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  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

What Industrial Policy?

support, and back-office processing to America. Strengthening the industrial base. Remember, too, that many high-value-added services are often closely connected to manufacturing View Details
Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

define a proper strategy for the design language of their products. An empirical analysis was conducted on the product language strategies in the Italian furniture industry; in particular, the present... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

association, fair pay practices) and whether these codes have affected their business outcomes (e.g., staff turnover and absenteeism, product defect rates, sales growth). In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)

startup figuring out how to market a 3-D printer. “You should approach a product launch as an organizational process, and start with the buyers, not the product” Although 3-D printers have been around since... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Terence P. Stewart

happens, lawyering didn't come first for Stewart. After graduating from HBS, he worked for several years in the business trenches, in marketing at J.C. Penney and later as product manager at Kroehler View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • February 2023 (Revised February 2024)
  • Case

Doing Business in Nairobi, Kenya

By: Archie L. Jones, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Kuria Kamau
This case examines the challenges and opportunities of doing business in Nairobi, Kenya. It highlights Kenya's economic transformation in the decades leading up to 2024 in the context of its history, culture, and politics. The case gives an overview of some of the main... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Business and Government Relations; Technological Innovation; Foreign Direct Investment; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Kenya; Nairobi; Africa
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  • 10 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

enact more than 200 rules related to disclosure and accountability. Among them: a requirement that all public companies disclose the annual salary of the chief executive, the median salary of all their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial

Hawthorne facility’s multiple and diverse production units made most of America’s telephones and related equipment. Four years after the company... View Details
Keywords: Elton Mayo; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Telecommunications; Information
  • 16 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

distribution of sales and profits across products. By enabling an analysis of the book acquisition, development, and marketing process from the perspective of the publisher, author, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

environmental, educational, and humanitarian organizations. Microsoft donates almost $300 million annually in software products to nongovernmental organizations around the world. There has to be an internal... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Charged Up

Image by Digital Art/Corbis Related Links Listen to a podcast of Professors Rawi Abdelal, Forest Reinhardt, and Richard Vietor discussing the future of energy The catch-all “green” category covers a range of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; batteries; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

networks or manufacturers to procure goods across complex global supply chains. These standards-shaped by standard-setting organizations (SSOs) and participating engineers, academics, lawyers, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2019
  • Blog Post

Balancing the Ideal with the Real: Conveying Corporate Culture to Candidates

relate to and recognize, not just one, but several examples of MBAs at RBI, and how different each journey can be.” Saeed speaks from her own experience. After just six months... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Ticktock

Sleepyheads, Beware: An alarm clock that doesn’t mess around. Photo courtesy Nanda Home Related Links Watch Nanda explain Clocky See Tocky, the newest product Purchase the original Clocky case Purchase the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel; viral marketing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing
  • 30 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 30

steps to re-virtualize the company under his leadership. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813057-PDF-ENG Peter Jepsen Howard H. Stevenson, Michael J. Roberts, and Jim SharpeHarvard Business School Case 813-046 Peter Jepsen, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 15

http://harvardbusiness.org/search/210020/ The TSMC Way: Meeting Customer Needs at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Harvard Business School Case 610-003 When L.C. Tu receives an emergency order, he is confronted with a range of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Abstract As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Philip Hendrickson | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Full Transcript (PDF) Philip “Phil” Hendrickson graduated from HBS in 1947. After a brief stint with a manufacturing firm in Massachusetts, he joined Krueger International, a small furniture business in his... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

The Path to Economic Revival

Pisano and Shih: It’s naive to believe that manufacturing can be shipped abroad without harm to U.S. competitiveness. Related Links Why View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Riding It Out

offers a venue for the company’s on-staff veterinarian to speak on various topics related to equine health. “The introduction of non-nutritional products happened very organically,” Gisholt says. “Some of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing