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- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we consider how the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid response of... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
Africa to the HBS professors who are leading work related to the continent, and to share with them the lessons that Africa has for the rest of the world. Asia-Pacific Research Center—The Asia-Pacific Research Center helped produce the... View Details
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
unconventional field settings. Their mission was to produce a DNA sequencing test that was cost effective, robust, and operable in extreme field conditions. After several months of effort, the team in consultation with company experts... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
and sold the seafood all over the world. Although seafood buyers traditionally bought on price, Clearwater's innovations and technology investments enabled it to produce higher quality products; still, it faced the challenge of convincing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices
Business Administration and Chair of the General Management Program at HBS. Gupta, whose current academic interests lie in mobile advertising, mobile payments, and mobile commerce, described the difficult landscape confronting marketers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Taking the Plunge
and a dryer button to complete the experience. The Japanese company TOTO, founded in 1917, introduced flush toilets at a time when most of the country lacked a sewage system. Today, it produces the world’s leader in the bidet-toilet... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
treat patients first in Europe and then in New York. It started with Hanazawa, who began to research the breakdown in the medical-gown supply chain. The gowns were produced by a tight circle of manufacturers that had begun to shut down... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
Staffing, risks, benefits, and regulatory compliance are all increasingly externalized, most often to parts of the world where need routinely trumps prudence. Rather than manage their own corporate assets, CEOs and other top executives of... View Details
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=907412 HDFC (A) Harvard Business School Case 301-093 The top management team at India's leading home finance company must decide how to deal with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
power source. Amager Bakke is located within eyeshot of downtown Copenhagen, and despite being an industrial waste management and energy production site, serves as a community gathering point. With the world’s tallest rock-climbing wall... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Facing the Music
READ MORE An Orchestral Startup—Richard J. Lim (HBS'98), cofounder of Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra Managing a Master—Edward C. Arrendell (MBA'80) with Wynton Marsalis, "an unbeatable combination." Guitar Hero—Henry E. Juszkiewicz (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics
helm, The Esquel Group makes more men's cotton shirts than any other company in the world, producing private-label apparel for high-end chains like Brooks Brothers and designers like Ralph Lauren. Egon P. S. Zehnder (MBA '56) Founding... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment The Earth At Night, 2009: Cities may occupy just 2 percent of the planet’s landmass but they hold half the world’s people and produce much of its carbon emissions. Image by NASA/Corbis Issue Focus... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
of fresh orange juice. For the last 18 years, Arhodidis worked for Eurobank, one of the country’s four systemic banks. When he left last July, he was a member of the executive board and a general manager in charge of global markets,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 08 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?
possible to the corporate areas where sustainability can produce value for the company. Initially, CSOs need to work with company officials who oversee compliance and issues. As sustainability goals become more ambitious, the areas where... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
decision by the Bush White House to provide more than $20 billion to GM, Chrysler, and their financial subsidiaries, the auto task force put together by President Obama managed a restructuring of both companies at a breathtaking pace.... View Details
- 13 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 13, 2016
misbehavior, yet failed to notice it. To explain such inaction, management scholars have been developing the area of behavioral ethics and the more specific topic of bounded ethicality—the systematic and predictable ways in which even... View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
unique perspective,” says Anita Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who is faculty co-chair of the Executive Education program. “Their viewpoint often sheds light on why we see certain tensions in the media space and why executives... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at Harvard Business School. Roughly 42 percent of Fortune 500 companies said they’d reached an environmental target or committed to reaching one by 2030, an 11... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne