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- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
commutes. Dlodlo plans to set rents below market rate; yet the building, with its modern design and elegant aesthetic touches (the façade will evoke the patterns of traditional West African fabrics), will be... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
with the VW Touareg and was partially manufactured in VW's Bratislava, Slovakia plant. Then, as if that were not enough, Wiedeking shocked the investment world once again by purchasing roughly a 20 percent... View Details
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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About
faculty members and students are responsible for understanding and complying with this policy. Faculty members and students are encouraged to seek advice from the Dean or a... View Details
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
mind-sets. When companies relinquish a fundamental task—such as designing a new product—to customers, the two parties must redefine their relationship, and this change can be risky. With custom computer... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
months, three of the four tire manufacturers there ceased to exist as independent corporations. In this excerpt from "From Community of Innovation to Community of Inertia: The Rise and Fall of the Akron... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
A Taste of Tradition
families now own only a small percentage of the company, one example of their continuing influence is a company "creed" adopted in 1926 and originally designed to promote internal family harmony. "It... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 31 Oct 2006
- HBS Case
Governing Sumida Corporation
Issues surrounding corporate governance are a source of ongoing debate in the boardrooms of companies around the world—not just the United States. A new Harvard Business School case, "Governing Sumida Corporation," takes readers inside a Japanese View Details
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Guy Kamguia
Guy (HBS’ 15, Villanova’ 11, UMBC’ 08) is a Director of Strategy at TOMRA, a global leader in the design and manufacturing of advanced sorting equipment. He previously worked... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Leaders everywhere are making decisions about how their organizations should and shouldn't use generative AI tools; first, they must know how they could and couldn't. "Storrowed" is an HBS-built exercise for... View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
Whether you sell widgets, designer fashions, or life-saving drugs, mastering the art and science of better analytics can set you ahead of your competitors, according to HBS professor Ananth Raman View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
industry shaped how America lived, worked, and played, helping the country grow into the colossus of the twentieth century. But now the U.S. industry, once the bellwether of the nation's economy, may become just another, ordinary player... View Details
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My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details
- March 1997 (Revised October 1999)
- Case
Stone Container in Honduras (A)
By: James K. Sebenius and Hannah Bowles
Chicago-based Stone Container Corp., a leading producer of cardboard containers and paper bags, proposes a large-scale pine forest management and utilization program in the La Mosquitia region of Honduras. A framework agreement with the government is strongly endorsed... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Negotiation Types; Environmental Sustainability; Conflict of Interests; Globalized Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Honduras; Chicago
Sebenius, James K., and Hannah Bowles. "Stone Container in Honduras (A)." Harvard Business School Case 897-172, March 1997. (Revised October 1999.)
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Michelle Ross (MBA 2011)
in different manufacturing facilities. I loved being able to see how something came together from the nuts and bolts into a very tangible product. Learning how to relate to people who are resistant to change... View Details
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Paul Scharfman
In a small, undercapitalized cheese manufacturing operation in rural Wisconsin, Paul Scharfman (AB 1976, MBA 1979) saw the opportunity to develop a variety of specialty cheeses that would appeal to the palates of the growing population of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Make or Break
design will over time erode as well.” Bloom acknowledged that initial efforts will be modest but “huge” compared with previous administrations that viewed the decline of manufacturing as the inevitable... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
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By: Jorge Tamayo
Professor Tamayo’s research focuses on theoretical modeling and structural estimation of firm decision-making and productivity.
Professor Tamayo studies dynamic competition for customer membership. Generally, firms that implement a membership model charge a... View Details
Professor Tamayo studies dynamic competition for customer membership. Generally, firms that implement a membership model charge a... View Details
- September 2014 (Revised March 2022)
- Case
Samuel Colt: An American Gun Maker
By: Tom Nicholas and Casey Verkamp
Samuel Colt not only perfected and patented the technology for a gun that could fire multiple times without reloading, but he also developed and applied early principles of mass production more completely than anyone had done before. Until the nineteenth century,... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Product Positioning; Machinery and Machining; Production; Independent Innovation and Invention; Manufacturing Industry; United States
Nicholas, Tom, and Casey Verkamp. "Samuel Colt: An American Gun Maker." Harvard Business School Case 815-061, September 2014. (Revised March 2022.)
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
What Happened to Leadership?
instead of bringing us together” (Reuters, December 9, 2009). Immelt went on to say that leaders “share a common responsibility to narrow the gap between the weak and the strong. I have taken on the challenge to increase View Details
- February 2019 (Revised May 2019)
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Schneider Electric: Opening Up to External Innovation
By: Antonio Davila
Schneider Electric competes in tough but stable markets around energy management, automation, and control of infrastructures ranging from homes to production plants. New technologies and new approaches to serving markets are challenging the status quo. To take... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Venture Capital; Accelerator; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Organizational Design; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; France; United States
Davila, Antonio. "Schneider Electric: Opening Up to External Innovation." Harvard Business School Case 119-061, February 2019. (Revised May 2019.)