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09 Mar 2010
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concentration without co-locating. The final layer examines why some firms are more inclined to co-locate than others based upon firm and agglomeration economy traits. We test our framework on the U.S. location choices of new View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

School Case 406-118 General Electric thrived in every decade of the 20th century. Since its founding in 1892, GE has placed a high value on picking and training the best people. Staff members worked with other scientists in the company's research lab to design and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2012
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around the world, was to have our faculty test the validity of their ideas in front of savvy local business audiences.” Palepu cites an example involving a case he cowrote on the Haier Group, a Chinese multinational manufacturer of home... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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By: Geoffrey G. Jones

I currently teach the history of global entrepreneurship over the last 200 years. The 28-session course called Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism has become one of the most popular second year electives in the MBA program at the Harvard Business School. The cases,... View Details

17 Feb 2021
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Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

potentially vaccine-resistant. McKinsey & Co. argues that hoping for herd immunity in the United States and United Kingdom by October 2021 is optimistic, pointing out the likely possibility of “unexpected safety issues emerging with early vaccines, significant... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12

transaction costs and supplier hold-up. The (A) case closes with the question of what GM should do about supplier Fisher Body. The (B) case summarizes the shift to all-steel body stamping and engine manufacturing as the core technologies... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

manufacturer for eyewear companies. It grew over the years. Ultimately, the company would realize that it had a “diamond” in its own backyard, a core business that had been in the picture all along. Focusing on that core, the Hilsinger... View Details

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Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details

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25 Mar 2014
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networks or manufacturers to procure goods across complex global supply chains. These standards-shaped by standard-setting organizations (SSOs) and participating engineers, academics, lawyers, and executives-in turn shape how new... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2013
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based upon firm and agglomeration economy traits. We test our framework on the U.S. location choices of new manufacturing entrants between 1985 and 1994 and find that firms are far more attracted to skilled labor and specialized suppliers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Oct 2014
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chainsaws with four-stroke engines the leaders in cars, boats, and generators. Should the company be an invention company licensing its technology; an engine designer and manufacturer selling to auto, marine, and fixed OEM companies; or a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

March 2014
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Implementing Environmentally Sustainable Operations

By: Michael W. Toffel

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17 Mar 2015
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the page count of its annual corporate reporting documents, helped stakeholders gain a more thorough understanding of its strategy, and begun the transition from being a product manufacturer to a customer-centric company. Still, the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

include positioning strategies, choosing the proper channel, potential partnerships, manufacturing issues, market analysis, and PR management. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507016... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Aug 2004
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A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

sophisticated customers will not be good at working with mass-market retailing channels. The key then is to identify what processes a competitor has and what processes the company lacks. Processes are developed when companies solve the same problem over and over again.... View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

25 Feb 2022
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Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry

localities and electric vehicle manufacturers as well as the ability to train a large enough workforce. There is a hunger for good green jobs. For her first 20 slots, she received 1600 applications. The technicians earn a minimum of... View Details

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Vincent Dessain

Vincent (HBS MBA’87) draws on more than 25 years of experience as a higher education senior executive at HBS and INSEAD and in the corporate world both in the US and in Europe to counsel students and alumni as they evaluate, prepare for and pursue their career options.... View Details

27 Dec 2010
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HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

is to middle managers, who may become obsolete when layers of managers are no longer needed to convey messages up and down the organization. The key to success in the social networking era is to empower the people who do the actual work—designing products, View Details

Keywords: by Staff

04 Apr 2017
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that help people solve problems in their daily lives. That investment focus on manufacturing would go against the private equity trend, another factor he considered. But he knew few, if any, general partners at major private equity firms... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Mar 2012
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various parties, from governments to auto manufacturers to consumers. The fledgling company has made good progress in both Israel and Denmark as the first two launch locations but faces a series of decisions on the best course of action... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

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Implementing Environmentally Sustainable Operations

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A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry

Vincent Dessain

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

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First Look: March 9

First Look: August 28, 2007

Around the World

Overview

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

First Look: November 12

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

First Look: March 25

First Look: May 21

First Look: October 28

Implementing Environmentally Sustainable Operations

First Look: March 17

First Look: June 26, 2007

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

Climate Stories﻿ Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry

Vincent Dessain

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

First Look at New Research, April 4

First Look: March 27

Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry