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- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Swiss Watchmaking By: Raffaelli, Ryan, and Richard DeJordy Abstract—This study examines how influential institutional leaders in the Swiss watch industry responded to its precipitous decline after the introduction of quartz technology.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
look at the creation of the Carnegie Tech Graduate School of Industrial Administration after World War II. This episode illustrates the increasingly successful claims of social scientists, backed by philanthropic foundations, on business... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
To answer one of the oldest business quandaries—is it better to partner or go solo on a project—John Beshears looked for answers in an unusual place: the oil and gas drilling industry in the Gulf of Mexico. But instead of View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
and the $6 billion Oyu Tolgoi copper mine expansion in Mongolia (2014). Globally, firms financed a record $415 billion in capital expenditures using project finance in 2013, and the use of project-financed investment has grown at a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
describes the growth of Guggenheim Brothers as one of the largest mining companies in the world in the early twentieth century. Global expansion led the firm to Chile, first in copper and later in natural nitrates. Chile's economic growth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
on, it pays its key cast and crew members the minimum salary stipulated by industry unions and only pays out sizeable bonuses if a movie’s box-office reaches certain levels, it gives its directors a great deal of creative control, and it... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
and publishing activities. Second, entrepreneurs engaged in the creation of industry associations which could advocate, as well as give the nascent industry credibility and create standards. Finally,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Dumbarton Oaks energy conference inspired by Energy Future. COURTESY ROBERT STOBAUGH An eighteen-year veteran of the energy and petrochemical industries who had left business to enter Harvard as a doctoral student in international... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
United States’ most visible, influential export. But given its uncertainties, what would drive HBS alumni to enter an industry characterized in the best of times as “the business of rejection”? * * * * * In Hollywood, the spotlight... View Details
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
turnover among the largest business firms, characterized in the United States by the fact that only one company, General Electric, has survived in the Dow Jones Industrials index since its beginning. We are reminded of the matter as... View Details
- Profile
Arthur Rock
responsible for that region’s entrepreneurial triumph as anybody. Indeed, without Rock’s visionary wisdom and soft-spoken, calm counsel, the Silicon Valley might never have become the technology-based gold mine of ideas and startups that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
to think through it yourself. When I taught in a management program in Turin in 1953, an Italian assistant of mine commented that lecture courses had the impact of water over marble: very smooth, leaving little trace. The B-School was... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast
from looking at one sector and finding something analogous that's applicable to another sector. The more I work in different places and with different people, the more I see that cross-pollinating between industries ends up being... View Details
- February 2011 (Revised July 2011)
- Supplement
Caterpillar, Inc. (C)
By: David F. Hawkins
IASB proposes new defined benefit plan accounting standard. View Details
Keywords: International Accounting; Governance; Compensation and Benefits; Standards; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
Hawkins, David F. "Caterpillar, Inc. (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-088, February 2011. (Revised July 2011.)
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
opposed. Which path should ZappRx take? The case is a window into the early go-to-market and business model decisions that an entrepreneur must make, in this case in the face of pushback from her own management team. The case also provides a detailed picture of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
astronomical -- as much as $33 billion worldwide by 2004, according to Forrester Research, a consulting firm specializing in e-commerce. Industry observers are shy to predict just what the future of advertising will look like, but they... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53199 forthcoming Industrial and Corporate Change Toward a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract—The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
more elusive than ever. A recent McKinsey study reveals that the annual churn in the wireless industry increased from 17 percent in 1995 to 32 percent in 2000. This trend holds true even in industries less... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
world's leading iron mining company. Regulatory obstacles and unexpected costs have placed the project in jeopardy. Outside Brazil, however, Baosteel has been growing rapidly, and market trends favor an overseas plant. Baosteel must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
passing motorists. Hustead acquired the T. rex, for example, to drive demand for the fossils, rocks, and dinosaur-related products for sale in the Wall Drug Mining Company, one of 21 separate retail departments that generate over $12... View Details