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- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
$7.5 billion—but Moderna was still several years away from producing any of its products at commercial scale. For many of the companies now in the hunt for a vaccine, the choice to scrap 2020 business plans... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
twenty years of experience at J.P. Morgan & Company, where he headed global investment banking and global equities. The regulatory structure did not keep pace with two decades of deregulation and product innovation on Wall Street, Rose... View Details
- 04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4
fundamentally new product line. In 2005, Tennant Company had developed an innovative, environmentally friendly cleaning technology that could potentially revolutionize cleaning. Historically, Tennant was a producer of floor and carpet... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
John Rogers
experience. At a high level, I look forward to having a front seat view to the changing landscape of the world: to participate in the rise of emerging markets, the maturation of global business and trade, and the strengthening of linkages between View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
Need for Speed Entrepreneur and investor Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) and Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn and a partner at Greylock Partners, have been fixtures in Silicon Valley since the early days of the commercial internet. Firsthand... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Despite this upheaval, it seemed some businesses were immune to the digital onslaught—companies whose products and services couldn't be easily turned into 1's and 0's and put online. "A television set can't be digitized. A telephone can't... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
beginning when its drivers are matched with a paid fare and throughout the duration of that fare. So drivers often don’t buy their own commercial insurance, opting instead to stick with personal insurance. However, in most cities, Uber... View Details
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
specific customer groups either are overserved or are unsatisfied nonconsumers. Overserved customers consume a product or service but don't need all its features or functionality. Three specific indicators point to this customer group:... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15
sources. Recently, the insertion into this world of business models incorporating advanced management expertise have demonstrated that commercial success is possible while significantly improving access to these basic services for the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
revenue production are brought into the picture? The question is not hypothetical. In recent years, an ever increasing number of corporations have developed and adopted socially responsible behaviors, thereby hybridizing aspects of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
market share. Its Mach3 shaving system was a blockbuster product, but the company was suffering the effects of its own reliance on trade loading—the practice of offering discounts to retail customers at the end of a quarter in order to move View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007
Steiner, executive vice-president of commercial acceptance, must decide if the situation in Brazil is stable enough to support a significant increase in breeding and biotech spending to develop products... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
application for commercial credit and other data points (is) right there on the first page of the Apple user contract--there for all to see. It would seem that this privacy gate is down for the FBI alone.” Slcharles proposed that, “It... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
casualties," he said, would be the likely result. Counterterrorism and international affairs have been central elements of Bremer's career. Entering the diplomatic service immediately after graduating from HBS, he embarked on several tours of duty overseas as a... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
commercial product, microbe-enhanced cotton seeds, on an accelerated product development timeline. In late 2016, as the company was about to launch its second product, winter wheat, the management team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 9, 2010
http://hbr.org/2010/11/a-new-era-for-raiders/ar/1 Working PapersThe Profits of Power: Commercial Realpolitik in Europe and Eurasia Author:Rawi Abdelal Abstract Old-style realpolitik—bilateral, sentiment-free, and organized by great... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea of Instant Photography Research and Development, Project Code SX-70 Introducing... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
project that will employ locals in a traditional handicraft business. The effort is centered in southeast Turkey, a region known for its production of high-quality Adiyaman carpets. By building a sustainable industrial and View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308065 ScriptLogic®: Point, Click, Done! Harvard Business School Case 508-114 ScriptLogic is a software company that has built a product portfolio that fits under a 'Point, Click, Done!' umbrella; its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22
marketing pitch made to study participants by our project staff. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/aamy_SavingsinTransnationalHouseholds.pdf August 2013 Journal of Finance Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne