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- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
employ to successfully return to the Red Planet. The case, "Mission to Mars," looks at changes the space agency has made not only recently but also over several decades as it followed a faster, simpler approach to program design. MacCormack's findings may... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
Patrick E. Haggerty
Haggerty led Texas Instruments into the manufacture of transistors - the first to make them cheaply enough to be commercially viable. During Haggerty’s tenure, the company expanded its overseas market (47 manufacturing plants in 19 countries), focused on new View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
difficult than suspected. During the boom years, when all seemed well, capabilities that underpin innovation in a wide range of products were continuing to deteriorate. My HBS colleague Willy Shih and I described in “Restoring American... View Details
- February 2001 (Revised March 2001)
- Case
Apax Partners and Dialog Semiconductor: March 1998
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner, Antonio Alvarez-Cano and Borja Martinez
Apax Partners is considering a complex buyout of a semiconductor manufacturer. The firms must assess in a compressed timeframe the complex technological, financial, and operational risks that the proposed transaction poses. View Details
Keywords: Market Transactions; Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Time Management; Production; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry; Semiconductor Industry
Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, Antonio Alvarez-Cano, and Borja Martinez. "Apax Partners and Dialog Semiconductor: March 1998." Harvard Business School Case 201-044, February 2001. (Revised March 2001.)
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
in self-confidence, assessments of others, and behavior in a cooperative game. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55101 forthcoming Management Science Effects of a Tournament Incentive Plan Incorporating... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
price no matter how many tomatoes were produced and a premium for better quality. Farmers were asked to harvest five days later than normal, which produces a riper, tastier product without adding sweeteners but increases the level of risk... View Details
- Career Coach
Ron Peracchio
Development. Ron was also the Senior Director of Career Development at MIT's Sloan School of Management. In addition to his academic experience, Ron has held several corporate positions including Staffing manager for Lucent Software View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
to our detriment. Americans and other Western health-care leaders are often unaware of the many advances in health-care management and delivery that are being made "under the radar" in diverse parts of the world. To further disseminate... View Details
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
209-152 Real estate is an increasingly important component in the portfolios of institutional investors. This note discusses the issues these investors must consider when investing in real estate from the legal forms of ownership, to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Career Coach
Jim Warner
Jim (HBS ’80, Yale ‘75) is a board member and advisor to technology and services companies in marketing and media and a veteran of the media and entertainment business. He guides students and alums interested in careers in entertainment, media and marketing and alumni... View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Blog Post
Podcast: Should You Consider the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program?
engineer that wants to lead a technology venture, wants to found a startup, that there's a lot to learn about founding that startup. The technology is very, very important, but one of many things that's very important. You've got to learn how to View Details
- Profile
Monica Dodi
As a cofounder and managing director of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF), Monica Dodi (MBA 1984) backs female-led, early-stage ventures in digital media and sustainable products and services. Dodi... View Details
- May 2010
- Teaching Note
Re-THINK-ing THINK: The Electric Car Company (TN)
Teaching Note for [810105]. View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
process analysis—a concept we taught in Production and Operations Management—in a setting that didn't involve steel mills, printed circuit boards, or sorting cranberries. Students got to see the design of a system, linked together in a... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
Melody Koh
was a Product Manager at Fab.com leading marketing & analytics products and the founder/CEO of a seed-funded wine subscription e-commerce service. Melody was also a venture... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital
- Web
Teaching Support for HBS Faculty | Baker Library
products and manage course-related readings. Baker Library also supports students with their coursework and independent project assignments. Students can meet with us individually or in teams to discuss... View Details
- June 2012 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Best Buy in Crisis
By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In June 2012, Best Buy was in crisis. In 1996, Best Buy overtook Circuit City as the world's leader in consumer electronics retailing; however, 18 years later, Best Buy now found this position threatened. With $51 billion in revenues, it was still the biggest CE... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction; Competitive Strategy; Ethics; Management Teams; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry
Wells, John R., and Galen Danskin. "Best Buy in Crisis ." Harvard Business School Case 713-403, June 2012. (Revised March 2014.)
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
society as a whole. Publisher's link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118646983.html April 2015 Management Science Private Equity and Industry Performance By: Bernstein, Shai, Josh Lerner, Morten Sorensen, and Per... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
make the product a reality. That made an impression—that an immigrant living in the United States was turning back to his home country to help realize the products of his invention. So my first work in this... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
merchant houses established business groups with diversified portfolio and pyramidal structures overseas, primarily in developing countries, both colonial and independent. In the domestic economy, large single View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne