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- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers
system can require scores if not hundreds of person-work-years to be designed. No one person can be responsible for the design of a whole system. No one is either smart enough or long-lived enough to do the design work single handedly.... View Details
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Strategy & IT - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Competition by Michael E. Porter and James E. Heppelmann Harvard Business Review , November 2014 We stand at the brink of a new era of competition. Smart connect products are forcing companies to rethink nearly everything they do, from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
While the Crypto, Fintech, and Web3 Lab—one of 13 labs contained within Harvard’s Digital Data Design Institute—might not have the Bunsen burners and test tubes found in science and engineering labs, it does share a philosophical construct: it is a sandbox—an... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
serves as the basis of the terminal value), capital expenditures will just equal depreciation, indicating no growth in assets. In effect, understating capital intensity inflates values. Reprinted by permission of Harvard Business Review Press. Excerpted from How... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
well you buy and integrate but also, and more importantly, on how smart your bet about industry boundaries is. As with M&A as R&D, this approach is hard to analyze rigorously. In this case, though, this difficulty is not because... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- Fast Answer
Market Research Reports in General Databases
Multi-Industry Central and Eastern Europe EMIS 2013 to current Roland Berger Aerospace, Automotive, Capital Markets Europe EMIS 2013 to current Smart Research Fast-growing, niche industries Australia, Brazil, China, Indonesia,... View Details
- 25 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?
uncovered a problem that prevented greater racial equity gains: Black hosts were 41 percent less likely than white hosts to take advantage of the smart pricing application. And for the Black hosts who didn’t use it during the study... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
Source: peterhowell Big data has shifted the ground under every business, enough so that many managers are waking up to the fact that they are already behind in developing a smart data strategy. Data has always been important in business,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Ahmed Alimi
Ahmed. "In Nigeria where I studied before now, the teaching method is lecture-based. The case method is very different for me—but it's a confidence-building process. Whatever you say, you have to be ready to back it up with evidence, because you have 95 View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
“Now with blockchain, network effects are turbocharged, while bringing back principles of open innovation that Web 1.0 had,” Wu says. Read more about Building open-source applications with logic encoded in smart contracts helps businesses... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
club. The name captures the fear that people felt: They weren’t willing to say that there’s gay people here, but everyone needed a place to be themselves. I didn’t have the courage to be completely out at HBS, though I remember saying to myself, “Goddammit, I’m View Details
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Fortune showcased a number of his images on full pages. These celebratory portrayals of U.S. Steel’s industrial might aligned with the ideals of Henry Luce, the publisher of Fortune , who spoke of his vision of the magazine as an opportunity to capture “the dignity and... View Details
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
complete strangers inside your home. Washio offered convenience, but at a price. Considering the benefits and costs, smart entrepreneurs try to layer on top of their digital business idea an innovation that transcends mere digitization,... View Details
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
there and tell them that we were taking the company to higher ground. We were going to get the workplace and the marketplace right. I think every CEO needs to do that in a smart way." See related story on Higher-Ambition CEO... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
From Retail to HBS: How I’m Building a Career Path at the Intersection of Arts, Culture, and Business
the HBS classroom, debating with and in front of 90+ incredibly smart peers in my section. How did your retail background contribute to your experience at HBS? So many ways! It could be both a blessing and a curse in the classroom.... View Details
- 07 Feb 2019
- Book
How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption
provide many examples of companies who have had really smart strategic responses to big shifts in their industry. For example, when carbon fiber came along it endangered Pinarello, a high-end manufacturer of steel bike frames. Pinarello... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control
departure? Embrace SMART thinking This next component is particularly challenging for leaders: compiling the data, making a SMART action plan, and setting a timeline. At this juncture, there are a few paths... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
of scholarship. Josh Lerner : Awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the Technical University of Munich in 2009. 2008 Lauren H. Cohen : Named a 2008 Cutting Edge Academic, Smart Money, Pensions & Investments, 2008. Lauren H. Cohen : Won... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
Radio-frequency identification devices for grocery stores, smart cards, and automated ordering systems for hospital physicians are all examples of new process targets that technologies will soon address. In the more distant future we will... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
smart people of that time believed that technology had reached its limits and capitalism had passed its peak. Schumpeter believed the exact opposite, and of course he was right. Q: Schumpeter introduced the term “creative destruction” and... View Details