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- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
http://www.theigc.org/sites/default/files/Eric%20Werker%20RR%20final.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 313-024 Cummins, Inc.: Building a Home Community for a Global Company In 2010, Tom Linebarger, president and COO of Cummins, Inc., the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
literature that suggests firms reduce marketing expenditures in order to boost reported earnings, we find that soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency of all marketing promotions (price discounts, feature advertisements, and aisle... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
favor, and manufacturing dried up. At a certain point, jobs in local government and services became the gold standard for security, benefits, and compensation—which is when the pendulum swung toward corruption. “Patronage, taking care of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
city's Mission Bay neighborhood.) In addition to a current portfolio of 60 companies, Rock Health organizes industry events such as its annual Health Innovation Summit and offers aspiring entrepreneurs free access to its online Startup... View Details
- 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
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
in Somerville, Massachusetts, Formlabs manufactures 3D printers used to print everything from prototypes and models to jewelry, dental, and sculpture molds. As Formlabs prepares to ship its latest model, the Form 2, Head of Customer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Combining supermarket scanner data with firm-level financial data, we find evidence that differs from prior literature. Instead of reducing expenditures to boost earnings, soup manufacturers roughly double the frequency of marketing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
historians to move beyond incremental additions to the literature and instead return to tackling big subjects with major importance to the future of business. "Rehashing past controversies is not a sign of a vibrant discipline, but... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
University of Canterbury in New Zealand, in addition to her studies, Sommer was a catalyst for improved ser-vices nationwide for students with disabilities. “Effecting national policy on an issue so close to my heart was a terrific... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
club (mahogany trim and neatly pigeonholed shirts) with a sense of whimsy and fun. “There is a vast profusion of colors and patterns that makes it like a candy store, so you want to come in and treat yourself,” she says. In addition to... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
selection for treatment—now allow manufacturers to target smaller populations. Taken together, these changes raise doubts about whether the ODA encourages the development of products that otherwise would not have been brought to market—or... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
U.S. manufacturing industries from the Economic Census. We then relate coagglomeration levels to the degree to which industry pairs share goods, labor, or ideas. To reduce reverse causality, where co-location drives input-output linkages... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
Company; and HBS professor Michael Porter (MBA ’71). In addition to the pioneering roles played by this innovative quartet, there is another leitmotif — a fifth key player — that runs throughout the book: The industry would not exist as... 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
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
develop to support improving value for patients. In addition to restructuring care delivery in the hospitals and throughout northeastern Ohio, The Clinic has investments, facilities, and staff in several other states in the U.S. as well... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Valley or Shenzhen. And so this innovation movement of automobile production internationalized—but so did best practice. Think of things like just-in-time manufacturing that emanated out of Japan and is now standard practice around the... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
it faced huge capital expenditures associated with constructing its manufacturing facilities. The company was at a crossroads: it had to decide whether to partner with IBM or align with other firms as it tried to keep up with Intel.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
served by existing retailers. The team moved on to formulate a new market strategy. To date, the team has seen some improvements in sales and market share in its millennial apparel business, but they believe that additional opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
in addition to the already competitive mobile communication segment where the company's once dominant market share was heavily eroded. Mao had to decide on the pricing strategies for the company's various product lines, including fixed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne