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- 16 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 16, 2015
Business Review You Need an Innovation Strategy By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract—Why is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to articulate an innovation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 13
information about the quality of the firm's opportunities. While we conduct our analysis in the context of an inventory stocking decision, our model is generalizable to other types of capacity investment decisions. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: Illuminating India’s Solar Future: Reflections on Tata Solar Manufacturing Plant Visit
India’s renewable energy policies, such as Production Linked Incentives (PLI), aim to build domestic capacity and reduce reliance on imports. Tata Solar is well-positioned to benefit from these incentives while contributing to India’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
trickiest aspects of the project, allowed workers to relocate the stacks underground. This move made it possible to open up the main floor, add a new entrance, and increase capacity by about 41,000 square feet for office and gathering... View Details
- 08 Sep 2011
- What Do You Think?
What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?
Schultz. Wall Street demanded increasing growth, internationalization, better productivity, and new products. And Schultz's successors responded by opening up to five new stores per day; extending business to many new foreign markets; introducing a faster, higher View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller
that the rate of change in terms of content of work has been accelerating, and the capacity of the traditional skill system—K–12, college, and other degree-granting institutions—hasn’t moved at the pace of technology or business... View Details
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
universally recognized symbol was three golden balls. In twenty-first century China, where the demand for investment capital exceeds the capacity of the nation’s state-controlled financial sector, pawnshops and other informal sources of... View Details
- 26 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
How to Approach Your Equity Compensation
saving for a basement remodel, may be impacted Risk tolerance and risk capacity – Ensure that your decisions align with how well you want to be able to sleep at night. About Presidio Advisors Josh is the founder of Presidio Advisors, a... View Details
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
capacity for innovation. “The whole perspective of how firms influence policy environments is a relatively new question to economists.” It would stand to reason that the companies lobbying most on a particular issue would be those with... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details
- 03 Apr 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?
their leaders to recognize the importance and take advantage of advances in communications technology to remain relevant and competitive. J. W. Carpenter reported that "Our study shows that without the capacity to absorb... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
old ones, capacity expansion, and product and process innovation. Ghemawat is the author of a widely cited book, Commitment, as well as seminal articles on the sustainability of competitive advantage. His latest book, Games Businesses... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
accomplishment from both sides of the Charles. "Robert Merton has been an innovative leader in the field of economic valuations and in improving the capacity to manage financial risk," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine. "This is a... View Details
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
Exley wanted to see how far people’s capacity for self-justification could be pushed—whether it held up in cases where there was no uncertainty at all. “There are hundreds and thousands of charities out there, and choosing to give to one... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
in two years, we have the summer off to pursue either our own startups or an internship. I spent my summer at Facebook as a Strategy Intern, helping Facebook scale its data center capacity effectively and efficiently. My summer internship... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention
capacity coming online worldwide over the next half-decade. That forecast is almost 30% higher than last year's edition of the rolling 5-year projections. Likewise, a new survey by Columbia University's energy think tank polled investment... View Details
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
and capacity utilization is high. But we suspect that a third and potentially quite strong effect is the uncertainty that is created by government involvement. Q: These findings present something of a dilemma for public policymakers who... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
political response to issues such as wealth disparity, the environment, security, and rule of law have the capacity to undermine capitalism and thus undermine this progress. View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 18 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces Its 2024-2025 Blavatnik Fellows
startup aiming to make biologics more accessible to patients worldwide. Sanso was created to commercialize the microporous water technology out of Jarad Mason's lab at Harvard, a novel solution to dramatically increase the oxygen capacity... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap
we were also learning about our team dynamic. During that time, we got a sense of what it felt like to work together in a professional capacity beyond friendship, and discussed all of the challenges we could encounter as a team. In many... View Details