Publications

November 1989 (Revised August 1994)
Supplement

Du Pont's Titanium Dioxide Business (B)

Provides students with the opportunity to track industry evolution over time, to explore the role that signaling may play in such evolution, and to construct and validate industry scenarios. View Details

Keywords: Analysis; Supply and Industry; Chemical Industry

11 Jun 2019
News

Financial Aid Gift to Support Joint Degree Program Students

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

utilities to review their established capacity-based strategies. "My predecessor, Guy Nichols, became persuaded by the arguments of a number of engineers and environmentalists who contended that the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb

03 Jan 2023
Cold Call Podcast

Wordle: Can a Pandemic Phenomenon Sustain in the Long Term?

Keywords: Re: Christina M. Wallace; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

April 1984 (Revised May 2011)
Case

Mike Walker

Describes Bill Hudson's attempts to constructively deviate from and change the culture of various work units that he has worked in over 26 years with ABC Electronics. View Details

Keywords: Change; Management Skills; Management Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture

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Isamar Troncoso is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit at HBS. She teaches the Marketing course in the MBA required curriculum.

Professor Troncoso studies problems related to digital marketplaces and new technologies. She... View Details

Keywords: e-commerce industry; high technology; retailing

January 2001 (Revised September 2002)
Case

First Marblehead Corporation (A)

By: D. Quinn Mills and Matt Salloway

Daniel Meyers, chairman and CEO of First Marblehead Corp., provides financial engineering services to educational institutions. This case deals with the market for student loans. View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Education; Markets; Microfinance; Management Teams; Financial Services Industry; Education Industry

Article

Incorporating the Arts to Create Technical Leaders of the Future

By: Linda A. Hill

Engineering education should be reimagined to create a new generation of technical leaders prepared to dream, invent, and steward the future. These leaders of tomorrow will need to bridge business, engineering, and the arts. View Details

Keywords: Education; Engineering; Arts; Leadership Development

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2023
Working Paper

Corporate Website-based Measures of Firms' Value Drivers

By: Wei Cai, Dennis Campbell and Patrick Ferguson

We develop and validate new text-based measures of firms’ financial and non-financial value drivers. Using the Wayback Machine to access public US firms’ archived websites from 1995-2020, we scrape text from corporate homepages. We use Kaplan and Norton’s (1992)... View Details

Keywords: Value; Corporate Strategy; Accounting; Analytics and Data Science

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Justine Boudou is a doctoral student in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) unit at Harvard Business School.

She is primarily interested in the economics of science and innovation. Justine holds a MSc from the engineering school... View Details

Keywords: biotechnology; health care; pharmaceuticals

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

165-180 Abstract What types of human and social capital identify the emergence of leaders of open innovation communities? Consistent with the norms of an engineering culture, we find that future leaders must... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

November 1989 (Revised August 1994)
Supplement

Du Pont's Titanium Dioxide Business (C)

Provides students the opportunity to track industry evolution over time, to explore the role that signaling may play in such evolution, and to construct and validate industry scenarios. View Details

Keywords: Analysis; Supply and Industry; Chemical Industry

15 Apr 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Kelly Ogiesoba

and staff in the Michigan College of Engineering program. Also, I attended an HBS 2+2 presentation on campus and thought it was a good fit after listening to the HBS... View Details

20 Dec 2020
News

Incorporating the Arts to Create Technical Leaders of the Future

27 Feb 2024
Blog Post

Fighting Cancer with a Novel Cell Therapy: Ananya Zutshi (MS/MBA '21)

Ananya Zutshi (MS/MBA 2021) wanted a career in pharmacology biotech, but wasn’t sure if she wanted to be on the management side or scientific side. She studied biomedical engineering as an undergraduate at Duke University, where she... View Details

April 2011 (Revised November 2011)
Case

Knowledge Creation at Eisai Co., Ltd.

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi, Ikujiro Nonaka and Mayuka Yamazaki

Eisai has used knowledge creation as the engine of growth for its operation in Japan and was wondering if it can be utilized on a global scale. View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development; Operations; Knowledge Management; Japan

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Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details

June 2005 (Revised March 2006)
Case

Domestic Auto Parts

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Describes a meeting of an executive team to discuss strategy for a company turnaround. The exercise is to construct a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard to capture the new strategy. View Details

Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Strategy; Business Strategy