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Spring 2012
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Sustainability at Dow Chemical

By: Robert G. Eccles, Kathleen M. Perkins and Mark Weick

Dow Chemical Company, which was founded in 1894, is now the second-largest chemical company in the world. From the outset, the company has been committed to high-technology research and commercial innovation in chemistry, advanced materials, and agro-sciences. But if... View Details

Keywords: Value Creation; Corporate Strategy; Chemicals; Environmental Sustainability; Innovation and Invention; Chemical Industry

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2016
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College Tuition, Public Finance and New Business Starts

By: Gareth Olds

A growing public discourse cites the rising cost of education and student debt overhang as a contributor to slow economic growth. A parallel discussion explores the causes of the secular decline in business dynamism and entrepreneurship rates in the United States over... View Details

Keywords: Cost; Higher Education; Entrepreneurship

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12 Mar 2024
HBS Case

How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

Some of Apple’s most loyal customers think nothing of upgrading to the latest iPhone every time one comes out. But what about consumers who can’t splurge on a $1,000 iPhone 15 Pro? And what about the electronic waste that would accrue if people threw away functional... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Electronics; Information Technology

31 Mar 2008
HBS Case

JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis

take on a new growth opportunity that may differ substantially from yourarea of expertise," he notes. For example, another case in the course, "BYD Company, Ltd.," examines the largest Chinese manufacturer of lithium ion View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Air Transportation

July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
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Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry

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20 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

performance of identical twins on a battery of ten creativity tests could be attributed to genetics. 6 In contrast, roughly 80 percent to 85 percent of the twins' performance on general intelligence (IQ) tests could be attributed to... View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

31 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

chains work and the performance of the factories that comprise them. The area is also a primary supplier of lithium battery chemicals, flash memory, and anisotropic conductive film used in LCD flat panel displays. "In the race to... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Auto; Technology; Computer; Electronics

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

refinements or radical breakthroughs, improve the performance of established products and services along the dimensions that mainstream customers in major markets historically have valued. Examples: a microprocessor that enables personal computers to operate faster and... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

02 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

17 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

increase the likelihood of buying products, but only if the decision was related more to the product's usefulness than to pure emotional desire. Water Filtration Pitchers And Batteries To that end, the researchers designed a follow-up... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

January 2022 (Revised February 2022)
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Envision Group

By: Gunnar Trumbull, Bonnie Yining Cao and Dawn H. Lau

Based in China, Envision was one of the world’s leading Greentech companies. Chief Executive Officer Lei Zhang had set the goal of achieving carbon neutrality across the company’s global operations and supply chain by 2022 and 2028 respectively. As part of its... View Details

Keywords: Green Technology; Climate Change; Emerging Markets; Information Technology; Strategy; Management; Renewable Energy; Energy Policy; Environmental Sustainability; Battery Industry; Battery Industry; Battery Industry; Battery Industry; China; United States; Japan; United Kingdom; France

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September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
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Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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22 Jul 2019
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How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

iPhone. ARM also made its microprocessor design the technology of choice for companies that wanted to build smartphones that used relatively little battery power. When it comes to generating network effects, the chicken-or-egg problem for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

in the area of energy storage and green energy production, for example, including lithium ion batteries for cell phones and laptops, silicon solar cells, and power semiconductors for solar panels. As a result, Shih says, the country risks... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

16 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

technologies, industries, and organizations. He has also conducted extensive research on the watch industry. Raffaelli weighs in below on everything from battery life to the Apple Watch's implications for the health care industry. Read an... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Electronics; Retail; Health

April 2010
Teaching Note

BYD Company, Ltd. (TN)

By: Robert S. Huckman

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Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Competitive Advantage; Labor; Competition; Problems and Challenges; Cost vs Benefits; Battery Industry; Battery Industry; China

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12 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

adviser. Intellectual property based on the science, which offered a radical way to construct lithium-ion batteries that promised higher energy densities, was licensed from MIT. The concept for the company was based on laboratory... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Oct 2016
What Do You Think?

Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

graduates and former students who are exploring innovations such as battery technology, superconductivity, magnetism, and superintelligent computers. My feelings are buoyed when I read about a “second machine age” fueled by digital... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

would manufacture lithium-ion batteries used in Tesla’s electric vehicles on an unprecedented scale. In early 2015, Tesla announced a new product line of battery packs designed for large-scale energy storage... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

health," one health advocate said. Consisting of a small barrel-shaped design that mimics an actual cigarette, the devices vaporize a liquid nicotine solution, which is then inhaled without the tar and carcinogens found in smoke. Powered by a View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

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How Used Products Can Unlock New Markets: Lessons from Apple's Refurbished iPhones

JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis

Acelerex

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

Envision Group

Leadership and Teaming

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

BYD Company, Ltd. (TN)

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Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

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Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

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