Productivity - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Aug 2006
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Economics of Scarcity Meets the Economics of Abundance?

means to understand human behavior and finds ways to accommodate and direct such behaviors." Citing the works of Ronald Coase, David Touve opined, "It would seem that economics has grappled with the question of markets for non-scarce View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

March 2011
Teaching Note

International Lobbying and the Dow Chemical Company (TN) (A) & (B)

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich

Teaching Note for 710027 and 710028. View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Production; Non-Governmental Organizations; Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Government Legislation; Chemical Industry

Citation

Purchase

01 Mar 2010
News

What Happened to Leadership?

IMMELT: A prescription to fix failures at the top. Sgt. Vincent Fusco/Usma For a speech on “Reviving American Leadership,” General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt (MBA ’82) chose a discerning audience: the corps of cadets at the U.S. Military Academy. Citing the military as a... View Details

Keywords: Management; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2009
News

E Ink’s Wild Ride

Chappell Russ Wilcox (MBA ’95) was two years out of HBS, married to classmate Gina Wilcox and working as a strategy consultant following a stint as a product manager at a Boston-area technology firm. But he had always wanted to launch and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

this a scam?' For us, the most important thing we've done is build trust with the community," said James DeJulio, co-founder and chief product officer of Tongal. "Our marketing strategy was to pay people as fast as we possibly could. If... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jan 2002
News

Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)

markets in developed nations. But by the mid-1980s, the Yangs decided the time had come to differentiate themselves. They would concentrate on quality and meeting the needs of the most discriminating designers and retailers in areas such as View Details

Mar 2012
Article

How to Make Finance Work

crisis. Second, trillions of dollars have been steered into residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries.... View Details

Portrait Project

Revee Rapallo

attend high school on a scholarship in Manila, a place of opportunities. I knew that it was time to throw away those boxes and stop entrusting the next years of my life to them. I want to pay it forward by bringing accessible, innovative, and enabling View Details

19 May 2021
Blog Post

Instagram Takeover - Ja’ Saint-Tulias (MBA 2022)

"calling” than a career pivot. As a first-generation student born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, chemical engineering was a path towards creating skincare products and addressing the beauty needs of people of color. However, throughout... View Details

21 Aug 2017
News

The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together

our country. They appear more inclined to fight for what they believe than to try to figure out how to get beyond their disagreements to work productively based on shared principles.” While Dalio concludes that he sees no immediate... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

already have products on the market, as does Amgen, where Gordon M. Binder (MBA '62) served as CEO until his retirement last month (he will continue to serve as chairman through December). Amgen's Epogen (a treatment for anemia in kidney... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

was soon known to everybody. He knew exactly how to capitalize on all these contacts. With his subsequent War Production Board service, he soon became the number one go-to man between corporate America and the U.S. government. President... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

Fast Answer

India - Industry specific research

style="color:black">Mining and Metals Manufacturing Joint Plant Committee A government sponsored entity that collects data on... View Details

Student-Faculty-Profile

Lauren Taylor & Rebecca Henderson

and from organizational theory and second, I’m particularly interested in the role that “relational contracts” or “trust” play in supporting innovative performance. I believe that so called “purpose-driven” or “mission-driven” firms are likely to be significantly more... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Magician Turns HBS Upside Down

thereby mitigates his chances of failure, makes the trick more impressive, and develops new techniques that can be applied to new tricks. This focus on simplification to offer a better product reminded me of Apple’s innovative process.”... View Details

Keywords: magic; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment