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    Building Sustainable Cities

    By 2050 the number of people living in cities will have nearly doubled, to 6 billion, and the problems created by this rampant urbanization are among the most important challenges of our time. Of all resource-management issues, the author argues, water, electricity,... View Details

    • March 2016
    • Teaching Note

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
    After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company, Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz sought to provide a solution to a large scale complex problem. Ultimately, Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Nutrition; Business and Community Relations
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      Fintech Borrowers: Lax-Screening or Cream-Skimming?

      Financial markets have recently witnessed a disruptive force: the rise of online intermediaries and, more generally, fintech companies, i.e., firms that apply technology to improve financial activities. Fintech companies have targeted the consumer credit market,... View Details

      • January 2007 (Revised January 2008)
      • Case

      Amanco: Developing the Sustainability Scorecard

      By: Robert S. Kaplan and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
      Describes the challenges of using the Balanced Scorecard to implement a triple-bottom-line strategy for delivering excellent economic, environmental, and social performance. The owners and senior executive team of Amanco, a producer of plastic pipe and complete water... View Details
      Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Strategy; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Latin America; Brazil
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      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      Dusting Off the Old Ones: Drug Licensing to Startups, Innovation Success and Efficiency

      By: Mosab Hammoudeh, Joshua Lev Krieger and Jiajie Xu
      This paper investigates whether moving R&D from incumbents to startups can increase innovation. Using comprehensive drug development data, we examine the outcomes of drug projects licensed from large firms to startups. We find that these projects licensed to startups... View Details
      Keywords: Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Research and Development; Performance Efficiency; Pharmaceutical Industry
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      Succeeding as a Strategic CFO

      divestitures, and the optimization of distinct product and geographic segments Identify new opportunities to use finance to advance the strategic goals of your organization Develop your leadership capabilities Lead, motivate, and engage... View Details
      • 19 Nov 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

      In his chapter "Manufacturing: Lowering Boundaries, Improving Productivity" from the book The Economic Payoff from the Internet Revolution: Brookings Task Force on the Internet, HBS professor Andrew McAfee, discusses how the... View Details
      Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
      • 04 Oct 2004
      • What Do You Think?

      Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?

      observations of the practices of Japanese manufacturers, concluded that increased speed from product conception to market not only reduced cost but increased quality, variety, and productivity; reduced rework, waiting, and duplicated... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett

        Joseph B. Lassiter

        Joe is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired. He focuses on one of the world’s most pressing problems: developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy all around the world. He... View Details

        Keywords: green technology; high technology; internet; oil ＆ gas; private equity (LBO funds); utilities; software; energy
        • 08 Apr 2015
        • What Do You Think?

        Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

        and improve knowledge and skills regularly ." Robert Soloman observed that the problem is not universal in that "companies that follow a lean methodology, where the initial focus is on a Minimum Viable View Details
        Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology
        • 15 Aug 2007
        • Op-Ed

        3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk

        and, second, a growing threat of politically motivated changes to regulatory regimes. There has been much talk recently about the extent to which the proliferation of derivative products has allowed banks to manage their balance sheets... View Details
        Keywords: by Mohamed El-Erian; Financial Services; Banking
        • December 2005 (Revised March 2010)
        • Case

        William Levitt, Levittown and the Creation of American Suburbia

        By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson
        Demand for low-cost housing after World War II far exceeded supply. Was this a profitable new market? New York developer William Levitt had to decide. During World War II, Levitt was eager to build basic housing for the working class—otherwise, Levitt & Sons would have... View Details
        Keywords: Demographics; Construction; Business History; Housing; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Business and Government Relations; Construction Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States; New York (state, US)
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        • 10 Jul 2023
        • In Practice

        The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023

        books I consume for the pleasure of good stories and engaging writing, which help improve my own writing. These include legal thrillers with ensemble characters by John Lescroart, such as The Rule of Law; classic stories of investigators... View Details
        Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
        • 19 Oct 2010
        • Working Paper Summaries

        The Impact of Supply Learning on Customer Demand: Model and Estimation Methodology

        Keywords: by Nathan Craig, Nicole DeHoratius & Ananth Raman; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion
        • 26 Jul 2006
        • Research & Ideas

        The Strategic Way to Go to Market

        repository of lost opportunities" that serve neither end users nor channel partners very well. Why is this? A: That is because most channels are constructed from the supplier out, rather than from the customer in. In other words, the View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
        • 18 Jun 2013
        • First Look

        First Look: June 18

        Second, pay disparity between managers located in different states decreases relative to that of co-located managers. Third, division productivity falls in dispersed firms, with the effect driven by managers at the low end of the wage... View Details
        Keywords: Anna Secino
        • February 2017
        • Supplement

        The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity

        By: Benjamin C. Esty, Daniel P. Gross and Lauren G. Pickle
        In September 2014, Tom Montgomery (SVP of strategic initiatives at the De Beers Group) and his team launched a pilot program in the United States to explore the $1 billion diamond market for pre-owned (recycled) diamonds. According to Montgomery, the motivation for the... View Details
        Keywords: Diamonds; Go-to-market Strategy; Secondary Market; Willingness To Pay; Pilot Program; Strategy Development; Strategy Execution; Scope; Marketing; Advertising; Branding; Customer Value; Pawn Shops; Jewelry; Supply And Demand; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Vertical Integration; Advertising Campaigns; Value Creation; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; United Kingdom; Africa; Botswana; South Africa; Namibia
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        • November 1990 (Revised May 1994)
        • Case

        Microsoft Corp.: Office Business Unit

        By: Marco Iansiti
        Describes the development of a new word processing software package, Word for Windows. The major focus is how the development process should be improved to reduce schedule slips and cost overruns. Some of the issues raised are: the use of schedules in managing... View Details
        Keywords: Communication Strategy; Cost Management; Business or Company Management; Time Management; Product Development; Programs; Projects; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Information Technology Industry
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        • 02 Jan 2024
        • Research & Ideas

        10 Trends to Watch in 2024

        The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
        Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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        Technology & Operations Management - Doctoral

        research, typically developing three publishable papers by the end of the program. Examples of doctoral thesis topics include: Examining how employee non-compete agreements affect entrepreneurship and job mobility; Improving retailers'... View Details