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- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
products. “The tech industry in general, young or old, can accommodate stretched goals, simply because digital can reach millions of people worldwide in one second, and all that they have to do is to create the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
has a lot in common with film producing and screenwriting. “There is definitely something to be said for having the kind of training I had at Goldman,” says Epstein, who finished production in May on The... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Closing the ‘Intention-Action’ Gap
environmental damage, while acknowledging criticisms arguing that the organization has not done enough. He contends that Malaysian and Indonesian producers of palm oil need assurances that their investments... View Details
- 02 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
Four Companies that Conquered America
retailing in the U.S. is concentrated (10 chains control 60 percent of the market) and tough to penetrate. But Dyson could not have succeeded had its products not been superior to other vacuum cleaners... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
satellite telecommunications system, $900 million A2 Toll Road in Poland, $20 billion Sakhalin II gas field in Russia, and the $28 billion Dabhol power project. Globally, firms financed $240 billion of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Abe Plough
In 1908, with $125 borrowed from his father, Plough formed Plough, Incorporated by selling Antiseptic Heating Oil door to door. Over the next 65 years, Plough transformed his company from a small manufacturer of toiletries to a... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
response to policies that maintain low interest rates, money funds change their product offerings by investing in riskier asset classes, are more likely to exit the market, and reduce the fees they charge... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
advertising strategy, and leather sourcing issues. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/514078-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-070 The Grommet The Grommet, an online product... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA
successful product managers, general managers, startup founders, and CEOs of mature technology companies. Blending technical skills and business management knowledge Like all... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
and build technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is involvement in product design important, or is manufacturing the key locus of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
total organic product sales in 2015 were $43.3 billion, an increase of 11 percent from the previous year’s record level and far ahead of the overall food market’s growth rate of 3 percent. “We’re a little... View Details
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307047 Cook Composites and Polymers Co. Harvard Business School Case 608-055 This case describes how a company improves resource efficiency and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
Everything depends on oil: Without a boost in output, there will be insufficient electricity, little money, and few well-paying jobs. Production is still below 1990 levels. But sanctions View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
work we have been doing here at Troy Capital. I’d like to think it doesn’t only highlight my individual accomplishments, but more so what we have all done as a team. Personally, I hope it serves as an example for others. Any success that I have had has been the View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
product development in firms and communities, co-wrote the case with former HBS professor Robert D. Austin and Yumi Yi to encourage further exploration of the benefits View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
decisions are driven by a tradeoff between managers' pecuniary benefits of coordinating production and their private benefits of operating in preferred ways. Integration generates more output than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
materials to how the products were used and ultimately disposed of by consumers. Unilever had calculated that consumer use accounted for more than two-thirds of greenhouse gas... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
and gas had continued to cripple the middle and lower class as the U.S. economy slowly recovered. At the same time, the U.S. lagged behind developed economies in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Eric Sonnier
As a resident of Houston, Texas, it may have been inevitable that Eric Sonnier’s first business experience as a co-op student during his junior year in college was related to the oil and View Details