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- 03 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 3, 2007
this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707008 South African Airways (A) Harvard Business School Case 407-014 Amid efforts to engineer a turnaround at South African Airways (SAA), the CEO confronts an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
price swings. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711004-PDF-ENG Reverse Engineering, Learning, and Innovation Willy ShihHarvard Business School Note 611-039 This background reading looks at reverse engineering in the... View Details
- 02 Feb 2007
- What Do You Think?
Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?
implementation that we forget why we are here in the first place . 'Why' is just as important as the 'How'; they are not mutually exclusive." As Nari Kannan put it, "To survive and thrive, I think companies need to alternate between these two modes . There... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
private sector have to wait for government to become an engine of change?" Her organization, she said, works with countries at the invitation of civil society, the private sector and government. "You have to have all... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- February 2025
- Case
Luca de Meo at Renault Group (A)
By: Emily Truelove, Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
When Luca de Meo became CEO of Renault Group in 2020, the 122-year-old French automaker faced financial challenges and the double technological disruption of the automotive industry: the shift to electric vehicles (EVs) and the rise of software-defined vehicles (SDVs).... View Details
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- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
IBM was concentrating on developing the System 360, Kenneth Olsen's Digital Equipment Corporation created a second path of computer learning by commercializing an inexpensive, stripped-down "minicomputer" for more specialized and smaller View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
explores how the nature of risk itself has changed over time. It highlights key aspects that have shaped the evolving industry, including shifts in risk engineering and risk management, the development of actuarial science, and the impact... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
1985, Honda initiated a secret program to develop a small jet. Over the years, the program had many ups and downs (it was almost canceled several times). Then, a breakthrough in the configuration of the engines lead Honda to believe it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 30
throughout the company. During his time at Volkswagen, de Meo focused on transforming the marketing department into an engine of innovation. De Meo and his team in marketing worked together to build a strong global brand. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
case studies two general issues. First, it discusses the potential barriers that exist for the development of the tourism sector. Second, it presents the debate of whether governments may want to use tourism as an engine of growth, and if... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Desktop Search and Revenue Streams
less likely to switch from a program they have spent time customizing than they are to switch from one search engine to another. "In Web search, it's going to be really easy to always tab over to another search engine," he said.... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
crops that have been engineered to have higher medicinal value. An "apple a day," in other words, would do more than keep the doctor away—it could replace the painful prick of a vaccination needle. And as "delivery... View Details
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
depending on your point of view. Here's a management that may actually believe it can achieve wins for customers and investors by engineering a win for employees, something that several of us have written about for years. Walmart's... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
laid the blame at the foot of "an engineer who had difficulty forecasting simple activities and (the) time to accomplish them." Joseph Mello commented that " part of the problem comes from the view of an organization as a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
private equity and public companies "changes the ownership structure of assets and alters the incentives and governance mechanisms that surround the economic engine of our economy." During a recent interview in his Rock Center... View Details
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
Corsi, and Elisa FarriHarvard Business School Case 711-044 ABB, a power and automation Swiss engineering company had to decide if they wanted to be even more integrated into the Chinese economy, ABB's biggest market, or if they should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
collections, other online stores (such as allofmp3.com), p2p file sharing networks, and other forms of piracy (like sharing between friends). A thriving p2p community acts as an engine for iPod sales. ITunes's 99 cents per song is... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
the jobs exported are those involving relatively little "ownership" potential and they are replaced by those created by the entrepreneurial, small-business engine that has fueled the U.S. economy for decades with jobs that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
some HBS students, he gathered local statistics and followed the development of a peasant cooperative movement. Lodge found that economic development was more accurately seen as psychological and political change. It was therefore intensely controversial. In a book... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
Ricardo Software Harvard Business School Case 607-019 Engineer John Harrison must determine why motorcycle racer Marco Presto does not feel that his motorcycle is providing enough power as it comes out of corners. Harrison uses View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne