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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup
them and do simple maintenance, like cleaning their crucial navigation sensors. Another opportunity is alternative fuels. When cars propelled by electricity or hydrogen go mainstream, someone will have to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
This "new plant, new team, new concept" approach has generally worked well elsewhere for GM, Hughes says, in part because "when substantial capital and resources are thus committed, you go out of your way to... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
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Daniel Schachne
Like many people, Daniel Schachne grew up loving sports. He loved to participate—playing baseball, soccer, and—his favorite—basketball. But by middle school, Daniel realized that he was never going View Details
Keywords: Entertainment/Media
- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
hitting on the right idea for a business. “You’re not going to find it — it’s built over time.” His partner, Eric Boutin (MBA ’07), added that the pair did not have a background in biotech. Shelby Clark (MBA... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
One Degree of Difference
candidate is being considered. Someone applying for a marketing manager position might be asked to develop a multi-channel pitch and presentation in response to an RFP from a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
Design Rules: The Power of Modularity (Volume 1) by Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark (The MIT Press) Today's fast-paced global economy often seems to operate as an independent force, but its products, firms, and View Details
- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
which they are harvested. Chip System Installed in New Facility. Image source: The authors. This digitalization strategy allows the company to monitor the harvesting progress, collect and gather data and... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
energy. The project also includes a podcast, a blog, and a TED talk. In his Legends breakfast talk, which he called “From Software to Solar,” Nussey explained why he would “seemingly throw away a successful career” for clean energy. “I... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
New Releases
Technology Integration by Marco Iansiti (Harvard Business School Press) In the old days, coping with technological change was simple: you kept track of developments, tried to decide if they had legs, and implemented them when the View Details
Keywords: Robert Binstock
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
workers who are carrying out the work of the organization. In my research we look at how entrepreneurs and executives can think about the day-by-day management of those people in the trenches, since they determine, to a large extent,... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 12 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Business Lessons from Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson
little more familiar to MBA students: she studied finance and marketing at the University of Miami, worked at Merrill Lynch, and founded her own wealth-management firm, all before Dwayne asked her View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
percent of the class would have known what he was talking about. “Today, it’s more than 50 percent. Students understand that those are important considerations that are going to affect their organizations... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
prospectuses of all public biotech firms going back twenty years. Information from 295 companies and more than 3,000 executives formed the core of their study. The results showed that top managers' ties to... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
materials and physical space. As we traversed Denmark in the first of our two-week immersive field course (which would later take us to the Netherlands), we were lucky to meet several organizations that are... View Details
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
Lauder-Železný saga is notable for several reasons. First, it's a cautionary tale for managers about an expropriation in an emerging market where the value of an entity can be diverted to insiders. In this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
That Excel: Candid Insights and Practical Advice or Directors by Joe White (MBA 1971) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) This book argues that boards enable organizations to excel only when directors go beyond... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
generally ten-year structures,” he explained. “It’s hard for them to go beyond ten-year holding periods without their investors being very flexible.” To the students in the... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
is bringing everyone else along, having them contribute to make the strategy stronger, and then having the buy-in that leads to execution.” Pathipati: “I constantly use... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
industry. “We’re looking ahead and thinking very deeply about where the industry is going as a result of innovation, as opposed to looking in the past,” he says. One sector where the partners see great... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
about what would come next. “I didn’t think I needed business school at first,” he recalls. “But, you know, there are two ways to learn things. One is experience, where you do things. And the other is through war stories. So when I heard... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley