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- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
lower. One benefit of CDVCs may be their effect in bringing traditional VC investment to underserved regions: when we control for the presence of traditional VC investments, each additional CDVC investment results in an View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
mitigation industry. Their goal is to use an existing technology to turn waste energy in heavy manufacturing processes into cleaner, more cost-effective sources of electricity. She noted that although WHP technology is not new, its use in... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
on the general domain R by strengthening independence of irrelevant objects in two ways: in addition to requiring that the chosen allocation should depend only on preferences over the set of available objects (which always includes the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
professor. In the summers of 2008 and 2009, while he was still a doctoral candidate at HBS, Bernstein hired a team of Chinese-born Harvard undergraduates to embed themselves among factory workers on the manufacturing floor of a huge... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
participants with management in creating a new management approach and then researching its efficacy. The process has been used successfully at companies such as Merck, Honeywell, and Hewlett-Packard in addition to Becton Dickinson, and... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
for $6.2 million and plans to spend another $16.5 million to retrofit the building. Beyond the money they already have, Markowitz and her board will need to raise an additional $18.5 million. All in all, they are off to a good start: the... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
native brands. Founded in 2011 by ex-Googler Steven Yang, Anker sells digital accessories—batteries, cables, chargers, and so forth. These products are also offered by hundreds of other manufacturers or agents. In View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
have two types of "sponsors" for their loyalty reward investments: manufacturers of the branded goods sold by retailers, and other partner companies presumably with higher margins, who find it economically advantageous to pay... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
disruption, the authors offer three scenarios for the future of consulting. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2013/10/consulting-on-the-cusp-of-disruption/ar/1 August 2013 Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Sustainable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
134,000 arrest records for drunk driving in Washington State) and by participants with the authority to penalize transgressions in an experimental lab setting. An additional experiment provides evidence that this effect is driven by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
The competitiveness of many multinational companies depends on their ability to transfer intellectual property and other intangible assets to their worldwide production processes. These sources of competitive advantage can be anything from a proprietary View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
officials took steps to speed vaccine development last year, the United States and other countries could have paid to build manufacturing infrastructure and shore up the supply chain needed to produce vaccines at higher capacity. That... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
delivers in the current period conditional on a stockout in the prior period. We also provide a method for estimating the impact of changes in supplier performance along these two dimensions on customer demand. Using data from Hugo Boss, a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
founders' contribution of about $10,000 in addition to our 2010 HBS fellowship award of $25,000. Our revenues are about $2,000 annually, and the site gets approximately 100 visits daily. We have a staff of four and make an effort to hire... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
Entrepreneurship in India Authors:Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr, and Stephen O'Connell Abstract We analyze the spatial determinants of entrepreneurship in India in the manufacturing and services sectors. Among general district traits,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
Manufacturing course. He also helped found the European Institute of Business Administration. A Chronicle of the China Trade: The Records of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877 Augustine Heard & Co. was among the largest American trading... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
the wake of advances made in digital technology. "Fuji experienced the same situation that buggy whip manufacturers confronted when cars were invented," she says. "The difference is that there are dozens of View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
manufacture LSD. You can’t get traction. Just don’t go there. (HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections) (HBS Archives Photography Collection, Baker Library Special Collections) Sahlman was daunted, but he... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
vulnerable patients, during a period of time when having them come into the hospital brings unnecessary risk. I should say that, in addition to my day job as president of Mass General, I also serve on the board of American Well, which is... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
billion additional urban dwellers. Second, shared resources like clean water, clean air, energy, and places to put solid waste are already scarce and constrained. Urbanization will only exacerbate these pressures. Third, almost no local... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne