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- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
innovation, by encouraging workers to cultivate their individual strengths and to speak up when they have ideas for improvements. And they can develop and empower their employees to solve problems instead of turning automatically to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
under way by the turn of the century, as millions of workers moved from the interior to new factories on the coast, leaving behind their families for 48 weeks a year. At the same time, they were building the massive transportation View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- Profile
Jonathan Bailey
job after graduation, but for many years to come." For Jonathan, that future involves bringing the best of his past forward. Having spent his last summer at the World Bank working on infrastructure investment in Kenya, for his HBS... View Details
- Fast Answer
Managing & Investing in a Fast-Growing Emerging Market: India
href="https://www.adb.org/search0/type/publication/type/institutional_document/country/india">Asia Development Bank: reports, policy briefs, and working papers from ADB. View Details
- September 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
RightHand Robotics: Choosing the First Market
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Stacy Straaberg
In early 2015, RightHand Robotics’s (RHR) leadership faced a set of decisions in commercializing the startup’s robotic picking solution. RHR’s central product was the RightPick integrated robotic picking system which featured a robotic arm, a three-fingered robotic... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Market Entry and Exit; Product; Research and Development; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Information Infrastructure; Technological Innovation; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; United States; Massachusetts
Eisenmann, Thomas R., and Stacy Straaberg. "RightHand Robotics: Choosing the First Market." Harvard Business School Case 824-006, September 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- July 2010
- Teaching Note
Shanzhai! MediaTek and the "White Box" Handset Market (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for 610081. View Details
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2024
fields. A highlight for me was the ESG workshop which was a practical way to get up to develop some practical skills while understanding the opportunities and issues in the space." - Aman Baboolal, MBA 2024 "The ClimateCAP conference was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Provides high tech products and services for building energy efficiency Jeffrey Brown (MBA 1983) Summit Power Group, LLC. Seattle, Washington Developer of electric power projects Michael Cavallo (MBA 1978) Clinton Climate Initiative New... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
jeans can use up to six tons. Producing two pounds of wheat needs one ton, and two pounds of beef requires between 15 and 30 tons. "Despite looming water scarcity crises in the US and around the world, water is free and abundant in most of the View Details
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Andres Hervas-Drane: The nature of competition is changing rapidly. Drivers such as globalization, deregulation, and technological change are opening opportunities for the development of new, original business... View Details
- Web
FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness
the U.S. can (1) compete successfully in the global economy while also (2) supporting high and rising living standards for the average American. Company success without worker prosperity is not true competitiveness and is unsustainable. HBS faculty members View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
says. Companies are inherently vulnerable to cyberattacks because the very processes that enable growth also expose vulnerabilities. Mergers and acquisitions, for example, create confusion between converging IT infrastructures and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
community’s problems. Today’s residents—predominantly young and about half immigrants from Bolivia, Paraguay, and Peru—are among the city’s most vulnerable. Rodríguez Larreta’s plan for developing the neighborhood is an ambitious one.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
electronics industries were developing momentum. We took our leadership for granted, ignored this shift, and became complacent. Our problems became more serious when communism failed in Russia, Chairman Mao died, and reforms that were... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Nightmare?" - speakers were clearly of the "gold mine" persuasion. Billy Lam of the New Airport Projects Co-ordination Office wowed the audience with his numbers. The new Chek Lap Kok airport, which is to open in April 1998, and the related View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
curse to the economic fortunes of the county. On the one hand, it has poured massive investment into infrastructure improvements, as anyone who has witnessed the incredible growth of mega-cities such as Shanghai and Shenzhen can see.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
from investment opportunities in developed countries. Nari Kannan suggests that it is a product of "thoughtless consumerism ... (the thirst for cheap Chinese goods) ... and dependence on foreign oil," particularly in the United... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
provides the infrastructure (or"middleware") that makes e-commerce work across disparate computer systems. His meaning, however, is just the opposite.. "The concept of e-business will disappear because every business will be an... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
New BEI Director: Lynn Schenk
Initiative in which she leveraged her structured finance background and expertise from her tenure at Citigroup to focus on issues ranging from the financial structuring of renewable energy and infrastructure assets to climate-related... View Details
- 29 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas
on the former can hurt the latter. Acquired by NewsCorp in 2005, MySpace exploited the commercial potential of social networking by selling ads to create profit; however, in focusing on commercialization too early it arguably failed to adequately View Details