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  • 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
  • First Look

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
  • News

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
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Cost-Efficient Decarbonization of Portland Cement Production

By: Gunther Glenk, Anton Kelnhofer, Rebecca Meier and Stefan Reichelstein
Accounting for nearly 8% of global annual carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, the cement industry is considered difficult to decarbonize. While a sizeable number of abatement levers for Portland cement production is becoming technologically ready for deployment, many are... View Details
Keywords: Decarbonization; Carbon Abatement; Carbon Accounting; Carbon Emissions; Carbon Regulation; Carbon Tax; Net-zero Emissions; Management; Environmental Management; Sustainable Cities; Accounting; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Environmental Accounting; Energy; Environmental Sustainability; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
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  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

Case 419-035 P-Will at DISCO From the outside, DISCO—a Japan-based manufacturer of precision tools for semiconductor production devices—appeared to be a rather ordinary company that had achieved rather extraordinary success: it had... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

1st full-scale manufacturing plant overseas? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818116-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-414 Pebble: Wearables Pioneer In the summer of 2016, wearables “wunderkind” and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jan 2018
  • First Look

January 30, 2018

vehicles that are not privately owned to provide cheaper, safer, and "greener" travel to more consumers, more often. The potential economy-wide disruptions caused by this transportation system are enormous. How will car View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 12 Dec 2018
  • News

Lesson Plan

favor, and manufacturing dried up. At a certain point, jobs in local government and services became the gold standard for security, benefits, and compensation—which is when the pendulum swung toward corruption. “Patronage, taking care of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen
  • 11 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

mid-2000s. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717436-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-010 Faber-Castell By 2016, Count Anton-Wolfgang von Faber-Castell had led the 255-year-old pencil manufacturer... View Details
  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307047 Cook Composites and Polymers Co. Harvard Business School Case 608-055 This case describes how a company improves resource efficiency and process quality in its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the behavioral processes associated with successful cross-functional and cross-firm alignment in supply/demand planning. We model the interaction between a sales... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

in Somerville, Massachusetts, Formlabs manufactures 3D printers used to print everything from prototypes and models to jewelry, dental, and sculpture molds. As Formlabs prepares to ship its latest model, the Form 2, Head of Customer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

Walkman? That's the unknown. The challenge is that Sony drove the Walkman into a mass audience by drastically bringing down the price. We don't know whether Apple will be able to do this successfully. They've never been very good at very high volume View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors Authors:Luo, Jianxi, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Daniel E. Whitney, and Christopher L. Magee Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change Abstract Many products are View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

that draws on sales systems, supply chain systems, and manufacturing and product data. A similar system for small businesses would combine at least four key activities: banking and payments, loans and credit, accounting, and tax. The key... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

technologies to help companies increase employee happiness. Hitachi had begun manufacturing high-tech badges that quantify a wearer’s activity patterns. Data from these devices revealed an unusually high correlation between certain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 10

Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Joan E. Ricart, and Jorge Tarzijan Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198701873.do February 2015 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Improving... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Is Groupon Good for Retailers?

percent of menu price, and every hour a table sits empty is lost revenue that can never be recovered. So too for spas, gyms, hotels, and many other services. Retailers of durable products, like manufactured goods and clothing, are in a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising; Technology
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

perspectives of marketing strategies, store operations, and relationships between customers and store clerks. However, the significance of the development of cellophane as a new packaging material, and the role of packaging manufacturers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne