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- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
Industrial Era, product innovation and operations management predominated. Product innovation ensured the continuous flow of new products that would sustain growth or market share or both. Operations management ensured that costs and... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
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Digital Archival Resources - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
H. Lavalle, Ralph T. Linsalata, Charles L. Parker, James C. Pigott. The Commercial Development and Application of Laser Technology. New York: Hobbs, Dorman, 1965. Table of Contents Introductory and Summary of Conclusions Robert... View Details
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Digital Archival Resources - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
H. Lavalle, Ralph T. Linsalata, Charles L. Parker, James C. Pigott. The Commercial Development and Application of Laser Technology. New York: Hobbs, Dorman, 1965. Table of Contents Introductory and Summary of Conclusions Robert... View Details
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Financing New Ideas - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
investment of $5 million from Canadian financial institutions, Doriot helped establish the Canadian Enterprise Development Corporation (CED), one of Canada's first venture capital firms. The European Enterprise View Details
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
resignation rates are through the roof. Additionally, there are jobs which have "bad hygiene," by which we mean they are demanding, low paid, and provide few prospects for advancement. Some companies and industries are taking a hard look... View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- January 2006 (Revised July 2006)
- Case
Drug Testing in Nigeria (A)
By: Debora L. Spar
In 1996, a meningitis epidemic swept across Nigeria. Thousands of children were struck and, lacking appropriate medicine, were liable to die from the disease. Doctors at Pfizer had an antibiotic that could probably save most of these children's lives. The drug was new,... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Health Pandemics; Health Testing and Trials; Developing Countries and Economies; Pharmaceutical Industry; Nigeria
Spar, Debora L., and Adam Day. "Drug Testing in Nigeria (A)." Harvard Business School Case 706-033, January 2006. (Revised July 2006.)
- June 2005 (Revised May 2006)
- Case
Alex Montana at ESH Manufacturing Co.
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Michael Kernish
Alex Montana sat at his desk pondering the career decision before him. Alex was director of the North American division of ESH Manufacturing, a $4.6 billion, Cleveland-based company with operations on three continents. ESH's CEO had just offered Montana a promotion to... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Development and Career; Work-Life Balance; Manufacturing Industry; Cleveland
DeLong, Thomas J., and Michael Kernish. "Alex Montana at ESH Manufacturing Co." Harvard Business School Case 405-106, June 2005. (Revised May 2006.)
- 01 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
When Do Alliances Make Sense?
To answer one of the oldest business quandaries—is it better to partner or go solo on a project—John Beshears looked for answers in an unusual place: the oil and gas drilling industry in the Gulf of Mexico. But instead of mining for... View Details
- 11 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Reimagining Fashion For The Good Of All
business school is the perfect one. Hence, my goal for the summer internship was to get out of my comfort zone and test the following hypothesis: Can I thrive in an unstructured, fairly chaotic environment? Is fashion the industry where I... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
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David Gellis
degree. "I want to access the fundamentally different perspectives MBA students will bring to health care," says David. "I want to learn how to market ideas, how to look at change and innovation. At HBS, I'll also meet the people who will be leading the... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
enterprise in management and organization research, the lack of a cohesive knowledge base in this area is concerning. In this chapter, we propose that the underdevelopment of the attendant research infrastructure is an important, but oft-overlooked, barrier to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Nikki Skovran
which she helped develop an anti-gang task force, took Nikki in yet another new direction. “I noticed a lot of inefficiencies in the way the government approached things,” Nikki says. “I became interested in finding more effective ways to... View Details
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Laura Sandoval
janitor in an auto shop. It took him seven years to get his residency.” Laura seized every educational opportunity she had. At the University of Florida, she considered a career in law, but later developed an interest in marketing. With... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni and Students in Climate Networking Series: Boston
Commonwealth Fusion Systems use of magnets to build smaller and lower-cost fusion systems to Sagewell’s use of data analytics to deliver solutions for energy efficiency to Wyss’ ability to bridge the gap between academia and industry to... View Details
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Career Journey | MBA
Career Journey Our experts know the ins and outs of breaking into or advancing in dozens of key industries. Students can dive deep into the areas that interest them most and put our knowledge to use in their career search. Navigating your career journey The Career &... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
theories outlined in Christensen’s The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution, Seeing What’s Next offers a practical model that helps decision-makers spot the signals of industry change, determine the outcome of competitive... View Details
- 31 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom
HBS associate professor Youngme Moon teaches the MBA elective Consumer Marketing and several Executive Education marketing courses. With her research and course development work focusing on innovative consumer-marketing strategies, she is... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
James A. Henderson (MBA '63) is chairman and CEO of Indiana-based Cummins Engine Company, one of America's most respected industrial corporations. Prior to joining Cummins, where he has worked for more than thirty years, Henderson, who... View Details
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Georges F. Doriot
of HBS graduates—more than 7000 second-year students took his transformative Manufacturing course—and in 1946, Doriot created the first venture capital firm in the United States. American Research & Development (ARD), based in... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
organization. Our research on the newspaper industry indicates that the greater a manager's experience away from the core organization, the less likely that motivation remains focused on the threat to the... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower