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- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
Harvard Business School Case 707-519 In response to a huge crisis in 2000, the new CEO of Procter & Gamble has to decide whether to continue with an unusual organizational design or to revert to the old matrix organization. Describes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
engineering and designing for 'buildability.'" Down The Road While U.S automakers retrench, Toyota is aggressively building American factories and, with other foreign automakers, adding billions of dollars to the U.S. economy while... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
repurposing, with input from everybody,” Snow notes. “But what’s really gotten the Japanese to where they are is the use of technology not only in the manufacturing process, but also in engineering and designing for ‘buildability.’ ” Down... View Details
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
1931 of John Wyeth & Brothers. In prescription drugs, the company's initial learning base emerged with the purchase in 1931 of John Wyeth & Brothers, a respected mid-sized Philadelphia drug company established in 1860. The Wyeth family had made a substantial... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008
Lerner, and Jean Tirole Abstract The sub-prime crisis has shown a harsh spotlight on the practices of securities underwriters, which provided too many complex securities that proved to ultimately have little... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
it has to have a reasonably stable value, but you also need it to be liquid enough that people will use it. At the same time, if a cryptocurrency becomes super liquid, there could be potential security implications: Somebody could acquire... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
care today is not how expensive it is. It's that we're held down by force, our money is taken, and then we're shoved into a medical system that is not responsive to us." Athenahealth's cloud-based services are designed to make... View Details
- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
product design important, or is manufacturing the key locus of learning? How does a supplier's initial resource endowment play into the dynamic? Our empirical analysis yields interesting findings that have implications for theory and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
much more complicated due in part to the development of mortgage brokers. The new system fueled a bevy of mortgage backed securities and derivatives that were terribly difficult for experts to comprehend, he said. Too much leverage... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
The company's new head of product management has designed a system to address a point of constant tension: whether to build custom features in response to new customers' request, even if these custom features entail expensive departures... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Unlocking Innovation: A Leader's Guide to Turning Bold Ideas Into Tangible Results By Robyn Bolton (MBA 2005) Page Two Press Only 1 in every 50,000 incubated ideas reaches $1 million in sales. If you ask most corporate executives why their... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
what's going on with the security people, concessions, merchandise, and on and on. You can learn something from virtually any event. "Then yesterday, by contrast," she continues, "I spent two hours huddling with our advisory group on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
PublicationsThe Future of Organization Design Authors:Baldwin, Carliss Y. Publication:Journal of Organization Design Abstract The modern corporation has long been the central focus of the field of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
On a hectic Friday in October 2016, Josh Domingues wondered if he had made a mistake quitting the security of a well-paying job managing contracts for professional hockey players to start a new venture selling nearly expired groceries at... View Details
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
Many corporations have gotten good at pulling the levers of government to tilt the odds in their favor, weakening regulations or securing perks, justified or not, to further their business interests. Economists use the term... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
But in the focus groups, viewers did not have the option of skipping the ad the way they do in real life. A surprise at the end of the ad has no effect if the viewer doesn't bother to wait for the end of the ad. Video-ad designers also... View Details
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Copyright First Responders certification, Portuguese Keith Pendergrass Digital Archivist Special Collections & Archives Keith leads Special Collections & Archives' digital archives workflows with an emphasis on documenting and maintaining the authenticity, integrity,... View Details
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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA
course will be reviewed for grading implications and/or other disciplinary action. On-Location While on location, students are required to participate fully in all scheduled immersion activities (in both the designated mode and content).... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
modernity in the 1920s and 1930s, Chanel's designs wrapped high and low cultural references into beautiful yet practical clothing and jewelry for women of Europe and the Americas. In their articulation of clean, classic lines, her View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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should understand how law affects business. In addition to serving as a Senior Lecturer at HBS, I am a retired Securities Litigation Partner at WilmerHale in Boston. I draw upon examples from my practice and have View Details