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- November 1987 (Revised March 1988)
- Case
Searching for Trade Remedies: The U.S. Machine Tool Industry--1983
By: David B. Yoffie
In 1983 the National Machine Tools Builder Association was predicting a declining market for the United States and rising imports. Machine tool manufacturers had to decide if they should ask the U.S. government for help, and if they did, which administrative channels... View Details
Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Machinery and Machining; Government and Politics; Law; Production; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Manufacturing Industry; Japan; Germany; United States
Yoffie, David B. "Searching for Trade Remedies: The U.S. Machine Tool Industry--1983." Harvard Business School Case 388-071, November 1987. (Revised March 1988.)
- February 2016
- Exercise
Jim Sharpe: Operational Cash Flow Tool
By: Joseph B. Fuller, Shikhar Ghosh and Christopher Payton
In this exercise, you will examine the cash flow implications of different operating model assumptions and the effect that this has on financing decisions. View Details
Fuller, Joseph B., Shikhar Ghosh, and Christopher Payton. "Jim Sharpe: Operational Cash Flow Tool." Harvard Business School Exercise 816-070, February 2016.
- February 1987 (Revised July 1988)
- Background Note
Machine Tool Industry and Industrial Policy--1955-82
By: George C. Lodge and David J. Collis
Lodge, George C., and David J. Collis. "Machine Tool Industry and Industrial Policy--1955-82." Harvard Business School Background Note 387-145, February 1987. (Revised July 1988.)
- November 1986
- Case
Machine Tool Industry (B): United Kingdom
By: David J. Collis
Collis, David J. "Machine Tool Industry (B): United Kingdom." Harvard Business School Case 387-088, November 1986.
- November 2023
- Article
Psychological Factors Underlying Attitudes toward AI Tools
By: Julian De Freitas, Stuti Agarwal, B. Schmitt and N. Haslam
What are the psychological factors driving attitudes toward AI tools, and how can resistance to AI systems be overcome when they are beneficial? In this perspective, we first organize the main sources of resistance into five main categories: opacity, emotionlessness,... View Details
De Freitas, Julian, Stuti Agarwal, B. Schmitt, and N. Haslam. "Psychological Factors Underlying Attitudes toward AI Tools." Nature Human Behaviour 7, no. 11 (November 2023): 1845–1854.
- Article
Design and Testing of a Mobile Health Application Rating Tool
By: David Levine, Zo Co, Lisa Newmark, Alissa Groisser, A Jay Holmgren, Jennifer Haas and David Bates
Mobile health applications (“apps”) have rapidly proliferated, yet their ability to improve outcomes for patients remains unclear. A validated tool that addresses apps’ potentially important dimensions has not been available to patients and clinicians. The objective of... View Details
Levine, David, Zo Co, Lisa Newmark, Alissa Groisser, A Jay Holmgren, Jennifer Haas, and David Bates. "Design and Testing of a Mobile Health Application Rating Tool." Art. 74. npj Digital Medicine 3 (2020).
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.
In examining the way governments choose a structure in which to conduct investment promotion activities we found that most of the organizational issues fell within the realm of the public-private choice of management of certain nontraditional government activities.... View Details
Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint
- June 10, 2015
- Article
High-Tech Tools Won't Automatically Improve Your Operations
By: Stefan Thomke
Thomke, Stefan. "High-Tech Tools Won't Automatically Improve Your Operations." Harvard Business Review (website) (June 10, 2015).
- Article
Capturing the Real Value of Innovation Tools
By: Stefan Thomke
Thomke, Stefan. "Capturing the Real Value of Innovation Tools." MIT Sloan Management Review 47, no. 2 (Winter 2006).
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
radiation machine is present. This selection factor obviates those places where resource constraints (i.e., reliable electricity) would be limiting. In the context of sufficient infrastructure, and this indeed exists in many otherwise quite limited settings, the... View Details
- October 2012
- Article
Central Bank Balance Sheets as Policy Tools
By: Alain Durré and Huw Pill
Durré, Alain, and Huw Pill. "Central Bank Balance Sheets as Policy Tools." BIS Papers 66 (October 2012): 193–223.
- May 2005
- Article
Labor Law: The New Tools of Trade
Abrami, Regina M., and Leonard Bierman. "Labor Law: The New Tools of Trade." Harvard Business Review 83, no. 5 (May 2005): 26–28.
- March 1988
- Background Note
Machine Tool Industry and Industrial Policy--1955-82 (Condensed)
By: Norman A. Berg
Berg, Norman A. "Machine Tool Industry and Industrial Policy--1955-82 (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Background Note 388-117, March 1988.
- 2017
- Working Paper
Cluster Mapping as a Tool for Development
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
This report builds on the foundational work on cluster mapping that Prof. Michael E. Porter has led at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (ISC), Harvard Business School over the last two decades. He launched the U.S. Cluster Mapping Initiative in the late... View Details
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Cluster Mapping as a Tool for Development." Working Paper, June 2017.
- December 2007
- Background Note
Tools and Tactics for Transformation: Three "Whats" and Three "Hows"
By: James K. Sebenius and Stephen Friedman
Important transformation at Goldman Sachs, where one of the authors was Chairman, required analysis, political leadership, and management in order to fundamentally shift the strategy, people, and culture on a sustainable basis. After describing the actions needed to... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Tactics; Business Strategy; Organizational Culture; Transition; Strategic Planning; Core Relationships; Multinational Firms and Management; Leadership Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Equity
Sebenius, James K., and Stephen Friedman. Tools and Tactics for Transformation: Three "Whats" and Three "Hows". Harvard Business School Background Note 908-028, December 2007.
- October 2006
- Teaching Note
Precista Tools AG (TN) (A), (B), and (C)
By: John A. Davis and Courtney Sampson
Teaching Note to (488-046), (488-047), and (488-048). View Details
- 1993
- Book
Strategic Cost Management: The New Tool for Competitive Advantage
By: John K. Shank and Vijay Govindarajan
Shank, John K., and Vijay Govindarajan. Strategic Cost Management: The New Tool for Competitive Advantage. New York: Free Press, 1993. ("It's time for management accountants to be players with the team on the line. Learn how to achieve competitive advantge using Srategic Cost Management." - Clark Johnson, Vice President, Finance and CFO, Johnson & Johnson.)
- May 2022
- Article
Embracing Field Studies as a Tool for Learning
Field studies in social psychology tend to focus on validating existing insights. In addition to learning from the laboratory and bringing those insights to the field—which researchers currently favour—we should also conduct field studies that aim to learn in the field... View Details
Jachimowicz, Jon M. "Embracing Field Studies as a Tool for Learning." Nature Reviews Psychology 1, no. 5 (May 2022): 249–250.
- 2006
- Working Paper
A Dependency Matrix Tool to Analyze Software Architecture
By: Alan MacCormack, Carliss Y. Baldwin and John Rusnak