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20 May 2016
Op-Ed

World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

extra $4.5 billion in annual funding; a $100 million contingency fund for emergencies; and a $1 billion annual research and development fund to be coordinated by a Pandemic Product View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Health

01 Apr 1999
News

Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

process, quite different from the market research traditionally employed to guide sustaining innovation. The implication is that the initial concept for a new product or service is probably going to be wrong. Therefore, View Details

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Careers, associations and events: medical devices

Where can I find information about major industry associations and events for my career development in medical devices sector? Careers HBS MBA students: See MBA Career & Professional Development... View Details

13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

and regulation of clinical trials, managerial challenges related to pharmaceutical product testing, and current debates regarding prescription drug safety. Since clinical testing takes between five and seven years, and consumes up to 70... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library

facilitate production of additional multi-media cases. 1997 California Research Center Established California Research Center established to support faculty research and writing on West Coast companies. 1997 Executive Education... View Details

01 Dec 2021
What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

described the Metaverse as “alternate digital realities where people work, play, and socialize.” That reminds us of the things that were promised us by futurists at the time of the development of the internet, many of which have exceeded... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Nov 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

Summing Up Is Business Agility a Product of Top-Down or Bottom-Up Resource Allocation? Respondents to this month's column provided possible explanations for greater reliance on top-down resource allocation processes (RAPs) while reminding... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

Invention Factory, an advanced concept lab, would develop new breakthrough products and reinvigorate the company's culture of innovation. Since the 1960s, Timberland had relied on innovation, View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 2003 (Revised March 2006)
Case

Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique (CSEM)

By: Michael E. Porter, Willis M. Emmons III and Christian Fenner

Le Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique S.A. (CSEM)--the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology--was a major nonprofit research institution located in Neuchatel, Switzerland, with roots in the Swiss watch industry. CSEM maintained close links to... View Details

Keywords: Cooperation; Information Technology; Alliances; Research and Development; Performance Productivity; Innovation and Invention; Nonprofit Organizations; Electronics Industry; Switzerland

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04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

the Jack Welch-style of firing the so-called bottom 10 percent every year." Recruit developed this strategy in the wake of crisis. In the 1980s, Recruit Holdings’ CEO sold shares of a subsidy before it went public. The resulting scandal... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

11 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

E-Commerce Unplugged

tickets for the game. What does Soda X get out of the transaction? Revenues from Soda X products and services jointly developed with alliance partners such as Guess? and Chicago Fire, revenues from View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma

01 Dec 2019
News

Making Eco Easy

Competition (photo by Susan Young) That realization later led Paiji Yoo (who left HBS after her first year to pursue a mobile shopping startup she created) and her sectionmate John Mascari (MBA 2012) to cofound Blueland, which makes environmentally friendly cleaning... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

women. These were hotpants not of the 1960s hipster variety, but instead the first sportswear product of the new brand Zaggora that was made with a specially developed multi-ply fabric technology that heated... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Competition of Countries

like companies, must find a means of creating total factor productivity if they are to grow. Some other countries, meanwhile, have grown quite slowly for decades, despite great locations and immense deposits of natural resources. In these... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

August 1998 (Revised June 2000)
Case

FairMarket, Inc.: Where Buyers and Sellers Connect

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Jack Wieland and Chad M. M Raube

On February 20, 1997, FairMarket, an Internet-based business-to-business auction site, was launched. CEO, founder Scott Randall, drew on his experience building Internet businesses at NECX Direct, Yahoo, and Internet Shopping Network to build his business. This case,... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Debates; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Growth Management; Management Style; Product Launch; Multi-Sided Platforms; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry

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01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

the pantheon of classic French treats. In the 1980s, the company employed nearly 400 workers and enjoyed a 40 percent market share. Subjected to a series of buyouts, the product line shifted to a more mass-market approach that led to a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

12 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Electric Mobility in India

of sustainability efforts, decarbonization, and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The class culminated in a series of site visits in January 2024 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 14 student essays that... View Details

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

performance. That initially led managers inside both companies to resist devoting scarce resources to developing those technologies because their lead customers were saying they wanted additional performance features, not fewer. But... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

tasks like perfecting their technology, learning how to manufacture it, and financing the needed investments in research, development, and marketing through a combination of product sales and venture funding. And so emerged several... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Understanding the Process of Innovation

have been struggling for years to develop new products that don't rely on movie tie-ins. How can this be? "Inside the large manufacturers you've got middle managers who want to put forward only those... View Details

Keywords: by Loren Gray

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