Capacity - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

These structures determine a firm's motivation to seek protection, as well as its capacity to overcome collective action problems within its industry. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee

emerged from bankruptcy. “I did the quick calculation that you could buy and control all the US (gun) capacity for about $2 billion,” he said. His colleague sitting nearby, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, chimed in. “As the owner, you could do... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Entertainment & Recreation

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

infrastructure and capacity for one to build on. To a significant degree, the new leader gets to start fresh. But both require that the new leader start making tough calls early. Realignments and sustaining success situations, by... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

enhance our capacity to support the faculty research. Although our activities to date have been heavily focused on case development, we recently received requests related to academic research. As HBS faculty produce more academic research... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

15 Dec 2024
News

After Ozempic

Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Pete Ryan; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

26 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes

foreign investors, but when times are good, people tend to assume that they are everlasting. Sadly, reality isn't so compliant. During flush times, people borrowed excessively beyond their capacity to repay their debts, which is a common... View Details

Keywords: by Zeenat Potia

Web

Event Guidelines | About

ensuring that maximum capacity levels are not exceeded at any time. Setup : All room layouts, furniture, vendor supported elements (such as event lighting, staging, etc.) will be managed by HBS Operations. Service Providers : Only... View Details

21 Nov 2013
News

Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins

company more sharply on areas where its innovative capacity remained distinctive. Blackberry understands the demands of security conscious corporate customers better than most, and their software for handling corporate email seems second... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

15 Nov 2016
First Look

November 15, 2016

sketch some important implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select migrants for admission. Looking forward, the capacity of people, firms, and countries... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2020
News

Meal Plan

to pay for high levels of service at the front of the house may decrease. And there’ll be additional costs to maintain that level of service due to the decreased capacity demanded by social distancing. There could be higher compensation,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

firms also invested rapidly to build radial tire production capacity once the OEMs [original equipment manufacturers] switched to the new technology. In the case of investment in radial manufacturing capacity, the tire firms may have... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

01 Mar 2018
News

Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

manage personnel, budget, facilities, and a diverse range of community stakeholders,” Grossman notes. “It’s not a stretch to think of them as CEOs, yet many have not been trained for that job.” To enhance their capacity to build and lead... View Details

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers

of Weak Interests By Gunnar Trumbull Empirical studies have consistently shown a capacity to coordinate when the collective interest is both material and evident. One of the early studies to assess the impact of group size on coordination... View Details

Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull

14 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 14

(defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk-free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that an important explanatory factor is the impact that commodities have on the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

how a social entrepreneur [GDBA chief executive Geraldine Peacock] used an innovative network approach to achieve tremendous mission impact by mobilizing resources and building capacity beyond GDBA's immediate control. The organization... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Web

How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values - Recruiting

inclusion report to the CEO? Do they have the staffing and budget capacity required to make an impact not only in recruiting but also in creating organizational culture change?” It's also important for companies to understand individual... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

Pursuing the Ultimate Deal

Bank and Gaza. “Claims, grievances, victimhood, and his cause are so much a part of Arafat's life that he's unable to give them up,” Ross stated. “There are revolutionaries who have a very hard time making the transition to being a statesman — what's required is a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Middle East; peace; Israel; Palestine; policy; Government

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

transformation to digital is being driven by two primary factors, according to Iansiti: the explosion of connected devices and expanded computing capacity in the cloud. The study of innovation and business is still in its infancy.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

29 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

is factoring into their life situation? Butler: At the core of my work with individuals, and my writing on this topic, is my model of implicit and symbolic intelligence. Each of us, at any given moment, has the capacity to experience the... View Details

Blog

Up Close: A Return to In-Person Executive Education Programs

needed to fine tune them and learn the ins and outs and details. There are so many things we share even though we're very different operationally." The living groups in Tata were slightly reconfigured—the eight-person capacity in each was... View Details

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