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01 Apr 2002
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Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms

investment banking, law, and management consulting firms — are unique in that they have no products, manufacturing plants, or distribution systems. Their financial success depends entirely upon the capability and performance of their... View Details

Keywords: professional service firms; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

08 Mar 2019
Blog Post

“There’s no quick shortcut to success:” Zorpads takes off

contact to manage their Amazon account and partnered with a manufacturer to handle making the product. These moves allow them the time to not only focus on their day jobs, but also on the fun aspects of building a business, such as... View Details

February 2023 (Revised February 2025)
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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; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Kenya; Nairobi; Africa

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September 2023 (Revised September 2023)
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On

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karolin Frankenberger, Sascha Mader, Jordan Mitchell and Karen Elterman

Slides to support the teaching of the On case, 723-430. On is a premium performance running shoe company founded in Switzerland in 2010. The company rapidly gained traction through its unique CloudTec cushioning technology, its innovative midsole plate called the... View Details

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Lauren Murphy

Lauren is the Founder and Principal Coach of Pivotal Executive Coaching, partnering with senior business leaders to accomplish their professional and organization goals. She works with executives in technology, healthcare, real estate, consumer products, and financial... View Details

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

Nohria explained his belief that people's life stories deeply influence the way they conduct themselves as leaders. In his own case, he described the profound effect his father, the CEO of a large electrical equipment manufacturing... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15

barriers to entry into the business. Besides enabling many Chinese branded manufacturers to enter the business, the grey market in components unleashed a complementary market of "Shanzhai" makers. Together these firms captured a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

argues that it is not the business plan but the personality behind it that counts. Behind the Mask: Embrace Risk and Dare to Be Better by Don Hastings (MBA 1953) and Leslie Anne Hastings (Xlibris) In this memoir, Hastings relates how, as CEO, he turned around an... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 2

well-defined financial criteria. We suggest that this dynamic may have important implications for our understanding of the role of management in the modern, knowledge-based firm, and for the potential revival of manufacturing in the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

long-term study. Now owned by Mannesmann, the factory itself still manufactures large-diameter pipes today. Before the 1920s, German firms were often messier, more haphazard, less decentralized than many American corporations. However,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 19, 2006

decision-making on these issues, but many of these tools have been devised primarily with manufacturing industries in mind. These tools may therefore require modifications in order to accommodate the underlying value creation logic of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Harvard Business School

involved in the efforts of AASU. After graduation Price worked in international marketing for Levi Strauss in the company's headquarters in San Francisco and also in Oslo, Norway and Brussels, Belgium. He led efforts advising the company not to View Details

17 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

some very interesting things happening. For example, in electronics, manufacturers need to have Best Buy as a partner. If you are investing a billion dollars on the next Galaxy launch at Samsung, you don't want your R&D to just become... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

International and sports shoe manufacturer Reebok International Ltd. Reebok's CEO, seeing a connection between the cause of human rights and the underlying values that he wanted to foster in Reebok's corporate culture, sponsored a... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

26 Feb 2019
Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

types of work Cash rewards are best suited as a motivator for work that is measured quantitatively, Whillans says. Many studies of the service and sales industries show that cash rewards lead to increased sales and improved customer service. In the View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Oct 2002
News

What's Cookin'

fiscal 2002) has had little difficulty recruiting experienced employees, with surplus tasks handled by managers-in-training. Mack, a former consultant in heavy manufacturing and petrochemicals at Bain & Company, bought the Sweet Tomatoes... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

manufacturing components and processes change, and IT security becomes the job of every function. Companies need different skills and expertise, which creates new imperatives for HR. In the marketing function, the ability to track a... View Details

29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008

business in China, Sealed Air was now betting on the country to help propel its growth as a global company. The company identified China as one of the initial investments in the company's Global Manufacturing Strategy that aimed to create... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

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

SeventyFour Few phrases in business are more seductive than the one attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 19th century: “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” Unless, of course, what you are selling is something totally new, like 3-D... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2011
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Taking That Hill

Niekamp “Honestly I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about being a woman in a male industry,” Cynthia Niekamp (MBA 1983) told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (April 27, 2011). “It’s just my life; it’s been my life.” Niekamp, who as a student worked during summer... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms

“There’s no quick shortcut to success:” Zorpads takes off

Doing Business in Nairobi, Kenya

On

Lauren Murphy

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

First Look: June 15

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

First Look: September 2

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

First Look: September 19, 2006

Harvard Business School

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

Entering the Age of Alliances

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

What's Cookin'

October 13, 2015

First Look: April 29, 2008

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

Taking That Hill