Produce - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Mar 2014
HBS Seminar

Carey Morewedge, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

23 Apr 2024
In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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The General Shoe Company, 1921 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

assembly line production, worker fatigue, workplace supervision, wages, and inflation. Other HBS cases also focused on issues of labor relations following the direction of Dean Donham. The A.W. Shaw Company, which published books on business management, View Details

25 Jul 2023
Research & Ideas

Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

by harnessing a new business model. The bold approach worked. Gilead, one of the world’s leading antiviral makers, would sell its branded Hepatitis C medicines while offering local manufacturers voluntary licenses to produce generics,... View Details

Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health

29 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?

companies, however, struggle to find the optimal balance. While Farronato’s research shows that producing fewer items allows retailers to charge more for them, if companies produce too few, they also risk... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

23 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

late 1999, Mobil merged with Exxon to become ExxonMobil). Figure 2-10 shows the elements of Mobil's dramatic turnaround to industry-leading profitability. The productivity strategy created a 20-percent reduction in the cost of refining, marketing, and delivering a... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

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Leadership Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

development throughout the year. Fellows apply their expertise to roles for which they produce immediate results and build long-term capacity within the organization. Launched in 2001, the Leadership Fellows program has placed 287 Fellows... View Details

18 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

why it happened, and how it could be done better. Insight: Leaders must pull the best ideas from their teammates and gain their insights in order to produce the best outcomes for the organization. Action: If the team is aligned on goals,... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson

06 Jul 2023
News

Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

engagement—and it's actually going to grow the business. And I think it's an interesting concept to think about really in any model where you're innovating; don't necessarily just look at it as a linear equation. Like how can this actually change the game for the... View Details

14 Mar 2023
In Practice

What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

deposits fell as interest rates increased in a somewhat unexpected way. Well before the bank run last week, their deposit customers had been withdrawing money to pay their operating expenses, while their deposit inflows from new VC funding slowed, which View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

producers who supply the industry. Equally hit are supply chain partners who move goods across the country. "It’s going to take some time to retool operating models to be able to succeed in this new environment.” Coming into 2020,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

08 Sep 2022
Book

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

produced a wave of ignition-switch failures. Barra—a 41-year GM employee—confirmed the criticisms at a Congressional committee hearing and then ordered what became 30 million recalls. She went on to cultivate a “bottom-up” leadership... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Sample Student Projects - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

The Fresh Produce Cluster in Guatemala (2009) Honduras The Apparel Cluster in Honduras (2007) Hong Kong Hong Kong Financial Services (2008) Iceland Iceland Financial Services (2008) India The Antiretroviral Drug Cluster in India (2017)... View Details

29 Jan 2018
Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

We offer the rescue as an extraordinary example of extreme teaming, to illustrate the enormous potential of diverse experts coming together to innovate to overcome a nearly impossible challenge. The case illustrates the centrality of diverse perspectives in View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining

19 Sep 2023
Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

operates power projects and is the world’s largest producer of wind and solar energy. Aman's role prior to HBS was the Head of Partnerships at Plentify. Dennis Cha (MBA 2024, Section F), Summer Internship: Product Partnership Intern,... View Details

15 Nov 2022
Book

Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work

perpetrator’s mission. Some examples of collaborators include those assistants and actors who kept silent even as movie producer Harvey Weinstein assaulted women. Also in this category, says Bazerman, are legislators like Lindsay Graham... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

supported us with financial modeling and producing presentation material.” This internship structure allowed her to have direct support along with exciting opportunities to dig into live projects. “We look to understand the intern’s... View Details

05 Jul 2012
What Do You Think?

Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

starters, Karen Caswelch suggested that we take steps to ensure that in our hiring, we consistently select people who share and value behaviors that produce trust as a shield against management turnover that leads to broken commitments.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Collaborating Across Cultures

man to emperor Xuanzong and his consort. “To the extent that creativity is about the recombination of existing ideas, then combining ideas that haven't been connected before creates the potential to produce something new and useful" The... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Feb 2024
Blog Post

It’s Time to Build: Why the MS/MBA Is Right for You!

curriculum, and all. The smaller program means you get more resources from the school, including direct access to top founders and investors in the industry. And the curriculum is very hands-on and practical, as every joint-degree class is focused on designing or... View Details

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