dreamliner. Such frequent, repeated crises point to a deeper issue than isolated engineering mishaps. The underlying cause of these issues is a leadership failure that has... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George; Air Transportation; Transportation; Aerospace
    • 11 May 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Building a Better Board

    mechanics that add very little to the competitive position or underlying value of the enterprise." But while board members are now taking their jobs more seriously, their input is not necessarily as helpful or effective as it could be, Kaufman says. He recently... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 17 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees

    With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working View Details
    Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
    • Article

    Unconventional Insights for Managing Stakeholder Trust

    By: Michael Pirson and Deepak Malhotra
    Initiatives to build and maintain trust with various stakeholders, including customers, employees, suppliers and investors, are at the top of the executive agenda at many organizations. But most companies don't really understand how to manage stakeholder trust... View Details
    Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Culture; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Perspective; Trust; Cooperation
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    • November 1995 (Revised October 1996)
    • Background Note

    Expectations and Stereotypes: How Do They Affect the Deal?

    By: Kathleen L. McGinn
    Designed to provide students with a basic insight into recognizing the productive and destructive aspects of expectations and stereotypes, and their consequent effects on negotiation. View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Acquisition; Management; Negotiation Deal; Performance Expectations; Prejudice and Bias
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    • 28 Jul 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

    to grow and prosper. Manufacturing sectors in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore face the pressing problem of lower wage competition from plants in China. Thus many of those regions' manufacturing firms are relocating their factories and much of their View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

      Paul Hamilton

      Paul studies the economic complements needed for firms to realize productivity gains from machine learning and artificial intelligence. These complements include data, human capital & skills, organizational processes, and business models. 
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      • 18 Sep 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms: A Synthesis

      Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin
      • 22 Sep 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: September 22

      show that (i) firms may become "more closed" in response to competition from an outside open source project; (ii) firms are more likely to open substitute, rather than complementary, modules to existing open source projects; (iii) when the View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • April 2025
      • Teaching Note

      Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion (A) and (B)

      By: Michael W. Toffel, Ken Pucker and Stacy Straaberg
      Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 622-024, 625-004, 625-005, and 625-702. The Allbirds: Decarbonizing Fashion (A) case introduces Allbirds as a footwear startup not only focused on simple design, comfort, and sustainable natural materials but on decarbonizing the wider... View Details
      Keywords: Decarbonization; Climate Impact; Environmental Strategy; Innovation; Product Design; Supply Chain Management; Innovation Strategy; Innovation and Management; Product Development; Climate Change; Environmental Management; Environmental Sustainability; Business Startups; Initial Public Offering; Knowledge Sharing; Competitive Advantage; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; United States; California
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      • 10 Oct 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: First Look: October 10

      in-depth examination of new product development and launch strategies in the context of the music industry. Provides rich insights into how grassroots and mass-marketing approaches can facilitate new product/artist development. Octone's... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace