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- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
decades ago—hinge on a specific and therefore partial interpretation of competition. The result is an equally partial picture of the strategist's job. The problem lies not in what strategists are trained to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
solutions. Such a relationship is important, given that product architecture has been shown to be an important predictor of product performance, product variety, process flexibility, and even the path of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Labor Practices | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
organization.” 35 Absent from the photographic record are images of labor disputes and the harsh reality of working conditions in a steel plant—an otherworldly place of coke furnaces, molten steel, View Details
- Profile
Fumi Tamaki
clear picture of the inner workings of companies and markets,” Fumi says. “It was a fascinating experience, especially as companies are drawing in larger volumes of data – the ability to analyze it is... View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
Business School Case 610-036 Examines the process used by a major motion picture studio to develop and select movie projects. Warner Bros.' strategy is to focus its efforts on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
discs) Restaurants (grocer's takeout) Steel production (minimills) Telephone-long distance (Internet telephony) Are some industries more vulnerable to this threat than others? There are some industries, or at least parts of them, that I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Steve Schwarzman
Schwarzman defended his industry and cautioned that the good times can’t go on forever. Private equity’s been all over the headlines for months. Why is it suddenly such a big deal? Over the last ten years it... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
and pharmaceutical industries. But the differences between those pairs of sectors were just too great. So the second book will examine this question: Why were the Japanese chemical and pharmaceutical View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
entrepreneurial. And they are less hierarchical, with flatter management structures. Service and knowledge industries have overtaken traditional manufacturing businesses as the... View Details
- Web
Four Ways to Make The Most of Your Company Events - Recruiting
be like to work in your office Consider asking a senior leader in your organization to record a brief message to prospective candidates Choose your best company representatives Options for virtual recruiting create flexibility View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
ambition and applied to HBS. “I was almost 30 when I realized that there were people called ‘entrepreneurs’ who get paid to start new things,” says Gardner of what inspired him to earn an MBA. “It sounded... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Polaroid Films - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Running a Healthy Company Excerpt from audio recording of Edwin Land's 1946 message to employees of Polaroid. Featured Spots, 1954–1975 An early advertiser on television, Polaroid featured spots on the late-night talk shows of Steve... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
customers' college-savings accounts. Firms like Salomon Smith Barney that manage these new so-called "529" savings plans would invest the rebates and maintain records showing enrolled families how... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
only responded to globalization but also driven and framed it. The study of particular industries over the long term, employing deep archival research on individual firms, has generated unique insights on... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
beyond me! Liesl Pike Moldow’s (MBA ’93) “My Real Career” deserves praise for honesty and love. In the future I will look to my copy of the Bulletin for more than class news. Mike Smedley (AMP 50, 1966) Leamington, England One-Sided View Details
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Impact Stories - Business & Environment
Martijn Lopes Cardozo MBA 2000 | Reinventing the Wheel Erling S. Lorentzen MBA 1948 | Sustaining Commitment "I created Aracruz to be an environmentally sound industrial company. When the concept of... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
hierarchy in interfirm transaction networks in two industry sectors in Japan: automotive and electronics. Our empirical results show that the electronics sector exhibits a much lower degree of hierarchy than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
that pose no systemic risk should face relatively light regulation, ensuring their continued dynamism and innovation. If Moss’s tough love approach to the biggest financial institutions sounds familiar,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
to how companies measure and report their ESG metrics. A company that touts its record in one dimension might be failing to mention hidden societal costs in others, like harmful labor practices,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
like best is walking around and talking to people in the stands.” Favorite position? “I wanted to play center like Willie Mays, but I was better at shortstop.” Favorite ballpark food? “This is going to sound... View Details