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Africa - Global

Africa Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi HBS continues its efforts to build a deep understanding of and expertise in global business practice and innovation around the world, including throughout Africa, a region that is assuming an... View Details
  • 12 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 12, 2016

competitive imitation. Make it tough for rivals to copy your product-to-platform strategy: consider creating proprietary standards, using exclusivity contracts and erecting other barriers to competition. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Middle East & North Africa - Global

Middle East & North Africa Cairo, Dubai, Istanbul, Tel Aviv HBS continues its efforts to build a deep understanding of and expertise in global business practice and innovation around the world, including throughout the Middle East and... View Details
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Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment During the Reform Era

The aim of the book is to illustrate the dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China in the 1990s. The topic is important both because China is the world's second largest recipient of FDI and because there are substantial misconceptions about the drivers of... View Details
  • January 2024
  • Case

Sprouts Farmers Market

By: Rajiv Lal, Forest L. Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
Sprouts Farmers Markets (Sprouts) is a Phoenix, Arizona-based chain of 400-plus natural foods stores in 23 U.S. states and $6.4 billion in sales as of 2022. In its product assortment, brand image, and store environment, Sprouts emphasizes freshness, health, innovation,... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Strategic Planning; Sales; Business Strategy; Expansion; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Competition; Retail Industry; United States; Arizona
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Arthur Rock? Where are the Harvard Innovation Labs? What are the newest buildings, including the newly opened Klarman Hall? At the end of this fun- and fact-filled tour, participants will know all that and... View Details
  • 22 May 2024
  • HBS Case

Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

billion in 2021, according to the case. At the time of the case study in December 2023, TikTok commanded $2.6 million for an ad to run for one day at the top of its TopView feature, which displays when people open the app. To compare, a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology

    Overcrowded – Designing Meaningful Products in a World Awash with Ideas

    We live in a world awash with ideas. Thanks to the web and to powerful ideation approaches such as open innovation, design thinking, or crowdsourcing, organizations have today easy access to an unprecedented amount of novel concepts. In this context, what... View Details

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    Europe - Global

    Europe Paris HBS opened the Europe Research Center (ERC) in Paris in 2003, to help HBS develop and strengthen relationships with European business and academic leaders. The ERC enables HBS faculty to study more effectively one of the... View Details
    • 19 Sep 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

    been a bunch of agencies, the Russians, the Chinese, NASA at one point, who’ve all been interested in going there. And prior studies have revealed frozen water in that part of the moon. It’s been really inaccessible, but as you can imagine, if there is water in... View Details
    Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace
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    HBS - The year in Review

    students, and staff displayed the resilience, flexibility, and innovative spirit that have become our hallmark in these challenging times. Students Arrive More than 9,700 applicants sought a place in the MBA Program and nearly 1,000... View Details
    • 01 May 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

    The bedrock of this system is the "patent," a legal document that allows its holder exclusive commercialization rights of a part of the "idea space" granted through the patent. Strong legal protection of IP has made the U.S. a destination of great... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Nov 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: November 2, 2010

    http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPREMNET/Resources/EP31.pdf   Working PapersWhen Open Architecture Beats Closed: The Entrepreneurial Use of Architectural Knowledge Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract This paper describes how... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Japan - Global

    Japan Tokyo HBS opened the Japan Research Center (JRC) in January 2002. The School has an important history of strengthening ties with constituents in Japan (including companies, universities, government, and HBS alumni). These... View Details
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    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    and maturity. Researchers Hanson, Lucca, and Wright document that the correlation of long term interest rates to innovations in short term rates has, if anything, decreased in the 21st century. The namesake conundrums, defined as six- or... View Details
    • 25 Sep 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

    Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries, available October 4 from MIT Press. Evans is Managing Director of the Global Competitive Policy Practice at LEGC LLC. Hagiu is a professor in the Strategy unit at Harvard... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
    • June 1998 (Revised April 2000)
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    GM Powertrain

    By: Amy C. Edmondson and Mikelle Eastley
    Discusses a young MBA plant manager who is improving the operations of a small General Motors components plant in Fredericksburg, Virginia. At 29 years old, Joe Hinrichs is the youngest plant manager at GM, and in his new assignment, he is faced with the daunting... View Details
    Keywords: Service Operations; Labor Unions; Problems and Challenges; Technological Innovation; Change Management; Machinery and Machining; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; United States
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    Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    HBS ISC Resources Resources Video Courses Data Events & Presentations Frameworks News Publications Publications Resources 20 Nov 2020 Article Utilizing time-driven activity-based costing to determine open radical cystectomy and ileal... View Details
    • 30 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    The Future of IT Consulting

    addition, networking and the Internet moved the IT infrastructure for the IBM standard to an emerging environment characterized by open standards. Accordingly, the IT infrastructure became simpler and more complex at the same time through... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting
    • 29 Sep 2015
    • First Look

    September 29, 2015

    powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were outside the mainstream—and how the commercialization of the Internet was... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne