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Arum Kang

contrary to her expectations, a line of children's hair accessories failed to post the sales numbers she had anticipated. "When I got to the floor," Arum says, "I saw that my product was crowded among too many competing... View Details

17 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Tech for the People

Enterprise Initiative that provides competitive salaries to graduating MBAs who work for a year in nonprofit and public sector organizations. Spending his first post-HBS year as a Leadership Fellow made total sense for Tsai, a Stanford... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

Drilling Down

different economies that you're selling into," he continues. "For example, no one was able to foresee the recession in Asia. On the supply side, oil production has a very long lead time, particularly the big fields." Stobaugh also notes... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

01 Jun 2005
News

Marked Managers

biotech firms public between 1979 and 1996. Her new book, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across an Industry (Jossey-Bass), analyzes and draws lessons from the factors that made one company — Baxter International — a standout in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Career Imprints; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

24 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 24

to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative rainfall insurance product.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

ownership in a small group of investors—reflecting the smaller subset of investors who place value on environmental benefits, such as funds that have some green or social investing orientation. While the difference in return is admittedly small, it could be a View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

people’s lives for the better.” Photos Courtesy Toby Johnson A standout high-school student-athlete who turned down Ivy League schools to attend West Point (its education of the total person beyond academics appealed to her), Toby Johnson... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

base. As a result, they get cost savings, and we get sales.” Welcome to the new reality in U.S. manufacturing, where, more than ever, intense foreign competition is driving product and strategy innovations. Even those firms without direct... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

18 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 18

characteristics of the waste-to-energy operation, the market characteristics for waste disposal and energy, and the mechanisms regulators use to encourage production of renewable energy, we determine the profit-maximizing operating... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2006
News

Inside Intel

find excuses to visit Fab 3 just so they could put a bunny suit on.” Fab 3 was also important because it introduced the “McDonald’s approach” to erecting fabs. They were to be made as similar as possible. In the world of “McIntel,” exact replication would mean that... View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing

01 Feb 2001
News

HBSi Combines HBS Content with State-of-the-Art Technology

state-of-the-art e-learning technology. "HBSi is the magic that melds classroom teaching, long a hallmark of the HBS experience, with the creative use of the latest e-learning tools — combining and customizing them to offer a total... View Details

Keywords: HBSi; HBS Interactive; e-learning; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

business borrowers can comparison shop among a range of products from a variety of lenders--including community and regional banks, online balance sheet lenders, and others. Some of the most prominent of these players include Biz2Credit,... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

make up for lost years, he was surprised to find himself at Harvard at age 23. Primed to Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing Cultures through the Science of Total Motivation by Neel Doshi and Lindsay McGregor (MBA 2013)... View Details

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

enormous advantage for Japanese companies initially. It is one of the reasons why they were able to produce products with such few defects. U.S. companies used to pride themselves on having good repair networks. Japanese companies came... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

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FAQs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

map development often helps providers identify redundant steps, bottlenecks, and other opportunities for improvement. Second, TDABC can aid in process improvement by allowing providers an accurate figure for the cost of each step in a process and the View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

you knew it, new factories were built close by to supply the first plant. Out of what was one plant, often in the middle of nowhere, seven or eight years later you’d see thriving communities. These plants produced products and services... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

04 Sep 2019
News

Deep Dive

SpaceX vessels.) Of course, the Limiting Factor and the Pressure Drop would need to be maintained, and the ship needed a crew. Vescovo tapped EYOS Expeditions to organize the trips and handle permits and logistics. A film crew from... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

08 Nov 2023
Blog Post

Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to

helped the company secure a $2 million seed round in 2016. The company recently closed its Series C, for a total of more than $145 million in investment. Although Tseng had a clear idea of the product he... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship

15 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

that they're going to be replaced. Typically, early in the life of a company—when it is developing its first product or service—the founder who conceived of the idea and began developing it is the perfect person to lead the company, to... View Details

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

work in exploring the forces that govern the process of CEO change. I have conducted research in four interrelated areas: factors that lead to vacancies in the CEO position; factors that affect the choice of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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