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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
an individual's operating unit) to emphasize the importance of integration and cooperation. "Many of the strategic changes we made were well known and discussed at IBM before I arrived," he notes. "The capacity to embrace those changes... 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
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center: Managing Capacity in Neurology In December 2014, Dr. Anthony Furlan, chair of the Department of Neurology at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center (UH), faced a mandate from the hospital’s... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
researchers might be able to address such issues as "how corporate practices contribute to or detract from stable societal institutions or democratic processes, or how might companies advance individual learning and growth, or the View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
industrial firm Ellaktor and Standard and Poor's shows. With the venture capital industry being underdeveloped, Greek entrepreneurs were also excluded from financing. (See here my view on increasing innovation capacity in Greece.) But... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
stocking decision, our model is generalizable to other types of capacity investment decisions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-105.pdf Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation Authors:Mikhail Golosov, Maxim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It
companies today, capital is not the resource that constrains growth. Global capital markets have opened up the supply side, while widespread excess industry capacity has reduced the demand side. The recent reversals in some sectors... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
transit capacity effectively is good for workers and good for business, as HBS colleague Michael Porter points out in Clusters and the New Economics of Competition. Hong Kong, New York, Santiago, and Singapore are all illustrations of... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
capacity to deliver those services, as the risk of damage to its bases and ports increases. This article examines the Navy’s approach to climate change and reflects on the implications for business. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
benefits of learning) from that attempt. Finally, external innovation appears to be fast—solutions arrive quite quickly and can often exceed the capacity of the seeker. Q: And potential downsides? A: The main concerns about working with... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
period. Software is penetrating other industries, Kerr notes. Take vaccines. Pharmaceutical companies’ speedy development of mRNA-based vaccines for COVID-19 required software, he notes. “Their capacity to bring a substantial software, AI... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
long ago that live streaming was thought to be a luxury possible only when the capacity of the internet could be expanded to accommodate storage and uploading capabilities demanded by the new services. Now it’s commonplace; we take it for... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now
Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has... View Details
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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
utilities); equipment (location, cost rate); consumables (purchase price, cost per item); pharmaceuticals; and/or allocated overhead costs. Q: What is the purpose of the financial model? A: The financial model combines inputs from process maps, View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
capacity she helped lead the MBA Silicon Valley Immersion Experience Program. As a newspaper industry analyst at DLJ early in your career, did you anticipate the industry’s decline? I put a “sell” on newspapers in 1988 when I saw threats... View Details
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
Products: The Effect of Absorptive Capacity Authors:Daniel Snow Abstract In this paper, I propose and examine a specific means by which firms' R&D experience may be helping firms to improve their current-technology products: Firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
condense buying, wrapping, and shipping into a few short keystrokes. The limitless capacity of the Internet also enables Gap Inc. to serve customers it can't serve out of the limited space in its stores. Customers can purchase extended... View Details