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- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
engine for the extraordinary motivation and commitment demanded by creativity. As organizations become increasingly diverse and their boundaries flexible and amorphous, the notion of what brings people together to act as one body becomes... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30
Chinese and Indian scientists and engineers to U.S. technology formation increased dramatically in the 1990s. At the same time, these ethnic inventors became more spatially concentrated across U.S. cities. The combination of these two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- April 2025
- Case
Techint: Strategic Choices for Community Impact
By: Lauren Cohen, Virak Prum, Kenneth Charman, Pedro Levindo and Mariana Cal
In early 2024 Erika Bienek, Chief Community Relations Officer at Techint, had to decide whether to invest in a new company-owned and operated technical school in Veracruz, Mexico, or invest instead in strengthening the city’s public education system. Techint, a global... View Details
Keywords: Technical Institutes; Community Relations; Social Impact; Argentina; Mexico; Brazil; Conglomerate; Stakeholder Management; Government And Business; Community Impact; Philanthropy; Business Conglomerates; Business Subsidiaries; Business Headquarters; Family Business; Decision Making; Private Sector; Public Sector; Education; Curriculum and Courses; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Teaching; Training; Learning; Energy; Engineering; Construction; Values and Beliefs; Geography; Global Range; Local Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Globalized Firms and Management; Government Legislation; Recruitment; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Knowledge; Resource Allocation; Industry Clusters; Infrastructure; Family Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Creativity; Reputation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Poverty; Strategy; Construction Industry; Education Industry; Energy Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Steel Industry; Europe; Italy; Latin America; North and Central America; Mexico; North America; United States; South America; Argentina; Buenos Aires; Brazil
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
regulations needed to be based on hard science and engineering knowledge. To achieve this, collaboration with the Swedish government was seen as instrumental and joint R&D was regarded as a means to share knowledge and costs. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
scale, so Abay and her team considered a number of non-traditional ways to organize distribution and market the bank to promote growth. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/116023-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-045 The German Export... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate engineering physics... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
in Internet Search Engines Authors:Benjamin Edelman and Duncan S. Gilchrist Abstract In an online experiment, we measure users' interactions with search engines, both in standard configurations and in modified versions with improved... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends with greater detail than... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2018
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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
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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
- 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016
capital partnership or as a business unit? How should it be governed, and how should the investment committee function? Could mechanisms be developed that ensured the expertise of Saudi Aramco's famously conservative engineering resources... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/610050-PDF-ENG Dassault Systèmes Stefan Thomke and Daniela BeyersdorferHarvard Business School Case 610-080 Dassault Systèmes, a leader in product lifecycle management software, has enjoyed a very profitable business model in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
response, he continues. With the banking system near collapse, the Roosevelt administration engineered sweeping federal intervention into the marketplace, including creation of federal deposit insurance, securities regulation, banking... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008
Electric is the division of General Motors (GM) that does all of the electrical wiring and cabling for GM automobiles. They developed a new approach for passing the cables through the firewall between the engine and passenger... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
building an electrical component. This information instructs local engineers and other local skilled workers concerning key elements of the firm's technology. The reforms we studied appear to be effective because they were sustained,... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 05 Feb 2013
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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
- February 2025
- Case
Luca de Meo at Renault Group (A) (Abridged)
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
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Transition; Interpersonal Communication; Forms of Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Experience and Expertise; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Making; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Alternative Energy; Engineering; Global Strategy; Governance; Digital Transformation; Digital Strategy; Technology Adoption; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Innovation Leadership; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Leading Change; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Management Skills; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Performance Efficiency; Transportation; Auto Industry; Battery Industry; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Transportation Industry; France; Europe; China
Truelove, Emily, Linda A. Hill, and Lydia Begag. "Luca de Meo at Renault Group (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 425-067, February 2025.
- 10 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 10
engineer scarcity by limiting supply when secondary markets thicken to separate primary and secondary markets. We find support for these hypotheses in the U.S. concert ticket industry. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne