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- 11 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams
In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
line executives to help them better understand the cost, revenue, and profit implications of their decisions. Some finance groups spend more by investing in, say, activity-based cost systems that calculate the profitability of each of the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
'They Feel Good,' yet the employees were wearing Reeboks," she recounts. "So I established new rules—don't bring a shoe in for a line review unless it feels good to the consumer, meaning comfortable, and feels good to shareholders,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
specific package so much. At some point, however, you can eliminate a product from your product line and introduce a "new, larger size" container and start the whole process... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)
strategy and we have successfully acquired three companies. MEMCO (India) and MFT (Germany) have not only expanded our geographical footprint but also diversified our product range and customer list. In addition to camshafts, PCL group... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
satisfied, high-paying customers. In essence, incumbents can disassociate themselves from a business in exchange for a better one. How can we identify when flight is in progress? Changes in customer or product mix can be a clear sign of... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
tracked the number of MIPS or CPU cycles on the network from 1990 to 2002. Even using a log scale on the vertical axis would be barely enough to tilt a vertical straight line enough to create something resembling the curves of the other... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
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By: Karim R. Lakhani
Can America Invent Its Way Back?
BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008
Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details
- 06 Jun 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?
desperately, and in many cases unsuccessfully, trying to just get to the sidelines of the playing field? How do we draw the line on such exceptions? And who administers them? Who benefits most from a level playing field? A developing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
Today, 25 years later, Hoa is still living in Hanoi and doing her part to help her impoverished country establish a modern, productive economy. As managing director of Galaxy Company, a successful consulting firm, her advice on doing... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
While the US Food and Drug Administration has chiseled away pharmaceutical review times over the years to speed innovative drugs to market, the opposite seems to have occurred in the agency's approval of medical devices. Instead of speeding innovative first-mover View Details
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
lining is that many business leaders who have long been resistant to the idea of remote work may open their eyes for the first time to its benefits, including happier workers, less need for office space, and, for some, a possible bump in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
have an edge in their markets. These firms are “more innovative—stronger at anticipating shifts in consumer needs and consumption patterns that make new products and services possible, potentially generating a competitive edge.” Of equal... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student
position, which can be either “above the line” or “below the line.” To be above the line means that you are open and excited about the topic at hand; to be below the line is to be apprehensive or to... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
environment to drive innovation." Out of that commitment came SK-II, a skin care product that sells for about $120 a bottle and has moved them into a whole new range. Now this prestige line is being... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 27 Jun 2011
- Research & Ideas
Recovering from the Need to Achieve
productivity and only creates cynicism. "The evidence is clear that individuals who are highly engaged make more money for their organizations," he says. "My only hope is that professionals [will no longer] waste so much... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Edward D. Bullard: The Personal Touch
state-of-the-art plant; and diversified its product line to include thermal imaging devices, firefighter and rescue helmets, and air quality equipment. At the same time, it has streamlined View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
next? Key Themes: As a public pension plan, CalSTRS operates in the context of a complex array of stakeholders, who from time to time push for divestment or other values-driven investment decisions. And yet, as a fiduciary, CalSTRS must carefully navigate the View Details
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Business Review Group and HBP Corporate Learning lines of business, as well as HBR Enterprise sales & solutions, and strategic partnerships. She also serves as Chief Marketing Officer, driving cohesive positioning, brand, and channel... View Details
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
Merrill Lynch can in part be explained by the pursuit of profits for their own sake. HCHP firms, by contrast, grow by using their distinctive capabilities to move into adjacent markets, products and services, and geographies. Risk: HCHP... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace