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- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
their families for 48 weeks a year. At the same time, they were building the massive transportation infrastructure that eventually allowed factories to relocate to the center of the country and to move goods from the factory to customer.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
Working Papers Using By-Product Synergy for Competitive Advantage Author: Deishin Lee Abstract We study how a manufacturer can leverage by-product synergy for competitive advantage. By focusing on the economic impact to the firm and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2007
the early years of the 21st century. From a state-owned enterprise earning 97% of its revenue from television sets and other analog consumer electronics, Thomson had become a publicly traded company providing digital video services and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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 process quality in its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
chainsaws with four-stroke engines the leaders in cars, boats, and generators. Should the company be an invention company licensing its technology; an engine designer and manufacturer selling to auto, marine, and fixed OEM companies; or a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
and Failures of a Global Entrepreneur Harvard Business School Case 807-045 Bert Twaalfhoven (70; HBS '54) is faced with two offers to acquire the manufacturing holding company he had built up over 40 years. Despite the attractive price... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
in which enthusiasts used the specialized watercraft to perform zany stunts. Traditional kayakers began modifying their own equipment on the fly, and eventually these user-innovators began producing kayaks for others. Established kayak... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
not a recommendation to manufacture a false enthusiasm to gloss over problems. Speaking about and to employees' pride has to be authentic; employees will quickly sniff out managerial insincerity, and the manager's communication will... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
Yi-Ling WeiHarvard Business School Case 610-005 Tony Lo, the CEO of Giant Manufacturing, the largest bicycle manufacturer in the world, finally realized that his products were not meeting the needs of women customers when even his wife... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
the world? And how do we make sure that our students, when they graduate, are equipped to operate in a global world?” Out of that questioning emerged a strategy that remains unique among US business schools. Beginning in the mid-1990s,... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
origins of the social psychology of creativity, trace its arc, and suggest directions for its future. Demand and Capacity Management in Air Transportation Authors:Cynthia Barnhart, Douglas S. Fearing, Amedeo Odoni, and Vikrant Vaze... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
Nohria explained his belief that people's life stories deeply influence the way they conduct themselves as leaders. In his own case, he described the profound effect his father, the CEO of a large electrical equipment View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
majority owner, and Life Technologies (Life), a major manufacturer of sequencing equipment and services, was a minority owner. By the end of the year the CEO of Claritas Genomics, Dr. Patrice Milos, had to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
embeddedness of the new technologies posed significant entrepreneurial challenges. The best equipped to overcome these challenges were often entrepreneurs based in minorities who held significant advantages in capital-raising and trust... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
panel of leading venture capitalists. Taking top prize were Kareem Howard (HBS '02) and Olufemi Omojola with VehicleSense, a venture that will manufacture wireless magnetic sensors for use in the telematics area of the View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
determined quest. Auth will transport you in his spiritual time machine from Egypt’s Old Kingdom, through Greece and Rome, to medieval Europe; from the age of the Renaissance, through the Ages of Exploration and Enlightenment; and from... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
differences in the price of capital across countries. Our strategy is motivated by the fact that most countries import the bulk of machinery equipment (from a small number of industrialized countries). We find the price of imported... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
performance. In this paper, I conduct one of the first evaluations to determine whether a voluntary management program that features an independent verification mechanism is achieving its ultimate objectives. Using a sample of thousands of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
margins from its Help Desk contract with Fonaveu, a large, strategically important customer. Emergia is considering tactics such as overdelivering on calls that incur lower costs (while underdelivering on high cost calls), offshoring the service to a country with lower... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
without selling the company. More on that later. Going light on the environment in the manufacturing process was a big deal to Kim and Coup, too. Their ultra-light philosophy and eco-friendly mindset drive every GoLite idea and product:... View Details