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- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
more localized products coupled with licensing agreements linked to specific movie franchises might be an option, but an expensive one. The company also had to consider that "diminishing play time and the threat of a disruptive educational product View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
difficult than suspected. During the boom years, when all seemed well, capabilities that underpin innovation in a wide range of products were continuing to deteriorate. My HBS colleague Willy Shih and I... View Details
John A. Young
Marking the exit of H-P founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard, Young’s rise to CEO came at a time when H-P was enjoying a resurgence of growth. Under Young’s leadership, H-P continued the success of the HP-3000 computer, which was... View Details
Keywords: Computers & Electronics
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
frame, is the perfect example. Every process, every incentive, every cultural norm was optimized to deliver efficiently, bypassing the retail channel. When the strategy changed, the organization simply did not follow. Execution continued... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Mobile robots revolutionize order fulfillment
launch Kiva Systems in 2003. “We decided products that could walk and talk on their own would be the best way to solve the problem,” says Mountz, who continues as CEO of the company he sold to Amazon.com in 2012. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
Management Innovation Take Us? Management could change a lot in the coming years, says HBS professor emeritus Jim Heskett. A few reasons: continued development of the Internet and the transparency and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Making Finance Personal
continue as Intuit went public (in 1993), grew enormously (today, it has nearly 8,000 employees, and annual revenues are around $3.9 billion), and routinely won accolades as one of America’s most innovative... View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
is an innovation problem. That is, it is hard for exactly the same reasons that any really disruptive innovation is hard. "As the storms get stronger and the harvests fail more often, political pressure... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
ethnographer by training, researched the connection between leadership and innovation for her 2014 book Collective Genius, which focused primarily on startups built from the ground up to be agile. To better understand the challenges faced... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
difficult.” “It’s not like it’s a one-size-fits-all solution that we can apply to every country.” With the pilot tests underway, Paulson and Bansak are hopeful that the US and Switzerland will continue using their new algorithms for case... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
Photo credits: Aaron Sabin; Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. This is the first episode of "Clearing the Air", a three-part series focused on the business of carbon... View Details
- 21 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse
form or another—was inevitable. Wu, the Arjun and Minoo Melwani Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Clough, an assistant professor at the University of British Columbia, continue to see... View Details
- 08 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know
says. “Generative AI chatbots like ChatGPT and the motion gestures control in the Apple Vision Pro continue to expand who can use a computer and what you can use it for.” Wu shares how his father, who studied computer science in college... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
students, such as the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, which launched in 2003, followed by the Harvard Innovation Labs in 2011. We’re now 25 years into the annual New Venture Competition sponsored by the Rock Center and the Social... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Key to Innovation: Flexible Funding
Kaplan As we look to the future, it is clear that the leading MBA programs will be very different 25 years from now. The role of MBA education is changing, and HBS needs to be increasingly nimble and innovative in order to remain the... View Details
Keywords: Robert Steven Kaplan
- 01 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Confronting Climate Change in the Classroom and Beyond
do you hope for the next 10 years of BEI? We need to continue to refine our understanding of the role the School plays in this era of climate change. It comes back to the theme and title of this exhibit, From Business as Usual to Business... View Details
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Video Clips & Discussion Questions - Creating Emerging Markets
innovation shown in the clips? What are the continuing obstacles of innovation in South Asia? Has it become easier orharder to innovate over the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Taking the Lead in Support of HBS
"When it comes to innovative business education, HBS leads the way. I contribute on a regular basis because it's important to me that the School continues on that path." —Andrew Hauptman (MBA 1995) Chairman,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
climate change, whether in companies that are mitigating its effects or preventing further damage.” She sees the climate change series as a great way to connect and engage HBS alumni, faculty, and students working on innovative solutions... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
Robert C. Stanley
A talented engineer, Stanley spearheaded numerous technological innovations in the production and refining of metals at International Nickel (Inco) and continued to grow the company through expansion, taking... View Details
Keywords: Metals