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Restoring American Competitiveness
For decades, U.S. companies have been outsourcing manufacturing in the belief that it held no competitive advantage. That’s been... View Details
- November 2006
- Case
Organics: Coming Center Stage?
By: James E. Austin and Reed Martin
The organics movement has certainly come a long way. From hippie farming communes and a scattering of natural food stores in the 1960s, organics outgrew its origins as a counterculture curiosity of the 1970s to become the fastest growing segment of the food industry in... View Details
- July – August 2009
- Article
Restoring American Competitiveness
By: Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih
For decades, U.S. companies have been outsourcing manufacturing in the belief that it held no competitive advantage. That's been a disaster, maintain Harvard professors Pisano and Shih, because today's low-value manufacturing operations hold the seeds of tomorrow's... View Details
- 07 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook
at Harvard Business School. “It was better designed and nicer to use.” However, when Amazon released its Kindle e-reader three years later, it included an important feature: a connection to wifi that allowed readers to download books more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Research Summary
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By: Feng Zhu
Professor Zhu’s research focuses on the design of platform business models and its impact on platform performance. Platforms have become central to our economy. A platform is a product or service that enables two or more customer groups to interact. For example,... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Thomas S. Volpe, MBA 1976
fund at HBS “to add fuel to the fire that kindles the entrepreneurial spirit.” In a career that has included leadership roles at firms such as Blyth Eastman Paine Webber, Hambrecht & Quist, and Volpe Brown Whelan & Company—as well as his... View Details
- 11 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
drum, demonstrating that empathy allows us to relate to each other on a more informal basis, driving collaboration and innovation. If you can get people passionate about something beyond just themselves, you kindle common interests and... View Details
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
and its customers. The electronic ink technology produced by the company E Ink is an essential component of electronic readers such as Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's NOOK. But it is an input supplier to the manufacturers of such... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
designed an innovative field-study course called Consulting and Management Practice. The course provided student teams with intensive faculty coaching on projects with actual clients. Turner cites the course as his "most rewarding experience at HBS." His year in India... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Three Profs Win McKinsey Award
lost not only its ability to develop and manufacture high-tech products like televisions, memory chips, and laptops, but also the expertise to produce emerging “hot products” such as the Kindle e-reader, high-end servers, solar panels,... View Details
- 03 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders
other, along certain dimensions they are collaborating” So why would Amazon release a version of its Kindle Reader on Apple's iPad, allowing users to access its library of exclusive digital books? "Doesn't that diminish interest in the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Brian Shaw
kindling to start fires. Have difficult conversations. Build a house. Take my shoes off inside. Wake up before the sun comes up. Pick vegetables from a garden. Raise horses. Get bucked off. Jump back on. Admire symmetry. Revel in chaos.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
evolution in the Darwinian world of high-tech business. Cafe Culture: CEO Russ Wilcox in E Ink’s offices, a converted factory space that includes a central gathering area for impromptu meetings and brainstorming sessions. On the table: Amazon’s View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
off-the-grid locations are difficult,” notes Risher. “For schools in these areas, e-readers, which are rapidly coming down in cost, are ideal.” With a one-time donation of 30 Kindles from Amazon, Risher launched Worldreader last winter in... View Details
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Book Smart
these children to have the same opportunity. Risher had been an executive at Amazon and Microsoft, so he certainly knew plenty about tech and business. He also had connections, such as Steve Kessel, longtime head of Kindle, who heard the story of the abandoned library... View Details
- 11 Apr 2020
- News
Reading Together, Apart
subscription-based app allows people to connect over video while reading a children’s book together in real time, as if the services of FaceTime and Kindle were knitted together. The product took off, particularly among military families.... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
Risher’s story of the abandoned library in Guayaquil and donated 20 Kindles for the launch of Worldreader. After a beta test at an international school in Barcelona, where Risher was living at the time, he and cofounder Colin McElwee... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Chandler Donates Papers to Baker Library
been kindled when he was seven by Gordy’s Elementary History of the United States, a gift from his father in 1925. “I read it twenty times,” Chandler said. “It gave me a wonderful advantage as a historian. I knew every generation, every... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Feedback
Our inaugural Android and Kindle editions debuted in September, joining the iPad edition in our tablet offerings. For details on downloading these, visit alumni.hbs.edu/tablet Afghanistan’s Hope and Light Re: A call for change A wonderful... View Details
Keywords: feedback
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Feedback
BULLETIN EXPANDS DIGITAL OFFERINGS Following on the heels of the June debut of our iPad edition, the Bulletin is now available for download in the Google Play and Kindle Fire newsstands. Smartphone users have new options, too: The... View Details