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- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
United States is still an innovation powerhouse? Shih: I think so. But the problem comes about as more manufacturing moves offshore and commercialization capabilities diminish. Flat-panel displays are a good example. Because there is no... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
modern competition; how they arise and decline; how they affect productivity, new business formation, and economic growth; and the roles both the private and the public sectors can have in developing them. Q: So, even in an age of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
help the organization," he writes in his new book, Revival of the Fittest: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Managers Remake Them. These actions or commitments behave as double-edged swords, Sull says. They have a lifecycle, he... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
forces at work in today's digital economy. Two years later, Christensen expounded on his theories in his groundbreaking book, The Innovator's Dilemma. Their HBS colleagues have been adding to innovation research ever since. Here is a sample of those insights. A View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
2001, real estate has become a legitimate asset class and a good diversifier from stocks and bonds. Second, with graying populations in the West and Japan, real estate is particularly appreciated because it is a strong generator of... View Details
- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
the access to capital, counseling, and contracts they need to grow and create jobs works well and, in the current structure, gives taxpayers a pretty good bang for their buck. Making government work better is a goal everyone can get... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
- 22 Feb 2010
- Op-Ed
Tragedy at Toyota: How Not to Lead in Crisis
shrink and profits implode, requiring major cash resources until its reputation can be restored. 5: Never waste a good crisis. For all the pain Toyota is experiencing, this crisis provides a unique opportunity to make fundamental changes... View Details
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-005.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAmerican Cancer Society: Access to Care Harvard Business School Case 109-015 CEO John Seffrin decides to radically change the strategy of the American Cancer Society. The new Access to Care... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
to Rohingya refugees since the violence in Myanmar erupted in August 2017. The organization considers the refugees’ mental health needs “acute.” "The global flow of goods and capital ties together all of human interaction."... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 07 Dec 1999
- Research & Ideas
Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century
Today we might point to Heinz and Noble's skill in exploiting economies of scope, in developing additional goods that utilized existing inputs and organizational capabilities. 48 But neither man thought in theoretical terms about what he... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the School of American Ballet, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The leadership structure is complex. In 2010, Lincoln Center's... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
industry is broken. It's in terrible shape. We're here [at the conference] because we know it; we're here because the public knows it, and we are concerned about the fact that they know it," he said. According to Mills, the 1990s... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
mountain in the world or how many zeros you tally up in your portfolio. New levels of human performance take us closer to the gods and set the stage for what we hope is excellence in our own DNA. These moments also make good copy.... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
benefit-based taxation, in which an individual's benefit from public goods is tied to his or her income-earning ability, can be incorporated into modern optimal tax theory. If Lindahl's methods are applied... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
Publications 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts By: Eisenmann, Tom, ed. Abstract—Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best posts from many blogs on technology startup... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
Publisher's Link: http://www.springer.com/medicine/nephrology/book/978-1-4419-1689-1 How to Do Well and Do Good Author:Rosabeth M. Kanter Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review 51, no. 2 (September 2010) An abstract is not available at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
Seated before a computer with an Internet link, consumers today can flip through an estimated 800 million Web pages of public information by merely clicking a mouse. Add to this that television, now in 98 percent of American homes, is... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
women, by founding the temporary-staffing agency Tempstaff and lobbying to strike down laws that stifled the temp industry. Tempstaff now has approximately 3,300 employees and is a public company. For the past nine years, Shinohara has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
norton ariely.pdf Do Inventory and Gross Margin Data Improve Sales Forecasts for U.S. Public Retailers? Authors:Saravanan Kesavan, Vishal Gaur, and Ananth Raman Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract Firm-level sales... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
makers are being put to the test once again. Flooding money markets on Sunday (3/13) with ¥15 trillion (about $183 billion) was a sensible first step by the Bank of Japan, but the real challenge lies ahead. Prime Minister Naoko Kan's government, still young and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty