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  • 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007

Working Papers Using By-Product Synergy for Competitive Advantage Author: Deishin Lee Abstract We study how a manufacturer can leverage by-product synergy for competitive advantage. By focusing on the economic impact to the firm and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Nov 2020
  • In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

stronger demand for home goods and furnishings. Many retailers may be wary about excess inventory and will pare back their ordering. The COVID-19 pandemic is also adversely affecting the supply chains of manufacturers who provide goods to... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail
  • 06 Mar 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

of the digital gadgets, Etienne Douaza commented that "there is a constant temptation (on our part) to overreach to download another report we won't have the time to read to add a new project to the 15 we already try to get moving... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

"and, with application, advance as opportunity permits to higher levels of responsibility." 14 Many HRPBA graduates found employment in administrative positions in manufacturing firms, financial institutions, schools, and colleges. A 1958... View Details
  • 20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007

to as "user-centered design." Yet, analysis of design-intensive manufacturers such as Alessi, Artemide and other leading Italian firms, show that their innovation process hardly starts from a close observation of user needs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2024
  • Supplement

Recycle & Re-Match: The Future of Soccer Turfs

By: George Serafeim
Keywords: Carbon Emissions; Carbon Abatement; Sustainability; Recycling; Waste Management; Technology; Entrepreneurial Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Decisions; Energy Conservation; Investment Return; Profit; Technological Innovation; Patents; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Digital Platforms; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business Strategy; Competition; Expansion; Technology Adoption; Sports; Environmental Sustainability; Entrepreneurship; Green Technology Industry; Service Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Rubber Industry; Sports Industry; Denmark; Netherlands; France; United States; Pennsylvania; Europe
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  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services industries and ownership structures such as state-owned firms, business groups, and private and foreign firms. Detailed balance sheet and ownership... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Aug 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

manufacturer like Ford Motor Company. Ford cooperates with its suppliers to design new vehicles even as it negotiates vigorously with them over the terms on which parts will be supplied. By cooperating to develop new cars, Ford and its... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar
  • 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

RobinsonHarvard Business School Case 613-069 As an original design manufacturer (ODM) of television sets and a leading supplier to Vizio, a market leader in the U.S. for LCD flat panel TVs, AmTran Technology Ltd. uses what founder Alpha... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2018
  • Teaching Plan

Tesla in 2015

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Olivia Hull and Sarah Mehta
Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-081. View Details
Keywords: Electric Vehicle; Internal Combustion Vehicle; Battery; Product Distribution; Platform Disruption; Vertical Integration; Patents; Disruption; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Energy; Entrepreneurship; Leading Change; Product Marketing; Information Technology; Digital Platforms; Transportation; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; California
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  • 19 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 19

http://hbr.org/search/714421-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-021 Catalina in the Digital Age No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/514021-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-034 A Note on Knowledge... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

that data from digital platforms such as Yelp have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification, both by providing data in close to real time (i.e., nowcasting and forecasting) and by providing additional context about how... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

dividends income as if they were separate sources of income. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54113 Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp Data to Quantify Neighborhood Change By: Glaeser, Edward L., Hyunjin Kim, and Michael Luca... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208070 iPhone vs. Cell Phone Harvard Business School Case 708-451 The launch of Apple's iPhone marked a pivotal new chapter in the story of mobile music (the uniting of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

selection for treatment—now allow manufacturers to target smaller populations. Taken together, these changes raise doubts about whether the ODA encourages the development of products that otherwise would not have been brought to market—or... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

and do it more efficiently, over time. Richard E. Beville should know. The chief operating officer of Lamont Digital Systems, a Greenwich, Conn., provider of digital telecommunications services, Beville... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Golden State of Mind

pedigree, becoming a VC wasn’t the original plan. Instead, Tim Draper wanted to be an entrepreneur. He had some good ideas, he says, which ran the gamut from digitizing music (back in the early 1980s) to a new global stock market to... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Identifying its four fundamental building blocks, he lays out a structured and repeatable process for reinventing an existing business model or creating a new one and then incubating and scaling it into a profitable and thriving enterprise. In a new chapter on View Details
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

by smart competitors and changes in their industries. In each case, there were opportunities to act before a crisis engulfed the organization. At Kodak, for example, CEO George Fisher attempted to move the company into the digital era in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

and external agglomeration economies have separate, positive impacts on location, with relevant differences by activity; (2) internal economies of agglomeration arise within an activity (e.g., among plants) and across activities (e.g., between View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne