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- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
concerning whether patents are a creative or a destructive influence on the process of technological development. In this paper I examine the basic patent tradeoff between incentives and monopoly distortions in light of recent... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
most profitable products and customers and demonstrating how, when, and where to apply over twenty distinct improvement tools and techniques. Finally, it discusses how to embed the process and the tools into... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Floor It
coming out of labs over the next 10 years will surpass anything we’ve experienced in the past,” says HBS senior fellow Richard Hamermesh, who co-chairs the accelerator with Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985). “Looking ahead, we expect to have the ecosystem in place to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
have described as characteristic of the modern neo-liberal regime. 2013 pub Fashioning an Industry: Socio-cognitive Processes in the Construction of Worth of a New Industry By: Khaire, Mukti Abstract—This study of the high-end fashion... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
to the aviation reward, the X PRIZE Foundation is offering similar carrots for breakthroughs in sequencing the human genome, designing fuel-efficient cars, and even reaching the moon. And the US government is experimenting with prizes as an alternative to grants for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
underlying your strategy and analyze how it's implemented through your business processes and structures. Drawing on decades of research into performance management systems and organization design, Seven Strategy Questions is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Grundfos: Innovation & Inspiration for Sustainable Product Design
notably, Grundfos seeks to be carbon neutral by 2050. Since 99% of the pump’s overall carbon footprint is from the electricity used to power them while they’re in use (which counts as Grundfos’ Scope 3 carbon emissions), Grundfos has historically focused on View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
generated by the primary product to improve the process efficiency of the by-product. We also examine the market structure where two firms practice by-product synergy, as well as conditions under which the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008
purchasing and brought process discipline to store operations through using Six Sigma quality methodology. Although the changes led to higher profitability, the retailer's stock price remained unchanged. Many wondered if poor stock market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
process and expose the solution to others. Some other research has shown that, in fact, if you do open up the solution process you can get anywhere from 10X to 100X improvement... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
During the past few years inventory turns among U.S. manufacturers have climbed steadily, and it appears as if productivity has improved nicely. One explanation for these happy trends is that the massive investments we've been making in... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Novo Nordisk
learned details of how Novo Nordisk manufactures within its 1,200,000 square meter facility high-quality active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) that tackle not only diabetes but also hemophilia, growth disorders, and obesity. At their Kalundborg site, Novo Nordisk... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
Illustration by Vahram Muradyan The mission of Educate Girls, a nongovernmental organization in Mumbai, is to get 3 million out-of-school girls in India into the classroom and to provide remedial education. To do that they first have to find the girls, which is a... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
approach thus runs counter to the idea that globalization is a homogeneity-producing process and the view that society is moving from particularism to universalism. With globalization, not only has the local remained important, but in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Data: The Ever-Expanding Frontier - Race, Gender & Equity
hopes that morale improves. Operating with openness, humility, and an investment in cultivating cognitive integrity enables us to expand our capacity for critique. It only improves the work. When the gaps in our technology and... View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007
enhance the due diligence process for mergers and acquisitions, and to support continuous improvement activities such as lean management and benchmarking. In presenting their model, the authors define the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
The Quantified Athlete “Athletes will always look to improve their performance and stay injury-free with technology. But the sports media industry is also starting to explore how to incorporate athlete data into their broadcasts. And as... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
New Releases
an eight-step process to help firms achieve the lasting organizational transformations essential for success in the coming decades. The Balanced Scorecard by Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton (Harvard Business School Press) After years... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Job Interviews
important; the rest of the meeting often serves to confirm an initial judgment made very early on.” That confirmation process frequently begins with an open-ended question such as, “Tell me about yourself,” which Butler views as a prime... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
exchange—think of this as learning how to read music and play true, clear notes. You can improve your improvisation skills by learning how to recognize, convey, and seek out three types of information: Relational information, which... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn