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  • 06 Aug 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

polesnoy As technology commoditization begins speeding up again, it’s a great time to be a consumer in search of a state-of-the-art flat panel TVs, but less comfortable for manufacturers hoping to make a profit. That’s according to recent research by Willy Shih, Robert... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics
  • September 2016
  • Case

Partners Group: Ain't No Mountain High Enough

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Ricardo Andrade
Partners Group (PG), a Swiss-based PE manager, initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in 2006. A number... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Management Practices and Processes; Entrepreneurship
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  • March 2020
  • Technical Note

Intrapreneurship: Leading Innovation Efforts in Established Organizations

By: Karen G. Mills and Annie Dang
“Intrapreneurship” is the use of entrepreneurial management techniques within established companies to create new environments that foster innovation. Mature firms have consistently faced risk of elimination from competitors, shifting consumer preferences, and... View Details
Keywords: Intrapreneurship; Innovation; Corporate Venture Capital; Accelerators; Incubators; Lean Startup; Hypothesis Testing; Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Framework; Disruption
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    Rakesh Khurana

    Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

    Professor... View Details

    Keywords: executive search
    • Web

    Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

    research-based company. He fostered an environment in which his employees could think and create, believing that "a continuum between pure science in the university and pure science in industry should... View Details
    • June 2024
    • Case

    Tremblant Capital: Launching an Active ETF

    By: Robin Greenwood, Luis M. Viceira and Robert Ialenti
    The case highlights deliberations led by Brett Barakett, CEO and chief investment officer of Tremblant Capital, just months prior to launching an actively managed ETF, Tremblant Global (TOGA). However, his team continued to have reservations around the launch. On the... View Details
    Keywords: Asset Management; Investment Funds; Product Launch; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry
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    • 2017
    • Book

    Extreme Teaming: Lessons in Complex, Cross-Sector Leadership

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
    Today's global enterprises increasingly involve collaborative work by teams of experts operating across different professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross-industry projects and the ways... View Details
    Keywords: Groups and Teams; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Complexity
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    • December 2005 (Revised July 2006)
    • Case

    Bunge: Poised for Growth

    By: David E. Bell and Mary L. Shelman
    As CEO of the world's largest oilseed processor, Alberto Weisser of Bunge must not only decide how quickly to expand in fast-growing markets of Eastern Europe and Asia, but also how best to leverage the firm's global footprint and leadership position. The firm is... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Trade; Global Strategy; Leadership; Growth Management; Management Style; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; Integration; Technology; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Asia; Europe
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    • 02 Feb 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t

    consumers to find cheaper products online—even as they stand in the store. The service decouples the value-creating portion of the process—testing and trying—with the non-value portion—buying. The automobile industry has been challenged... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding

      Martin A. Sinozich

      Martin Sinozich is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in both MBA and Executive Education programs.  For first-year MBAs, Martin teaches in Field Global Immersion, a required course that... View Details

      • Teaching Interest

      Overview

      By: John F. Batter
      As as Senior Lecturer I teach the EC course Law, Management and Entrepreneurship (cross-listed in the General Management and Entrepreneurial Management Units) in both the Fall and Spring semesters. While I have retired from my public and private company litigation... View Details
      Keywords: Fiduciary Duty; Securities; Private Equity; Entrepreneurship; Mergers; Law
      • November 2003 (Revised April 2004)
      • Background Note

      Why Consumers Don't Buy: The Psychology of New Product Adoption

      By: John T. Gourville
      Looks at the consumer psychology of new product adoption. Identifies a key reason why consumers do not adopt innovations as quickly as developers think they should--an irrational resistance to behavioral change. Identifies strategies for firms to manage and overcome... View Details
      Keywords: Product Launch; Consumer Behavior; Social Psychology
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        Leonard A. Schlesinger

        Leonard A. Schlesinger is Baker Foundation Professor at the Harvard Business School where he serves as Chair of the School’s Practice based faculty and faculty Chair of the MBA Field Global Immersion program. He has served as a member of the HBS faculty from 1978 to... View Details

        • 08 Jun 2018
        • News

        My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

        or fourth largest pure management consulting firm in the world, Oliver Wyman. And we rode that horse for 25 of those years. Not to the peak it is today. We didn't have the... View Details
        • 06 Dec 2019
        • Blog Post

        Moving to the States with My Daughter to Pursue an MBA and Switch Careers

        It was the summer of 2017, and after working at Mars in R&D for eight years, I started to think about the next step for my career. I enjoyed my role as a product innovation manager in the Consumer... View Details

          Rawi E. Abdelal

          Rawi Abdelal is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at Harvard Business School, the Emma Bloomberg Co-Chair of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative, and the European Faculty Chair of Harvard Business School’s Global... View Details

            Deborah M. Winshel

            Deborah Winshel is a member of the Faculty of the Harvard Business School where she teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability to first year MBAs and executives.

            Most recently, Deborah was a Managing Director and Global Head of Social Impact at... View Details

              Eva J. Sudol

              Eva Sudol is a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at HBS, teaching Finance 1 in the required curriculum of the MBA program. She is also a Retired Partner at the Capital Group, a global investment management company, where she worked from 1994 – 2023 as an... View Details

              • Web

              Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

              Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Serving the Public Interest Through Competition: British Railroads Through comparative analysis of railroads in the United States View Details

                Joseph B. Fuller

                Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and Entrepreneurship. He founded and co-leads the school’s project, Managing the Future of Work, as well as the Harvard Project on the Workforce. He currently leads the FIELD Global Capstone... View Details