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- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
capacity, conditionally increasing expected emissions. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1702186 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 115-009 BMVSS: Changing Lives through Innovation One Jaipur Limb... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad
every aspect of corporate strategy." The articles in the book have been selected, he writes, "to help corporate leaders think through global strategies at a time when there are few guideposts to navigating the mind-boggling View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020
leadership, it had transformed itself into the country’s most popular online platform, dominating the e-commerce , payments, and fintech sectors at the same time that Kazakhstan’s economy was seeing rapid growth. How would Lomtadze and... View Details
- 30 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?
amesy SUMMING UP: Should Facebook Change Its Business Model? Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, received a great deal of advice from respondents to this month’s column. It included ideas that haven’t gained much attention in the press.... View Details
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
getting bigger or richer; “growth involves changes to the internal ‘machinery’ of the firm itself,” according to the paper. The researchers used Compustat, a dataset of all United States companies listed on the stock exchange from 1959 to... View Details
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National Markets - The Art of American Advertising
there was little need to advertise or to differentiate one product from another. Face-to-face selling remained one of the predominant forms of marketing as it had been for centuries. A dramatic shift in the mid-nineteenth century, driven in part by the View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
forthcoming Handbook of International Trade and Transportation Transportation Cost and the Geography of Foreign Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Chen Abstract—Falling transportation costs and rapid technological progress in recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
the co-founders and co-CEOs of salaUno, Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, were encouraged by the results of their fledgling start-up. salaUno was founded as a for-profit enterprise in order to have the capital needed for rapid growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Meet the HBS Tech Club
uniquely have, and helping create bridges to other similarly minded folks across Harvard and Boston. What activities does the Tech Club coordinate? The club sensed a student desire for formal tech skills (e.g. programming, rapid... View Details
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The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details
- 31 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?
for growth for the company; what would consumers want to purchase online that would fit into a rapid response distribution model? Students rejected numerous options involving lower-value items such as dog food, which would require... View Details
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
changing competitive environment. By the mid-1960s, however, U.S. tire companies began to feel the first tremors of the competitive earthquake that would ultimately reshape the industry. In 1966, Michelin struck a deal with Sears to... View Details
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
Science 22, no. 4 (July-August 2011) Abstract This study examines the relationship between social position, both within the field and within the organization, and the likelihood of individual actors initiating organizational changes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
collaborated with their suppliers, clients, and competitors to preserve the stability of the ecosystem by providing financial, operational, and administrative support, and sometimes actively sharing resources. 3. Change your value... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
Tarun Khanna, and Ashutosh Varshney Publication:Economic & Political Weekly Abstract It is now widely accepted that the lower castes have risen in Indian politics. Has there been a corresponding change in the economy? Using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
is likely to have a meaningful effect on health care spending patterns. In addition, precision medicines can change the expected profitability of therapies both by allowing more sophisticated pricing systems and potentially decreasing the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
effective alternatives in place. The second global economy has provided more opportunities for catch up from the Rest and has seen the rapid growth of globally competitive businesses in Asia, Latin America, and Africa. This is explained... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
Henderson and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 311-116 Since its 1999 merger Reckitt Benckiser (RB), a global consumer goods company, led by its CEO Bart Becht, developed a reputation for rapid product innovation and industry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
current fiscal policy is eroding competitiveness in several ways, and business conditions in the U.S. will deteriorate if there's no change in direction. The authors examine how fiscal policy relates to the three drivers of productivity:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
in-house education program on improvement science that emphasizes rapid cycles of small-scale change. Their finding that an accumulation of small changes can add up to significant gains is leading the way... View Details