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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • March 2023 (Revised January 2024)
  • Case

Deepa Bachu (A): Design Thinking at Pensaar Design

By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal
In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The... View Details
Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Design; Education; Training; Working Conditions; Business or Company Management; Production; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Outcome or Result; Performance Improvement; Programs; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Groups and Teams; Labor and Management Relations; Rank and Position; Safety; Attitudes; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Trust; Well-being; Pulp and Paper Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; India
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  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Do Good: Eat Chocolate

nibs and raisins. Manufactured at a plant outside Medellín, Colombia, and sold at Whole Foods and gourmet specialty stores, sweetriot View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; candy; chocolate; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production; Crop Production
  • 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
  • February 2023 (Revised February 2025)
  • 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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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 26 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

is Ciba Vision. Established in the early 1980s as a unit of the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis), the Atlanta-based Ciba Vision sells contact lenses and related eye-care View Details
Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman
  • 08 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

improving working conditions in their supply chain, creating better safety procedures, and reaping profits from products that address environmental and social problems.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing
  • 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
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

holding across a wide range of industries and controlling for factors such as productivity and related technological capabilities. The results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 5

focuses on scaling a venture's sales process and provides a methodology for identifying core customers and some implications for governance criteria and potential View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

modularity does not happen by accident; it has to be designed into the system. You have to invest in the architecture and interfaces among modules and test performance at the modular level. The whole system... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Consumer Products; Consumer Products; Consumer Products
  • 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
  • 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
  • 21 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

  Working PapersCan Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia (revised) Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace