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  • August 2017
  • Case

RoboTech: Storming into the U.S. Market

By: Christopher A. Bartlett, Rachel Gordon and John J. Lafkas
This case describes the challenges facing the CEO of a small, Singapore-based industrial robotics company that decides to diversify away from its core industrial robot business by leveraging its expertise into the medical-devices industry. It launches an innovative... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Diversification; Product Launch; Competitive Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Technology Industry; Singapore; United States
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  • Summer 2018
  • Article

Why High-Tech Commoditization Is Accelerating

By: Willy C. Shih
Knowledge embedded within state-of-the-art production and design tools is a powerful force that is leveling the global technology playing field. It democratizes innovation and makes future competition more challenging. This paper describes the knowledge flows through... View Details
Keywords: Product Design; Product Commercialization; Product Development; Product Development Strategy; Production; Manufacturing Tools; Manufacturing; Manufacturing Industry; Engineering; Globalization; Goods and Commodities; Knowledge; Commercialization; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Technology Adoption; Consumer Products Industry; Auto Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Electronics Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Information Technology Industry; North America; Asia
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  • 14 Nov 2019
  • News

How migration makes the world brainier

  • 2025
  • Chapter

Critical Choices in Designing a Board: An Overview

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Lynn S. Paine

Board design is never one-size-fits-all. It’s a series of critical choices—each with trade-offs—that can define how a board functions, governs, and delivers strategic value.

That’s the premise of "Critical Choices in Designing a... View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards
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  • 01 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

Five Lessons From My First Year at HBS

Elisa Djuhar (MBA 2023) is from Singapore. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science from Cornell University. Before HBS, she oversaw research and development, and quality and safety of View Details
  • Web

Research Community - Doctoral

may lead. Students study business in motion, with all the variables operating at once and, like the companies they study, are not limited by traditional academic boundaries. Students acquire knowledge and research skills leading to... View Details
  • Person Page

Videos

By: Tarun Khanna
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NASSCOM Product, NPC2022 Tête à... View Details
  • December 2016 (Revised February 2019)
  • Case

Kurt Summers: Investing in Our Chicago

By: Joshua Margolis and Michael Norris
In 2016, Kurt Summers, the Chicago City Treasurer, faced a decision with potential personal and political ramifications: whether or not to ask the city’s Mayor to join a class action antitrust suit against the city’s creditors for actions they took during the Global... View Details
Keywords: Personal Development; Career Journey; Leadership Development; Career; Leadership; Government and Politics; Personal Development and Career; Public Administration Industry; United States; Chicago
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    Capitalism at Risk: How Companies Can Lead

    Q. Who should take the lead in fixing market capitalism? A. Business, not government alone. The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion,... View Details

    • 01 Feb 2001
    • News

    What Makes a Good Leader

    of the 21st century. by Deborah Blagg and Susan Young Name: John Kotter, Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership Director: HBS Global Leadership Initiative Most recent... View Details
    Keywords: Management
    • July 2010 (Revised September 2023)
    • Case

    Werner von Siemens and the Electric Telegraph

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Bjoern von Siemens
    This case describes the nineteenth century founding by Werner Siemens of the Siemens electrical business in Germany. Werner's dual role as inventor and entrepreneur is explored as he created one of the world's first multinational enterprises, whose growth initially... View Details
    Keywords: Business Organization; Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Multinational Firms and Management; Business History; Growth and Development Strategy; Electronics Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Germany
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    • Web

    Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    about value-based health care. Here we publish links to major value oriented organizations in health care. American College of Surgeons' THRIVE Initiative On July 18, 2019, the American College of Surgeons... View Details
    • Web

    Research Areas - Doctoral

    origins of today’s business environment as well as some of the alternatives that have emerged from time to time; and study other countries’ View Details
    • Web

    Strategy - Faculty & Research

    Teaching Note | Faculty Research As global alliances evolve and regulatory barriers mount, LATAM Airlines must reassess the strategic logic of partnerships. In 2019, Delta Air Lines proposed a $1.9 billion... View Details
    • 26 Apr 2011
    • Op-Ed

    HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

    Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities
    • 31 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

    integrating global market and local technical knowledge. We refer to this type of firm as a Knowledge Integrator and discuss how its strategy supports the competitiveness of... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 31 Oct 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

    issues in business history concerned how business enterprises innovated and created wealth as well as patterns of success and failure in that process. There now exists, after a... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • October 2000 (Revised July 2001)
    • Case

    Avon Products (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Greg Rogers
    The general manager of Avon Mexico, Fernando Lezama, must decide whether to promote a woman to the position of vice president of sales. If appointed, the candidate would be the first female in all of Latin America to hold an executive position and one of the first... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Leading Change; Salesforce Management; Organizational Culture; Job Design and Levels; Gender; Management Teams; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Mexico
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    • June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
    • Case

    Two Key Decisions for China's Sovereign Fund

    By: Robert C. Pozen and Xiaoyu Gu
    The China Investment Corporation (CIC) was China's sovereign wealth fund (SWF), established with $200 billion of registered capital in September 2007 to diversify China's foreign exchange holdings and increase risk-adjusted returns on those assets. CIC was unusual in... View Details
    Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Growth and Maturation; Decisions; Capital; Investment Banking; Investment Funds; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Wealth; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; China; United States
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    • March 2005 (Revised May 2005)
    • Case

    Noodles & Company (Abridged)

    By: Linda A. Cyr
    Aaron Kennedy has successfully grown Noodles & Co. from a single global noodle shop to a chain of 58 restaurants spanning six states in seven years. In the face of increasing competition, Kennedy has plans to roll out 240 new stores in the next four years. He must... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Entrepreneurship; Franchise Ownership; Growth and Development Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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