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  • 2009
  • Chapter

Do Private Equity-owned Firms Have Better Management Practices?

By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms across Asia, Europe and the US. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level performance (e.g. productivity,... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Management Practices and Processes; Production; Private Ownership; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity
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  • 16 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

distribution of sales and profits across products. By enabling an analysis of the book acquisition, development, and marketing process from the perspective of the publisher, author, and agent, serves as a vehicle for contrasting different approaches to the new View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2017
  • Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

better than polished ones, as subjects are far more willing to critique your work when it looks like it isn’t finalized, allowing us to get more raw feedback. Between each conversation we would tinker with... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • November 2019
  • Supplement

United Technologies Corp.: Are the Parts Worth More Than the Whole?

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
After spending more than 50 years creating a diversified industrial conglomerate that Fortune Magazine described as “arguably the most profitable conglomerate in America” in 2014, UTC’s CEO Greg Hayes was under pressure from activist investors (Dan Loeb and Bill... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Financial Management; Corporate Governance; Organizational Structure; Diversification; Valuation; Investment Activism; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Value Creation; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; United States
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  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

would not be achieved even if the product offered a payout ratio comparable to U.S. insurance contracts. We present evidence suggesting that lack of trust, liquidity constraints, and limited salience are significant non-price frictions... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • November 2019 (Revised June 2020)
  • Case

Indigo Agriculture: Harnessing Nature

By: Marco Iansiti, Michael W. Toffel and James Barnett
Indigo Agriculture used a digital-enabled research and development (R&D) process to launch its initial product, microbial coatings for agricultural seeds, which increase crop yields while reducing the need for fertilizers. In doing so, the company developed direct... View Details
Keywords: Carbon Sequestration; Operations; Supply Chain; Social Enterprise; Product Development; Distribution Channels; Business Strategy; Digital Platforms; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Climate Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • 2008
  • Chapter

Knowledge Work, Craft Work, and Calling

Social critics have often complained that industrial revolution management transfers control of a job away from workers, encourages human exploitation in pursuit of cost minimization, and alienates workers from their labor. But the arrangements of work that have been... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Working Conditions; Production; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Practices and Processes; Employees
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  • January 2016 (Revised February 2016)
  • Course Overview Note

The Sustainable Core: Operations Management

By: Michael W. Toffel and L. Beril Toktay
This note is designed to help faculty embed environmental sustainability content into their core Operations Management course at the MBA or undergraduate level. It can also be used to identify cases with environmental content that can be used in operations electives... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Management; Operations Management; Sustainable Operations; Environmental Regulation; Operations; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Construction Industry; Forest Products Industry; Retail Industry
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  • September 2002 (Revised October 2002)
  • Case

GolfLogix: Measuring the Game of Golf

By: John T. Gourville and Professor Jerry N. Conover
GolfLogix has developed a small, GPS-based device to help golfers track their play. They must decide how best to distribute these devices: 1) sell them directly to golfers through traditional retail channels; 2) sell them to courses, which would then provide them to... View Details
Keywords: Distribution Channels; Product Launch; Brands and Branding; Innovation and Invention; Measurement and Metrics
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  • 09 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 9, 2015

divided over the product's positioning and pricing. Should it be positioned as a basic product to maximize reach for its health benefits or as a premium View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

presently exists for navigating, coaching, and managing the innovation process, particularly in relation to "closure." Closure is a point of convergence that happens once or repeatedly in productive activity; View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2020
  • Teaching Note

Indigo Agriculture: Harnessing Nature

By: Michael W. Toffel and James Barnett
Teaching Note for HBS No. 620-024. Indigo Agriculture used a digital-enabled research and development (R&D) process to launch its initial product, microbial coatings for agricultural seeds, which increase crop yields while reducing the need for fertilizers. In doing... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Supply Chain; Social Enterprise; Product Development; Distribution Channels; Business Strategy; Digital Platforms; Science-Based Business; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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  • 04 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 4

tribal governments, the history of tribal sovereignty, the origins of Indian gaming, the legal framework that governs tribal gaming activities, as well as an analytic approach to negotiations, this paper explains the Foxwoods deal and its... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Non-competes Push Talent Away

for instance, a judge in California is not obligated to enforce the contract because it conflicts with California state law. "There's a saying out in California: You never stop hiring someone," says Marx (MBA '05, DBA '09), now an... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
  • 06 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

executives often fail to exploit market and production discrepancies, focusing instead on the tensions between standardization and localization. In this article, Pankaj Ghemawat presents a new framework that encompasses all three... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • July 2022
  • Case

General Mills: Responding to the Killing of George Floyd (A)

By: Debora L. Spar and Alicia Dadlani
Jeff Harmening, CEO of General Mills, one of the world's largest manufacturers of breakfast cereals and packaged foods, was deeply disturbed and instantly aware that he and General Mills would need to respond. George Floyd, an African-American man who had been accused... View Details
Keywords: Race; Decisions; Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Minneapolis; Minnesota; United States
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  • 25 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

fact that despite careful attention to the importance of neighborhood priority, Boston’s implementation of its 50-50 reserve–open seat split was nearly identical to the outcome of a counterfactual system without any reserves. Transparency... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Exploring Technology and Public Impact Through the HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

If the past two decades have demonstrated technology’s potential, one of the challenges of the next ten years will be defining its boundaries. How can new technologies benefit people and societies in equitable ways? How can companies --... View Details
  • 20 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

leave for home by 5:30 p.m.? How did HUL develop a cheaper, better product to beat its competitor, Nirma? What do Taj Hotels, HDFC, HUL, L&T, and BPCL have in common? They are the win-win corporations!... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS

laughter and joy as well as anxiety and uncertainty. While the global pandemic has upended our lives at HBS, it has also reinforced the strength and resiliency of the LASO familia. LASO has been challenged to rethink hosting key events... View Details