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- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
part from massive outsourcing on the part of companies in developed markets. They were moving production to China in droves because labor was cheap, so the economy grew very, very fast. In the process of becoming the “factory of the... View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
commonality in the bioprocessing aspects of both approaches, the regulatory approvals, product development paths, and market-access timelines were dramatically different--almost diametrically opposed. Analyzes Biocon's strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?
Linux and Windows have both been gaining positions for the past ten years. The big losers are Novell, Unix, Solaris everybody except Linux and Windows. Despite this, Microsoft is visibly concerned about Linux's upsurge. The Halloween... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
regarding the causal links between entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth still call for explanation. It remains unclear, for instance, whether William Baumol's neat distinction between productive and unproductive... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
authors show what you need to do to achieve and maintain top-talent status. You’ll find detailed advice for cultivating and practicing each X factor. They also show you how to gain insight into and excel at the specific process your... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
preoccupied minds in the corridors of power in Western capitals: how to compel Russia to respect the Western geopolitical preferences without harming European allies? The answer, as in the past, pointed to the lack of viable short-term solutions and the longer-term... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
gained broad support from a wide range of influential economists, lawmakers, and interest groups. In March 2008, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (MBA ’70) proposed that the Federal Reserve be empowered as a super regulator to seek out... 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
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
expansion (President Johnson's Great Society); there were more opportunities for advancement. I soon became manager of the research department, then advertising manager of the book clubs division—Doubleday's largest and most profitable division. After that, I was View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
for leaders. For example, globally dispersed businesses can't reserve key leadership roles for people from exclusive groups; leadership must become inclusive, or fail. Leaders must learn to collaborate in a world of networked organizations, lead for creativity rather... View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
eventually a federation of many specialized companies. As they seldom committed to administrative centralization, their efficiency gain as a business organization remained marginal. The chapter first looks at the appearance and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition
work we have been doing here at Troy Capital. I’d like to think it doesn’t only highlight my individual accomplishments, but more so what we have all done as a team. Personally, I hope it serves as an example for others. Any success that I have had has been the View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
entrepreneurial activity, which drew people away from large companies and encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity... View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
to all personal care products sold online by the five firms implies that customers spent an additional $300 million annually as a result of pricing algorithms, out of a total of about $6 billion in e-commerce revenue for the category.... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
they spent enough time understanding what it took to make sure that the specific plans—which products to make in which kind of facility, located where, using which technologies, selling to which customers—were lined up with more abstract... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online
smarter Apply design thinking and creative problem-solving principles to generate new ideas, enhance team performance, and innovate collaboratively Gain frameworks, tools, and customer engagement techniques to enhance your organization’s... View Details
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
and based in Michigan, the company had a proud history of product and marketing innovation starting with its first product, Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes, which created the cold cereal category. In recent years, however, Kellogg’s revenue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
much that a small company like ours can do.” That’s one of the reasons that 80 percent of the world’s oceans—or more than half of the surface of the earth—remain unexplored: the cost. In Vescovo, the cause of oceanic exploration gained a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
written about the status of women in academia and business—Herzlinger notes, "I am not someone who studies women. I believe you gain strength by being who you are and by being good at what you do." You became involved in research on... View Details