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  • 11 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 11

transformation and connection are spreading across even the most traditional industrial segments and creating a staggering array of business opportunities and threats. The digitization of tasks and processes has become essential to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

which the largest chunk stems from embodied carbon in materials and packaging. “Stuff accumulation:” There are over 400 billion LEGO pieces on Earth (60 bricks per person)! This fact alone highlights the challenges faced by a company that relies on the View Details
  • 07 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 7, 2016

data are often voluminous and unstructured, presenting analytical challenges for traditional tools that were designed for well-structured, quantitative data. We adapt methods from natural language processing and machine learning to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2019
  • HBS Case

Walmart's Workforce of the Future

first year. “There’s so much to unpack in the choices that Walmart is making,” Kerr says, remarking that management has also introduced virtual reality goggles to train employees as well as an app, Spark City, that uses a game-type simulation to teach workers about... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • Web

Photography and Print Advertising - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

Field, ca. 1934. olvwork490066 Photography became established in print advertising in the late 1800s after perfection of the halftone process allowed photographs to be printed alongside text. Straightforward shots of consumer products... View Details
  • Web

Leadership - Faculty & Research

at General Electric: Rebuilding an American Icon." Harvard Business School Case 925-304, June 2025. Outcome and Process Frames: Strategic Renewal and Capability Reprioritization at the Federal Bureau of Investigation By: Ryan Raffaelli ,... View Details
  • 27 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

some stake in the company and continue to participate in its management? Should they auction off their shares to the highest bidder and exit? Or should they play a role in the global beer industry through a stock-for-stock sale to InBev,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

tenure of Dunlap's predecessor, Phillip Lippincott, Scott had struggled to improve its operational effectiveness at the plant level by working on process improvement and launching an effort to work cooperatively with its union. In the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
  • March 1998
  • Case

Bumper Acquisition (A2), A: Confidential Information for Medallion Capital, Inc.

By: James K. Sebenius and David T. Kotchen
Located in Mundelein, IL, Thermo-Impact, Inc. is a rapidly growing, private firm that manufactures automotive bumpers. In 1995, a number of large automotive supply companies and a private equity investment firm offer to buy Thermo-Impact. The cases in this series focus... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Valuation; Negotiation Participants; Decision Making; Negotiation Process; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation Offer; Acquisition; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Illinois
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  • 10 Jan 2023
  • Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

journaling where they write their responses to the prompts below and then we discuss them together. Whether or not you have a coach with whom to process your answers to these prompts, you should find journaling your responses to be a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • Web

Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Business Model . Designing organizational structures and processes that allocate responsibilities, promote cross-functional integration, recruit/develop/promote employees, acquire critical resources and financing, and budget/monitor... View Details
  • 08 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

necessities of social distancing attenuate or alter the traditional organizational levers. Several CEOs observed: “Keeping spirits high in a sales environment. At the moment our sales force has to work twice... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

exceeding that percentage of actual revenue. Other expenses—insurance, credit card processing, marketing, utilities, repairs—mount up. Assuming adequate working capital upon opening, a restaurant’s cash from daily sales is used to pay for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 12 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 12

"make the numbers work." Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/busse-place-b-marisa-s-dilemma/an/214104-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 714-496 Babcock International Plc. In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 22

that entrepreneurship is believed to play in the process of economic growth, alleviating financing constraints for would-be entrepreneurs is also an important goal for policymakers worldwide. We review two major streams of research... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 27, 2007

with Abernathy, Rebecca Henderson and Carliss Baldwin, Clark placed product and process designs at the center of his explanation of how innovation determines the structure and evolution of industries. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Sep 2023
  • Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

Summer Fellowship) NetaCarbon is the TurboTax for carbon credit – a carbon credit issuance platform that digitizes and streamlines the process of how carbon projects are created and managed. By reducing the time and cost for project... View Details
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Thin Slices of Workgroups By: Satterstrom, Patricia, Jeffrey T. Polzer, Lisa Kwan, Oliver P. Hauser, Wannawiruch Wiruchnipawan, and Marina Burke Abstract—In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

shareholder returns of 150 percent while the S&P 500 has delivered 14 percent. They've also grown their sales 134 percent while the S&P 500 has grown just 53 percent. Clearly, these firms have found something that allows them to... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products
  • 01 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

companies would see positive performance results by emphasizing employee individuality from day one, testing their hypothesis through a series of field and lab experiments. For starters, they conducted a field study at Wipro, a major business View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications
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