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- March 2011
- Exercise
Customer Intelligence Advantage: Module 2 Assignment
By: F. Asis Martinez Jerez
This exercise directs students to analyze a customer-centric firm by first understanding the elements that characterize a customer-centric organization, then by capturing and comparing this firm's approach to customer-centricity. Students interview three levels in the... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Employees; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leadership; Competitive Advantage
Martinez Jerez, F. Asis. "Customer Intelligence Advantage: Module 2 Assignment." Harvard Business School Exercise 111-118, March 2011.
- October 2019
- Supplement
Airbus vs. Boeing (K): New Partnerships (2018)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
This case describes Airbus’ partnership with the Montreal-based aircraft manufacturer Bombardier beginning in 2017. The two companies partnered on the C Series of aircraft (later named the A220 Family), which consisted of small aircraft with 100–150 seats. The case... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Air Transportation; Projects; Competition; Partners and Partnerships; Joint Ventures; Manufacturing Industry; Air Transportation Industry; United States; Europe; Canada; Brazil
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Karen Elterman. "Airbus vs. Boeing (K): New Partnerships (2018)." Harvard Business School Supplement 720-386, October 2019.
- Web
Predoctoral Research Associates | Research Associates
faculty, but many positions seek RAs with experience in applied econometrics and advanced statistical and computational methods. In addition to supporting academic research projects and receiving mentorship from faculty, RAs have the... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
direct-investment manufacturing projects in US history, for a total of more than $62 billion in private-sector capital investment. Several years later, the chance to do similar work in Virginia—a place with... View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
investors compete for profits—and the competition isn’t fair. In particular, using profits to buy back stock provides immediate (although not as much as many assume) benefits to shareholders. Investments in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
vital weapon in the competitive arsenal of most organizations, may be seriously handicapped by the very action intended to increase a company's competitive position. Amabile has been studying creativity in... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 15 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative
of students, the researchers surmised it may dampen innovation among competitive companies. To test that hypothesis, McDonald, Pahnke, Hallen and Wang looked at close to 200 medical device startups that developed products for minimally... View Details
- October 2007
- Article
Opinion: Place Your Bets on the Future You Want
By: Forest Reinhardt
This piece posits that success in a carbon-constrained world will be determined by innovation and acumen, requiring companies to make bold moves. View Details
Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leadership; Success; Environmental Sustainability; Climate Change; Competitive Advantage
Reinhardt, Forest. "Opinion: Place Your Bets on the Future You Want." Forethought. Harvard Business Review 85, no. 10 (October 2007): 42–43.
- September 2011 (Revised February 2013)
- Case
Trucost: Valuing Corporate Environmental Impacts
By: Michael W. Toffel and Stephanie van Sice
Trucost provided corporate environmental performance data and analysis to institutional investors and corporate managers, but after operating for a decade had yet to achieve profitability. Trucost was struggling to effectively differentiate its high quality products... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Distribution Channels; Investment; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Information; Value; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry
Toffel, Michael W., and Stephanie van Sice. "Trucost: Valuing Corporate Environmental Impacts." Harvard Business School Case 612-025, September 2011. (Revised February 2013.)
- 17 Mar 2020
- News
A Bid for the Future
in its elements, but the stakes were enormously different. It’s probably the largest private-sector, competitive economic development project in US history.” And it was... View Details
- October 2019 (Revised June 2020)
- Supplement
Airbus vs. Boeing (M): MAX 8 Disasters (July 2019)
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman
This case describes the October 2018 and March 2019 crashes of Boeing MAX 8 jets, which together killed over 300 passengers. The planes involved in both crashes shared a problem with a software system called MCAS, which Boeing had revamped at the last minute prior to... View Details
Keywords: Airbus; Boeing; Product Development; Product Design; Air Transportation; Projects; Competition; Safety; Failure; Air Transportation Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Europe
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and Karen Elterman. "Airbus vs. Boeing (M): MAX 8 Disasters (July 2019)." Harvard Business School Supplement 720-388, October 2019. (Revised June 2020.)
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
microbial scale formation inside industrial water pipes. The team used their prize to launch a start-up based on the technology. Q: Did all of the projects lead to viable business concepts? A: No, and that's... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
application — and a patent disclosure. They made a fantastic final pre-sentation about science, potential markets, and commercialization strategies. Didn’t one of the projects win an entrepreneurship competition? Each year, MIT, local... View Details
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
experience as a policy maker—as well as 25 years of experience as an investor and small business owner—to the U.S. Competitiveness Project at Harvard Business School. Mills left the SBA last summer and... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
York Reena Russell, MBA 2003 Co-founder EnergyGridIQ enabling energy projects northwestern us HBS Association of Northern California Jacquelyn Kung, MBA 2006 COO ClearCare private-pay homecare services... View Details
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
use of things like drones [for monitoring energy production], how could you possibly not think your industry is going to be disrupted?” he asks. In fact, with the rapid rate of societal and technological change today, no industry is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- September 2006 (Revised April 2007)
- Supplement
Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (C)
By: Boris Groysberg, Christopher Marquis and Ayesha Kanji
Supplements the (A) case. The (C) case includes Keller's actual 2006 mid-year and self evaluations. View Details
Keywords: Projects; Management; Leadership; Organizations; Situation or Environment; Competition; Rank and Position; Attitudes; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Evaluation; Consulting Industry
Groysberg, Boris, Christopher Marquis, and Ayesha Kanji. "Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 407-039, September 2006. (Revised April 2007.)
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
competition into one's own innovation system. Internal researchers must compete with external sources to meet the demands of the business, and business units must compete with outsiders to make use of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
Be Flexible In today's competitive and volatile business environment, depending on forecasting as the basis for planning and strategy has become a particularly risky way to operate. Especially vulnerable are manufacturing View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- Web
Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details