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- March 2015 (Revised April 2015)
- Case
The Heat Is On: Emerging Ecosystems in the Thermostat Industry
By: David Collis and Ashley Hartman
Beth Wozniak, President of Honeywell Environmental and Combustion Controls (ECC) at Honeywell International Inc., spun around in her office chair, reflecting about how the classic, mature thermostat industry was rapidly evolving. In February 2014, Google paid $3.2... View Details
Keywords: Honeywell; Thermostats; Internet Of Things; Smart Thermostats; Google; Nest; Apple; HomeKit; SmartThings; Partnerships; Platforms And Ecosystems; Linkages; Communication Protocols; Strategy; Technology; Home Automation; Connected Home; Buildings and Facilities; Energy; Information Infrastructure; Applications and Software; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Partners and Partnerships; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Manufacturing Industry
Collis, David, and Ashley Hartman. "The Heat Is On: Emerging Ecosytems in the Thermostat Industry." Harvard Business School Case 715-455, March 2015. (Revised April 2015.)
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
react to local changes in the environment. This model is the first exponential smoothing model to incorporate a life-cycle trend. Third, the model relies on multiplicative errors, instead of the additive errors primarily used in existing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
The full cultural and sociological aftershocks of the earthquake in Japan—the worst disaster to hit the country since World War II—are washing like a tsunami across many industries as manufacturers and their customers scramble to replace... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
just one of four Black CEOs leading a Fortune 500 company. Frazier is also outspoken, having resigned from President Trump’s American Manufacturing Council to make a clear statement against “hatred, bigotry and group supremacy” that... View Details
- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
and revolutionized millions of Americans' lives. Riding the wave of the Model T's success, Ford Motor Company became the undisputed leader of this young market and by the early 1920s, it was producing 60 percent of all the motor vehicles View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
“The findings of our study suggest that regulatory innovation can support more efficient drug development—in particular, in settings where we have unmet medical needs. This, in turn, could save and extend lives and motivate drug View Details
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
speculates, apprentices are given more discrete tasks that are easier to follow. That doesn’t mean that the latter fields aren’t candidates for apprenticeship, he adds, only that extra care must be taken to provide additional structure.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
Starbucks Reinvented
of its VIA Ready Brew line; the launch of a loyalty program; investment in and engagement with social media; focus on a global expansion strategy; and the extension of social programs. The company closed stores, restructured its View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
investments in the portfolios of venture capital firms to study persistence in their performance. Each additional IPO among a VC's first five investments predicted a 13% higher IPO rate for its subsequent 50 investments. Roughly half of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
changing competitive environment. By the mid-1960s, however, U.S. tire companies began to feel the first tremors of the competitive earthquake that would ultimately reshape the industry. In 1966, Michelin struck a deal with Sears to View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
of chains in addition to exchanges. This review is designed to provide insight into the challenges that face the emerging national KPD system in the U.S., now five years into its development. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations
no commitment or concession from the other side. Such concessions must come at little cost or risk to the provider, but be of high benefit to the recipient. In addition to establishing trust, carefully crafted unilateral concessions also... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
West Coast headed to eastern ports, with a smaller flow of manufactured goods and agricultural products headed the other way. The canal supercharged the growth of the West Coast (at the expense of Venezuela in oil and the South in timber)... View Details
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
entrepreneur didn’t anticipate the many extra manufacturing steps—and the retooling needed to produce the new product. He wound up going through seven different manufacturers before he found one that could... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
incentive pay. We contribute to this literature by analyzing all forms of incentive pay for several types of managerial positions and include additional measures of earnings manipulation-end-of-year excess sales and class action... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
benchmarks? Defining what growth means Pisano and colleagues fill that gap in a new paper, Long-Term Firm Growth: An Empirical Analysis of US Manufacturers 1959—2015, published in the journal Industrial and Corporate Change, the first... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
literature by analyzing all forms of incentive pay for several types of managerial positions and include additional measures of earnings manipulation-end-of-year excess sales and class action litigation-in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?
room for improvement” in the process, Buell says. “I’m happy with the car, but it was a roller coaster of emotions going through the experience.” What’s the problem here? The professors agree that the industry has a structural problem: the deep divide between car View Details
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
introduced low cost production methods to manufacture highly accurate quartz watches. Swiss business historians refer to this as the "Quartz Crisis." Companies like Seiko and Casio seized the quartz market. By 1983, two-thirds... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
induces U.S. manufacturing firms to contract their operations along multiple margins of activity goes a long way toward explaining the response of U.S. innovation to the China trade shock. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel