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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBS and Stanford in Online Collaboration
HBS and Stanford University are teaming up to explore online executive management education. The new collaboration between these pioneers in electronic learning is designed to create a distribution platform for nondegree courses.... View Details
- 21 Feb 2020
- News
Style for Everyone
Nadia Boujarwah and Lydia Gilbert (both MBA 2013) cofounded Dia & Co right out of HBS, producing fashion and online services for plus-size women. In this interview, they talk about the inspiration for the idea and the need it serves. “Dia... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
loads, and a price tag that starts at US$13,000—about the equivalent of a seven-year-old imported sedan. “At Mobius, we get to play a part in the emergence of a stronger manufacturing base.” “At Mobius, we get to play a part in the... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
Thomas G. Stemberg
Stemberg was a pioneer in the retail industry. By contracting directly with manufacturers of office supplies and eliminating the wholesaler, Stemberg was able to offer discounted supplies to small businesses and individuals through his... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Electronics: TV in an Era of Convergence From the late 1990s to 2006/2007, Samsung Electronics moved from one of 170 TV manufacturers to gain dominant TV market share year over year from 2007 to 2013. As... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
In the online marketplace, oodles of retailers and developers rely on “platforms” such as Amazon.com, the Apple App Store, Facebook, and Twitter to get their products and services into the hands of users. Retailers, for example, sell... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
they were transitory. As Sudip Sen put it, "The 'export' of any activity, be it manufacturing or service outsourcing, is driven by pure economics. True, it has a social and political impact; but more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
electronics thrown away globally every year into a sustainable source of metals for the technologies of tomorrow. BlueOak represents just the sort of fresh thinking that has marked Bradoo's relatively short but notable career path. At age... View Details
- January 1992
- Teaching Note
Science Technology Company (1985) TN
By: Thomas R. Piper
Teaching Note for (9-289-040). View Details
- January 1992
- Teaching Note
Cooper Industries, Inc. TN
By: Thomas R. Piper
Teaching Note for (9-274-116). View Details
Piper, Thomas R. "Cooper Industries, Inc. TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 292-051, January 1992.
- February 2010 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
Ricoh Company, Ltd.
By: Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, Marco Iansiti and Akiko Kanno
Ricoh, the Japanese copier manufacturer, is committed to reducing its environmental impact to one-eighth of its 2000 levels by 2050. It has already introduced three stages of environmental awareness to its operations, and its recycled copier business broke even in... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Financial Reporting; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Investment; Operations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Electronics Industry; Electronics Industry; Japan
Eccles, Robert G., Amy C. Edmondson, Marco Iansiti, and Akiko Kanno. "Ricoh Company, Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 610-053, February 2010. (Revised December 2011.)
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
deliver this extra-added value service." Electronic Health Records Promoted In 2014, health care spending in the United States exceeded $3 trillion and was expected to reach $4.5 trillion by 2020. To reduce health care costs and... View Details
- July 1991 (Revised September 1995)
- Case
Eastman Kodak Co.: Managing Information Systems Through Strategic Alliances
In January 1988, Colby Chandler, Kodak CEO, created the Corporate Information Systems (CIS) and appointed Katherine Hudson head. She at once became the first head of IT and first woman corporate vice president in the company. Throughout 1989, Hudson inaugurated a... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Information Technology; Partners and Partnerships; Organizational Structure; Success; Trends; Information Management; Service Operations; Manufacturing Industry
Applegate, Lynda M. "Eastman Kodak Co.: Managing Information Systems Through Strategic Alliances." Harvard Business School Case 192-030, July 1991. (Revised September 1995.)
- 11 Jan 2016
- News
Guiding Students to Out-of-School Programs and Resources
Marie Schwartz (MBA 1985) is founder and CEO of TeenLife Media, which produces online and print directories of STEM, gap year, pre-college, overnight summer, and community service programs for students in grades 7 through 12. In this... View Details
- 12 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Electric Mobility in India
placed on the decarbonization of 2-wheeler mobility. Nevertheless, certain impediments to widespread adoption persist, including inadequate charging infrastructure, customer apprehension, and a shortage of domestic battery manufacturing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
“Culture Is Everything”
IBM chairman Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. (MBA ’65) discussed the importance of strategy, execution, and culture when transforming an institution, as part of the MBA Program’s Distinguished Speaker Series in November. “Institutional transformation is hardest in successful... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Wang Papers to HBS
Important corporate records from Wang Laboratories and personal papers of the company's late founder and CEO, Dr. An Wang, were recently donated by his family to the Baker Library Historical Collections at HBS. Computer memory technology invented by Dr. Wang helped... View Details