Capabilities - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Aug 2024
Blog Post

LM Wind Power Test and Validation Center

circle). The amount of energy that can be captured by the blades on a turbine are proportional to the swept area. The authors at LM Wind, in front of a blade of the world’s first offshore wind turbine. With blades growing longer and longer, LM Wind has expanded their... View Details

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

(2) technologies capable of addressing the demands of the new markets, and (3) a new enterprise logic that can link employees, technologies, and markets in new ways. Today's environment holds the potential for these three forces to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Oct 2022
News

Inside the Chip Shortage

Chosun. Shibata cites the shortage of minor chips that are used in peripherals, not the lack of key semiconductors, as the main issue. “Until now, computing capabilities were only necessary in computers and smartphones, but from now on,... View Details

Keywords: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

Capabilities: A Meso Model of Sustained Innovation and Superior Firm Performance By: Harvey, Jean-François, Henrik Bresman, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—This paper complements the manager-centered analysis of dynamic capabilities with a... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Alumni WDYDWYD

Marlene Krauss

I do what I did? Because everyone said it couldn't be done, I like a challenge, and I get bored easily. Because in the 1960s I realized that I was more capable than most men and that business was the proving ground. In the 70s and 80s I... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Jeanne Jackson

strengths. “During the go-go Internet years, there was pressure at Gap and Wal-Mart to treat the online operation as a separate business,” she recalls. “What we learned is that our e-commerce function needed to be an extension of what we were already doing well.”... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

14 Jun 2016
First Look

June 14, 2016

Area. We interpret this growth as a trend to coagglomeration in invention across technologies, and we explore different dimensions of this trend. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50818 forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of Dynamic View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

investment. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/ships_qje_2014.pdf Working Papers Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract— Architectural View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2009
News

Social Enterprise Visionary

experience on nonprofit boards,” recalls HBS professor and director of research Kash Rangan, SEI’s cofounder and current cochair. “He firmly believed that by elevating the management capability of these valuable institutions, we would... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 1999
News

New Releases

Apparel and Textile Industries is based on eight years of study. The keys to success in an age of product proliferation, the authors found, are no longer economies of scale and cheap labor but an up-to-the-minute knowledge of what is selling and what is not, flexible... View Details

01 Jun 2009
News

Crisis and Creativity

shed employees, assets, and noncore businesses. Often, these measures lead to the loss of valuable resources, alienation of key customers, and erosion of capabilities for the longer term. This makes the firm less competitive and probably... View Details

Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti

02 Sep 2015
News

Voting for Optimism in Baltimore

think of Baltimore, you think of crime, you think of drugs, you think of homicides—of people who don’t have jobs. When you think of young people here and what they are capable of, you don’t think they could go to Harvard Business School.... View Details

Keywords: April White; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

Mar 2012
Article

Does America Really Need Manufacturing?

exodus of manufacturing from America, which has weakened the capabilities that domestic firms need to keep inventing high-quality, cost-competitive products. One problem is that it's hard to tell when moving production far from R&D... View Details

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

stay away from the small business marketspace. The company inked distribution and implementation agreements with the same IT consulting firms that had served as such capable channel partners for SAP's large-company systems. The product,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

Profile

Nabihah Sachedina

surprised that I took an operations role,” she says. “I had never managed logistics on that scale before. That’s the great thing about being at Harvard: it’s a safe environment for trying things out, to augment my capabilities where I... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Platforms and Collaborations

matriculation. Still, Clark notes, “the residential aspect of HBS is at the heart of everything we do, and the classroom experience and the case method remain fundamental to our mission. Online capabilities can enrich them, but they can’t... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

Rob Gierkink

their customer data collection and digital marketing capabilities through enhancing their existing point-of-sale assets. Index was sold to Strip in April of 2018. Previously Rob was Chairman and CEO of Datalogix which he founded in 2007.... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital;#1;#Advertising;#16;#Consumer Products & Packaged Goods

01 Dec 2018
News

Supporting Global Understanding, Locally

Dincer Family Global Fund to support the MENA center as well as the School’s activities in Turkey and throughout the region. “HBS is unique in its capability to fund rigorous research that analyzes how the financial sector is changing,”... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Blue No Longer

(“Baby Blues”) and concentrated instead on cutting costs (by paring the workforce and closing plants) and expanding IBM's capability to help companies meet the full range of their computing and IT needs. Keeping IBM intact “was a big... View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

Faculty Books

developing organizational capabilities and managerial competencies to implement a clearly defined strategic intent. This case-based book discusses the marketing challenges faced by global U.S. companies (Bausch & Lomb, Reebok, and... View Details