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  • 21 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49375 Enabling Versus Controlling-Online Appendix By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Julian Wright Abstract—No abstract available. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49378 Mobile Money... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 22

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410083-PDF-ENG Tata Nano—The People's Car Krishna G. Palepu, Bharat N. Anand, and Rachna TahilyaniHarvard Business School Case 710-420 The case explores how Tata Motors, India's largest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Apr 2024
  • What Do You Think?

What's Enough to Make Us Happy?

the firm’s executives. Several were flirting with bankruptcy. The reason? The need to have the biggest condo, the best car (in New York?), the biggest boat, the fanciest wine. In the scramble to win the contest, much of this was acquired... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • August 2013 (Revised November 2013)
  • Supplement

Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (B)

By: Willy Shih

This case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Henry Ford's Model T was a car for the masses. After considerable experimentation, Ford Motor... View Details

Keywords: Innovation; Exploration; Dominant Design; Business Growth and Maturation; Business History; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Positioning; Product Design; Product Development; Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Vertical Integration; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Michigan
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  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

effort to boost earnings without compromising Aston Martin’s reputation for exclusivity, style, and engineering. As one of the few luxury car companies not backed by a larger automaker, Palmer and Aston Martin faced the challenge of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 12

development of Kvadrat's retail sales operations, the implementation of new Human Resources practices, and the execution of a new organizational design. Was such an extensive growth, turnaround, and internal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation

innovation by creating uncertainty and convince risk-averse companies to pull back on R&D. When a bicyclist was killed by an Uber autonomous car in Arizona in 2018, for example, the company suspended the program—even though the crash... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 11 Jun 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

There's often a disparaging implication that art-like processes are immature, that they have not yet evolved to incorporate the obviously superior methods of science. The premise that underlies this point of view equates progress with the View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
  • 26 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change

flexibly navigate changing environments yet because it does not have a notion of its “self” and what it can do with it. This shortcoming raises questions about whether it’s safe to rely on AI in certain circumstances, such as an autonomous View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

managers from 20 firms to gather best practices of the companies that do collaborative innovation correctly. They also charted how global teamwork can misfire. The research built upon expertise developed in Wipro's own collaboration... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The New Real Estate

decreasing vacancies) coupled with continuing low interest rates. During the last year, we saw four big stories in real estate that underscore this continuing-to-boom market: record prices, new capital market instruments, and growing interest in both sustainable View Details
Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate
  • Web

Strategy - Faculty & Research

the company’s structure, portfolio, and financial framework. By early 2024, key structural changes were in motion, and momentum was building. Looking ahead, the turnaround required deeper cultural shifts and further development of the... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes

volume) would fall in response to a price increase. Understanding broad trends in elasticities and underlying demand is critical for making companywide decisions about whether to change prices, or where on the premium-to-value spectrum to View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 26 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology
  • 18 Jul 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details
Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology
  • 19 Apr 2016
  • First Look

April 19, 2016

three-time increase in cov-lite issuance compared to a previous peak in 2007. We evaluate whether this development can be attributed to market overheating, increased borrower demand for cov-lite loans, or a rise in creditor coordination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2024
  • HBS Case

Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

car is the design and the lines of it,” Ghosh says. “As opposed to ‘I'm a car buff who likes to look at racing.’ And you might like the Ferrari, but you also might like it because you have a sensibility for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology
  • Web

Europe - Global

Europe Paris HBS opened the Europe Research Center (ERC) in Paris in 2003, to help HBS develop and strengthen relationships with European business and academic leaders. The ERC enables HBS faculty to study more effectively one of the... View Details
  • 27 Jul 2020
  • Book

Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

first of the three fundamental approaches to reflection has traditionally been called contemplation, or downshifting from time to time. At work, many people tend to focus on output, and their minds act like race car engines, firing on all... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman