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- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
Charting the US-China Trade War: What Does 'Made in Vietnam' Mean?
say Ebehi Iyoha and Jaya Wen, assistant professors at Harvard Business School. By one broad measure of products, about 16 percent of US exports from Vietnam—or $15.5 billion—were estimated to be rerouted Chinese products in 2021. But that... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace, Deighton explains how it continues to carve out territory in the marketplace.Lagace: Were you surprised that Webvan failed? Deighton: No. The purpose of writing the case was to have classes explore... View Details
- November 2008
- Teaching Note
Royal DSM N.V.: Information Technology Enabling Business Transformation (TN)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Deborah Soule
Teaching Note for [807167]. View Details
- 20 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
began making hiking boots. The cluster later expanded into ski boots and sneakers, and drew investments from major brands like Nordica and Nike. Lead firms started offshoring production to cheaper economies like Romania and China,... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
From product push to customer pull, technology has vastly reshaped the business transaction—and in turn, the customer's place in the value chain. Today, managing the customer relationship has become the single most important dimension of... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
Casadesus-Masanell and Hervás-Drane provide additional details about their research in the Q&A below. They collaborated in answering the following questions for Working Knowledge via email. Q: It appears that consumers are often... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
"The Changing Structure of the Global Wine Industry," won the Best Paper award at the 2003 European Applied Business Research Conference. Roberto recently shared his thoughts on wine for HBS Working Knowledge in an e-mail... View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
Capitalizing on the growth of suburban malls, SMI soon had more than one hundred retail stores, mostly in the Northeast. During the 1980s, it took the product nationwide, with outlets in more than four hundred malls. Growth slowed in the... View Details
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
work on knowledge diffusion demonstrates that knowledge flows along these collaborative relationships, even years after they were formed," says Fleming. At the same time, the world of inventors "is... View Details
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
assume that all the smart people in the world are born within a 20-mile radius of their headquarters." This last factor—of being able to develop and diffuse innovation rapidly around the world—has emerged to become much more important as companies constantly renew... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 20 Aug 2024
- Book
Why Competing With Tech Giants Requires Finding Your Own Edge
resources—be it the myriad Amazon product reviews, a rich collection of free videos on YouTube, or Google’s open-source algorithms. Thanks to these tech giants, a significant portion of your ecosystem is already established and readily... View Details
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Alfred D. Chandler: His Vision and Achievement
Among historians, Alfred Chandler's influence is by far the greatest, as he has affected economics, sociology, and business administration. Chandler never took short cuts, never stinted, and never published until he was satisfied that he had done his very best.... View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Mission and Purpose; Success; Books; Demand and Consumers; Power and Influence; Economic Growth; Ethics; Knowledge Sharing; Product Positioning; Market Transactions; Fair Value Accounting
McCraw, T. K. "Alfred D. Chandler: His Vision and Achievement." Business History Review 82, no. 4 (Winter 2008).
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
Summing Up Platform leadership, the process by which base technologies are developed and on which innovations created by many entrepreneurs can be based, may be characteristic of the knowledge economy. But it isn't new, at least to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
tacit knowledge flows. These knowledge flows, in turn, contribute to cumulative incremental innovations in both product and process technology among firms embedded in the... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
explicitly a function of current product offerings. The setting illustrates firms' dual incentives at work: A firm better differentiates products under a looser standard but may want to induce a tighter... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation
of well-designed business experiments can address new and unknown markets. In contrast, running experiments where early product prototypes are shown to customers can address need uncertainty. Q: How should organizations respond when... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
three-by-three matrix composed of high/mid/ground-level products and services and high/mid/ground-level know-how—for example, developers of high-level (think microprocessors), mid-level (motherboards), and ground-level (laptop computers)... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 2011
- Working Paper
From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America
By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
As the main producers of managerial elites, business schools represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Practice; Business Education; Labor and Management Relations; Decision Making; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Finance; Knowledge; Production; Business Conglomerates; Education Industry; United States
Fourcade, Marion, and Rakesh Khurana. "From Social Control to Financial Economics: The Linked Ecologies of Economics and Business in Twentieth Century America." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-071, January 2011.
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Market Research Meets the “People Factor”
used? According to HBS professors Gerald Zaltman and Rohit Deshpandé, the "people factor" behind market knowledge and its transfer is at least as important as the straightforward information the research conveys about a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- February 2024 (Revised March 2024)
- Teaching Note
X: The Foghorn Decision
By: Kyle Myers and Walter Frick
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 618-060. View Details
Keywords: Alternative Energy; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Climate Change; Green Technology; Selection and Staffing; Knowledge; Product Design; Product Development; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Science-Based Business; Innovation and Invention; Auto Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Green Technology Industry; Technology Industry