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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
to name just a few parts assembled at the company’s plant in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Unfortunately, the plane’s original engines failed to meet expectations, necessitating a redesign and switch to a new supplier. Plagued by delays and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
“It’s not something we can put off because we are in an emergency,” Obama said in December. “This is part of the emergency.” The seed for the Massachusetts reforms was planted in early 2003, in the first weeks of the administration of... View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
financing requirements—typically north of $500 million. Why study large projects? Because they offer clear examples into the process used by managers to make important financing and structuring decisions, he says. Another reason: Large... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
expansion. The heart of the problem in the 1930s, in other words, was not a shortfall in productive capacity—too little labor or too little plant and equipment, due to a famine or earthquake—but rather a shortfall in demand due to “some... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
“We plant these time bombs,” Stevenson told me during another conversation. “We say go to Goldman. Go to McKinsey. But when you find that’s not what you really want, think about launching a new company as a legitimate use of your... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
effects more than doubled or had consumers' discount factor increased by fifty percent. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-031.pdf PublicationsIdentity Incentives as an Engaging Form of Control: Revisiting Leniencies in an Aeronautic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
long-term impact on the practice and thinking in this field will reach its full potential. From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management Author:Anette Mikes Publication:Accounting, Organizations and Society... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Key Metrics | Annual Report 2024
and managers in the 60–64 salary grades. US Race/Ethnicity is only collected for US citizens and permanent residents. Per federal guidelines, people who identify as Hispanic, Latino, or Latinx and any other race are represented as... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Management and author of Accelerating Innovation in Energy: Lessons from Other Sectors. The environmental challenges we face are among the most important issues facing business. If, as current scientific research suggests, it would be... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
based in Asia, Europe, and North America. Assisted by rich governments and by loans from development banks, the WDC would bring to impoverished areas technology, credit, access to world markets, and management know-how. Its projects would... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 14 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 14
about the role of marketplace institutions and the timing of transactions. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W16556 Cases & Course MaterialsCDG: Managing in China's Economic Transformation Roy Y.J. Chua, Shaohui... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
lead to the chapel’s revitalization, calling on help from a local lawyer, Steve Kaplan, and reaching out to Michael Noonan, a senior planning manager with Hennepin County. He hadn’t spent much time in North Minneapolis, but knew there was... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
employees. Yet with several important R&D projects still under development, and capacity needed in factories for many more months, Nokia's board and leaders wanted to avoid the mistakes the company had made in a plant shutdown in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
market by acquisition, by joint venture, or by building a new plant on its own. If the company were to enter by acquisition, it was unclear what type of valuation to apply to any of the Indian incumbent companies. If the company were to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
managers formulate problems, evaluate their difficulty, define “good enough solutions,” and optimize the ways in which they will solve them in advance of attempting to solve them. The paper introduces both a framework for the analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
As for energy independence, Reinhardt says, “As Energy Future points out, there is no single answer, and I don’t think we can really declare anything off the table. That includes nuclear, despite its flaws, because of its potential for replacing coal-fired View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
wanted the city back about its regular commercial business. "The business community's number one concern," he says, "was getting the power back on," so that computers, elevators, office lights, and heating would work. A Con Ed generating View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
in the area. The product had been in development for years prior to the disaster, says Polatoğlu, developed to address a rise in natural disaster–related emergencies caused by climate change. “Moreover, we have designed a special supply-chain View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
large food brands have earned accolades for recent decisions to eliminate GMOs from their supply chain. It was into this market that Haven Baker (MBA 2009), Simplot’s VP of plant sciences, launched the first direct-to-consumer produce... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
us—and what we still need to learn Leading with Heart How personal tragedy shaped the empathetic management style of Panera CEO Niren Chaudhary My Favorite Case Alumni reflect on the class discussions and case protagonists that indelibly... View Details