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  • 03 Oct 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

US. A "commons" fosters the process-oriented innovation that in turn contributes to the vitality of the industrial sector and the health of the economy. Respondents to this month's column were somewhat pessimistic that such... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing
  • Profile

David Gellis

Care Center. Under the tutelage of center director Laura Esserman, MD/MBA, David examined ways to leverage information systems to improve breast-cancer treatment. "Dr. Esserman used her clinic as a lab to test ideas for improving... View Details
  • 21 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Consumer Products

do the work to find those companies and help them grow.” A Dynamic Industry Needs Dynamic Recruiting Consumer Products is a dynamic and ever changing industry that attracts students who relate to, and are... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • Student-Profile

Erica Moszkowski

to inform our understanding of social and economic networks. “Working every day with PhD-trained economists taught me to be an effective consumer of economic research,” she explains. “I wanted a doctoral program that would let me do... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Losing Our Competitive Edge

critical components of solar panels, among others. How did this happen? A big part of the reason is the outsourcing of development and manufacturing work to companies abroad. The result: a damaging deterioration in the collective capabilities that serve high tech. This... View Details
Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Manufacturing
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

Finding a Balance

would otherwise be unable to afford treatment. Authored in 2003 by HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé, the case began as a straight pricing study. “The pharmaceutical industry is unlike any other,” Deshpandé explains. “Although the prices vary... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 06 May 2002
  • Research & Ideas

A Toolkit for Customer Innovation

this article, we offer some basic principles and lessons for industries undergoing such a transformation. A Costly Problem, A Radical Solution In a nutshell, product development is often difficult because the "need" View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
  • 02 Jan 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

the authors came to believe, government had inflicted detrimental effects not only on industry but also on the Japanese economy as a whole. Their new book Can Japan Compete? is the result of years of research by Porter, the author of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
  • December 2011 (Revised June 2014)
  • Case

From Paperback to the Future: The Penguin Group and Book Country

By: Mukti Khaire
Keywords: Publishing; Books; Publishing Industry
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  • May 1986 (Revised October 1986)
  • Case

Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (C): The Back-End Project

By: Shoshana Zuboff
Keywords: Information Management; Banking Industry; Brazil
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  • November 2024
  • Supplement

Epic Games: Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite (B)

By: Andy Wu and Ronald Wang
In a significant ruling on April 24, 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld portions of the district court’s decision against Epic Games back in September 2021. However, Apple’s anti-steering provisions, which restricted app developers from... View Details
Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Market Transactions; Applications and Software; Technology Industry; Technology Industry
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  • September 2006 (Revised August 2007)
  • Case

Ricardo Software

Engineer John Harrison must determine why motorcycle racer Marco Presto does not feel that his motorcycle is providing enough power as it comes out of corners. Harrison uses engine simulation software to help him in his work. View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Software; Motorcycle Industry
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  • 26 Nov 2019
  • News

Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time

Laureate Eugene Fama that stock markets do not exhibit price bubbles. Greenwood and his colleagues used stock return data gathered from a variety of US industries and a gamut of international stock market sectors. They analyzed 40... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

A Force for Good

McArthur My son Joe, then four years old, approached the burlier of our two dinner guests. “Bet you don’t pillow fight.” This was odd. Joe was shy and didn’t usually approach strangers. “Bet I do,” John McArthur replied. He arched an eyebrow provocatively. “Oh, John,”... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)
  • Web

2015 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

influence, including classroom teaching; practitioner-oriented publishing; using research to inform organizations; and conducting organizational interventions as venues for creating change through disseminating, translating, and applying... View Details
  • 06 Jan 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?

conversion of inventions into commercially viable innovation. As Allen Roberts points out, " lacking as we do a worthwhile VC industry the history of the last 100 years where Australia exports all its great ideas with little return... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

Smartphone Industry By: Paik, Yongwook, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Strategy scholars have documented in various empirical settings that firms seek and leverage stronger institutions to mitigate hazards and gain competitive advantage. In this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2011 (Revised December 2015)
  • Case

Assistant Professor Gyan Gupta and the Wet Noodle Class (A)

By: Dorothy Leonard and Susan S. Harmeling
Professor Gupta faces three major problems in teaching cases: 1) his students, accustomed to lectures, don't know how to conduct a case discussion; 2) the students are using the Internet to discover the outcome of managerial dilemmas posed in the case; 3) he wants to... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Learning; Teaching; Cases; Outcome or Result; Internet and the Web; Theory; Education Industry
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  • 05 Dec 2016
  • News

The Dragon’s Tale

country that had missed the industrial revolution that happened in many other countries in the 19th century, and then had suffered terribly under Mao since 1949. The so-called Great Leap Forward in 1958 triggered a famine that killed 40... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 29 Oct 2007
  • HBS Case

Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement

sports industry accounted for around $50 billion in revenues in the United States in 2007, up from just under $35 billion in 2001. On a global scale, total revenues are expected to be nearly $100 billion this year, compared with $70... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports