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House Partners. Upon completion of his MBA at HBS, he joined Leathbond Ltd. and Chandris UK Ltd., where he started various new opportunistic shipping and property acquisition businesses and is now co-chairman. Chandris has been involved... View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
to everybody else and adjusts to what they are doing. In jazz, the short session has always been the norm. Q: What aspects of Davis's innovation seem unusual compared with companies and creative enterprises you have studied? Are there aspects of View Details
Dennis A. Yao
Dennis Yao is the Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration and Chair of the Doctoral Programs at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2004 after having been at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. From 1991-1994 he served as... View Details
Frank Nagle
Frank Nagle is an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Professor Nagle studies how competitors can collaborate on the creation of core technologies, while still competing on the products and services built on top of them - especially... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
of the company from Harvard Business School professors Marco Iansiti and Alan MacCormack. Their take: Microsoft wins through effective management of its intellectual property and an ability to spot and react... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- December 1993 (Revised August 1998)
- Case
Bitter Competition: The Holland Sweetener Company versus NutraSweet (A)
The NutraSweet Co. has very successfully marketed aspartame, a low-calorie, high-intensity sweetener, around the world. NutraSweet's position was protected by patents until 1987 in Europe, Canada, and Japan, and until the end of 1992 in the United States. The case... View Details
Keywords: Patents; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Canada; Japan; United States; Europe
Brandenburger, Adam M., and Julia Kou. "Bitter Competition: The Holland Sweetener Company versus NutraSweet (A)." Harvard Business School Case 794-079, December 1993. (Revised August 1998.)
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
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Insurance (10) Integrated Corporate Reporting (9) Integration (9) Intellectual Property (58) Interactive Communication (6) Interdisciplinary Studies (1) Interest Rates (1) Interests (1) International... View Details
- 11 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas
Kikovic Each year, the small northeast Texas town of Marshall pulls out all of the stops for its annual Wonderland of Lights festival. And for years, South Korean electronics company Samsung also worked hard to make it special. The festival started with the Samsung... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women
Women are more likely to invent medical treatments for endometriosis, cervical cancer, and other female conditions, but the dearth of women scientists limits the potential for such life-saving innovations. Female research teams are 35 percent more likely than male... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
Constance Bagley: Yes, I'd be happy to. The law offers a variety of tools managers can use to manage the firm more effectively. They range from contracts, which can be used to strengthen business relationships, allocate risk and reward, and preserve options, to various... View Details
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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets
Interests : innovation , intellectual property , strategy , strategy formulation , strategy implementation Interviews Rahmi M. Koç Hamdi Akın Murat Vargı Cem Boyner Hüsnü Özyeğin Ananth Raman UPS Foundation... View Details
- 16 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
Nonstop flights generally make traveling more pleasant—but can they lead to innovation, too, especially in the global context? Research suggests that they can, with important takeaways for managers reinstating business travel in a world emerging from the pandemic. In a... View Details
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Intangibles, Intellectual Capital, and Sustainability by the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management at the 2022 EIASM Interdisciplinary Conference for “Regulated Human Capital Disclosures” with Thomas Bourveau, Maliha... View Details
- 10 Sep 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Branding Yoga
Harvard Business School Professor Rohit Deshpandé often asks his marketing students a show-stopping question: Is everything brandable—and should everything be brandable? So when he read a November 2010 New York Times piece on the tensions between traditional... View Details
- May 2002 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Performance Indicator
Performance Indicator is a start-up that holds patents on the use of color-change technology to indicate when golf balls have been damaged by exposure to water. Because golfers put two to five used golf balls into play for every one new ball they buy, the used golf... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Patents; Entrepreneurship; Sports; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Corts, Kenneth S. "Performance Indicator." Harvard Business School Case 702-480, May 2002. (Revised May 2003.)
Louis T. Wells
Professor Louis T. Wells is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at the Harvard Business School. He has served as consultant to governments of a number of developing countries, as well as to international organizations and private firms. His... View Details
- December 2005 (Revised February 2019)
- Case
Brighter Smiles for the Masses--Colgate vs. P&G
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Dennis Yao and Filipa Azevedo Jorge
In 2000, Procter & Gamble Co. introduced Crest Whitestrips, a new, revolutionary product that allowed consumers to whiten their teeth at home. With Whitestrips, P&G created an entire new category in oral care, worth $460 million in 2002. Whitestrips sent P&G's main... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Advertising; Product Launch; Patents; Price; Performance Effectiveness; Consumer Products Industry
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, Dennis Yao, and Filipa Azevedo Jorge. "Brighter Smiles for the Masses--Colgate vs. P&G." Harvard Business School Case 706-435, December 2005. (Revised February 2019.)
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
“Fail fast” has become the corporate innovation mantra, but new research suggests that inventions that build on science, with its systematic observation and methodical experiments, may deliver more value to companies. US patent filings that cite journal articles bring... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
the property with one of the project’s developers, who showed off the building’s artworks and a ballroom where the first opera was believed to be sung in 1594. Segel had arranged a surprise for the group: While the case protagonist... View Details
Keywords: April White