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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
in production and economies of scope in distribution. In some industries, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" was gradually tamed by what the historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr. has termed the "visible hand" of professional... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
gotten used to as consumers. Antonio Moreno: People still like going to a physical store to have an experience and learn about products, but now that can be decoupled from the act of taking possession of a product because there are better... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
Publications February 2015 Academy of Management Review Reflections on the 2013 Decade Award: "Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited" Ten Years Later By: Benner, Mary, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
building leadership skills and working relationships as it was about building businesses. Planning the program for Spring Break would give students time to dedicate solely to fleshing out their business ideas from concept to product... View Details
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
had turned around by improving competitiveness in quality, design, and cost. Ford's Alan Mulally, GM CEO Ed Whitacre, and Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne took different approaches to guide their respective companies to improvements in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
engineer has invented a breakthrough, but refuses to assign the intellectual property to the firm, despite having agreed to do so in his employment contract. Fogg must choose from a variety of options, including prosecution of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
manufactured consumer goods first used the union label as a way to show solidarity through their purchases. One hundred years later, men and women, and even teenagers, organized to protest sweatshop production in various countries around... View Details
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
models and evaluating their efficacy in standalone fashion—just as engineers test new technologies or products. However, the success or failure of a company's business model depends largely on how it interacts with those of the other... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
this period, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) delivered some important technologies for the corporation. One of the most critical inventions was laser printing for Xerox's printers and copiers, an effort that led to new Xerox View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
models foreclosed by Google's restrictions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52178 January 2017 Nature Biomedical Engineering Review Times and Adverse Events for Cardiovascular Devices By: Stern, Ariel... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
as they were years ago . Even skis within our sport have undergone dramatic improvements.” Read about Hanson’s effort to engineer a better boot. Previous Next Enjoy football, repair capitalism Roger Martin (MBA 1981) Dean, Rotman School... View Details
- Profile
Ruzwana Bashir
the world from one of materialism, where we buy products (such as houses or cars or clothes), to one of experiences, where we focus on having special moments with the people we care about. Despite all the consumerism of the last 50 years,... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1939494 Working Papers Competing Ad Auctions By: Ashlagi, Itai, Benjamin Edelman, and Hoan Soo Lee Abstract—We present a two-stage model of competing ad auctions. Search engines attract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
interests that later proved complementary when it came to carving up iTrust management responsibilities. Agarwala grew up in Calcutta, the original capital of India during British colonial rule, dreaming of playing cricket. He ultimately decided to study View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
into bribery? How can CEOs manage and prevent outbreaks of corruption? These and other questions are raised by three short case studies of corruption in Germany: at the global engineering firm Siemens, the automaker VW, and the chemical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
scientific knowledge into commercial applications. For HBS participants, an overriding goal was to gain a better understanding of how the School might best contribute to this effort. “To maintain a leadership position globally, the United States needs high value-added... View Details
- June 2023 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
Creating World-Class Board Governance at SECO
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Emer Moloney
In Spring 2023, SECO CEO Massimo Mauri had the ambition to grow the €200 million revenue technology company to a €1 billion company by 2030. Founded in Italy in the 1970s, the family-owned company had gone through a period of growth and internationalization,... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Business Model; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Talent and Talent Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Engineering; Governance; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Growth and Development Strategy; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Going Public; Strategic Planning; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Value Creation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Italy; Europe; Germany; United States; China
Palepu, Krishna G., and Emer Moloney. "Creating World-Class Board Governance at SECO." Harvard Business School Case 123-082, June 2023. (Revised March 2024.)
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
30, 1975). “In our very first class he opened my eyes to how people are motivated to make decisions. Before, I thought as an engineer — the best attributes and the best price sells the product. From that day on I focused my attention on... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
the room in order to force its owner to get out of bed. Beset by media attention and consumer interest but still at least a year away from the ability to debut Clocky, Nanda must navigate a series of challenges and difficult decisions in order to effectively bring her... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
beauty of the campus and the traditional mountain culture that infuses the school’s offerings, from the workshops on beekeeping and pottery-making to the wood carvings and herbal products in the gift shop. “It’s the oil that makes the... View Details