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- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
European market overseas, and (3) concentrate on designing and producing new products for new and existing markets. There were several minority opinions, however. ASGMark commented, “The very idea of moving manufacturing of an American... View Details
- 15 Mar 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business
This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
- 06 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Technology Re-Emergence: Creating New Value for Old Innovations
proposed the idea of a low-cost quartz design that would compete in the market not on precision, but on fashion. SMH pursued the risky idea, but the project's young engineers, Elmar Mock and Jacque Muller, found themselves ostracized by... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
session, Professor Beshears will lead a mini case discussion that serves as a launching pad for a presentation illustrating the power of the “choice architecture” approach for influencing the behavior of customers and employees. Participants will walk away with a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
between focus and a broader vision? What are the antidotes to too much focus? What do you think? Original Article Focus is good, right? For years we have been admonished as managers to maintain focus: design strategies centered around... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
the bias belted tire, claiming that it conferred significant performance improvements and launched an advertising campaign questioning the benefits of radials. Firestone, Uniroyal and General Tire quickly followed Goodyear's lead and introduced their own belted bias... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
http://hbr.org/2011/12/the-ordinary-heroes-of-the-taj/ar/1 Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women's Leadership Development Programs Authors:Robin J. Ely, Herminia Ibarra, and Deborah Kolb Publication:Academy of Management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
the story. We've had students at undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels telling us that they couldn't stop reading because they were eager to know what would happen next. In addition, chapters of the book are designed like teaching... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
Factory Models for Cancer Care This case compares and contrasts four different models for delivering cancer care in India and the United States. Students are asked to select the best model in its alignment with the Six Forces in those two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
spell out the name of the retailer after visiting a tennis ball factory in Korea where the workers did a company cheer and calisthenics together every morning. "My feeling is that just because we work so hard, we don't have to go around... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
corridor of Southwest Baltimore. Factories and warehouses supplied the city with everything from furniture to gelato, and people flocked to the strip’s shops, theaters, and saloons. Just to the south, a series of elegant row houses earned... View Details
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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Russell Aikins. 21 Aikins, who had worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Times , opened a studio in New York City and took on assignments with Time and Life . Corporations valued press in magazines like Fortune , known for its excellence in graphic... View Details
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
offered free hotel rooms located near medical facilities to healthcare workers, while Serta Simmons donated 100,000 mattresses to hospitals as they frantically worked to increase the number of ICU beds during a surge in cases. Shift View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
the positive effects of transparency—highlighting a possible tension between promotion-based strategies designed to influence and transparency-based strategies designed to inform. Competitive advantage... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 20 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry
lacked the funds necessary to build a DVD factory and exited the consumer electronic industry almost entirely at the end of the 1990s. Again, this relatively unknown story provides an intriguing opportunity for description and analysis by... View Details
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Harvard Business School
COGME was a consortium of ten leading business schools, including Harvard and MIT, designed to recruit outstanding minority students and provide them with financial aid and jobs after graduation. Nearly 2,000 minority students benefited... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System
The Toyota Production System is a paradox. On the one hand, every activity, connection, and production flow in a Toyota factory is rigidly scripted. Yet at the same time, Toyota's operations are enormously flexible and responsive to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
robot, meant for simpler jobs like unpacking boxes; Sawyer is a one-armed robot designed for more precise tasks like placing memory cards into motherboards. The humanizing is intentional and essential to integrating the bots into a... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
John T. Underwood
Purchasing the rights to the only “visible” typewriter available at the time, Underwood led his company to extreme success. By 1915, he had created the “largest and most complete typewriter factory in the world,” and his company was... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
making the widgets that the tool produces. And these days, those tools are not only for production, but they are also the tools for designing things—the computerized design and modeling systems for... View Details