Assembling Value Chain - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2012
News

Putting Ghosts to Rest

generation’s aspirations and actions are reshaping business and our understanding of leadership. Coauthors John Coleman (MPA/MBA 2010), Daniel Gulati (MBA 2011), and Oliver Segovia (MBA 2010) spanned the globe to assemble the accounts.... View Details

Keywords: Chris Maloney; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

choose the platform with a restricted number of candidates. This is because those agents value the higher rate of acceptance more than access to more candidates. Agents with higher outside options choose the market with a larger number of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Setting Interns Up for Success at Your Startup

used to create the food that ends up in our stomachs (land, water, energy, etc.) is wasted.” Sani’s enthusiasm for Mori grew after speaking with Belsito when he learned more about the company’s focus on integrating within supply chains to... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

February 5, 2009
Comment

In Praise of Marketing

By: John A. Quelch

Many dismiss marketing as manipulative, deceptive, and intrusive. Marketing, they argue, focuses too much of our attention on material consumption. More recently, Benjamin Barber, in his 2007 book Consumed, claims that marketing is "sucking up the air from every other... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Consumer Loyalty; Local Vs. Global Branding; Multi-national Brands; Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Satisfaction; Globalized Economies and Regions; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Brands and Branding; Marketing Communications; Marketing Strategy; Product Positioning

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24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008

taxonomy that assembles the field's knowledge about these decision-making bounds and organizes efforts toward deepening this knowledge and developing strategies for improvement. Specifically, we group five identified decision-making... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

"Once you reach a point where a customer says, 'What are your policies in terms of your supply chain operations?' you better have a good handle on that." Enter the CSO. The position of CSO has been created at an increasing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

next attempt. In appropriate conditions—only in appropriate conditions—you can gain more value from experience than from up-front analysis. In certain kinds of work, even if you can figure out where you're going and find a map to get you... View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

The Human Factor: Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection at Baker Library Assembled in the 1930s by HBS colleagues Donald Davenport and Frank Ayres, the Industrial Life Photograph Collection reveals the colliding—and... View Details

20 Jun 2019
News

Reframing Modern Art

forgotten figures to light, and how her finance career prepared her for assembling an art exhibition. READ MORE Julia Hanna: Denise, can you just tell me about the process by which you began thinking about a career in art history? You... View Details

04 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

companies batten down the hatches, we need leaders who don't compromise on standards and values that are essential in flush times. Fortunately, such leaders do exist. Their insights can help other organizations weather the current crisis,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

January 2021 (Revised May 2021)
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Ocado Group: Ready for the Future

By: José B. Alvarez, Damien McLoughlin and Natalie Kindred

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03 Oct 2005
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

competency and its ability to move up the value chain that will allow it to share the positive gains. If labor tries the old tactic of strikes, management will just outsource the staff from somewhere else... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

debris and production of eco-material brick and asphalt. The project was conducted through on-site research with Bogota City Department of Environment and local eco-material manufactures, as well as interviews with value View Details

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

those suppliers move downstream, potentially into competing with you, as they struggle to earn some kind of return? If your inputs are all becoming commodities and you don’t have a lot of differentiating complimentary assets as part of your View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

09 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 9, 2008

Olga Memedovic Publication:Special Issue on Global Value Chains and Innovation Networks: Prospects for Industrial Upgrading in Developing Countries. Part 1. International Journal of Technological Learning,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

the wrong things and doesn't create value for the consumer. In this Q&A, Porter discusses his research.Roger Thompson: What went wrong with the American model? On paper it looks ideal. It's private, it's competitive, yet it doesn't... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

27 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

didn't use computers himself and didn't see the value in the strategy. So a group of self-starters went ahead and designed a small, low-risk e-commerce pilot anyway. It tested well, the CEO was at last impressed, and the project moved... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

The Critical Computer Science Principles Every Strategic Leader Needs to Know

of digital technology that can help leaders achieve their strategic priorities. It’s vital for managers to engage with some of the basics of computer science because “they give people a framework to think about the direction that technology will evolve and the... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24

investigating the workings of both the sell and buy sides of financial analysis, tackles how the U.S. securities industry research adds value in financial markets, and evaluates the business model problems that the industry encounters and... View Details