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  • 23 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their... View Details
  • December 2019
  • Case

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Shaping the Vaccine Manufacturing Ecosystem (Abridged)

By: Willy Shih
This case describes the efforts of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to lower the cost of producing vaccines to prevent polio infections. It is an abridged version of HBS Case No. 620-021 with less emphasis on comparison between traditional and the new compact... View Details
Keywords: Vaccine; Manufacturing; Barriers To Entry; Production; Cost; Technological Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • December 1990 (Revised December 1993)
  • Case

Australian Paper Manufacturers (A)

By: David M. Upton and Joshua D. Margolis
Describes a company which has broken an unwritten cordial agreement amongst the three Australian paper manufacturers to split the domestic market three ways by market segment. The company invades another's "territory" with advanced technology, quality, and,... View Details
Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Production; Information Technology; Ethics; Situation or Environment; Product Development; Segmentation; Expansion; Financial Strategy; Pulp and Paper Industry; Australia
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  • 30 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Asking Questions Can Get You a Better Job or a Second Date

learned from groups in terms of productivity or happiness when it comes to question asking? What do you think? Related Reading: New Insights into Career Development The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Web

Site Credits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Jennifer Wilson DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY Boston Photo Imaging Harvard Library Imaging Services A-V PRODUCTION Northern Lights Productions PRINTING Ram Printing, Inc. LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION Alabama Department... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

from them, potentially putting them out of business. You might regard that as bordering on the insane. The matter has caught the attention of no less an observer than Henry Kissinger, who commented recently to Bloomberg News... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 17 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

They're well intended, but a fair number of them derail or kind of get stuck." Hill specifically targets that audience in her new book, Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, cowritten with Kent Lineback.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Jul 2023
  • News

Striving for Imperfection

that, Conn says, the rules of strategy that he learned in business school no longer apply. So how do we change the way we solve strategic business problems? In this episode of Skydeck, Conn talks with Associate Editor Jen Flint about his View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Mammography - Early Detection, Precise Diagnoses: Case Histories of Transformational Advances

By: Amar Bhidé, Srikant M. Datar and Katherine Stebbins
This case history describes how the development of x-ray-based techniques and equipment (“mammography”) led to widespread screening for breast cancer and enabled “minimally invasive” biopsies of breast tumors. Specifically, we chronicle how: 1) new protocols and... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 22 May 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders

Pauline Brown joined the HBS faculty following a tenure as Chairman of North America at the French luxury goods conglomerate, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. (Photo credit: Albert Cheung) To future CEOs who want to succeed in the business of making and marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Beauty & Cosmetics; Apparel & Accessories; Auto; Tourism
  • 17 Jan 2023
  • Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

Tsao, both of whom held senior positions in the US Department of Justice’s criminal division and now are Harvard Law School lecturers. It explores the topics through cases such as Wells Fargo’s creation of thousands of fake accounts, and the bribes that Walmart and... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • April 1999 (Revised August 1999)
  • Case

R&B Falcon

R&B Falcon is the world's leading offshore drilling contractor. Amid surging exploration budgets and increasing deepwater drilling activity, the company makes huge investments in several new state-of-the art $300 million ultra-deep-water drilling rigs. As day rates and... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Change Management; Industry Growth; Mining; Product Marketing; Mining Industry
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  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

"pushing" one, or more, of four brand new businesses with considerable potential in the development pipeline to the market sooner; (2) allocating more resources to six new View Details
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ECONOMICS OF THE ADVERTISING AND MARKETING SERVICEC INDUSTRY

Professor Silk’s recent research has been focused on the economics of the advertising and marketing services industry. He has conducted econometric studies of the effects of scale and scope on the... View Details

  • June 2014 (Revised January 2017)
  • Case

Focus Financial Partners and the U.S. RIA Industry in 2014

By: Luis Viceira and Emily A. Chien
In the Spring of 2014, Rudy Adolf, CEO and founder of Focus Financial, and the two other co-founders of the firm are considering alternative growth strategies to solidify Focus Financial's position as a leading aggregator of independent wealth management firms in the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Financial Services Industry
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  • 11 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

Maybe it goes without saying that the past two years have been stressful for employees. But new research suggests managers should say it anyway. That’s because verbally acknowledging someone else’s feelings, especially negative ones, can... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • Web

Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

finding new ways to make their work impactful and useful for their target audience.” Cebisa Ncube Design Thinking and Innovation Participant Discover frameworks and techniques you can leverage to bring new... View Details
  • Web

Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

have a considerable journey ahead, usually with obstacles and challenges unique to their ideas, industries, and market contexts. But regardless of the specific path, they will need to prepare for their journeys by researching the following issues: Minimum viable View Details
  • Web

Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

Henry Bloomberg, the late father of New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966). The architectural and intellectual centerpiece of the HBS campus, Baker Library was dedicated in 1927 and named for George F. Baker (1840-1931), the... View Details
  • 11 Mar 2024
  • News

In Harmony

and three siblings during the Korean War. A bomb blast—friendly fire from US troops—killed everyone except Kim’s mother and her younger brother. The story is included in Offerings, Kim’s 2020 bestseller. In October 2023, news broke that... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park